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Why Cyan Could Be Your Go To Color For Staging
Why Cyan Could Be Your Go To Color For Staging
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| A bath staging assortment with a cyan motif. If you think people on a home tour will pilfer small items, youre right. I "secured" these color coordinated toiletries with a transparent wrap. |
Confused about what colors are best for staging your home? Lets get some basics down.
The best home staging color schemes are built around three colors.
The best home staging color schemes are built around three colors.
- The first color is a neutral background one, something that anyone could love.
- The second one is an accessory color that closely coordinates with the first. Its either in the same color family, or the same tonality.
- The third is an accent color that doesnt have too much drama of its own. Its usually a more intense color, but not too distracting.
Ideally, these same three colors will echo through your home if it is on the market. This kind of planning makes your home look more contemporary, organized, turn-key, and -- most important -- spacious.
Cyan works in any of these roles.
Cyan is a new word to me. If it’s new to you, let me introduce you. Cyan is the color built from equal amounts of blue and green.
If you thought that color was aqua, or teal, or turquoise, or aquamarine, or even electric blue, you’re right. But technically, cyan is the word that printers and graphic artists use for the blue/green pigment.
In home decor, and particularly home staging, cyan is an out-and-out winner. Especially the paler versions. Because dreamy, soothing, yet lively, cyan is one of those people-pleasing tones that you can count on to offend no one.
While pinks can be girly, and reds be too bold, and browns too iffy, the color cyan has a personality, like yellows, that generally makes people feel good.
While pinks can be girly, and reds be too bold, and browns too iffy, the color cyan has a personality, like yellows, that generally makes people feel good.
One reason is that it’s clean. So, cyan is a perfect color for baths or kitchens.
Cyan looks contemporary because it hasn’t come into and gone out of the trend cycle.
Cyan in clear shades reflects light, and light reflection makes spaces look larger.
Let Me Show You The Ways
Here are some examples of the magic that cyan can add to your home.
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| You can stage any tablescape, countertop or bookshelf around a monochromatic color scheme for a harmonious look. Cyan ties these element on this shelf together. |
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| An otherwise standard living room, sparsely furnished, looks striking because of the interesting choice of paint color. For staging, this is as dark a wall paint as you want. Photo: David Knox |
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| The dishware and glassware in the cabinets are cyan, and even though the wall-hung dishes are classic blue and white, it all works together. Do you agree? Photo: BHG. |
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| Cyan tile is always popular, in both baths and kitchens. Cyan combines well with many colors, including warm yellows, cool blues, and all greys. Photo: BHG |
How Will You Use Cyan?
Think about adding cyan to your color palette. It could be your soothing neutral wall color. It could be your complimentary secondary neutral color for your upholstery, bedding, window treatments, or painted furniture. It could be your friendly accent color for books, lamps, art, pillows, or other props.
I hope these examples will lead you on a search of your home to discover what you may already own that is the color of cyan.
If you decide to paint, you might like Sherwin Williamss Jetstream, or Gliddens Skywatch. Both Krylon and Rust-Oleum.offer spray paints in this family as well.
You can get more advice on choosing colors for home staging, plus help with other decisions youll be making while you stage your own home. You can download my eBook now for just $4.99, and have this help at your fingertips. Home staging s easy when you know the tricks and techniques I teach you.
Why Cyan Could Be Your Go To Color For Staging
When to Go Frameless
When to Go Frameless
At least, it used to be. But now, Im seeing more and more unframed art.
And Im not talking about art students who dont have the cash to frame what theyve painted.
Im taking about giant canvases hung over drop-dead-gorgeous stone fireplaces in second homes featured in Traditional Home Magazine. So its not about frugality or speed.
Im taking about giant canvases hung over drop-dead-gorgeous stone fireplaces in second homes featured in Traditional Home Magazine. So its not about frugality or speed.
Its about style. And I rather fancy it. Its a contemporary look that fits into almost any decor style.
The frameless look certainly makes DIY decorating a bit easier. Happily, it updates a home that looks stuck in an earlier era.
Imagine the room on the left, and how old school and it would look with a old fashioned frame surrounding that painting of loopy circles.
Imagine the room on the left, and how old school and it would look with a old fashioned frame surrounding that painting of loopy circles.
But the edge of an unframed painting still has to look finished. It should be clean and free of paint drips and stains.
If you stretch a piece of decorative fabric that youve purchased around wooden stretchers, then the design will wrap around the stretchers. But generally, a painting ends at the edge of the front surface. A painting that wraps around the stretchers is often a painting was printed in a factory and then stapled onto stretchers. Not exactly one-of-a kind art.
If you stretch a piece of decorative fabric that youve purchased around wooden stretchers, then the design will wrap around the stretchers. But generally, a painting ends at the edge of the front surface. A painting that wraps around the stretchers is often a painting was printed in a factory and then stapled onto stretchers. Not exactly one-of-a kind art.
Buying your canvas stretched and ready to go is the simple solution if you want to do your own artwork for staging, but you cant prop up or hang a piece of unframed thin-style canvas board. Your canvas has to have that boxed edge that stretchers provide.
There is an answer to the question, when is it a good idea to skip the frame? The answer is, "Almost anytime!" Most house styles can support this kind of look. Its casual and creates an approachable atmosphere.
Are you working on a redesign of your rooms? Dont leave here without downloading my $4.99 furniture arranging eBook!
There is an answer to the question, when is it a good idea to skip the frame? The answer is, "Almost anytime!" Most house styles can support this kind of look. Its casual and creates an approachable atmosphere.
Are you working on a redesign of your rooms? Dont leave here without downloading my $4.99 furniture arranging eBook!
When to Go Frameless
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