Have you ever seen a combination of brilliant hues or tranquil colors in nature and then wondered how you could incorporate them into your home redecorating and existing home decor? Maybe it was a sunset that you caught with your camera lens, or a stray bird feather. Maybe it was a field with bales of hay. Whatever it was, if you have a physical object that you can use as a visual reference, you can use that to match paint colors and bring those hues into your home decorating.
Finding the Natural Object to Inspire Interior Decorating Ideas
The natural object should be one that you like. The colors should be hues that you would like to look at daily in your home decor. The colors should create a feeling or a mood that you want your home decor to bring to a room of your home. The natural object could be something you can physically hold, from a river-worn stone, to a peacock feather.
The second option is to take a photograph of the natural object. If the inspiring colors are from the sunset or sunrise, or moving water, you will need to take a photo to use as your visual reference.
Tip: Even if you have the natural object in hand, taking a photograph of it will help you see it differently. This can be useful when drawing natural colors from an object and incorporating them into your home decorating ideas.
Dissecting the Colors for Home Decorating
The first step to approaching the natural object which can be used to inspire a home decorating project is to forget what the object really is. It is not sunrise, it is not a rock, it is not a peacock feather.
Turn the image or the object around, or upside down. Look at from a new angle. Then look at just the colors. This is where using a photograph can come in handy and help you focus on the colors, hues and shades for your new interior decor.
Which color catches your eye first? Which color dominates the object? That is the color you may want to consider for your home decorating project.
Next, find the color that best complements the first color. Is it in the same color family? Or is it an opposite color?
Also look at the more minor and subtle colors or color blends that would add to your new home interior decor.
Finding Swatches for Interior Decor
The next step in finding your home decorating ideas and paint color palettes is to compare the colors to paint swatches. There are a number of ways to accomplish this.
Paint Color Swatches and the Home Decorating Store
The first way is to go to your local home decorating store or retailer that sells paint. Pick out a wide selection of paint chips. Take as many paint colors as you need. Be sure to collect a wide variety of both cool and warm neutrals as well.
At home, match the paint colors to the natural object. This is how you can start building the paint swatch for your interior decor.
Devise different combinations of paint colors to match the natural object or visual reference. Pick out neutrals to match the other paint colors for your interior decor.
Online Swatches for Interior Decorating Ideas
The second way to match paint colors without leaving home is to go to the web site of paint company. use the digital paint color swatches to pick and match colors. The advantage to using the online paint color swatches is that you can use the colors to virtually decorate a room on the web site.
The disadvantage is that the color you see on the computer screen will not exactly match what you see in person. Some paint colors will match their real colors better than others. Metallics never look right on the computer screen.
Keep track of your online paint color selections by making a list, or printing them out.
Bring them to the local home decorating store to pick your paint.
Now you can redecorate a room in your house based on inspiration you found in the colors of nature.
