What if you want a room that has multiple colors? Say you like moss green, but you also like yellow and camel brown. The thought of incorporating all of these colors might seem daunting. Do you split them equally around the room? Do you purchase all the furniture in one color, paint the walls one color, and buy flooring the color of the third? Maybe you could do 90% of one and use the other two minimally.
While any of those can work if planned very carefully, designers have a trick to this problem. The best colorful rooms follow one simple rule that's super easy to remember. Split your colors roughly 60%-30%-10%. Don't like numbers?
It gets even easier. Picture your room colors as the parts of a man's suit- jacket/pants, shirt, tie. Divide your colors accordingly. You main color is the jacket and pants (60%), secondary color is the shirt (30%) and accent color is the fun tie (10%).
This is a great example from the May 2011 edition of Elle Decor (see sources below).
The designer of this room incorporated the 'suit' principle when applying the color choices to this room.
Go ahead! Go impress your friends.
Image Source: Elle Decor. May 2011 Edition. http://lookbook.elledecor.com/Dining-Room-Contemporary-Eclectic-A-Harlem-Brownstone%27s-Vivid-Transformation/id15622
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