September 19, 2003

Colour Circle

Following the recent clearout of my room, I've finally decided to decorate it too (about time, seeing as it was last decorated in 1986!). I started stripping wallpaper on Wednesday and managed to get the majority of it removed. I was going to paint the ceiling white yesterday, but I realised I have no idea what colour I'm going to paint the rest of the room. So I held fire on the ceiling.

My original idea was the main colour of the room should be blue; as I quite like it. Then I realised blue didn't go with the fact that I want the room to have quite "warm" feeling. Scrap blue. How about red; that's warm. I found a nice shade of red in the plethora of paint company colour brochures I've got. Then I thought it was such a deep red, it might be too dark. Scrap red.

Orange? It's warm. It's not such a dark colour if I have just one feature wall. Right, orange it is - surely. What colour do I use with it on the other walls? An example I've got shows a whitey cream colour, another shows a beige sort of colour. They both appear to go well together. It's looking good here I'm thinking. Now for the skirting, window frame and door. I look at the examples, there's quite a few dark colours that may go. Hold on, there's lots of brown furniture in these examples? Orange, beige, brown - oh crap!! It's the 70's! Scrap orange.

How about blue?