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Using Warm Colors When Decorating Your Home
from: Maxx Home GuidesWarm colors create warmth and vitality. Here are some of the most popular warm colors and how you can incorporate them into your home decorating color schemes.
Apricot: Apricot is a color somewhere between orange and pink with a touch of tawny-gold. Apricot is an interesting color to work with. If you're painting your walls in this color, you really have two choices. You can ask the paint store to mix in cream or off-white to the apricot so it isn't as strong. Or you can paint your walls in full blown apricot and then offset the color by adding neutral colors, such as cream colored throw pillows to your couch or off-white sheets on your bed.
Apricot is best used on the side of your home that gets the least amount of sunlight because this color adds warmth. You can also use little touches of apricot throughout the room by adding an apricot slipcover on a chair, some apricot throw pillows on a cream colored couch or a rug with apricot tones.
Pale Pink: This is a favorite color and great for decorating the bathroom. Of course if you live with a husband and teenage son they might not really like the pink bathroom. Most women can remember back to her childhood and wearing pretty pink dresses and dressing her Barbie in pale pink. Pale pink works very well in a room mainly decorated in deeper colors, such as dark green or deep blue. You can also use pale pink to warm up an off-white or cream color.
Salmon: Salmon is a fish, of course, but it's also a silky pink color used in decorating. Many people don't think of the color salmon as pink but it's actually part of the pink family. Salmon works well in any room of your home and can be used to paint entire walls. If you're going for an old-fashioned look, try painting the walls of a study, living room or bedroom in salmon, then painting all the trimming in a cream color. Add dark salmon curtains for a complete look.
Lemon Yellow: There's nothing better on a hot summer day that an iced cold glass of fresh squeezed lemonade. Lemon yellow can be used to brighten up any room in your home. If you have a room that has sun shining in most of the day, then lemon yellow can enhance the natural sunlight. If you have a room in your home with less sun, then lemon yellow can bring brightness to that room. A perfect combination would be lemon yellow walls and deep green trim.
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