The combination of colors in a room can make it more spacious, or vice versa – reduce it, add warmth and comfort, or add severity and solemnity to the interior. The combination can be contrasting or sustained in the same scale, bright or muted – it all depends on the effect you want to achieve.
There are many ways that you can enlarge a small room or make a too large room a little smaller and more comfortable, using only paints. Let’s consider some of them.
Gradient combination
(light ceiling, darker walls, dark floor, or the same combination in reverse)
When decorating residential premises, gradient transitions are often used. For example, walls separating a light ceiling and a dark floor make “intermediate” tone. This technique is used when decorating monochrome rooms, for example, in a classic style. Such combinations look very harmonious and stylish..
Gradient transitions are pleasing to the eye and have a beneficial effect on the nervous system, bringing harmony and peace. A similar finish can be used in any room..
Depending on the intensity of the shade of the finishing materials, furniture can be light or dark. Rooms will look great if the floors are the color of dark chocolate, the ceilings are the color of fresh cream, and the walls are a shade of cocoa with milk. White, brown, black can be chosen as additional or accent colors. Furniture for a room with such a combination of floor, wall and ceiling colors can be of any shade, but the desired color is natural wood.
Contrast combination
(light ceiling, bright walls, dark floor)
When painting residential premises, in addition to gradient color combinations of walls, ceilings and floors, contrasting transitions are often used. This combination looks very advantageous. It is applied in a variety of styles and helps to make the room feel more harmonious., “hiding” its flaws.
Low ceiling. If the ceilings are too low in the room, choose light colors for the ceiling and dark ones for the floor. The walls can also be contrasting. In the event that you use wallpaper, choose drawings stretched from floor to ceiling.
With such a combination of colors of the floor, walls and ceiling, it will seem that the height of the ceilings is greater than it actually is. One condition: ceiling cornices should not be wide, and it is better to do without them altogether. The contrasting shade on the walls will give the impression of depth, and the light ceiling will “soar” over this volume.
Narrow room. If the room has not only a low ceiling, but also incorrect proportions – for example, it is elongated in length, this can be corrected. It is necessary to paint short walls in contrasting colors, and elongated ones in neutral ones. This method will help to “squeeze” the room in the required direction, it will acquire more correct proportions.
In the rooms designed in this way, light furniture looks advantageous, and bright colored accessories will help create a memorable interior. In addition, pieces of furniture placed across the room will help expand the narrow room..
Bright hues
(light ceiling and walls, dark floor)
Combining colors in a room can add light and air to it. For example, in small rooms, as a rule, the walls and ceiling are trimmed in light colors, and the floor, on the contrary, is dark. The shade of paint on the walls and ceiling should be as light as possible, preferably white. Cornices, platbands and skirting boards should also be white, in extreme cases they can have a slight shade of the main tone.
To enhance the impression of airiness, avoid heavy, bulky furniture, bright upholstery. Let the objects be few – only the most necessary, while their forms should not be too pretentious. Light carpets look good on a dark floor – they help to zone the space and make it easier to perceive.
Opposite colors
(dark ceiling, floor and light walls or light ceiling, floor and dark walls)
This combination of wall, ceiling and floor colors is universal and can be used in rooms with a wide variety of geometries. This design option can look very advantageous at both high and low ceilings, the only difference is in the method of applying color contrasts.
- High ceilings. If you feel the need for a little “lower” the ceiling, to make the room more comfortable, the combination of floor, wall and ceiling colors is done in this way: the floor and ceiling are dark, the walls are light. Moreover, cold shades on light walls will be even greater than them. “move away”, and warm on the floor and ceiling – “bring closer”.
- Low ceilings. To visually “to lift” ceilings, make them two-level. Paint the main level of the ceiling with dark cold tones, and the suspended one with light ones. Due to this design, the ceiling will acquire volume and appear higher. In this case, dark floors are necessary – they will act as “counterweight”, to balance the complex ceiling structure.
