Living room color schemes help you incorporate what you already have in your room with any new furniture or paint that you want to bring into the space. Creating an entire color scheme can make your room feel pulled together and make sense of just a bunch of mismatched furniture. Here are a few tips on creating living room color schemes.
Pick one accent color that will really make things pop. This is really important when you’re decorating with neutral colors like taupes, browns, peaches. It also adds fun and personality to the room. You can make almost any accent color work in a neutral room. This may be a perfect solution if you and your spouse are fighting because he loves beige. However, you want to try something new in your decorating style. Bring in accessories and find turquoises or arranged to really make a statement in your space.
Include a wood tone in your color scheme. Your wood tone may already be there such as wood floors or an antique fireplace mantle. You can mix and match different wood tones or you can stick with the same tones on your existing architecture and carry them onto your furniture for more of a cohesive feel. You want to match the wood tones with your paint colors and furniture. So you could make a design board with the beautiful natural wood tones becoming the jumping off point for the rest of your design.
Monochromatic color palettes are usually the easiest to decorate with for beginners. This way you use all of the same color so you really don’t have to worry about matching. This doesn’t mean that you use the same shade of the color because this could be boring and even claustrophobic feeling. Instead, try tan walls with chocolate browns and bring in natural wood elements to create a monochromatic space that still has a lot of personality and life to it. This is a way to get your favorite color in the room in large quantities. You want to make sure that you balance it with neutral colors so that it isn’t overwhelming.
Let your artwork do the color matching for you. You might have a piece that you spent a lot of money on that you want to be the basis of your design. You can choose a lot of tones from artwork just because the artist usually already matched the colors. They probably even specifically mixed the colors from the same undertone so they would all coordinate together. This is an easy way to bring in a unique looking color scheme that still coordinates because all of work has already been done for you.