By: Stephen Drommonsy
Submitted: 2010-10-14 02:52:35 | Word Count: 543
An easy decision at face value, choose a paint colour or colour scheme for your home. This can turn even the strongest among us into trembling wimps. The fear of picking the wrong colour has many householders paralyzed and unable to make a decision. It is possible to hire a professoinal decorator or Colour Design Expert that will help you solve your colour selection problem. However, for those who would rather take action on thier own you can use a simple technique that I recommend to my clients and decorating workshop students.
1. Make a visit to the local diy center and head straight for that paint department. Pick whatever colour you are taking a shine to. Don't worry about where you’ll be using the colour for now. Just have fun with the choices. This may assist you to reduce the intimidation of choosing a colour. This is the first step in overcoming your fear.
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2. Grab you favorite fashion magazines and cut out images with colours you find attractive. After all, if you are drawn to a colour in make-up or fashion, odds are you will probably like that colour in your home.
3. Find an inspirational piece in the home which you absolutely love. Use the colours from that piece to guide you in your colour selections.
4. Buy sample pots of paint colours that you have selected and apply them to a tiny section of your wall (tape it to your wall). Watch how the colour changes through out the day, watch as it responds to sunlight and artificial light. If you definately love the colour, then buy it and begin painting. If you don't like it then repeat this exercise.
Take into account that choosing a paint colour or colour scheme for your home is absolutely not a life or death choice. Approach the decision with a sense of humor and adventure knowing that no matter if you choose right or wrong, at the least you made a decision. If you chose the colour you love Congratulations. If you chose a colour that you decided you didn't like Congratulations too! You are just one step closer in finding the colour that defines your temperament and one step further away from your fear of using colour.
Don’t be afraid to go with the colours that you want, it doesn't matter what anyone else might think. If you prefer it, then that is all that counts. You won't please every body, no matter what you choose to put on your walls. I could give you a lot of examples where We have gone in to a home and felt sick with what others have chosen, but they like it. That is all that matters these days.
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