Pull It Together! Decorating a room; where do you start?
When I am working with a client to pull a space together, they are often surprised to learn that choosing paint colour is one of the last steps in the decorating process.
The reason for this is simple; you can find any paint colour you can imagine, but you might find that other finishes needed in a room are much more limited.
Start with your "must haves". Do you absolutely want a quartz countertop in your kitchen? If so, there may be only 3-4 choices that appeal to you. Go there first and work outwards
. Work from items where there is least to most choice finishing with paint colour. As discussed in previous posts, take a look at what you already have in your home or in the room you are working on and find the piece that has to be there. There are a wealth of clues about the overall look within the items you have probably already chosen. What are the colours? Are they accents or would they make a great overall colour? Is the look of the item casual or formal?
Begin pulling things together slowly and create a "mood board". A mood board is a collection of photographs of items, finish samples, fabric and paint colours that you can use to pull things together before you begin the actual decoration or design. I
'm posting some examples of collections I have pulled together.