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Painting Tips and Advice
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Reds and Clays
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Reds have been a popular color for kitchens (with white cabinets), or in a bedroom and when muddied up with gray for a softer look for a living room. You must be careful with red, if you “lighten” it up, you will create “pink”. Burnt reds and rust colors are great for exteriors accents. Compliments of red are clays and creams. White of course, works for trim and ceilings with red, as does cream and clay. Clean reds are difficult colors to achieve “coverage” or hide with. You will find that a gray primer is necessary in you are going to get away with a two coat paint job. Without a gray primer, you may be looking at three or four coats to get coverage.
Harmonious color schemes would include analogous colors of red, burnt red, or purple reds. Shades of red involve adding black to the pure color of red making various hues of “rose”. Tints of red (adding white to red) will give you pink, which will need to be mixed with black to “dirty it up” - resulting in a light rose color.
Color Schemes
821C1C
7B3C42
C5858E
DEC0C7
6A2841
C06650
D39585
E9CCC5
F4E3C8
FAF0D8
82402F
ECD6A2
FDF4D5
CA9F99
8C5A59
The colors depicted are created with the RBG "additive" color method. The hexadecimal color code is attached to each color for easy duplication on a computer.
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