Have you ever walked into a store, fell in love with a lamp, a pair of drapes or even a chair, but then you bought it and took it home and it didn’t match anything in your home. What do you do? How can you prevent this from happening again and again, so you don’t end up with a house full of things that just don’t match? In this article I want to tell you a little about how to make sure the items that you buy for your home match and ‘go’ well with the other items in your home.
Matching items in your home does not mean that you have to spend a lot of money. If you are careful in your planning, and in your shopping you can find items when they are on sale, but this will require a little patience and watching of the items in the stores.
What are we all looking for?
Most all of us are looking for items that will match in our homes. We want the perfect homes, and we want the styles, the fashions, and the colors that express our inner selves emotionally and mentally. Adding a special touch to your home, to every room in your home is going to take time.
First start with one room at a time, working on one room until you take care of matching and working the entire room before moving on to another room in the home. Matching colors in your home, does not mean that every room is going to be the same color, but that the colors that you use and consider using in any one given room compliment each other.
Starting Out
On your trek to purchase the most valuable treasures for your home, a little patience is going to go a long way. Make a list of what you want to add to your rooms. What are the colors you want to use in this room? And finally write down about how much you think your new items are going to cost so you can fit this into your budget. A budget is going to be important in how long it is going to take you to get the things that you want, and where you are going to shop to find some of these goodies.
One way to ensure that ‘get’ colors that match and fabrics, wallpaper or even paintings that will match what else you have in the room is that when you head off to your favorite paint store you will notice all types of swatches.
Swatches and Colors
These swatches are arranged to match by colors. Darks and lights do match, and you will find that shade of green and yellow or browns and oranges or even blues and grays can match to create that certain look you want to create in a room. Using the color schemes on a swatch card you can pick ‘things’ like paint, wallpaper or even fabric for the flooring using that same card, just by matching the colors.
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