Six Decorating Formulas That Work!

Let's kick off with one that is very reliable and you should be implementing throughout your home.

The 60-30-10 color formula.

Yeah.

60% being your dominant color, 30% being your secondary color, and your 10% accent or pop.

This works for entire homes.

It works for individual rooms.

It even works just for textiles in your room.

You can really drill it down to even the smallest bits of your decorating, but it consistently works.

Using this rule, it kind of... indicates to you that you should have a color palette with three different colors.

Now, sometimes you might have more colors and that's getting a little bit more complicated.

That's advanced decorating.

And if you've only got one or two colors, that's really not enough.

You're really not doing your best and decorating or designing your space with just one or two colors.

So three colors are great.

And three colors in these percentages really work.

It's tried and true.

So say you are a blue person and then you want to bring in even a neutral, and then maybe you have a pop of orange or persimmon.

And we love that because they're complementary colors.

Anita recently talked about those colors with fall decorating, because if you're a blue person, sometimes it's hard to incorporate those autumnal colors.

But if you bring in that pop of pumpkin orange, It really talks to the season as well as really flowing with what you already have in your space.

So 60, 30, 10.

Think about it in your own space.

As you're listening, look around.

If you're at home, look around what you're going on.

If it's 50% green and 50% purple, let's just say, that's not working, right? do 60 green, do 30 and maybe a purple or lavender, and then bring in a pop for 10.