How to Choose Warm & Cozy Colors for a Small Living Room
Many decorating tips and techniques can be used to alter the style and feel of a room. Though professional decorators can provide valuable advice, you can also perform these decorating tricks on your own. One way to make a small room, such as a living room, feel warm and cozy is through color selection. Choosing a palette consisting mainly of warm colors can make a small living room feel more inviting. Does this Spark an idea?
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Familiarize yourself with colors that are perceived as "warm" colors. According to Benjamin Moore Paints, colors in the red, orange and yellow families are considered warm.
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Look for inspiration in rooms and decorating schemes that you like. Search decorating magazines like "House Beautiful" and "Dwell" or websites such as HGTV.com for sample rooms that have the feel that you are hoping to achieve. The websites of major paint brands can also be useful resources. Benjamin Moore, Behr and Sherman-Williams each have inspirational pictures and color selection tools on their websites.
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Go to a paint or home improvement store to select color samples. These stores generally provide small cards with sample colors at no charge. Use the cards to select a color scheme similar to that of your inspiration pictures.
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Purchase a small amount of the colors you are considering. Most major paint brands will mix sample sizes of paints for less than $10.
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Paint a small section of the living room with the sample colors. Examine the colors on the wall at different times of day. This may seem like an extra step, but examining the paint color in the room's natural light may save you the work of repainting the room later. Color swatches can look very different in the light of the store than they do in the room's natural light.
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Decide which color or colors to paint the room based on the way the paint samples look on the living room wall.
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we are heading back to Home Depot to gather more sample paints for our living And Dinning room, been doing this for a few moths now, i hope we will find one that we like soon, our walls are starting to like like the Patridge Family Bus ! :-)
