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Colour mix is an important component in home decoration and influence the effect of interior designing and home improvement. Check out some simple home decoration colour matching skills before meeting and learn how to give the home a suitable colour match your interior designer.

Colour, has a great influence over your mood, emotions and visual experience. For instance, blue can slow down the heart rate and eliminate tension; Beige, light blue and light grey is conducive for quiet rest and sleep, hence eliminating fatigue; while bright colours like red, orange and yellow get someone excited.Hence, not only can colour play a role in design styles, but it can also shape the ambience of the space.

Some examples of how colours can affect the ambience if the difference spaces in a house include:

  • 1. Living Room: Adopt warm colours to give a sense of intimacy;
  • 2.Kitchen: The use of warm colours can promote appetite
  • 3. Study: The use of cool colours adds a breath of fresh air and tranquillity which help to facilitate thinking and ideating
  • 4. Children’s room: blue, light yellow and light green are refreshing choice of colour
  • 5. Bathroom: The use of cool colours will give a clean sense of neat;
  • 6.Ceiling: Lighter colours give impression that the space is wide and not suppressive

Other Home colour matching principles:

(1) Match with a single colour

The colour of the interior decoration is best matched with different shades and shades of the same basic colour to create a calm and harmonious atmosphere. This combination is mostly used in bedrooms, such as walls, floors with the lightest shade; bedding, curtains, chairs using the same colour but darker shades; cups, vases and other small items with the deepest shade. At the same time, use a contrasting element to increase visual interest.

(2) Use of complementary colours

Arranging two colours, red and green, blue, and yellow together will produce a strong contrast. Such colour schemes make a room look vibrant and vibrant. Family room, game room and even home office are suitable.

(3) The use of similar colours
Similar colours are coloursthat do not conflict with each other. Therefore, the principle of colour matching in interior decoration is to combine them in the room to create a more harmonious and peaceful atmosphere. These colours apply to the living room, study or bedroom. For colour balance, different colours of the same saturation can be used.

(4) Black, white and graycollocations often excel. Neutral colours such as brown and gray are very popular colours in recent years. These colours are very soft and do not give people a strong visual stimulus. They are colour masters who create elegant spaces. However, in order to avoid being too stiff and cold, natural elements such as wood colour should be added to soften; or contrasting warm colours such as red should be used to weaken the original effect.

(5) Tonal balance
The successful use of contrasting colours depends on a good balance of tones. A widely used method of interior decoration colour matching is: use a colour in a large area –for example cool colour, and then use a small amount of warm colour balance. Or vice versa, the warm colours are the main features, and the cool colours are embellishment. This also gives an ideal effect particularly in darker rooms, this design is more appropriate.

(6) Focus on colour
After selecting a colour for a large area, you can use a colour that is brighter or darker than it is to render, for example, at a corner. Emphasis on colour for small rooms or apartments with decorative lines is even more interesting

(7) Keep the number of colours to a maximum of 3
In a typical interior design, colours are usually limited to three, not including the use of black, white and grey (and of course, this is not absolute definitely!) This is applicable only for relatively closed space and includes the ceiling, wall, floor and furniture colours. For example, the living room and the master room can have different system colours since it is separated, however if the living room and the dining area are linked together, they are treated as the same space.

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