Color Coordinating Your Home

Chances are you have already tried color coordinating your home. In fact, you may have succeeded, but are still left with a monotone theme. Many people start out trying to get a nice, tasteful color theme in their home, but fall in love with many different color themes and end up incorporating most of them. Leave the ultra-stylized accents to corner tables and your back porch, and join me on a discovery of true taste in color.

Match your house to itself. Regardless of all of the different themes you would like to incorporate into every room, you will need to have an overall theme of your house. Examples of this include western and southern themes, fall leaf wall colors, matching molding throughout the house, etc. There should be something which attaches every room to every other room in your home. Avoid mixing themes in your home, such as having a southern comfort kitchen, a dark leather living room and art deco bedrooms. This leads to a feeling of disorganization and clutter, even if every room is perfectly clean and picked up.

Think of the accessories. More often than not, furniture can be easily matched, but the problems of color clashing homes arise from accessories with multiple themes. You may have a very chic, tasteful den and ruin the mood by incorporating un-themed doilies, clashing wood colors, bright plastic magazine racks, and busily decorated seat covers. The accessories in your room should all match the theme of the room, and should not distract from the point of your decorating: to relax and warm the mind. Too many unnecessary or extraneous accessories can clutter up a room, even if they are all matching designs.

Match your linens. One of the nicest aspects of a well-coordinated house is matching linens. They do not have to be all one color, but if your sheets have a theme of burnt orange, brown and umber, they bespeak a tastefully decorated home. In fact, sticking with a color theme for your sheets, such as shades of blue, mint green and white, can be one of the easiest decorating tools at your disposal. Once the decisions have been made, and the linens purchased, all you have to do is change them!

Give away cutesy items. Let's face it, we have all seen the most adorable cowgirl figurine or the most bad-ass stereo system display case. We love the look, we want it in our lives, and we by something that looks ridiculous in our home. Give yourself a talk about how you want to look like you have class, and not like you're the neighborhood dump truck. Package up all of the awesome and adorable knick-knacks which clutter your style, and move them out. This includes anything which does not match your color scheme or is not actively useful in blessing your life.

Getting rid of most of your clutter can be terrifying. It means that change is on its way, that you'll perhaps be losing some of your security blankets, or at least your security mess, and you'll be staring at your life and your personal responsibilities in a whole new scary way. However, being honest with yourself and your bad collecting and cluttering habits is worth it in the end. I promise.