When you're planning an interior painting project, choosing colors for one room at a time can make the house feel disjointed. To unify it, you don't need to use the same color everywhere, but you do need to consider how different hues go together. Follow these design principles for an interior painting plan that makes the house feel like one united whole.

How Can I Unify Interior Painting Color Choices?

1. Start With a Theme

You don't have to use one color scheme through the entire home, but having a loose palette of colors to choose from can prevent any major clashes. You might select earth tones as your palette or use only warm or only cool colors. You can also use variations on one of your chosen colors--for example, put a pale, forest, and olive green in different rooms.

2. Repeat Colors

Even if you don't have one unifying palette, you should try to pull colors through multiple rooms, not just in the paint but in furniture and decorations too. For instance, having blue accents in each room gives them a common thread even if they have different wall colors.

You can also choose three or four colors that go together and switch which is the main color and which is the accent from room to room. Repeating colors is especially crucial in connected rooms, like the kitchen and living room since each has a view of the other.

3. Use Bold Colors in Small Areas

The brighter or darker a color is, the more likely it is to clash with different interior painting colors throughout your home. Save these hues for small, enclosed areas, like a bathroom. Colors in more open spaces that connect to more of the house will be easier to coordinate if they're more muted--for example, pastels, grays, and tans instead of bright red or black.

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