All About Colors! Colors! COLORS!

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Color is the most versatile tool a designer or homeowner can use. It is the easiest way to update an interior and an effective tool to visually alter it. It is the most exciting decorating element, changing a room with ease. However, many people find the power of color intimidating. So the palette for walls is often neutral - colors that work fine as a backdrop for more richly hued furnishings. However, they are less successful in rooms with neutral-colored furnishings because, believe it or not, there are so many variations of them that it's sometimes hard to make them match.

Aside from the strength of color itself, the enormity of color choices in everything from paint to furniture and flooring can be overwhelming, causing a retreat to the safety of white or beige. So how do you break the monotony and establish an exciting scheme? Trial and error is one way. If that's too risky, you can't go wrong with these fundamentals.

Color Wheel Basics

The color wheel is a fixed, circular arrangement of colors that reveals their relationship to one another. Start with the primaries - red, yellow and blue. All other colors are made from these three. Mixing red and yellow , for example, produces a secondary color, in this case, orange. Mixing together one secondary and one primary color, such as blue and green, will produce a blue-green, which is a tertiary color. Turquoise is an example. There are six tertiary colors. In addition to blue-green, there is yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet and yellow-green.