Carlene Duffy’s Top Colour Tips for Your Home

If you wish to be daring with color in your house however do not know the place to begin, contemplate these useful hints to steer you in the fitting path.

Inside designer Carlene Duffy shares how one can combine color into each room as we take a tour by way of this bold-hued dream residence.

A heat entrance

This residence provides a color journey that unfolds as you make your means by way of.

The bottom flooring is heat and alluring — “like a day glow” — and the color palette adjustments as you progress upstairs and past.

Heat tones, like dusty pinks, ochres and rust-coloured reds, plus loads of timber helps to create an inviting vibe within the open-living floor flooring.

You may even use color in surprising locations. For example, the kitchen encompasses a custom-coloured island bench.

The setting solar tone of the island bench was color developed by Carlene utilizing the Taubmans Coloursmith app, which she referred to as ‘Golden Hour’. The Coloursmith app permits you to take photographs of something you want, hone in on a selected hue and have it made right into a {custom} paint color. It is a straightforward strategy to find colors you like and convey them into your house.

Paint the ceiling the identical color because the partitions

Upstairs, Carlene used a whole lot of inexperienced within the dwelling and bed room areas.

Whereas the dwelling space utilises totally different shades of inexperienced to accent totally different options, the bed room makes use of the identical sage inexperienced color throughout all of the partitions and the ceiling.

“Do not be afraid to color the ceiling the identical color because the wall, even when it is a daring color,” Carlene encourages. “A white ceiling in [the bedroom] simply would have been stark towards the richness of the inexperienced.”

Create stream with half-strength colors

There is no want to buy a totally totally different shade for various partitions or rooms in your house.

Carlene suggests creating continuity through the use of a half-strength of the identical color to theme adjoining rooms, ceilings and totally different options of a room.

“It creates cohesion but in addition a way of sunshine and shade,” she confirms.

Spotlight options with totally different colors

In a single bed room, Carlene used a barely deeper model of the wall color on the ceiling to emphasize the distinctive particulars of a pressed steel ceiling. This subtly enhanced this beautiful function.

That is additionally one other instance of how to veer away from a white or contrasting ceiling. Whereas many consider a white ceiling will make the room look larger or brighter, it could possibly as a substitute interrupt the stream and have a jarring impact.

Carry color themes all through separate however close by areas

The tones of this residence get cooler the additional in you undergo it. Carlene created two blue bedrooms and carried an analogous tone by way of the toilet. She tied the rooms collectively through the use of similar-coloured mushy furnishings, like cushions and decor.

“There are a whole lot of colors on this residence, however as a result of they’re transitioned gently all through the general consequence is cohesive and calm,” she explains.

You do not have to color each house the identical color, however suppose in ‘zones’ or contemplate how one can tie adjoining rooms collectively by way of highlights (or lowlights) and complementary decor.