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We always hear about this concept of flow – colors that flow – and that's important
to creating the feeling of a unified front. The feeling that you have an entire home,
rather than individual room statements.
Everybody loves open-concept spaces, but picking a color scheme for those spaces can be challenging.
You really have to treat all of the spaces as one room. And typically people's instinct
is to paint everything the same color, but that can be bland and boring. The key, the
secret is to really select one color, and then choose two or three values of that color
that will define all the spaces that are open to each other – your hallways, your dining
rooms, your living rooms.
For example, we would look at something here like a vale mist for our hallway. Perhaps
the living room could be an October mist. And then something a little deeper and dramatic
for the dining room – something like rolling hills. Again, all within the same value of
one color. And that helps create that flow, that unity in an open-concept plan.
I love to use bold colors, but too many bold colors in an open-concept plan just creates
visual chaos. It looks like a carnival. I do however like to use one or two bold colors
as an accent wall. I think it helps punctuate a monochromatic scheme and adds focus and
interest.
My favorite color, lead gray. A deep, dark, intense gray; whether it's backing a sofa
or a pic gerbera daisy, it just commands attention.
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