A little bit more on color - Nancy Sadowski

Now that you are armed with color chips and ideas,  decide if you are using existing fabrics.

Lay your color chips on the fabric, near a picture, or what ever you are choosing to design around.

If you are using existing fabrics, set your paint chips on these fabrics, put on different colors on, take them off and lay another color, start eliminating ones that you don't care for.  Sometimes it takes several trips to find the right color scheme.  When you see it, you will know because it will be pleasing to the eyes.  This gives you a visual picture.   Do this even if you are just adding accent colors.  Another thing I will use to check on color combinations are plain towels.  They come in such a variety of colors and hues.   If you find a great color, lay it over your sofa, chair or I've even hung them over the side of a great picture.  It is the visual contact that helps you create.

I talk about fabric, because sometimes we just want a fresh look.  When working on a budget, we  usually are trying to get a new look for little money.  How we deal with color change reflects greatly on how we decorate now and in the past.  We may be using everything we have and are just trying to give it a fresh look.  Go through these same motions as if you were starting from scratch.

Always try and get a sample (swatch) of fabric if you are going to buy or reupholster a piece of furniture.  Have that in your folder also, constantly lay these pieces out to see how you are coming along.

You can also use a piece of poster board and start attaching these pieces and set it up some where that you will see it a lot.  That will also be visual.  DO THS BEFORE YOU START  BUYING ANYTHING.  Look at your samples in all types of lights.  Daylight, sunlight, gray days, rainy days, and incandescent light change the colors.  Eliminate any that displease you in different light.  You may have to get a different  hue of the same color family.

What could be more basic to redecoration than a change of color?

Feel free to comment or to ask questions.  I will be on every day to check.