| You've signed a lease for a wonderful spacious | | | | for the sofa, you can use lighter shades of blue or the |
| apartment in just the right location and suddenly realize | | | | gold or straw or a combination. Repeat the same |
| it forbids painting the walls anything but white. | | | | colors in your artwork including the frames. |
| Well, it's a challenge. Let's make it work. | | | | If it is the geometric quilt with anchor color of green, |
| First, if you don't already have a floor plan with | | | | plus yellow and white, you can do the sofa and chairs |
| measurements, start by measuring the walls in every | | | | in shades of green. Use toss pillows in yellow shades. |
| room, including halls and bathrooms. | | | | If has orange shades, with blues, and ivory, choose a |
| You are going to create major drama and major color | | | | muted copper for the sofa and matching chairs. Toss |
| in the form of artistically arranged | | | | pillows can be dark blue and ivory. |
| - wall decorations | | | | With either the tapestry or the quilt you can used |
| - paintings | | | | wood furniture in mahogany or cherry or oak. Frames |
| - posters | | | | can always be wood tones or painted. |
| - photographs | | | | With the green/yellow/white quilt, if you are buying |
| - banners | | | | inexpensive end tables, a book case, a coffee table, |
| - tapestries | | | | paint them all a medium shade of green. If it is the |
| - quilts | | | | orange/blue/ivory quilt, paint the furniture ivory. |
| Tapestries, banners, and quilts have their own built in | | | | With either tapestry or quilt, put a bunch of silk flowers |
| colors. If they cover most of a 12 - 16 foot wall they | | | | and a vase the same color as the painted tables. |
| will demolish "antiseptic". Paintings, posters, banners, | | | | Flowers should be in a second color picked out of the |
| photographs, curtains, swags, curtain poles, all present | | | | quilt or tapestry. |
| additional opportunities for doing the same thing. | | | | Use brass curtain rods or if you prefer wood, paint |
| Paintings, posters and photographs can have painted | | | | them to match the curtains, or swags in the same |
| frames, aluminum or brass frames, or natural wood | | | | color as the paint you chose for the tables, but a |
| frames. | | | | different shade, preferably lighter. Repeat this same |
| First, you must choose the living room "anchor" color | | | | shade as much as you can in wall decorations such as |
| and theme, either traditional or contemporary. Measure | | | | artwork and posters. |
| the largest wall opposite the entry and buy a tapestry | | | | With the tapestry, picture frames should be oak, |
| or a quilt to cover most of it. Make sure you select | | | | mahogany, or gold. |
| colors you can live with. | | | | Remember you will take the tapestry with you, so |
| If you like a traditional feel with muted colors, choose a | | | | make sure you like the colors. As for the quilt, you can |
| tapestry. These customarily use deep muted blues, | | | | find them in all price ranges. After you move, if they |
| dark gold, sand or straw shades and brown with | | | | are no longer needed for decoration, you can use |
| accents of pastels. Themes can be anything from | | | | them on beds. |
| garden scenes, biblical themes, historical events, | | | | Now consider the floor color. If it's stained wood, you |
| nautical and jungle scenes. | | | | might be buying rugs. For the "tapestry theme" choose |
| For a contemporary feel, choose a quilt in primary | | | | an oriental design using small motifs, rather than big |
| colors, in a geometric pattern or freeform. We'll work | | | | bold patterns. Make sure it has blue predominating. If it's |
| with both traditional and contemporary, one at a time. | | | | to be carpeted, use the anchor color of muted blue. |
| With either a tapestry or a quilt, decide after you have | | | | It it's the quilt, the carpet should be a shade of the |
| looked at them, which color is dominant, your anchor | | | | anchor color, muted green or muted copper. |
| color. | | | | Now we are ready to go to the entrance hall. Buy |
| Now you can choose your upholstered furniture . | | | | three pieces of wall decoration. Let's say they are |
| Let's say the anchor color in the tapestry is muted | | | | posters, photographs, or paintings. Frame them in the |
| blue. Clearly, you choose a muted deep blue sofa. | | | | same color as the frames in the living room. If there's |
| Two side chairs would be in a similar shade of muted | | | | space for a small table and a lamp, do the table |
| solid blue or choose a pattern, a stripe or a diamond | | | | exactly as in the living room. Choose brass or silver |
| using anchor color blue and a second color from the | | | | color for the lamp base and an off white lamp shade. |
| tapestry such as straw or gold. For the curtains, pick a | | | | Don't be tempted to introduce other colors. |
| lighter shade of either straw or gold. For toss pillows | | | | |