Color Selection
Knowing how warm and cool colors affect a space and how to use neutrals and bold, bright colors are the keys to a successful space. Pair that with your own likes and dislikes and you’ll have the room you’ve always wanted in no time.
Warm Colors
The darker and medium browns and rusts will anchor your room and these darker warmer shades will make the room intimate…especially if you continue the warmer theme on the walls as well.
Warm neutrals can also be achieved by graying down the oranges and the browns. The grayer the warm color the more neutral it becomes. Warm beiges are achieved by lightening the brown and adding gray. These warm neutral carpets are the most versatile.
Cool Colors
Choosing a darker shade of blue or green will still give you a cool feeling but the darker the shade the more grounded your room will feel. The lighter the green color the more open and airy the space will feel.
Cool trends also are represented in more neutral tones. Adding gray to a shade of green will still produce a cool color but it will be less green and for some people a color that is more usable.
Bold Colors
Bold color choices are made by those of us who know what we are doing.
We at least know what we like! Applying a bold color choice to a carpet selection may mean a bright red but could also mean choosing a stark white carpet in a darkly painted room.
Success is pairing bold colors with the most suitable of partners when it comes to your total combination of carpet, paint, fabric and accessories.
Neutral Colors
Neutral colors can be warm or cool. When we think of warm neutrals we think of beiges and tans and when we think of cool neutrals we immediately think of gray. Both of these color families, tans and grays, are excellent carpet color selections.
For those of us who would consider these choices safe or boring, by selecting a subtle pattern or an obvious texture we can step up the look for a bold and fresh look.
The majority of carpet selections fall within the neutral color palette but this does not mean the room’s interior would or could be any less exciting or interesting depending on what we pair with our neutral carpet…we are just using our carpet as our canvas.