How to Allow Rooms to Flow Together with Paint in Your Home
How Paint Lets Rooms Flow Together
One Color to Connect It All
If you want the rooms in your home to mesh well, choosing a single color to act as the primary choice for each area is the most basic way to do so. Interior home painters often recommend this option for more open spaces since they already act a bit like one unified area. Of course, more fragmented homes can benefit from this single-color approach as well. Going with one color for your various rooms might sound redundant, but you can still make each room unique by incorporating different colors via furniture, decor, and other accessories.
Careful Contrast Can Deepen and Define Interior Spaces
It might seem contradictory, but the exact opposite approach to the one mentioned above can improve the flow of your home as well. Indeed, incorporating contrasting colors can create a sense of movement in your home while more clearly defining each room. Paying attention to sightlines (the portions of a room that you see while standing in a different one) is crucial in taking this approach. For instance, if your living room is visible from your foyer, you might paint the walls of this entrance area a darker shade and your living room walls a lighter tone to create depth. When entering the living room from the foyer, the space will appear to open up by virtue of this juxtaposition.
One Room’s Bold Color Is Another’s Accent
Speaking of contrast, taking the above approach opens the doorway to incorporating bolder colors. While orange, yellow, or green interior paint might seem too overwhelming at first, you can tone down the effect of these colors by choosing a neutral tone for an adjacent room. The more subdued appearance of this other room will serve as the backdrop for your more striking space, and vice versa.
Tie Things Together with Trim
Your interior trim (i.e. baseboards, crown molding, window frames, etc.) can serve as invaluable features for making your rooms flow together. Maintaining a single color for your trim across each and every room will establish a connective thread, even if each room’s walls and palette boast drastically different colors. And if you want to increase the flow of a single room, try painting the trim the same color as the walls and/or ceiling -- doing so can visually lengthen and heighten said room.
Connect Spaces with Ceilings
While your interior walls make up the largest canvas for color choices, your ceilings provide another opportunity to provide the perfect color scheme flow for your home. Simply put, selecting a single color for your ceilings will allow you to diversify your walls a bit more. White is the standard color choice for ceilings and works fine, but going with a different ceiling color (i.e. a darker one) can further create a sense of flow inside your home since more attention will be drawn to this constant yet unique design choice.
When in Doubt, Go with White Walls (use decor for colors)
Finally, if you want to make your rooms flow together, you can’t go wrong with white paint. Painting your walls white makes your space brighter and feel more open overall. Plus, white serves as the perfect backdrop for just about any color palette you desire. In other words, you can incorporate different colors in different rooms using accessories while maintaining the flow from one room to the next.
There are many factors to consider when painting your entire interior, especially if you want to allow rooms to flow together nicely. Fortunately, professional interior painting services like Endure Painting have plenty of experience in this arena, and we’ve helped numerous clients design the home of their dreams. For more information regarding our skills and services, call us at (510) 458-2120 or send us an email at hello@endurepainting.com.
