Your condo is a mishmash of whatever you’ve found through the years. It has no definable style. Want a home with style? There’s no need to go to school to learn the basics of interior design. Start with the fundamentals. Start with colour.

For consistency, the colour of your walls should be complimented by the furnishings and decorative items in your home.

Fabrics used in a room should be consistent. Choose one type of fabric to appear in several places of the room. This is known as the “anchor fabric”. For example, the same fabric can be used for the curtains, the sofa, and a chair. This anchor fabric should ideally have three or more colours. That way, it’ll be easier to match other furnishings and decorations in the room without being too limited. The colour of the walls should be the main background colour of the anchor fabric.

The experts even provide a helpful mathematical equation to the perfect colour consistency in a room based on the anchor fabric:

60% of the room in the background colour + 30% in the mid-tone colour + 10% in the brightest colours.

The brightest, accent colours are generally reserved for decorative items and trimmings.

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