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HOW TO CHOOSE THE BEST COLOR COMBINATIONS FOR YOUR HOME
Choosing a paint color scheme for your home should be fun, not stressful. While our peel and stick paint swatches ensure you end up with the right shade, there are a few other tips for deciding on the best color combinations for your home. Color is so important—it has the power to change the mood in the room, it can be restful and cozy, or loud and energizing. Good Color Combinations are Everywhere
When in Doubt, Monochromatic Paint Schemes
Color is everywhere, so you’ve already chosen or grav-
If you’re feeling really unsure about what room col-
itated to colors and patterns that you love—just maybe
or schemes you like, opt for a monochromatic pal-
not in the way you think. Your clothes, favorite pieces
ette which is virtually foolproof. A scheme featuring
of artwork, or even nature can help show you what
different variations of the same color always feels
paint schemes look good together. Find a piece you love
sophisticated and pulled together. Plus, monochro-
that’s full of color, or even full of different neutral hues,
matic paint schemes are guaranteed to coordinate
and then pull colors you love from it. That way you al-
and ensures that transitions between rooms areé
ready know they look amazing together and you can
seamless and cohesive.
feel more comfortable mimicking those combinations in your home.
Look to Opposites for Color Palette Ideas Remember the color wheel? Remember how the
Keep Color Temperatures Consistent
color directly across on the color wheel was called
Interior color schemes, like individual colors have
a complementary color? These opposite color tones
temperatures. Colors such as yellow, red or pink are
play off one another so nicely, but don’t take these
considered warm as they are reminiscent of warm
primary color pairings too literally. Variations of
things like sunlight or fire, and tend to make a space
these basic hues tend to look better together, so a
feel cozy. Colors such as blue or green have cool un-
mossy green paired with purple accents or blues
dertones and are reminiscent of cool things such as
with a red or coral color. The opposites help balance
the water or a breezy sky and tend to make a space
each other out.
feel airy and fresh. Grouping colors that are the same temperature together always creates a nice balance. So greens and blues look beautiful paired together, same thing with warm colors like a rich yellow with a warm brown.
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Flipping homes can feel like an uphill battle, it’s a gamble that you have to be willing to make. Joanna Gaines opens up about breaking free from “safety nets” and choosing to evolve.
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the safety of those walls, I felt free to try different
Waco, I was new to the world of interior design. At
design elements to see what was a good fit for our
the time, choosing the right paint colors seemed
family. It was an education by trial and error, and
to be the scariest decision of an entire renovation.
it was during this time that I really fell in love with
So, of course, I wanted to play it safe. I had
the process of design. It suddenly became fun,
tried this particular shade of green in my own
freeing even, when the goal wasn’t perfection but
home and loved it, so it felt like a choice I could
rather creating a place that represented everyone
confidently make on behalf of someone else—
under our roof. When I wasn’t trying to force a
which I did. Without hesitation, I made that same
certain style, trend, or shade of green into the
decision on house after house after house. Chip
equation, I gained a whole lot of grace to stretch
started to joke that people around town would be
myself toward something entirely new.
able to recognize a Magnolia Homes project solely by that particular hue. While he was only messing around, Chip’s words prompted me to question how I was approaching each new project. It didn’t take me long to realize that I had been letting my own insecurity as a new designer pigeonhole what I was creatively capable of. Because I was so afraid of messing up, I wasn’t willing to take a chance on myself. I feared failure in general, but this hit on something deeper and more personal. There was this continual, underlying dread that any one of these decisions that I was trying to pull out of thin air could be the one that proved once and for all that I was no good at this work. Self-doubt
For me, safety looked like a
very specific shade of green paint. Yes, many of the first designs of my career will
forever be memorialized by a single color swatch.
loomed so much bigger than the desire to actually grow in my capabilities. Around this same time, Chip and I were also flipping the homes that we actually lived in. We
By the time filming began for season one of
were constantly moving into new neighborhoods
Fixer Upper, we had purchased and started work
with their own unique mix of architectural
on our farmhouse. I had been a designer now
styles. Without fail the new vantage point would
for some time and was excited to sink my teeth
bring with it some fresh perspective. Even if I
into this particular project as it felt like we were
didn’t want to be curious about other styles and
going to finally put down some roots here and
approaches, I couldn’t help it. Each new house
make this home ours. It was also a style of home
spoke to me through its distinct craftsmanship
that I have always loved, which made the whole
and quirky details. I started to feel as though
thing that much more enjoyable. It was during
within our own walls, where I had time to really
the first few days of demo that we discovered
sit and dream, risk didn’t seem like such a scary
shiplap in nearly every space of this house. I had
thing. Knowing our family intimately and how
spotted this material before in other projects and
we would inhabit the space made it easier for
was immediately drawn to its timeless style and
me to broaden my ideas. Each home began to
organic texture. I was also happy that it presented
feel like a blank canvas where I wanted to create
an opportunity to highlight the history of the
something specific to that place and time. Within
house and its original construction. The more
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its sudden rise in popularity to limit my growth
more I knew that I wanted to expose it throughout
as a designer? Ultimately, I chose to continue
our home.
evolving. At times, this has required that I risk
It was during and through this remodel that
losing the interest of those who like one particular
America was introduced to our family, so it makes
style and who may not continue to be inspired by
sense why one might sum up our design style in
what I was creating next. But I’d already let fear
this very singular way, especially when it seemed
of that kind creep into my life before, and it really
as though client after client began to request
wasn’t a road I was willing to travel again.
a farmhouse look. This has never bothered
I will always love a timeless design style, and
me much. I genuinely enjoy the opportunity
without fail, there will be classic elements that
to highlight this very cool kind of history in
make their way into nearly any project that I
someone else’s home. There came a point when
undertake. Yet still, nearly every day something
I had to decide whether this was going to be my
new and unexpected catches my eye, something
new safety net. Was I going to allow this style and
I had never considered before. More than keeping
Rancho Deluxe, one of Joanna’s favorite projects from her HGTV Show Fixer Upper.
to any specific aesthetic, our homes should
technically isn’t broken. Yet, while I may naturally
evolve—just as our families do. As long as I’m
be a creature of habit, I believe there is always
on this earth, I want to continue to grow and
something valuable and worth unearthing within
risk both personally and creatively. But growth
all of us. I’m not going to pretend it’s not scary to
by its very nature requires change; I don’t get to
dig in, to fight for something within yourself that
have one without the other. These two things are
you may not even be able to name. I believe there’s a whole world of untapped
wisely and intricately woven together. I am not perfect in this pursuit. To be fully
potential buried within me, hoping that I’ll be
transparent here, I say all of these things as
brave enough to unearth it. I also believe there’s
someone who prefers sure and steady, who still
a whole world of untapped potential within you.
routinely chooses safety as my default setting.
And it’s hoping, waiting to see if you’re willing to
So I get the logic of not fixing something that
set it free.
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DECORATING ON A DIME A step by step on how to create your own hanging frame
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Choose your desired
Cut around the border of
Use a pencil to lightly
Take your small can of
illustration or picture to
the print. We recommend
mark where you would
stain and paint brush.
frame. We chose an 8Ă—10
leaving an extra half an
like to cut the dowel rod.
Apply the stain to your
sized illustration with a
inch of space around the
We chose to cut ours at
dowel rods and set
half inch bleed around
top and bottom. This is
11.8 inches. Yours will be
them aside to dry for 15
the border.
so you’ll have some dead
different if you chose a
minutes. After the stain
space to staple to the
different size print! Use
has dried, gently rub
dowel rod later.
the hand saw to cut the
off any excess with a
dowel rod at the mark.
paper towel.
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What better way to celebrate spring than with a refresh to your home decor. And the best news of all—this DIY requires no prior skills. Just follow the steps below and you’ll be hanging yours in no time. These items can all be found at your local craft or hardware store.
Before we get started, here’s what you’ll need: •
Dowel rods
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A hand saw
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Your stain of choice
•
A small paint brush
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Twine
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Scissors
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A staple gun and staples
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Next, align the dowel
Repeat the same
Next, cut about 1 foot of
You’re finished! Now
rods on the top and
process for the bottom
twine and staple each
for the fun part. Find
bottom edges of the
of your print. Don’t go
end to the backside of
a place where you can
print. Carefully turn over
overboard, 2-3 staples
the canvas.
display this pretty piece
the print making sure the
should do the trick.
alignment did not shift, and use the staple gun to secure the backside of the print to the dowel rod.
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in your home.
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