Use Nature as Your Color Palette

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January/February 2002
By Deborah Coburn 
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Whenever I meet with a client to develop a color scheme, I ask a few questions that you may want to ask yourself.

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•How comfortable are you with color? Do you stick with beige because you are afraid of using the wrong color? Or do you just prefer a neutral scheme?

•What are your favorite colors? Would you be happiest, colorwise, living in a garden? By the sea? In a forest? In the desert?

•Go for a mental walk in one of these locations. What colors do you like? Is it the variety of one hue that attracts you, such as a mixture of shades of greens that you see in a forest? Or do you like the way different colors look together, the way the warm color of sand looks with the cooler blue of the sea? Perhaps it’s the muted, more neutral colors of the desert landscape.

•Which is your favorite season? What colors of that season attract you? Can you describe what you like about that particular palette?

•Go for a walk and bring natural treasures home. Note how they work together, how the colors harmonize or contrast, how the different textures create variety. By identifying your favorite naturescape and looking closely for inspiration in your finds, you’ll learn about your personal color preferences.

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