His rooms are like a textbook in how to decorate. He rounds out his composition with a hit of chocolate brown, a black lampshade and a large white matted piece of art. In the room above Mark mixes pale blues and greens with pale taupe. One of my favorite rooms by Mark D Sikes. They also happen to be two of my favorite interior designers. “Mark get down here this instant and clean up this mess!” Afterward, she liked it so much, she hung it up on the wall.Īnalogous color schemes can also be pale and muted.īlues and greens are probably the most frequently used in interiors. One day he went upstairs and his mom shouted. I imagine that Mark was a really clumsy kid and was always spilling his paints. The unmistakable enigmatic work of Mark Rothko. So, I’ll just jump in here and we can start from left to right with the violet, indigo and blue.
So, I’m going to be interspersing room inspiration with art, flowers and fabrics to demonstrate that.Ībove is an artist’s color wheel courtesy of artist Tina Wasselkeck. But, it’s never too late to change that, We can find inspiration in nature, gardens, art, fabrics, etc. Maybe some of us don’t really notice this stuff. Then, there are six tertiary colors which are a mix of two secondary colors.Īn analogous color scheme is basically one of the following.Three secondary colors which are red + blue = violet, red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green.There are three primary colors – red, blue and yellow.P = Primary colour : S = Secondary colour : T = Tertiary colour (which is a mix of the 2 colours on either side) They are some of my favorite, but they can be tricky.Īnalogous colors are two or three colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel.
This post is about analogous color schemes in interiors. Did you see the post the other day about monochromatic color schemes? If you missed it, you can check it out by clicking the link.