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Choosing Colors

Color is the crucial factor that brings rooms of all sizes to life, making an instant impact in establishing their mood and defining their shape. Therefore, the first principal to take on board is the fact that light colors make rooms look bigger.

In a small living room, whites and creams are the most obvious choices for wall colors. They are simple and elegant, providing a neutral background against which to arrange furniture, pictures and artefacts. The brightest whites establish a stark, cool environment, good for functional warehouses-style apartments and for creating a studio-like setting if you have pieces of art you want to display.

Bright white may be too cool, though, if the room doesn’t benefit from much sunlight. You could be better off choosing a creamy, parchment white or one of the many alternatives whites now available from paint companies. It is actually quite hard to find a pure white paint unless you opt for basic ‘trade white’, but there are hundreds of ‘designer’ whites that let you choose just the right level of cool or warmth and the exact depth of tone you want to suit the setting.