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By Better Homes & Gardens

Chambray Technique with Glaze

Creating a chambray-look wall is a process consisting of rolling a tinted glaze over a white or cream-color wall, then dragging a weaver brush vertically and horizontally through the wet glaze.

Stone Sorcery

Achieve this textured look by rolling on a liquid-stone product and creating more textural variation with a trowel. Once the stone product dries, add more depth and color by ragging on two shades of glaze.

Decorate Like a Professional

Transform any space into your dream room with professional decorating points and tips on how to develop a color palette. Then coordinate colors and accessories for a pulled together look that is your own personal style.

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 Starting Points for Decorating a Room

Draw up a list and start writing down the basics - which key elements (couch, rug, flooring) will stay, and which will go.

Determine a budget. Consider which changes make the most impact for your dollar, such as paint, slipcovers, and fresh accessories.

Generate ideas by creating a portfolio that appeals to you. Collect images from magazines, fabric, and paint swatches, pictures of favorite vacation spots, flowers from the garden - anything to which you're drawn. Don't worry about creating a theme or coordinating colors just yet.


Determining Your Color Preferences and Developing Your Color Palette

Take a look at your collection of items and consider the following:

  • How do you want to feel in the room? Calm? Energized?
  • Are you drawn to colors that are warm (reds, yellows), cool (blues, greens), or neutral (whites, beiges, grays)?
  • Where do your colors fall on the color wheel?
  • Do you prefer many colors or various shades and tints of a single color?
  • How does your color selection work with existing elements in the room, such as the floor or large furnishings?

Begin grouping colors to see which ones appeal most to you.


Editing Your Collection of Ideas

  • View all samples together in the room to see how things will look with existing elements and actual lighting conditions.
  • Consider the size and scale of your room and its furnishings.
  • See the following pages to determine which color scheme (monochromatic, complementary, analogous, or triad) dominates your collection. You can use this scheme as a base concept for creating a color palette for your room.
  • Sample paint colors on the walls to see how they work with the other decorative elements in the space, and to determine the overall feel or mood of the room.
  • Keep the concepts of harmony and balance in mind when editing your ideas.

Your final choices should please your eye, feel balanced, and create the mood or feeling that you want.


Color and Paints

Color is a dynamic element in your home's décor, tying together room furnishings and accessories, as well as creating just the right mood, whether restful or revitalizing. Rely on Benjamin Moore to take you from inspiration to results, capturing the look and feel you want for your home. Benjamin Moore is the color leader with over 3,300 colors in our collection, along with the ability to match any color you want.We offer a myriad of tools to explore color and make your selections easier, including color chips, color inspiration brochures, our Personal Color Viewer®, and convenient Color Samples.



Sheen Selection

Paint comes in different sheen levels that impact both the aesthetic and functional aspects of a room. Sheen affects the amount of light reflected from the painted surface, hiding or highlighting imperfections and affecting color perception. Sheen levels can also affect the washability of a surface, so traffic and usage can play an important role in determining sheen choice. Benjamin Moore offers five sheen levels: flat, matte, eggshell, pearl, and semi-gloss. Generally, the higher the sheen level, the easier the surface is to clean. However, the proprietary formulation of Benjamin Moore paint allows for all of our finishes to be washable and remain beautiful in any room of your home. Some tips on sheen selection include:

  • A flat or matte provides excellent depth of color and is ideal for less-than-perfect surfaces and easy touch-ups. Flat is also the preferred sheen for ceilings due to its nonreflective qualities.
  • The subtle sheens of eggshell and pearl reveal color with a softly polished glow and provide an easy-to-clean surface that is ideal for kitchens and baths.
  • Semi-gloss is particularly durable and stands up well to repeated cleanings - a must for moldings and trim. Its soft sheen provides a beautiful frame to a flat or matte wall, adding a subtle touch of reflective light to any room.


Personal Color Viewer

The Personal Color Viewer (PCV) is an online color visualization tool that lets you experiment with color combinations and palettes.We offer two PCV versions that allow you access to the entire Benjamin Moore color collection. Our complimentary web version (go to benjaminmoore.com) provides a library of images you can use to experiment with color. The professional version (available for both PC and Mac OS X users) allows you to download your own images to the program. You can purchase the professional version either online or at your local Benjamin Moore retailer.


Color Samples

Benjamin Moore offers Color Samples, a collection of 260 of our most popular, fashionforward, and designer-endorsed colors in convenient two-ounce containers. Color Samples cover a 2' X 2' area with two coats of paint, offering an ideal way to test your color selections.

Color Basics

The color wheel is an excellent device for understanding how color families interact.

The color wheel most people are familiar with includes high-intensity pure colors. While you may not use these vibrant colors as they appear on the color wheel for your home decorating, the principles associated with this helpful tool will assist you in achieving the effect you want to create.

Color Designations
There are 12 colors in a standard color wheel that are divided into three designations: primary colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors.

Primary colors - These are pure red, blue, and yellow colors only.

Secondary colors - A combination of two primary colors to create a third color: orange (red + yellow), green (yellow + blue), and violet (blue + red).

Tertiary colors - A combination of primary and secondary colors: blue-green, yellow-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, and yellow-orange.


Do you ever wonder how some rooms look so pulled together with even the simplest furnishings and accessories?

Color is the element that takes a room from "okay" to "outstanding" more effectively than any other decorative feature.

The Color Basics section on the Personal Color Viewer is an excellent resource to learn how to work with color. Learn about the fundamental principles of color, from color psychology to top color decorating myths and tips.



Color Basics Will Teach You:

Color Principles
Learn basic color terminology and how the traditional artist's color wheel is used in creating striking color schemes. Learn the importance of lighting and how it affects color, along with our top-10 decorating tips for getting that professionally-designed look you want.

Color Psychology
Learn to appreciate the difference between colors that soothe and comfort, and colors that energize and excite. The study of color psychology is a fascinating realm that delves into the behavioral, physical, and emotional responses we have to various colors.

In addition, you will learn about color perception and how it applies to decorating through our top ten decorating myths.

Color and Decor
Discover how various decorating styles and their representative color palettes interrelate. For example: There are colors that summon images of an English country manor, and those that best complement the linear architecture of a contemporary condo in the city. Learn how to tell the difference.

You will also see how faux finishes have taken on a fresh new dimension with exciting new products and techniques. Faux finishes can produce stunning effects on even the simplest surface.

Our Perception of Color

By Benjamin Moore Paint

What is Color?

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Defining Color
The perception of color is a phenomenon of light - a form of energy with its own frequency and wavelength. Shine a light through a prism and you'll see it divide into six color families: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.White light is the combination of all colors, while black is the absence of all colors.We perceive color due to the pigments in a given object. A blue pillow appears blue to our eyes because the pigment in the pillow is absorbing all the colors of the light except for the color blue reflecting back to us.

Color and Light
Have you ever tried to match a color swatch in a store only to find it looks like a completely different color when you bring it home? You've just experienced metamerism, the occurrence of colors seemingly changing when viewed under different light sources. Some colors are more prone to this phenomenon than others, including tans, taupes, grays, grayed-blues, mauves, lilacs, and grayed yellow-greens such as celadon. View color swatches in the actual space and lighting conditions in which they are being used.

Color and Space
Space affects how we perceive color, so keep proportion and scale in mind when making your color selections, along with whether you want the room to feel intimate or open. Consider elements such as ceiling height, visible wall space, furnishings, and large pieces of artwork, along with the number of windows and doorways in a room.

How Colors Affect Other Colors
Colors that surround a given color affect how we perceive that color. An off-white wall can appear pink when paired with a vibrant red carpet. Complementary colors, such as red and green, enhance each other's color quality. Two squares of the identical shade of gray will appear to differ from one another when one is placed against a white background and the other against black.

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