Wallcoverings

Choosing The Right Colour

How to Choose the Right Interior Paint Colour

Whether you have just completed a new building or renovated an existing one, there is a need to paint your property, especially the interior. While you have put everyhing in the right place, you might be puzzled by what colour scheme of paint is right to use in your room.

The colour you use in your interior rooms says a lot about the room, such as how relaxing and lively the room is. Hence, it is important to know which colour palette is best to use.

Here are a few tips to help you find the right paint colour schemes:

5 Tips To Choose Interior Paint Colours

1.     Consider Your Furniture’s Colour

While you might have some specific colours in mind to choose for your interior, you may start with considering the colours of the existing furniture pieces in the room. Since you have multiple colours in the room, select three of those colours as your paint colours.

Choose the most significant colour for the wall and the other two – of the three colours – around the room in furnishings and fabric.

2.     Find Paint Colour Inspiration Online

When looking for the right paint colour scheme for your interior, you may want to check magazines and interior design websites for inspiration. Paint companies also have sites where you can source colour schemes. Other online platforms to find paint colour inspirations include Pinterest and Instagram.

3.     Create a Colour Scheme through Colour Theory

You can start your paint colour inspiration from colour theory. You don’t necessarily need to study colour theory to use this method to generate colour ideas. A colour wheel will help you out.

A colour wheel is a circle of different sectors with different colours, showing the relationships between colours.

If you are not satisfied with the colours on the wheel, you can make variations to the colours and choose their shades.

4.     Choose Neutral Colours

One easy way to choose a colour scheme for your interior is to settle for neutral colours. Neural colours can easily fit into any interior design with little effort. However, you can step up the game by being creative with neutral colours in your interior.

5.     Find Ideas in Artwork

You might not need to go for when choosing the best paint colour scheme for your room. The idea might be lying there in the room, such as in an artwork. Artworks are genius works from masters of colour and light, meaning a lot of effort has gone into selecting colours already.

Hence, an artwork might be a source of inspiration for paint colour ideas for your interior. If the exact colours don’t satisfy you, choose complementary colours to create your colour scheme.

 

Mural or Wallpaper?

What's the difference? 

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When deciding between a Mural and a wallpaper concider the differences before you choose. A Mural doesn't have a pattern repeat. It's a single image printed on wallpaper in a specified order. Application is a one chance process leaving no room for mistakes hence getting the professionals in. Here's one I've done recently (see image above.) A wallpaper on the other hand will have a repeated pattern. This sometimes will show as a straight repeated pattern or a diagonal one if it has a drop pattern (see image below.)

Diagonal repeat (drop pattern)

Diagonal repeat (drop pattern)

Straight repeat (straight match)

Straight repeat (straight match)