Interior Paint Colours

Within the world of interior designing there are a few feature things which will either make or break a design. One is the general color scheme and another one is the wall and ceiling hues.

Sometimes without even realizing it you can have these three areas in such opposing proximity to each other that a person can hardly stay and look at the room. So one thing that you utterly must look at when you’re redecorating your home is the interior paint colors.

First, they should really go with the overall color scheme you're working with in the rest of the room, and further more, even if the interior paint colors match your color scheme, they may be a few (dozen) shades lighter or darker than it really should be.

This holds particularly true when choosing the proper interior paint colors that will go on, not only your walls but your ceiling as well.

The ceiling is always a problematic area where painting is concerned, and unless you have large spaces or have frescoes on your ceiling, then you'll want to stay away from anything too intricate. Many people go off beam in this step of their interior designing process because they also attempt to give their ceilings some character. I have just one word for you: stop.

Unless you're extremely certain of the effect you're going to achieve by applying interior paint colors to your ceilings with colors that also match your entire room, then I would strongly recommend that you either leave it as it is or just paint it white.

Using the same color or even a lighter shade of the interior paint colors that you're using for the room can be a mistake as it may have the tendency to lower the height of the room by bringing the visual height of the ceiling down. In other words, no matter how light a variant you go on your chosen interior paint colors, unless you select a soft pastel color, you will make the room appear smaller.

If you actually do want to have daring interior paint colors then I would suggest doing so with the walls. Even on the walls you need to be careful not to overpower the room, and use the strongest colors only sparingly. Otherwise you will have the effect on the walls that you did with the ceiling and you'll find that the room closes in on itself.

Unless of course you have big spacious spaces that are just beseeching to be coated in bright bold colors, and in the large room it won't suffer for it.

As you can now understand the interior paint colors have a lot of influence in the ultimate look and feel of any room, and as was mentioned earlier, is one the key features that can make or break a room.

So use a light touch, go easy on the bold colors and stay away from the ceilings, and you should be okay in your interior decorating efforts.

You may also want to try an accent wall if you just can’t resist the bold colors and your room is not very large.  By using a lighter interior paint color on all of the walls except on wall that you would like to feature you open up the room allowing you to accent just the one wall with an accent color. 

So if you want to use that bold red interior paint color in your room you can do so on one wall.  This gives your room a built in framework for art or furnishings that you would like to feature. 

This type of accent can be used off of a foyer or entry way to draw you into a warm and inviting room without entering in and feeling as if the walls literally are closing in on you.  Inviting is always better than suffocating; allowing you your bold style without your friends running and screaming from your house.  At least not from your choice of interior paint colors.