Let's go color hunting! Inspiring color families can be found all around, and one great way to begin your search is by looking at images of beautifully designed rooms. The work is already done, you just have to make the colors your own. Ready to get started? Let's hunt inspiring color families!
If you missed it, check out Maxwell's video, The Color Cure, Week 1: Color Families.
Which color family do you love?
1. Do the warm oranges and reds and bright accenting spring greens in Back to The Old House with the Smiths steal your heart?
2. Maybe the almost achromatic black and white of Verona and Tom's Cheery Net-Zero Modern are just what you're after?
3. Could it be that the cool ocean-colored palette of Christine & John's Breezy Ann Arbor Ranch is meant for you?
4. Or do you dream of the warm, inviting oranges and yellows of Erin and Seth's Home of Happiness?
5. Maybe just maybe you're meant for a white palette accented only with neutrals, like the one seen here in Nina's Lovely North London Flat?
6. Could something a little more bold, like Toni's Sky Blue Living Room, be for you?
Which one would you make your own?
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Although my own tendencies fall with whites and neutrals, I love to see bright colors being used so boldly.
I love neutrals with pops of color, although I went nuts (for me) with color in a room that I submitted to an AT contest. That room's color palette was taken from a picture of a plate I saw in a magazine.
Martha Stewart & her crew do beautiful things with colors taken from nature - her hens' eggs, foliage in every season, oceans, rocks. Her color palettes might be too bland for some tastes, but the colors themselves are exquisite, I think. I used one of her new Home Depot colors on a LR wall & down the hallway. I had searched so many colors chips from so many companies, but couldn't find the color I had imagined. Her new line features color palettes already put together, & by matching my carpet color, I found the color I had wanted all along. After I finished the LR, I would sit staring at the wall, because I loved it so much (& still do).
Come on, I'm supposed to choose only one? You don't know me very well. I want at least 1 and 3.
My living room is like #3 but with big punches of red, orange, and dark brown. I'm definitely not afraid of color. I tried to do minimal but it doesn't come naturally to me.
The red brick gets my every time. Number one is the one for me. That green sofa goes on and on. Love it.
For me, the person who loves every color, I am surprised to say #2. All the other pics have colors I like but my fave is the black and white with red. How weird is that.
A combination of #3 and #5.