Complimentary Colors For Design By Willie Jones At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

For those who are not professional designers or artists, choosing the right colors can be somewhat scary. Many people will stick with white walls or neutral colors. That's too bad because color is so much a part of our everyday life.

I'm sure that you have on various occasions walked into a room and immediately felt comfortable. Color (as well as design) has everything to do with that. We all have our favorite colors and I’m willing to bet that your closet is full of clothes with the colors you like. Why not put color to work for you in your living or office space. If you don’t know how to go about this then there is help in the form of a color wheel.

The color Wheel originally came about in 1666 when Sir Issac Newton did an experiment using a prism and shining light through it. His discovery of white light containing all the spectrums of color, has been used by artist around the globe ever since.

It is very simple using the chart if you understand the some of the basics.

The color wheel is broken down into 3 main parts. Primary colors which are, red, yellow, and blue. The secondary colors, green, orange and purple and the intermediate colors which are made by combining primary and secondary colors together.

To see what colors work well together, the wheel become invaluable. If you decided to make for example, the walls of a room green, you may not want to paint all the walls the same color. Instead you may want to entertain the idea of painting one smaller wall a darker green and the rest a lighter shade. It would draw the eye to where you want it to go. It could be the wall with the head board from your bed and some well placed pictures, sconces or lamps and that becomes the focal point of the room.

When you are unable to make up your mind about what colors to use as accents, the color wheel comes in very handy there. Look at the colors you chose for the wall. Now look on the opposite side of the color chart. We chose green so on the wheel, the color that shows up on the opposite side is purple. If that pleases you then you have an accent color.

Getting an idea of what colors to choose can come from any number of items you may have in the home like a colorful art print. We usually know from a very young age what colors attract us so capitalize on that.

Any arts and craft store should be able to supply you with a color chart for very little money. You can also browse on the internet for charts that you can print off for reference.

One more thing about the color wheel, color can be used to show off your personality! If you are an out going type of person then you may be very comfortable with colors like reds and oranges. If you are the calm type, then soft blues and greens may be your cup of tea. So take that into account when you are designing. Whatever colors makes you comfortable and happy is the goal here.

So go for it!

Using color correctly can make your day!

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