A bit if taste

Today, much of what you do, depends on you and your personal taste.  Years ago, someone came out with an idea that each person had a season, which gave them a color group that was supposed to be the perfect one for their skin tone and the aura. 

Ironically, everyone that I knew, already wore the colors that suited them.  They also used those same colors in their homes.  You could always tell (most of the time) what a persons favorite color was.  I was a very blue and white, or black and white.  To this day, they are still my favorite choices to wear, but now I love colors, all of them.  I have changed from just a designer to an artist.  I have always seen color differently and was always ahead of my time (as far as color goes). 

Blue, is a cool color so it goes with anything.  Cool colors give a feeling of spaciousness to a room.  The lighter the color, the larger a room looks.  In a very bright room (lots of natural light), use bright cool colors.  While white is considered a color, it looses all of it's power in the absence of other colors.

The warm colors are not used in large degrees, so you will be safe combining warm with whatever scheme you've chosen.  Use warm with a complementary scheme.  The choices are numerous.

Warm colors tend to make a room appear smaller if used in a large degree.  However, using warm colors in a soft hue, you can add brightness to a room.

If your room has high ceilings and you want them to look lower, paint the ceiling a darker color than you paint your walls.

In rooms that have physical features that cannot be changed, paint them the same color you paint your walls.

For more interest, use paint in unusual places, such as: paint (or wallpaper) the insides of bookcases a different color, paint a piece of furniture, paint picture frames all the same color, or paint woodwork a unique color.

Today, on the market place there is paint to do more things, all you have to do is ask the experts at the paint stores.

All of these bits and pieces come from a book I wrote in 1983. Believe it or not, it was so far ahead of its time.  Today, again "What goes around comes around".

Design today, is not much more that it was in the 70's and 80's.  The equipment is better and the availability of paints to do a lot of different things is amazing.

Tomorrow, a little bit more.