Making the Color Connection

Color can sometimes be a problem, with open floor plans. Architects usually use this trick to maximize the feeling of space without increasing a space square footage.  It doesn't mean that you have to paint all of the areas one color. To get an area to blend, yet have its own personality, you can choose two or thee colors that blend and use them in varying amount from room to room.  I am currently decorating a open space that is a large open area. A casual den opens into a large kitchen which opens to a  formal dinning area. I will share the same techniques that I used solving their color connection with you.

First you need to keep your colors closely related. It will give a room a airy flow and provide for seamless flow.  Look for architecture details to know where to start a new color. A column may maker the transition from a kitchen to a dining area, and you could match either room color depending on whether you want to emphasis the connection to the kitchen or dining area. Using unrelated colors in adjoining rooms can make a home feel like a disjointed serious of space, while color that relate to each other draw the eye from one space to the other created a pleasing flow.  In a house with a open floor plan it is more important to choose colors that relate to each other in a pleasing way.

The color wheel is the easiest way to visualize how colors relate to each other.  Colors that lie opposite each other on the wheel are complementary when paired, each makes the other appear more vivid. Those that lie beside each other are analogous and they always look good together because they share a common hue. Triads, or any three equally spaced color, yield a lively yet balance combination and the scheme may feel a little jarring unless you let one color dominate and use the other two as accents. The color wheel also help identify warm and cool colors. Half of the color wheel, is considered warm and the other half of the wheel is described as cool. Warm colors advance and cool colors recede. That advice usually also follows painting walls. If you want a room to seem larger, paint it a cool hue. If you want a room to feel smaller paint it a warm hue.  

It might not always be about painting a room to connect them. Use accessories to accent a color scheme. A black vase trimmed in gold can bring color into a den. White trim can smoothly  lead the eye into another room with fabrics and accessories finish the job of tying the two spaces together.  If you paint a room a strong contrasting color, connect them by using floor rugs that include both room colors.  The wall colors don't have to match. One wall can be slightly darker or lighter that the other and the eye will still perceive the as closely related.  You can give a room its own color personality while ensuring a cohesive feeling by using a single hue as a theme that runs through the space.  For example, The repeating color in a home, the color black can appear in upholstery, pillows, and accessories, as well as in the architecture.  Black baseboards and stair risers can link large open spaces. In any color scheme a touch of black adds depth; using it as the common thread that creates a rich understated elegance whether you combine it with bright, bold colors or neutrals. 

In the home I am currently working, the home owner choose brown walls for there formal dinning area. This area flows into the kitchen. This kitchen was covered with dark wood cabinets that blended beautifully with the chocolate brown dinning area. I lighten the kitchen walls with a butter yellow. The kitchen open into the den and the customer wanted a totally different color for the den. They choose off white. I choose brown leather furniture, brown side tables, and all of the accessories had touches of brown, off white, and pale yellow to bring in the colors of the dinning area and kitchen into the den. These three open area are all tied together with off white base boards and wall trim. The window treatments are cornice boards finished with fabrics with colors of brown, pale yellow, and off white. When choosing a area rug, we didn't choose it for the pattern rather for our three colors that we wanted to bring into these spaces to blend the areas.  All three rooms flow and the customer has just the colors they wanted.  

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