Here are 5 top tips that you can use to get ready to makeover a room in your home, especially if you are thinking about adding colour to your walls.
1. Read ‘The little book of colour: How to Use the Psychology of Colour to Transform Your Life’
I thought a good place to start would be to find out a bit more about colours and what they represent. It was such an interesting read and one I would recommend this book. The book helps you to figure out your colour tone and what suits you and your personality. It also provides lots of information about each colour and how the colour can make you feel.
2. Discuss colour with your household
I decided quite early on that I wanted our bedroom to be green. To me, green reminds me of nature and I find it quite calming. It’s also important to talk to your household though to make sure you are on the same page. If one of you doesn’t like it maybe you need to explore a different tone or maybe even a different colour. That’s what we did and we eventually found a green we were both happy with. It was an expensive journey because we did buy a lot of sample pots!
3. Buy paint samples
Which leads me nicely on to my next tip. Buy sample pots. If you ever need a pale green sample pot give me a call because I have about 8. We painted the wall behind on of our chest of drawers so it wasn’t an eye sore (I knew I’d take ages to decide on a colour). Once you have decided on a potential colour you could then paint other walls and always check the colour at different times of the day and with the light on and off. Lick have peel on and stick samples which can be moved around the room and don’t make any mess. I loved this!
4. Put together a Pinterest board
Gather all your inspo and create a Pinterest board for your room. It’s good to visually see your ideas coming together. Include everything, the big things like colour choices but also extra details like ornaments and plants. I thought about what I wanted to keep in the room too and added images of those items to the Pinterest board. Add your inspiration too, a huge inspo for me was this images that I saw on Pinterest from This 1870 House. I then went on to read their blog post which has inspired me to write this one because it was so helpful to me.
Here is my pinboard for our bedroom inspired by nature.
5. Create a mood board
Not necessarily the last step but once you have some ideas on colours, create a mood board. I’m sure there are some fancy tools out there to create mood boards but I just use Microsoft Word to create mine. I start off with adding images of all the items I wanted to keep in the room. For us this was the curtains and the chest of drawers. I also added the flooring that we have as we don’t plan to change that either. I then began to add main items such as bedding and shelving and then extra details such as plant ideas and lighting. I used the colour picker on Word to pick out my colour scheme. I just created 3 circles and filled the circles with my colour scheme. These colours changed a few times as I changed my mind frequently during this process. But it was good to see the colours close together to check they work well together.
Below is our mood board for our bedroom. At the time of writing this post I am still very nervous to start this project but as my pals keep telling me “If you don’t like it you can just paint over it.” Which is so very true.
Stay tuned to see more progress over the next few weeks.
Kath
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