4 Basic Colour Scheme Ideas to Brighten Your Home

ManMohan Khanna

Architect

Anchor: Priya Arya
Designer: Shailendra Raghuwanshi

If you think you can use any colour in any room, think again! There are three main characteristics of any colour namely, hue, value and intensity. Put simply, hue is the pure form of the colour, which makes it different from other colours. Value is the lightness or darkness of any color. If any colour is mixed with white, it tends to lighten. While when mixed with black, any colour would get darkened. This is also called shade. Similarly, intensity is the brightness and dullness of hue. Architect Manmohan Khanna explains the different colour schemes you can choose from.

1. Monochromatic colour harmony: This is the simplest and the easiest colour scheme, in which any primary colour, for example blue, is taken and the entire space including the walls, articles, furniture, murals, etc are in the shades of blue with different hue and intensity.

2. Complementary colour harmony: For this colour scheme, two opposing colours such as blue and orange, and their different values and tones, are used in the room. Two different colours help the individual colour to brighten up so that every element can be identified individually. This colour scheme also gives a stronger appearance to the room and increases environment’s excitement as well. However, to handle this scheme, you should be quite an expert in handling monochromatic schemes.

3. Split complementary colour harmony: As the name suggests, two different colours such as blue and orange and two colours with same hue for orange, ie red and yellow are used.

4. Triadic colour harmony: In this colour scheme, three different colours like yellow, blue and red along with green, orange and violet are used. All the secondary colours create a triadic harmony, which can be used for extremely colorful purposes giving a festive like feeling (Holi).

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ManMohan Khanna

Architect

Architect Manmohan Khanna is an alumnus of CCA, Chandigarh and has been practicing interior design and architectureÂ for the last 40 years. He is the Chairman of Institute of Indian Interior Designers, Chandigarh Chapter, and has a lot many honors to this credit. He is also the immediate past Chairman of IIA, Chandigarh+Punjab Chapter.

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