When decorating your home do you have to have the same color scheme throughout?

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I am decorating my home and I have done each bedroom in different colors and I just wanted to know if that is a sign of a bad decorator?

It depends on whether or not the bedrooms have direct exposure to other community rooms in the house. If they are on another level, that’s fine – but if they are off a hallway that leads to a family room and each one is completely different then I would keep the doors shut when company is coming.

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I tend to do color charts for people who are redecorating their homes or making big changes. Get several paint chips from the store – pick out your favorites that will be throughout the main parts of the home. Then pick a other complimentary colors that work well with the main color. That way your home doesn’t look chopped up – it flows. There are many shades of each color – it’s pretty easy to find a green (for example) that goes with your other main color. Olive might work well with one palate while forest might look good with another.

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7 Responses to “When decorating your home do you have to have the same color scheme throughout?”

  1. Ain't no fakers. They who? Says:

    Absolutely not! My bedroom is purple and peach, my brother’s is turquoise, my sister’s is forest green, my mum’s is straight white, and the foyer/parlour areas are light & dark blue. We’re a rainbow house, lol.
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  2. pandarifficness Says:

    No of course not! Each room should have a theme, it gives personality and it’s a house not a hotel! Granted, it would be nice to keep with a similar color temperature because going from wine red to ice blue might be a bit jarring, but otherwise you go do what you think looks nicest. I plan on decorating my house with each room themed on a different country. So what if it’s tacky, it’s still nifty and someone’ll like it.
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  3. Devil's Advocate Says:

    Ah, you see the same thing entered my mind too.

    We are still choosing the colours for our rooms and while i want each room to be distinctive, i don’t want it to look like a packet of skittles…

    I think that it isn’t so much the colours that your use, but the scheme.

    You have to have the same scheme throughout your house to make it more professional.

    So if you wanted it to be traditional country, every room would have to be traditional country – you couldn’t have one room traditional country and the next ultra modern.

    I am going for a natural modern scheme – so clean lines but lots of wood. My palette ranges from neutrals to reds, greys, browns, orange and yellow.

    That said, bedroom are quite personal so i’d probably let the person sleeping there have whatever colour they wanted.
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  4. pissy_old_lady Says:

    My main living area is mainly one colour as I have an open floor plan. Each bedroom reflects the person whose room it is meaning each bedroom has a different colour. Each bathroom is a different but co ordinating colour in my house. The garage is just white and my sewing room is a different colour. It is not bad decorating to have your bedrooms different colour.
    I do have the trim/molding/doors/ceilings all the same colour throughout the whole house to unify it..even in the garage.
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  5. MicahArt Says:

    It depends on whether or not the bedrooms have direct exposure to other community rooms in the house. If they are on another level, that’s fine – but if they are off a hallway that leads to a family room and each one is completely different then I would keep the doors shut when company is coming.

    I tend to do color charts for people who are redecorating their homes or making big changes. Get several paint chips from the store – pick out your favorites that will be throughout the main parts of the home. Then pick a other complimentary colors that work well with the main color. That way your home doesn’t look chopped up – it flows. There are many shades of each color – it’s pretty easy to find a green (for example) that goes with your other main color. Olive might work well with one palate while forest might look good with another.
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  6. MasterGardner Says:

    It is not necessary to paint all your walls the same color. I would choose light shades if you are going to use different colors.
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  7. hann sand Says:

    Saya home sick bundo, gak bisa jauh dr bekasi :'( RT

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