How to Choose a Color Scheme for Interior Design

Series Summary

Sometimes a home that you once considered fresh and new, that had all of the appeal and charm that the real estate agent was suggesting it did, becomes just plain, ordinary or even boring. Living in a home that doesn’t reflect your current tastes or sensibilities can create a sense of unease or displeasure, a nagging sensation that something needs to be changed. Over time, this might lead to selling the house and moving somewhere else. Yet, along the way, there are other measures that can be taken to create a new sense of design and style in your home.

In this free home improvement and do-it-yourself video series, learn how to use interior design principles to create a color scheme for your home. Then take your new color palette and learn how to paint a room in your home. Get painting tips on protecting your floors with a tarp, using spackle to fill holes in the wall, framing your painting area with painter’s tape and cutting in at the corners and edges of your workspace. Give your entire home a fresh, new look with relatively little work. Transform your least favorite room from drab to fab!

Video Transcript

" My name is Craig Hale, I’m an interior designer, and my good friend Paige is called me in to help her pick colors for her office that she’s remodeling. One of the first things that I do as a designer when working with people and helping them choose colors is to go directly to their artwork. A lot of times people choose things subconsciously; they choose things that they absolutely love. I always find that it’s a lot easier to pick colors out of people’s artwork and go from there because they obviously do already like these colors. They may not know that they do. There’s some reason they bought this; there’s some reason this print here has been matted and this green. You can see here…The first color that I see the green that is in both of these prints, so that’s the color that I definitely know is a favorite color of Paige’s so I want to try and use that in the scheme as well. Also, there is this really nice red, rich red, and it’s also picked up in the lettering in the walls of this photo. That’s how I usually start with picking colors with clients. If you select things from the pieces that they love, you’re going to have an easier time of selling the color scheme to the client. After we’ve come up with some ideas of what we’re going to do with color, I like to always find the paint chips and make sort of a little diagram of the room or of the space that we’re going to use. "