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Believe it or not, we often get similar questions in our web design work - principally because people have logos they've had for years that have fixed colours.


What we need to do is identify colours the complement this - and then the designer is the one choosing how to balance these complementary colours with black, whites and greys to make sure the overall balance works.


Complementary colours can be found 'technically' - this is because there are mathematical relationships between the frequencies of the colours that make up the complementary colours.


So sites like this one: Color Scheme Designer or this one: Color Scheme Generator help you find those colours.


Choose your existing colour first in the header section and then choose the 'type' of complement you'd like. Types are things like triad, tetrad, analogic, accented analogic and so on. Don't worry about that, just have a play!

Agree with Moos - I know what some on here will say about Farrow and Ball but they do a 'Bone Grey' that is surprisingly light and elegant depending on your shade of red. Not suggesting you buy from them - just get their colour chart and have the colour made up cheaper elsewhere.
It depends on the shade of your red carpet but I think a green would be warm e.g. ball green, stone white or vert de terre (farrow & ball) or something similar...then use white, gold or black glossy accessories to add contrast...I am guessing you don't want your hall to be too dark.

maxxi Wrote:

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> Agree with Moos - I know what some on here will

> say about Farrow and Ball but they do a 'Bone

> Grey' that is surprisingly light and elegant

> depending on your shade of red. Not suggesting you

> buy from them - just get their colour chart and

> have the colour made up cheaper elsewhere.


Dulwich DIY do F&B equivalent paint colours.

I didn't know that Dulwich DIY did paint... Great news and more reason to shop locally rather than big store.


A light grey sounds cool with perhaps the darkest wall in off white to keep rhe old eye distracted with some depth, contrast and, very importantly: light.

  • 2 weeks later...
for all those who found my question worth answering...big thanks and the final choice was 'borrowed light' a farrow and ball colour but mixed by our local dulwich diy guys. its sort of grey but with some blue undertones[?] so looks differently delightful as time and light changes and doesn't make the red dull. thanks

Hello,


I have a stripy carpet on my stairs and landing with the stripes varying between about 4mm and 8mm in shades of beige, brown and sort of sludgy green (sounds attractive, I know). There was also a similar in reds/pinks in the shop. It doesn't show dirt much at all although it does look brighter after a good vacuum. My hall walls are also a neutral colour.


Thanks.

Adalberto Cheung

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