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Create a Summer Color Palette in Your Home

Summer, at last! Decorating your home every season keeps everything feeling fresh and trendy. When you create a summer color palette, you can make your home feel as warm inside as it does outside – without having to deal with the heat! Geneva’s Interiors can help you find custom window treatments near Federal Way, WA, that complement your home’s interior design or could help you create something new! Learn how to use a simple color wheel to create a stunning summer color palette for your home.

Hunter Douglas Carole Fabrics™ Custom Drapes in bright colors decorating a warm home near Federal Way, WA

Identify Your Base Colors

Every home has some colors that are difficult to change frequently, so they stay the same from year to year, like wall colors, trim colors, and other permanent fixtures. Keep these in mind as you build your summer color palette, and you can use them as your primary color throughout your house, in certain rooms, or as accents, depending on the color scheme you select.

Monochromatic Color Scheme

Color wheels make choosing colors easy. Start with a favorite color or a color you already use in your home, like the hunter-green couch in your living room.

If you use a monochromatic color scheme, you’ll use several shades of the same hue, adding white or black to make the colors lighter or darker, so you could include mint green, grass green, evergreen, and hunter green. This makes it easy to decide whether a color fits your décor; it’s relaxing and easy on the eyes.

To keep the room from becoming too monotonous, incorporate accent colors (or your base colors) and different textures, like furry pillows alongside a metallic green vase, patterned green drapes, a live plant, and a thick rug on a wood floor.

Analogous Color Scheme

The analogous color scheme uses colors next to one another on the color wheel. If your primary color is something like teal or aqua, you’d also include blue and green. You can use this color scheme in every room of your home, or you could use it in one room, such as the living room, and choose another color scheme elsewhere. Analogous colors are calming and create a very cohesive, which can make your home feel aesthetically whole while still giving each room an individual presence.

Complementary Color Scheme

Complementary colors are opposite one another on the color wheel. They’re bold! Think blue and orange, yellow and purple, or red and green. Consider choosing one color as your primary and using its opposite for accents, which adds exciting contrast. You could even choose one color, like blue, for one room and then make a shade of orange the primary in another room to tie it together.

Finishing Touches

Once you have your summer palette, incorporate your colors with an accent wall, paintings, pillows, towels, area rugs, and custom drapes. The Hunter Douglas Carole Fabrics™ Custom Drapes collection includes hundreds of colors and patterns and can texture and color.

Located in Federal Way, WA, Geneva’s Interiors can help you transform your home with Hunter Douglas window treatments, lovely area rugs, and custom bedding. Our expert staff will gladly work with you to make your home ready for summer, so schedule a consultation today or call us at (253) 839-9490 with any questions. We proudly serve Federal Way, Tacoma, Kent, and Des Moines, WA.

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