The collection
How to combine a handful of colors into one coherent scheme for a room or a whole home, using neutrals, accents and a sense of proportion.
Building Color Palettes
Analogous schemes use neighboring colors for calm and cohesion, while complementary schemes use opposite colors for contrast and energy. Compare them for real rooms at home.
Building Color Palettes
Roughly 60 percent dominant, 30 percent secondary and 10 percent accent is a useful guide for color in a room. See which pieces carry each role and how to fix imbalance.
Building Color Palettes
A neutral base that can take accent colors needs an undertone that matches fixed surfaces, a middle-to-light lightness and little saturation so cushions and art can stand out later.
Building Color Palettes
Build a palette around one favorite color by describing its undertone, choosing a matching neutral, adding supporting tones and an accent, then checking it in the room.
Building Color Palettes
Keep color moving through a home by sharing a few core tones between rooms, linking each space through its transitions, and varying mainly lightness.
Building Color Palettes
Before choosing colors for an open-plan home, map its zones, sightlines and light sources so one palette can hold across the whole space.