B6 - Wednesday, June 1, 1983 - North Shore News

Building a Colour Scheme

Our colour system is built for-peopte - do-it-yourself people. Coiours are easy © to find and easy to co-ordinate. If you've ever been scared away by a typical paint colour display rack, designed by and for high intengr decorators, take heart! The Home Hardware colour system was put together by do-t- yourseilfers for do-it-yourselfers.

Here's a simple way to build an elegant colour scheme for any room in your house. Look around the room for a dominant colour that will remain after redecorating or remodelling. This is most often the broadloam, drapery or turniture. if you can’t take a sample of the colour to the store, ask your HOME™ dealer to lend you a fan-deck colour sampler in that colour range. Find the closest colour then look at the deep pastel (no.2). medium pastel(no.4) or pale pastel(no. 5) on the same card. This will usually be the main wall col- our in your scheme. When you return to the store you can build a complete colour scheme by choosing a colour in the same vertical row for colours in the. same family or from the horizontal row for accent colours that will add contrast without loss of harmony.

Colour can do many things for a room - both good and bad. It can mdke tt ijarger or smaller, warmer or cooler and it can soothe or stimulate.

To make a room look large, use similar pastel or pale shades without accents.

To make it look shorter, paint the end wall or walis in a deeper or accent colour.

To make the ceiling look lower, paint it a shade darker than the walls.

1 Blues, greens and greenish yellow make a room look cooler. Reds, oranges, reddish yellows and orange tone browns make a room look warmer. Pale biues and biue-greens are - soothing to the eye while a blend of pastels and deep tones in the other colours stimulate.

2. Gitoss or sheen Gloss, like colour is a matter of in- dividual preference, but it is hard to describe. Think of polished glass as 100 and dead fiat as 0

vey wim your crocs T Abb i OR IN THE LABORATOR you with your choice. So » : » ; |b |

High Gloss 85 to 100

Gloss 70 to 85 A

Semi-Gloss 40to70 Ee

Satin . 30 to 40 . - time after time Silk 20.ta 30 “

Velvet 10to15- - it’s built to last! Suede 8.to 10.

Satin Fiat 2to5)

Ceiling Flat 0 to 2

3 Colour Changes Under Dif- ferent Light Sources —¢ | ° A ray of light is made up of afl the colours in spectrum Black absorbs all of the colours and white none, so no colours are . , reflected Each colour absorbs na *, ook aairaa actos - then own colour and reflect the : me: . one National Brand A National Brand B remainder This ts why a colour ae rh gs : can look difterent under natural incandescent or fluorescent ight Betore making your final colour selection we suggest tooking at your colour choice in natural light and under the type of hghting you use ai home Many people are colour blind in varying degrees (More men than women!) What may appear to be a pleasant pale green to one could appear to be a

browinsh grey to another So & y i - Beauti-Tone make sure your colour is pleas. a4 ; soe ing and comtornable to all Bae : : independent members of the family we

4 Both home usage and in. fe . National Brand C Washability Tests depentant laboratory tests Dee 2 os peers ee mS es : : - : show Beaut Tone Velvet Latex Enamel to be superior to velvet or low lustre latex enamels sold under three other major national brands

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