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Using Colors To Decorate Within Your Home

Orange is a very hot color that can be used as a pure color to promote energy in a room, but it can also almost too much energy to the point of unsettling. Which is why, if you plan on orange in a color scheme, then you need to be smart about how you plan on using it.

You have probably rarely seen any room painted in pure orange or have a lot of pure orange decor. Most likely because a room that is done in pure orange is simply too much, too bright, too hot, and not at all restful. It is not that you should never use pure orange in a color scheme, you should have a good reason. Perhaps it is a child's playroom and you paint a table bright orange or perhaps it is a lamp shade or funky lamp.

To use orange successfully in most rooms, you will want to use muted oranges, or shades and tints of orange. These are calmer versions of orange and create a much more restful room. When you add white to orange you get a peach, and a rich peach to a subtle almost white peach. Using all these colors in this range will create a peaceful, tranquil interior design, which is ideal for smaller rooms.

Use a light peach on the walls or add simple drapes with the same tint of peach, then you could have chairs and couches in the same fabric as your drapes. Your area rug should have a nice range of soft pale peaches to rich peaches, which will be exquisite. Ground the entire soft palette with dark stained furniture, but stay away from oak and light pine. Also consider using white as a fabric in your room such as white pillows, vases, or chairs.

Another alternative is to use a range of dark oranges as your color scheme. Adding black to orange will create browns from a rich orange brown to a black brown. You may refer to this range as your guide for wood stains in your soft peach room, or perhaps decorate your room in rich orange browns. Consider painting your walls a peach with a couch in a rich brown from the dark orange range. Have your area rug a mix of soft peaches and rich orange browns. Perhaps your drapes and furniture are an orange with just a hint of black added so now your room will be cozy and warm.

Add the compliment to the room to cool it down, which the compliment to orange is blue. Orange and blue are on the opposite sides of the color wheel. When you add blue to orange you will mute the orange, which will create shades of muted oranges all the way to a grayish brown. Add white to this palette for soft, less intense peaches that are really more light beiges and tans. Add black to the muted oranges to have a range of brown to a dark gray brown.

You can use these muted tints and shades together to create a rich and dynamic room. A good rule of thumb is to refer to the grid of muted oranges below and use the three that are either next to each other, diagonal to each other or vertical to each other. Do not mix the pure tints and shades with the muted colors. You can mix the pure oranges that have white and black added, and you can mix the muted oranges that have white and black added, but do not mix the two sets together, because the result is unsuccessful.

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