What Color Goes Well With a Sage Wall?
Sage makes a beautiful, rich interior wall color, but finding the right colors to match it can be a challenge. It's not that there aren't colors to match sage, but you might feel limited in your choices. Use the color wheel to identify colors that have a relationship with sage, and look to nature for rich and varied color schemes. Does this Spark an idea?
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Earthy Tones
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Find a photograph of the herb sage, as it exists in nature. This should be a photograph that appeals to you. What other colors do you identify in the photograph? Darker shades of green and the color of earth, mud or tree bark are all colors that would naturally be found with sage in nature, and so they will look natural combined with sage on your walls.
Gray
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Sage is a gray-green color. You can emphasize the presence of gray in the paint by adding gray elsewhere to the room. Try not to overdo this color -- gray can make a room seem drab or dull when used too much. When used in just the right amounts, gray can make the room seem cool and peaceful. Include gray in pillow cases, in a blanket hung casually over a footboard or couch and in a few picture frames on the wall.
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Cool Tones
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Cooler tones on the color wheel include blue, green and purple. Cool color schemes are peaceful, low contrast and low drama. This type of color scheme works best in a bedroom, where ideally the atmosphere will be one of peace and calm. Decorate the room in cool tones and neutralize the colors with accents of cream placed about the room, such as in the presence of curtains, picture frames and flower vases.
Accents of Red
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Red is the complement of green, meaning that it is the color found opposite of green on the color wheel. Red and green, when combined, make a high-contrast, very dramatic pair. If sage is the dominant color in the room -- meaning, the color you see the most of -- then use red sparingly as an accent to create a few focal points in the room. Include red in a painting hung on the wall or in a few knickknacks on the shelves.
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References
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