Paint house: Trend of colors and combinations

Which color for the walls of the house? What color goes best furnishings? Who among us has not asked these questions when deciding to paint the house?

The choice is of fundamental importance, because each shade gives the house a different atmosphere; fully reflect our being and our personality.


Here then, a series of useful tips for those preparing to paint the house but also for those who simply want to know how to combine the best colors to harmonize furnishings, tapestries and everything related to the house.

First, keep in mind these preliminary recommendations.

Before choosing the color is good to do the following assessments:

- Exposure to the sun in the house: the dark tones should be avoided if your house is not very bright (basement, northern exposure, etc.), because it would make it even darker, otherwise applies to the sun kissed dwellings, in which, for opposite reason, you can even dare to strong colors.

- Type of furniture: if a white furnishings, or at least neutral in color, it lends itself to any combination, furniture or upholstery in itself already very whimsical and colorful and just plain need a wall characterized.

- Size of rooms: light colors make the room seem larger, dark colors make it seem smaller. Therefore, for small rooms of the house, choose colors, reserving, where appropriate, to the dark rooms of larger size.

- Type of room you want to paint: an unusual color and character in the long run the risk of tiring. The advice is to use it for home environments that do not always stay longer, as a study, or to make a holiday of great visual impact.

That said; let’s review the various colors, with matching the most successful and trendy.

WHITE: color timeless, either in its pure “dirty” (beige, ivory, etc. …), is the most widely used because it adapts to every color and type of furniture, the house gives plenty of light and never goes out of fashion.

Tips: select it if the house is small and dimly lit by the sun, if you love the tradition and fear that unusual colors in the long run you may get tired.

Serving suggestions: with all colors. Particularly elegant and fashionable, the total white: walls, furniture and upholstery mono color for an effect of great charm and style.

GREY: Are the color trends of the moment in all its variations, from the hot (which are obtained by adding yellow and red) to cold ones (which are obtained by adding blue or black).

Tips: To avoid excessive darkening the house, the dark tones reserved to only part of the wall.

Serving suggestion: it combines with almost all colors, especially pink, blue and bright green. Very glamorous, today, coupled with the pearl gray to lilac.

YELLOW: traditionally considered the color of the sun and heat, in fact, can be used not only in warm tones, but even in those cold, less widely known.

Tips: Choose if you want to make it warm enveloping a room of the house as the dining area, choose the latter if you want a very sophisticated and unusual.

Serving suggestion: warm colors go well with intense colors like red and dark blue, black and green ones with the cold gray-blue, white and blue hot.

GREEN: the color of nature and of free and open spaces, give calm and relaxing, available in countless variations is clear that dark.

Tips: choose it for the bathroom (cute version mosaic in all these shades of color) or for the kitchen, especially if made of wood.

Serving suggestions: Perfect with red intense, with various shades of blue and lands, with pink and russet.

Pink: the color is currently out of fashion, proposed by all the companies furnishing and dominant in all the magazines, in every shade and hue.

Tips: If you sometimes paint the whole room that color dyes used traditional like salmon or old rose, for partial surfaces or details you dare, with bold shades like fuchsia or hot pink: they certainly make your home very glamorous!

Serving suggestions: ideal with the dark green and blue. Perfect with gray.

RED : Colour is also very trendy, ideal for giving an air of importance to the home (in the purple version) or to revive it with happiness, as brilliant.

Tips: Use it to stay longer room in the house where the time as a study, because the risk of fatigue, limited portions of the wall (where, for example, you could hang pictures with gold frames to give them great prominence) or only on some sides.

Pairings: goes well with the gold, blue, white and green.

LAND: ie the range of browns, terra cotta, rust, ocher and coral.

Tips: Use sparingly dark tones on one side of the wall or for small areas because they threaten to make the environment too dark and small. They are particularly suitable in rustic and wooden furniture.

Serving suggestions: with olive green, blue, yellow and gold.

BLUE: the color of water and sky, style and elegance par excellence, there are endless variations: the navy men and ultramarine blue, female, the lavender, cornflower and hydrangea.

Recommendation: especially suitable for the bedroom, because it can give a great sense of relaxation, choose for details of wall, however, for small surfaces, not to weigh down the room, especially if it’s dark tone.

Combinations: all is well with the range of grays, pinks, reds, greens, yellows and whites.

BLACK: color of night and darkness, much used in furnishing but very rare as solid walls.

Recommendation: definitely to avoid the all-black, as it absorbs the light, making the home, for obvious reasons, extremely dark and gloomy; excellent, however, to define and develop a portion of the wall, as a niche, to break the ‘ uniformity of ‘together.

They are very trendy appliances and black kitchen.

Serving suggestions: it can be compared to any other color, especially with the gold and the silver.