Many people are decorating their homes on a limited budget today, and that doesn't mean that we have to sacrifice quality design. If an interior designer is within the budget, that's great, as the assistance they provide can take the stress out of home decorating. But if the budget doesn't allow for this help, you need to find a way to get through the decorating project successfully with minimal stress.

There are several decisions you should make at the onset of your project, and one of the most important is the color scheme for the space. Determining the color scheme before you make any purchases or other design decisions will benefit you in several ways.

Let's define what is meant by 'color scheme'. Your color scheme represents the primary and secondary colors you will be using in your design project. Most people find that up to three primary colors and a couple of secondary colors work well. You will ensure consistency in your purchases and selections by making this decision at the onset of your project.

How do you go about deciding on on these colors? One of the most effective ways to make this decision is to look around your home and see what color selections you have made in the past. Walk through the rooms of your home and write down all of the colors you see. in no particular order. After you have done this, take a few minutes to reorganize that list into the colors that you really enjoy seeing, those that are okay, and the colors that you'd rather not look at every day (you know, those impulsive purchases and decisions of the past!).

For example, you may have used moss green, buttercup yellow and light blue in other areas of your home and put them on the list of colors you really enjoy. Those colors make you happy. Your list of 'okay' colors included light brown and navy blue. Consider the space your are going to decorate and decide which of the colors you will use. You decide to use moss green and light blue as the predominant colors for your project with accents of navy blue, buttercup yellow and deep gold.

You have added a new color, or shade, to the color scheme by the inclusion of a deep gold. It will fit in nicely with the rest of the colors in your home as it is in the yellow/brown family.

You don't have to, and most likely don't want to use the exact same colors in every area of your home. There are some homes that use this technique very effectively, but unless you know how to accomplish it properly, your home could easily look quite uninteresting. So for most of us, using two or three primary colors throughout our home, with two or three secondary colors as accents, is the most successful way to home design.

Your design project will now have beautiful colors selected that are consistent with the colors found elsewhere in your home.

About the Author

Candi Randolph is the author of the E-Book 'Ten Simple Steps to Design Success', a guide to successful decorating on a budget. She is a Design Consultant and owner of Simply Designed...Decorating to Fit Your Budget. For more information please visit http://www.MySimplyDesigned.com

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