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Deciding which colors for your home exterior can be a difficult and stressful process. You want your color scheme to be unique, but you don’t want it to stand out from the natural look of the neighborhood. Finding the right mixture of colors that you and your family will be satisfied with is important because it will last for a long time, and you don’t want to pay to have anything replaced or repainted.

To give you some help on where to begin here are a few steps that will help narrow down your selection.

1.) Start by identifying the colors that you like. It’s important to start here because it’s time consuming to go through all of the possible colors available and also it’s your opinion that matters the most for your home. During this step don’t worry so much as to the shading of the colors, just get a feel for what base colors you would like to include.

2.) Look at Your Neighborhood and Permanent Exterior. The next thing to understand is the overall style of your surrounding area. Is the style more contemporary or historic? Find the colors you chose that will fit in well with the style, yet still offer opportunities to be unique. Also observe the permanent exterior surrounding your home, such as any landscaping or natural stone/brick components. Generally red brick parts of your home will offer more flexibility in terms of color selection; gray brick parts of the home will be best matched with a similar neutral color.

3.) Determine the Color Shade – There are several things to consider when selecting the right shading. Darker shades may appear smaller as compared to lighter shades, and also darker shades collect more heat and can fade faster. Using a contrast between dark and light parts of your exterior can be great to make certain areas of your house stand out and appear larger. For a home with a large entryway you may want to consider contrasting the door, or other parts of the entryway, from the rest of the home exterior. This will draw more attention to it.

Here is a list of roof and siding color/shading combinations that tend to work well together, but there are still many combinations that will work.

House Color – Roof Color
Gray/Blue Dark – Gray/Black
Tan – Black/Gray/Dark Brown
White – Dark Color
Red/Green/Yellow – Black/Gray

4.) Finishing Touches. Once all of the main components are in place, it’s time to consider any finishing touches to apply to the home. The focus now is on the trim and outer edges of the exterior. Using a different color/shade for the outside edges can accentuate the architectural layout of your home. This can look great for homes that really want to stand out while still fitting into the surrounding area.

Granite countertops are a premium option to put into many different rooms in your home. This type of stone comes in many different colors and shades, can fit any size counter, and can be completely custom tailored for any type of application. Another reason why this type of countertop is so popular is because of how strong and durable it is. It doesn’t scratch easy, it can be refinished, and it is easy to clean. If you don’t have this type of countertop in your home right now you should call your local installer immediately to see what your options are.

The most popular area you find granite countertops in is a kitchen. Kitchen counters take a lot of use and abuse and need to be strong to prevent too much wear and tear. A granite installer can come in and make all of the required measurements of your countertops and give you a free estimate as to how much it will cost to get rid of your old, dull countertops in order to have custom granite.

To match the centerpiece of your home, the kitchen, you can continue with custom granite all around your home. This will include any wet bars, bathrooms, and any countertop essentially. Your bathroom counters can be installed to match each other and to match the flow of your home instead of directly matching the kitchen. Bars around your home should match the rooms they are in, and can match what you have in your kitchen. The beauty about granite is the amount of colors it comes in.

The installation process will begin with measurement taking. Once dimensions are confirmed, a warehouse will cut large slates of granite into pieces that will fit directly on top of your counters. The installers will bring these pieces out and lay them flat on the counter. Once in position, the granite will be glued using silicon directly onto your cabinets. Silicon will also fill in any seams you might end up with your granite.

Once everything is firmly in place and dry, your granite will be polished and finished. Polishing will bring out the true color and luster of the granite, while the finishing phase involves applying a protective coat on the surface of the granite. This will keep the granite looking brand new for years to come, and will liven up any room you decide to have custom granite installed in.

Decorating a window, let alone a whole home, can often be a daunting task for many people. When faced with the enormous selection of materials, colors, products and styles, it may cause anxiety and confusion when trying to determine the best aesthetic and functional solution for a project. Initially, one should determine what a window treatment needs to do for the room. Usually, the basic functional requirements are one, or all, of the following: privacy, light/glare control, heat/draft insulation and sun damage protection.

Of course, there are applications where the aesthetic beauty of a window treatment is the primary consideration for the homeowner and functionality takes a back seat. It is important to note however, that direct sunlight will cause significant damage to upholstery, carpeting, hardwood and artwork over prolonged exposure. Sun fade and rot are two very important considerations when choosing the appropriate window treatment, even if privacy and increased insulation are not.

The next step is to determine the overall style you are looking for. There are many beautiful blind solutions available today that offer the customer an ‘all in one product’ answer. The term hard window covering is often used to group blinds under one heading, however there are several styles of blinds that look and feel like soft flowing sheer and drapery. If a more formal, elegant, or traditional window treatment is preferred a layered, more elaborate, design may be the best alternative.

With this approach you can combine the cost effective functionality of a privacy blind to the soft flowing fullness of a sheer or embroidered organza along with a drapery over treatment, such as side panels or valance. Current trends, with regard to drapery fabrics, are focused on lined side panels hung on decorative hardware. This design provides a single layer solution for north facing windows, however if direct sunlight is a concern one should always add a blind or sheer to filter the damaging UV rays of the sun. Without a sun filtering layer the room would be darkened and closed off when the drapery is drawn. A layered treatment provides not only the necessary sun control, but also allows the homeowner to maintain their view while allowing natural light into the room.

If, you have any decorating questions, or are looking for design ideas, I’d be more than happy to answer your emails in future additions of ‘The Connection’. Or simply stop by our showroom and view a comprehensive selection of fabrics and blinds.

Color is one of the most important elements in interior decoration. Their qualities and their psychological implications become an essential tool to confer a certain atmosphere environments suitable for carrying out the activities of each space.

The decor in color, adds features to stay as the warmth, coldness, feeling of spaciousness, or restriction. There are stimulating colors and styles that cause listlessness, soothing colors and styles to depressed. It is therefore important to know their stimulating qualities to manage it according to the result we hope to achieve in our decor.

Items for decoration in color:

The large rooms can be reduced visually using warm colors, dark colors, however, small rooms, can be expanded using colored or white.

Color is the reflection of light on objects, and therefore depends on the incident light. Therefore, we should choose colors with natural light, as all artificial lighting system, to some extent distorts the colors.

To choose the colors of a room we can use various ways to combine them, the most common and leaves less room for error, the monochrome, which uses different shades of one color.

We can use bold combinations, such as opposites, where the contrast produces a pleasing visual effect, if we know enough about color theory, and the textures and elements chosen for the contrasts, are correct, otherwise we could generate a rainbow strident, with a poor outcome decorative.

The decor in color requires good planning and common sense in order to discern from the huge variety of colors, the more we serve. So when in doubt, we can always resort to total white, applied throughout the environment. It is sufficient to give life, a touch of color in some detail ornamental. In addition, any color combined with white, as is the sum of all colors.

For those who want to color indoors, it is best to choose a very pale color to make sure that we will not lose brightness in the spaces.

Dark colors are only available for large rooms and solve some structural problems, like the ceiling too high in environments not as large, or to provide a particular visual effect, cutting a passage too long, or narrowing a very wide room.

Then we have two possible uses of color in decoration, in harmony and contrast. It is always easier to do it the first way.

There are many ways to illuminate the different rooms of a house, but only a few are suitable, both in the type of lamp (bulb) and by the same fixture.

The lamp is essential for the result you want to obtain, depending very much on the role of stay and the use you want to give the lamp.

To give a warm and welcoming incandescent lamps are used as the radiation emitted are within the red spectrum, but if we create an environment in which the main function will work, as offices and study areas , it seems useful to a fluorescent light or in general any cold light.

The lamp plays a crucial role because they can be of materials, colors and shapes and of course the situation is very important (ceiling, table, wall or floor).

There are many designs, classical, modern, minimalist and some so spectacular that even become real sculptures. There are natural materials such as wood or paper, synthetic such as polypropylene and surprisingly from recycled materials.

The way the incident light is essential, not the same general light that is suitable for walkways, a spotlight that used to obtain a greater illumination at points where you need specifically.

Ultimately it is important to think about all these issues before buying a lamp.