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Choosing and Using Color

You'll find facts about choosing and using color, including color-wrapping, bold backdrops, and using color in furniture. Tips on coordinating a color scheme are included.
Color for Kids' Rooms
Our photos will show you wonderful ideas on ways to decorate a child's room using a fun theme and bold color. Choose what you like and put together your own child's room.
Color Trends 2008
Debbie Zimmer, paint and color expert with The Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute, offers her ideas for color in 2008.
Sophisticated and Colorful
See the trendy 2008 color palettes chosen by Debbie Zimmer, paint and color expert with The Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute.
Seeing Green
Though blues are hard to match, most designers would tell you that it's the very hardest to get a good green. Read our solution.
Color Trends 2007 Slide Show
From spicy color combinations to hues that warm the soul, the 2007 color trends announced by the Haas and Rohm Color Institute contain palettes that work in any room in the house.
Change Your Room for a Cheerful Summer Look
Read about how you can change the look of your home from winter to summer with simple changes of color.
Color Trends 2007
Debbie Zimmer of the Rohm and Haas Paint Quality Institute presents the color trends for 2007. They'll be found on the fashion runway and in designer homes.
How Paint Can Change the Look of a Room
Are you hoping to change the look of your living spaces? It is easy to do with just a simple change of paint color and decorative painting techniques.
From Fashion Week to Living Room Chic
Drawing on colors and design used in the fashion industry, the firm of Beasley & Henley Interior Design offer ideas for home decor.
Use Color to Fool the Eye
Few people are offered the perfect room to decorate or to live in. Read how using color can fool the eye and help to create a more interesting space.
Top One-Color Schemes
Using white as a backdrop, adding one color can give you a foundation for a color scheme for a whole room. Add accessories and you've created a unique decor. Read here for our favorite colors to create a "one-color" scheme.
Paint a Hallway Any Color You Want
This quick tip will empower you to experiment with color in a small area of your home.
Take Our Color Quizzes!
Test your knowledge of color on our matching quizzes -- then click the "Check Answers" button to reveal your score. It's fun and fast.
The Best Color Schemes if You Love the Beach
Whether you have a second home at the beach or just dream of one, you can bring the look and feel into your own home. In this article from About, read about some of the best color schemes to use to bring the look of the beach wherever you live.
Choosing Color from Waverly
The experts at Waverly offer info on how to choose a color scheme in five steps, with tips.
California Paints Online Color Center
Enjoy this set "media-rich online color tools that enable customers and design professionals to interactively create unique and personalized paint color schemes."
Color Board How-to
Tips on making your own color board of samples, paint chips, fabrics, and swatches.
Color Selection
Benjamin Moore on how to select colors for the home.
Color Tips from "The Perfect Palette"
Find color recipes for rooms, including Benjamin Moore color numbers for rooms shown in the books, "The Perfect Palette" and "The Perfectly Painted House".
Considering Color
Some good advice from Design Views online regarding color choices, myths, regional and style considerations.
Decorating Basics
Lots of excellent info on color and decorating, including color basics, using dark, bright, and subdued color, and a dos and don'ts.
My Perfect Color from Benjamin Moore Paints
Learn about the 16 oz. sample minicans of paint available from Benjamin Moore. They can be created in colors from all paint companies and work great for testing color in your home. Beats the color chips! But they do cost $5.99, so choose carefully!

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