Monday, May 13, 2024

🎨 What Color Piece Should I Choose? 🎨

Brightscapes: The Way To Beauty


What color piece should I choose?  The answer depends on your space and what you want to accomplish.  Do you want the piece to blend in to the environment or do you want it to be the focus and "pop?"  Are the colors in your room bold or light and pastel?  Here are some ideas:

Find inspiration: For my patrons, I suggest looking at interior design websites, magazines, Pinterest, etc. to find places similar to theirs or how they want their spaces to look.  Mix and match ideas to make it yours.

What do you like already?  You probably enjoy that object (couch, desk, rug) because of its color.  So, match, complement, or contrast your new piece with something else you love.

Use color theory: Discover or create a palette to use.  This tends to be 5 colors that work together in contrast and balance.  And it's easy because paint stores and online designers have countless options pre-made for you to select.

Size: Do you want a small area to feel bigger?  Then try a bright color.  Is a space oppressively large?  Go for darker tones.  Trying to "even out" a narrow room?  Use darker hues on short walls and lighter hues on the long walls.

How do you want to feel?  Color impacts our emotions.  How is the room used?  If you have a quiet, private space you'll want dark greens, blues, and other calming neutrals.  But, in active entertaining spaces a better choice is reds, yellows, and other warm variations.  

It can feel overwhelming because the options are literally limitless.  So, it can help to create limits based on the current space, possessions, feelings, preferences, and design principles.  

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Mike Kraus was born on the industrial shoreline of Muskegon, Michigan. After earning his Fine Arts Degree from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he attended Grand Valley State University for his graduate degree. From there, he gained varied experiences from the Chicago Architecture Center, Art Institute of Chicago, Hauenstein Center For Presidential Studies, Lollypop Farm Humane Society, and the Lurie Children's Foundation. And every place he worked, he had his sketchbook with him and found ways to be actively creative. In 2014, Kraus became a full-time artist by establishing Mike Kraus Art. Since then, he has sold thousands of paintings that are displayed in nearly every state and dozens of countries. Currently, Kraus lives in Rochester, New York with his beautiful wife and goofy dog.

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