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Choosing Exterior Paint Colors

Unlike painting interior is easily changeable, the exterior of your home isn’t something you want to do on a whim. With the expense and time involved you’ll want that paint job to last.

Paint, picking the best hues for your home isn’t as hard as it might seem. Just remember that before you get out the paintbrush it’s a good idea to take cues from:

The style of your house. Certain colors have become synonymous with specific architectural styles. For instance, Victorian homes often boast vibrant, contrasting color schemes, whereas Southwestern homes are typically adorned in the colors of the desert landscape (think pinks, soft yellows, sandy taupes, and beige). An abundance of architectural details may mean you can use a variety of colors on the exterior, as with Painted Ladies; simpler homes look better with a more straightforward palette (pick a body color, trim highlight, and accent punch at most). Read More …

Paint Your Exterior

Paint is not easy job, we should know what we paint for. These are severla tips before you paint your house or building

There are two types of Exterior Paint:

Latex: With latex-based paints the finish lasts the longest while retaining the true color. Because it is water-based it is easy to work with and cleans up well. In addition it dries quickly so that extra layers can be put on in hours and not days, as in oil-based paints. Latex has a porous surface which allows moisture to escape and this helps to prevent peeling and flaking.

Oil-Based (Alkyd): Alkyd-oil is great for coverage and sticking to most clean surfaces. Heavily-used areas require oil-based alkyds because latex coverings will wear down after constant handling and foot treads. And because they dry slower there are no roller marks as in in latex. Clean-up is low and tedious with off-gassing from mineral spirits.

Whatever paint you choose there are some basics for preparation: Read More …

Decorating With Soft Rose

Here’s something to pick you up out of the end-of-winter blues: soft rose.

This shade — paler than a true pink, but with enough red to stand out against an eggshell or off-white — has the delicacy and gentility that we find in any of the pinks, but it isn’t just for frills and bows. In fact, soft rose can often be best used by pairing it with heavier, more masculine furnishings, as we see here. Read More …

Cucumber Green

One of the coolest colors in the palette is a pale green, a green so pale that it’s safer probably to say it’s white with just a hint of green, rather than green watered down with white.

Often we look to nature for clues about colors. Keep a couple of cukes in the crisper, slice them and arrange on a blue plate, and you’ll start feeling cooler even before you take a bite.

So it is too with using cucumber green in your home decor. Here, we’re talking about the color of the inside of the cuke, the palest shade of green. For now, peel away that rich, dark green shade of the cucumber skin – it’s too dark for the summer months, and would work better sometime in February, when you want to brighten things up while keeping them warm.

If you do choose to color the walls of a porch or sunroom cucumber green, consider furnishing the room in a summery style, by using wicker, floral prints, and potted plants. A sisal carpet with a deeper green border can pull it all together.

Even your interior rooms could benefit from being re-painted with cucumber green. A room in the back of the house that doesn’t get much light is a good candidate, as is a room with dark furniture that needs to be brightened up with lighter walls. Good choices for trim would be a slightly darker shade of the cucumber, or something from the other side of the color wheel, such as a deep pink.

The pale of cucumber can cool things off, even as the use of it fires up your passion for interior design.

Using Versatile White

In the grand and splashy world of color, what place does white have? Is it even thinkable to address white as a color, here in The Magic of Color or anywhere else? To the eye and mind, white isn’t a “color”; technically, it’s the absence of a unique spectral reflection. But, when you’re using it in decorating, white’s more than nothing, more than the lack of specific shading, because in the presence of white, you can feel the presence of light itself. It’s more than a fresh blank canvas waiting for a brush stroke.

We know that the meaning of color varies from one culture to another, and a color can take on a new shade depending on where you are. For example, brides in China are married in red for luck, but in America red means stop, warning you to stay away.

White is no exception to this. In many other cultures, white is a traditional color of mourning, and this rings true, because white gives you room; you can stretch out and think in white. You can contemplate things. You can, perhaps, rest in peace without having to leave this world.

How can you make use of the properties white offers in your home? White was, for a long time, used as a neutral, and it still is. Landlords insist on a tenant re-painting in white, and white’s the default for many people when it comes to walls or sheets or even dishes.

But you can take control of white, and use it to your interior’s advantage.

Look at this room that’s all done up in white. It may seem sterile, or more appropriate for a hospital than a home, but imagine how you could play with color in there: a cluster of orange pillows and a pitcher of sunflowers on a nightstand, or a blue coverlet and blue alarm clock. Each color that you place in this room of white will not only stand out, but it will also change the mood of the room.

White isn’t just the absence of color; it’s a backdrop against which color is free to play and reflect, soothing our hearts and calming our minds.

Neutrals Working Your Way

Enjoy a blank canvas for your creativity by exposing yourself to the beauty of neutrals.   You can achieve a sophisticated look by purposefully limiting your color and patterns. Neutrals can otherwise be translated to mean white, taupe, beige or natural fibers. When these natural colors are mixed with textures it brings a calming effect to your space.

By keeping the majority of your larger pieces of furniture a light neutral color, such as off white or beige, you will create a more simplistic, peaceful atmosphere.  If your tastes run with the dark more rustic neutral colors, you can expect a warm comforting space.  To use neutral colors in your home, you may select from different shades of brown, rust or black to ground your  palette.

This is an example of a neutral color scheme, notice that all the colors are natural tones. Here are few suggestions to help you accessorize your space and get the most of your neutral colors.

· To create a sleek look, use a single architecturally interesting object or a common number of smaller pieces as seen in the mirrors. This will draw the eye to rest upon the one object, which creates a feeling of simplicity.

· Add natural fiber pillows in neutral colors to add texture and character. The sleek chrome dining room table and the dark vase create an added punch to the otherwise beige palate.

· Neutral simulates simplicity - keep your decorating simple, choose accessories wisely and sparingly.

Above all live with what you love.  Use these suggestions as guidelines, but let your own creativity spur your decor and allow it to create an atmosphere you can live with and enjoy.