Combining Colors in Your Interior Decoration

There’s nothing better than coming home to a welcoming and calming space that combines different colors perfectly.
Combining Colors in Your Interior Decoration

Last update: 09 July, 2020

Combining the right colors should be one of your main focuses when decorating your home. Although comfortable furniture is key to creating a space where you feel at home and relaxed, the visual look of your home is equally important.

The interior decor of any space should be perfectly harmonized. In other words, it’s vital to not only find the perfect color combinations, but also to ensure your decorations are perfectly proportioned and well distributed through your space. It’s also worth mentioning that, if possible, you should spread resources out equally. That way, you won’t spend everything on one item.

The colors you use in your interior design are extremely important. They can both provoke emotion and create ambiance. Colors are also a great way to show off your personality.

The key to combining colors perfectly

An image representing combining colors in a home.

It’s important that your home has an established style, as this is something you can appreciate every day. Finding the perfect color combinations for your home is about finding colors that are in tune with one another.

There’s no doubt that color plays an interesting role in creating beautiful interior decor. Although this might sound a little abstract, it’s worth considering that color is vital to giving meaning to a space.

Beautiful interior decoration is born from using the right color scheme. In other words, the different tones used in a space need to be the right combination and shouldn’t clash with one another. That’s how you can achieve harmony in your home’s interior decor.

Color is the essence of life and happiness

What do you need to create harmony in your decoration?

An interior decor with contrasting colors.

Harmony is not always something that can be achieved easily or by chance. Finding the right color combinations is the best way to achieve the interior design that you want. However, this needs careful thought and thorough work.

If you have a certain goal that you want to achieve, it’s important to consider that the colors you use must match one another. However, this doesn’t mean that you can only use warm colors or colors from a specific color palette. You can use a variety of colors.

While it’s certainly possible to create a dominant color scheme, avoid overusing just one or two colors or going overboard with lots of different shades. The key is to find the right amount of variety.

Although contrasting shades go well with one another, it’s vital that they’re well organized. Some colors will be bold and stand out on their own, while others will be used for more subtle and thought-out contrasts.

On an aesthetic level, you’ll achieve a “harmonious” space by carefully considering your color combinations. Every element of your decoration is crucial, and so it’s very important to achieve harmony between them.

Combining colors – shades that go well together

An image representing combining colors in a home.

Obviously it’s hard to achieve harmony in your interior if there is tension or a lack of unity in your decoration. The most important thing is to ensure there is coherence and balance between the colors in your rooms.

A good example is the use of earthy colors. This is quite a large color range, however if you combine these colors well you can create a look that is both calm and warm. When using earthy colors, it’s also worth using some neutral colors too to create contrast.

If you would prefer to use colder shades, these could be a real complement to your home’s decoration. Although colors such as whites or grays shouldn’t be the only dominant colors in your space, they are great complements to other brighter or bolder colors.

Harmony is a concept that should be present in all the arts.

What should you avoid when combining colors?

A white living room.

When it comes to combining color in your home, the most important thing is that you don’t fall into some obvious traps, like using just one color. Rooms that don’t use contrasting shades can seem visually overwhelming, something that is also called “excessive overuse” of color.

It’s important to try to breath fresh life into your rooms using different colors, perhaps combining lighter and darker colors. However, you always have the option of using more neutral shades too so that your look doesn’t seem too bold.

Ultimately, when it comes to choosing colors for your decoration, remember that creating the perfect color combinations should be your goal.

 


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  • Egon Schuler, Josef: Color y decoración en el hogar, Gustavo Gili, 1968.