Colour wheel: Create your perfect bedroom palette

If you’re feeling overwhelmed by colour, you’ve come to the right place. Simply click on a colour you’d love to decorate with, tell us which colour theory you’ll be using (there’s a useful guide below!) and we’ll do the rest. You’ll be armed with the colour palette of your dreams, plus helpful tips and recommended products to help you on your way.

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Colour Theory

Neutrals

These classic colours don’t appear on the wheel, but that doesn’t mean they’re any less important. Tones of black, grey, white, and beige can all be used and layered together, without pulling focus from one another.

6 colour theories used by interior designers

1. Complementary

Complementary colours sit opposite one another on the colour wheel you can see above, such as red and green. They’re best used to create impact and drama in a space.

2. Analogous

Analogous colours can be found next to each other on the colour wheel, like blue and purple. Use this colour theory to create a space that feels calm and relaxing.

3. Triadic

Using the colour wheel above, find three colours that are evenly spaced apart from each other. That’s a triadic colour scheme. If you were to connect them, they’d form a triangle, such as red, yellow and blue. This palette is vibrant and varied, without using too many contrasting tones.

4. Split-complementary

A split-complementary colour palette uses one base colour, paired with the two colours next to its complementary colour (its opposite). Taking the colour wheel above, if you were to choose green as your base colour, its split-complementary colours would be orange-red and red-purple. This scheme is perfect for creating more muted contrast.

5. Tetradic

Tetradic (also known as double-complementary) schemes use four total colours, made up of two pairs of complementary colours. For example, you might use blue and orange alongside green and red. This is perfect for those of us who love colour!

6. Square

As the name suggests, square colour schemes use four colours spaced evenly around the wheel, which could connect to form a square. Using the wheel above, you’d select every third colour. Like tetradic schemes, this creates a colourful palette, but with more balance due to the spacing of the shades.

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