How many interior colors is too many?
Question:I would like to get people's opinions on how many colors you think are too many for a house? The basic flow of the ranch style house is when you walk in the front door - the living room is on the right side and behind that is the kitchen. In front of the front door is a hallway that goes left and there is a main bathroom and 3 bedrooms that are next to each other. I was thinking of painting the hallways and living room (all Behr paint) Yellow Whip to make it more lively since the house does not get too much sunlight. I want to paint the kitchen Soothing Celadon because I think green is a good color for a kitchen. And then I wanted to paint the three bedrooms Green Tea, Pewter Tray and Gallery Taupe. Then I would put the main bathrrom Soft Denim color. And then finally I would reuse the Gallery Taupe to be painted in the Master Bathroom b/c that color fits really well with the Green Tea. All of the colors fit really well together but is this too many colors?Any suggestions?
Answers:
rule of thumnb for decorators and designers is no more than 3.
More than that is just too overwhelming and difficult to make flow through the house.
the colors u just mentioned are not too many in my opinion... so go ahead, and i'll tell you why...
first i say there are no rules... if colors are beautifully matching then no need to worry if you're a color fan! whatever is comfortable for the eye...!
but since we see colors differently, then in decorating the maximum colors used in one room are 3 and sometimes 4 in a double-complementary color scheme... the rule of 3 is well known in decorating, and it suggests that we use 3 colors... maybe with or without neutrals... in other rooms we may use other schemes...
i hope i helped... good luck with your choices!
i would suggest u got those paint especially for each bedroom, only on particular wall - not the whole wall in the same color.
choose one wall in different color, while the rest follow in lower & softer tone-
so, there's not much jumping color for each rooms-
i got no issue for many colors inside house, but u should think how people will re-act with all those color in the same time.
strong color on one wall and the rest is for balance-
I think this is O.K because most of the rooms that have different colours are closed off and because all the colours go well with each other. As long as they have the same colour intensity and go well together you will be fine. As for the Yellow vs. Taupe in the hall and living room, I would say go with the yellow, however I was unable to find it in the Behr colour sample, so my only suggestion is that sometimes yellow does not look flattering in certain lights, for instance I have yellow in my home in the kitchen which receives Northern light, looks amazing, but in the living room which is South facing, something just seems a little off, not as nice. I would recommend a cool yellow if the front of your house is facing south.
it means 3 color per room. i have in my lounge mint green ivory and rusty. in my kitchen black orange and silver in one bedroom lime green beige and rusty in other bedroom its brown beige and Labrador and one bedroom is cream red and gold and hall way is pistachio green and ivory with brown and all looks very nice.
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