How to Pick a Guest Room Color Scheme
Color tends to be an emotional choice, but you probably don't have much of an emotional connection to your guestroom. After all, no one inhabits it on a regular basis, least of all you. Including color when you decorate your guest room will add the warmth you desire for all of your guests. Read on to learn more. Does this Spark an idea?
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Consider adjacent rooms. Begin by checking the color schemes in the adjacent rooms. When you decorate your guest room, you want it to look like part of your overall house décor. If the guest room has an adjoining bathroom, the color scheme there is most important. Gather a sample of the colors used in the rooms adjacent to your guest room, and look at them all together.
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Think gender neutral. The tricky part of decorating a guest room is that you never know who'll be sleeping there. Anyone from your six-year-old niece to your forty-something brother-in-law could end up sleeping in the guest room. You want anyone who comes to stay with you to feel comfortable. Stay away from pinks and other colors that scream "gender-specific."
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Start with accent color. Pick an accent color from one of the adjacent rooms and make it the main color in your guest room. This is the easiest way to tie the guest room in with the décor in the rest of the house. Once you've chosen this main color, you'll need to add two accent colors to supplement it.
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Use wallpaper books. With your main color in mind, look through wallpaper books to get ideas about coordinating colors. Find a paper that includes your main color and notice what other colors appear in that wallpaper. Keep looking until you find a color combination that you like, then return the wallpaper book to the store.
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Coordinate with furniture. If you already have furniture for your guestroom, consider its color when picking your color scheme. Dark furniture contrasts nicely with light walls and vice versa. Keep this in mind when buying furniture for the guest room.
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Tips & Warnings
You don't need to buy wallpaper to decorate your guest room. Just use the color schemes designed by the professionals as a guide.
Greens and blues contrast best with cherry furniture and show off its red tones.
Dark wall colors look best with light-colored trim.
Bringing in some striped or patterned fabrics that contain all the colors in your color scheme will help your guest room look unified.
