Selecting the Right Colour Scheme

Selecting the Right Colour Scheme

This is to all the ladies who share the same indulgence when opening a box of fine, selected chocolates. You can feel your heart throbbing, admiring the swirls and delicacies on top of every shape. Selecting one at a time based on you preferred taste, starting with the white chocolate or the brown, scanning through the little “menu” inside the lid. Oh and what about the one filled with oozing caramel, not forgetting the trophy of all the chocolates in the box, situated right in the middle... the one and only. I’ll save this one for last you think, but temptation strikes and before you know it, it melts slowly in your mouth.

Selecting the right colour scheme for any property is like opening this box of chocolates. It’s a tough decision to make as it is, thinking about your own taste and what you want, but will it work? A colour scheme is not just about what colour you are going to paint the walls, there is much more to that. It’s about the variations of items, such as furniture and accessories you will use in different colours which combine together as one whole scheme.

Neutral colours as a base line is the best way to start, as this allows you to create and add any other colour way on top to emphasize an item of focal point. For example, by painting the walls in a soft creamy-yellow colour and the cornices, ceilings and plinths in white, you have just created your base line or “blank canvas” as I like to call it.

It is extremely hard to try and visualise colours, because in today’s modern world, colour is in abundance and it is almost impossible to try and focus on a specific colour without seeing it. Cut images out of magazines and collect fabric samples and swatches of colour palettes. Put them all together on the floor or the table of your selected room and arrange all the items with the same colour scheme in little groups. Take your time to arrange and select your options. Have a cup of tea (with a chocolate or two) and then come back and look at your selection again. Once satisfied, you get started with the design.