Color, more color
Koontz - Boy, do I have a website for eveyone! Check out Colorquiz.com-it's fairly amazing. Be warned though, it deals with color and your personal psychological status-at the time-you take the quiz. One of my brothers' nearly cried when he did it---he was in a bit of a weird state apparently...
Color does say alot about a person though. I have an ex-roommate who always did her homes in really bold, vibrant colors. I love to walk into the rooms. I enjoy being in them with her, but I have never been able to live with those colors when I go to do my own spaces. I want to be a bold color person...or so I say. But given the choice, I can't live day to day among those colors. (Interestingly enough, when she married, this woman went to pastels. Now she is divorced, and she's back to bold...talk about psychology!).
I tell people all the time to look around at the things that they buy. The things that attract them. The colors in the throw pillows, in their clothes, in the art they hang. Those are the colors you love. For me, these colors always go toward "earthen". I like what I call the muddy colors-burnt reds and oranges, deeper greens with alot of gray in them. Yellows that tend toward gold and brown. I want to be vibrant, but I'm pretty much the polar opposite. I like the soothing colors. I've learned that all the things I'm attracted to tend to be in these shades, and I repeat that trend from my furniture, to my carpet to my walls. I finally realized that only on my patio can I deal with the bright colors that I think I should want-real red, sun yellow, grass green. There, I love those shades-but not in my quiet spaces.
My work partner has a great color sense. Perhaps because he knows me well, he can and has told me-"You need a red color there Peg". He doesn't pick it out, he just says red, and leaves it to me to find the right red. One wall in my livingroom got painted four or five times before I found that red. We've since used it at his house too, and we've tried to talk several clients into it-it's a great color! (They've resisted-they must be the pastel type...).
You can try all kinds of programs for color and some of the programs are great for deciding on the second color-but I think you just need to look around your existing house to figure out what kind of color person you are-the cool thing is that when you determine if you like cool colors, bold colors or earth colors, you'll find that you seem to like all of the colors in that spectrum. And hey, paint is the cheapest of all the remodeling tools-you can always get another gallon and try again!
Color does say alot about a person though. I have an ex-roommate who always did her homes in really bold, vibrant colors. I love to walk into the rooms. I enjoy being in them with her, but I have never been able to live with those colors when I go to do my own spaces. I want to be a bold color person...or so I say. But given the choice, I can't live day to day among those colors. (Interestingly enough, when she married, this woman went to pastels. Now she is divorced, and she's back to bold...talk about psychology!).
I tell people all the time to look around at the things that they buy. The things that attract them. The colors in the throw pillows, in their clothes, in the art they hang. Those are the colors you love. For me, these colors always go toward "earthen". I like what I call the muddy colors-burnt reds and oranges, deeper greens with alot of gray in them. Yellows that tend toward gold and brown. I want to be vibrant, but I'm pretty much the polar opposite. I like the soothing colors. I've learned that all the things I'm attracted to tend to be in these shades, and I repeat that trend from my furniture, to my carpet to my walls. I finally realized that only on my patio can I deal with the bright colors that I think I should want-real red, sun yellow, grass green. There, I love those shades-but not in my quiet spaces.
My work partner has a great color sense. Perhaps because he knows me well, he can and has told me-"You need a red color there Peg". He doesn't pick it out, he just says red, and leaves it to me to find the right red. One wall in my livingroom got painted four or five times before I found that red. We've since used it at his house too, and we've tried to talk several clients into it-it's a great color! (They've resisted-they must be the pastel type...).
You can try all kinds of programs for color and some of the programs are great for deciding on the second color-but I think you just need to look around your existing house to figure out what kind of color person you are-the cool thing is that when you determine if you like cool colors, bold colors or earth colors, you'll find that you seem to like all of the colors in that spectrum. And hey, paint is the cheapest of all the remodeling tools-you can always get another gallon and try again!
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