"Many of these palettes will find a home in rooms from coast to coast," Debbie Zimmer, color and decorating expert for the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute and member of the prestigious Color Marketing Group, an international organization that helps shape the latest color trends said. "What I enjoy most about our palette grouping this year is the homey and nature-like quality afforded by each."
Comfort Colors
Biscuit and wheat neutrals, cocoa brown, pumpkin orange and cinnamon apple pie, are just a few of the comfort colors that will wrap your room with warmth and promote a stress-free space. The comfort color palette is an especially good choice for kitchens and family rooms.
Back to Nature
Yellows and blues, leaf-like greens, along with organic browns combine to bring the outdoors in. Add translucency and a glass like quality by incorporating varying paint sheen levels. As a subtle accent color, add rust or copper-like metallics into the scheme. Bedrooms and bathrooms are perfect places to incorporate the back to nature hues or in rooms where an accent wall is employed.
Stark Contrast
From clean, clear reds and deep plums to the sophistication of black and white, this color group works both as an accent and as an elegant backdrop for many living spaces. Polished brass metallics complement this scheme. Dining, living rooms and especially powder rooms will benefit from this bold and spicy palette.
Source: Color Trends 2007 Home Hues that Comfort and Excite
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Earth tones, muted browns, yellows, reds, harvest colors, all good choices for relaxation and kicking back. Interior designers, OSD, Inc. recommends using these shades to make our interior designs feel like home the way we remember it. Family rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, should all transition from one to the other in an easy way. We are here to be calm, and this is how it's done.
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Back to Nature
A more vivid use of greens, yellow, and blues, aid in reflecting light into dark areas and bringing otherwise uninspiring rooms such as bathrooms and bedrooms up a level to where they are more interesting. Gloss and semi-gloss finishes, on smooth wall, aid in this effort to reflect light in a pleasing but not overwhelming way.
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Stark Contrast
Ramp up the elegance level with this pallette. Vivid reds, stark whites, endless blacks, serve to draw you eye in ways that other colors and combinations won't. OSD's interior designers can combine these and other colors in design statements that will result in dramatic outcomes.
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Using images and colors to aid the creative process is one of the keystones of interior design (or any other attempt at art). Ideas and inspirations don't just appear out of thin air. You don't suddenly have a brain fart, and instantly produce a great idea or production.
What happens is, you receive input in the form of experiences, the environment you are in, logic, a good color sense, balance, and finally, luck. Combined, these different facets come together to create a unique idea or design. Even though these are past inputs, when mixed in the right way for you and your clients, or associates, something occurs which hopefully hasn't before, hence "creation", and "originality". This creation was truly inspired, and therefore your own.
