Link Rooms With Colour

Why Link Rooms With Colour?
How To Use Colour To Link Rooms
Colour Themes

Don't just think about decorating one room at a time. Considering all the spaces in your home together can create fabulous results - and save money, too.

By Sarah Warwick

Creating colour schemes one room at a time is an easy strategy. After all, it's very simple to think about tackling a particular space, and the choices you'll make for it. But giving individual rooms a link to each other through colour isn't hard to do, and is well worthwhile for the harmonious atmosphere it will bring to your home, whether your taste is for the bold, subtle, or anywhere in between.

Why Link Rooms With Colour?

To Make It Relaxing

Colours that continue from one space to another allow the eye to recognise familiar elements as you move through your home, creating an ease that you just can't achieve if there are no common themes. This doesn't mean that every room has the same shade on walls, ceilings, floors, soft furnishings and accessories - just that colours are repeated from one space to another.

To Make It Seem Larger

Linking with colour is also a great space-stretching trick. Competing colour schemes will enhance the feeling of boundaries between each of your rooms, but with the same shades repeating from one space to another these divisions are blurred. The overall effect is to make your home feel bigger - a benefit most of us will appreciate.

To Save Money

Repeating colours will also make your decorating budget go further. Furniture and accessories can be moved from room to room to give schemes a fresh feel - or changed according to the time of year - and you can be confident they'll work perfectly in the colour scheme of their new location.