What Areas Of Your Home Should You Colour Match Your New Blinds To?

Finding the best colour combo for your home

If you’ve shopped with DotcomBlinds before, you’ll likely know about our fantastic FREE Fabric Sample service, where we mail out small cuts of our Blinds and Curtains fabrics for you to see in person before making a purchase.

With your FREE fabric samples, you’ll be able to see how different fabrics look and feel in person, allowing you to make an informed decision when choosing your new made to measure blinds.

Another great benefit you get from ordering some FREE fabric samples, is that you can colour-match the fabrics to the existing décor in your home and get a good feel for how your new blinds will interact with the rest of your home’s décor!

If you’re a bit of a décor newbie, you may be wondering what you should colour match your blinds to! Well, there’s no hard and fast rule here as the most important factor in your home’s décor is your personal taste – But to give you a helping hand, today we’ll run through some areas of your home’s décor you could colour match your new blinds to.

Before we dive into this, let’s quickly have a run down on colour matching!

What is colour matching?

Colour matching is a simple process in the décor world for when you’re getting new accessories or furnishings. You’ll want to make sure that your new décor items work well with existing décor in your home, whether that’s by finding a new blind in the exact same tone as your walls or finding a set of scatter cushions that create a beautiful contrast with the fabric of your sofa.

So, with our FREE fabric samples, you can colour match to your hearts content, allowing you to find a new blind that compliments or contrasts with your home’s décor.

If you’re a bit of a décor newbie, it may help to have a colour wheel on hand for when you colour match so that you have a good idea of what colours will match, compliment or contrast with existing décor elements.

Areas to colour match your new blinds to

Now that you’ve had a quick colour theory catch up, let’s look at some areas of your décor you can colour match your FREE fabric samples to!!!

1 – Walls

Starting off, we have the most common area that people colour match their new blinds to – Their walls! Walls are a great area to colour match as they are usually the biggest source of colour for any given room, so it’s important that your walls and new shades have a good level of synergy.

In fact, colour matching window blinds to your home’s walls is so common that we’ve already made a few guides for what colours to use with the walls in your home which you can check out below!

- What colour shades to use with Magnolia walls

- What colour shades to use with White walls

- What colour shades to use with Grey walls

- What colour shades to use with Navy walls

- What colour shades to use with Green walls

- What colour shades to use with Pink walls

2 – Furniture

If you’re not too fussed about having shades that match the walls in your home, or if your walls are painted in a neutral colour you can use the furniture in whatever room you’re buying shades for as your colour match area. Colour matching to your furniture will help create a sense of uniformity across the room’s décor, whilst also creating a nice contrast with your walls.

So just simply identify what piece of furniture you want to colour match with, whether it be a sofa in your living room, a table in your dining room, or even the wardrobe in your bedroom.

3 – Other Furnishings

Another great area to colour match your new shades to would be the other furnishings in the room. By having all the soft furnishings like rugs, pillows and of course your blinds made in a monotone colour, you’ll create a great sense of unity across your furnishings, while also creating a contrast to other parts of the room’s décor.

Colour matching to furnishings works best when the existing furnishings in the room are in a uniform colour, so if you want to go this route it may help to update any furnishings that don’t fit the theme!

4 – Flooring

While colour matching your shades to the flooring in a room isn’t always the best idea, it can create some astonishing looks when you’ll be shading floor to ceiling windows. Having a uniform colour across the floor of a room, then up the wall with a floor to ceiling shade, will create a stunning look that feels like an optical illusion.

Having both the floors and the floor to ceiling shades of a room being made in a monotone colour pairing will warp the dimensions of the room, creating a sense of scale, while also creating a great sense of intrigue.

5 – Your Window’s View

This next colour matching area only really works if your home is in a somewhat scenic location, like by the sea or next to a beautiful meadow, by using the view from your window you can colour match your new shades to the colours of your scenic view, this will create a level of cohesion between the interior and exterior of your home.

To colour match your blinds to your view, just hold the samples up to the window to find the colour which works with the view the best, for example: if your home overlooks a beach, then sea blue blinds will be a good call; or if your window looks out upon a field, then some gorgeous green blinds are in order!

6 – Don’t Colour Match At All

This final one is for those who like a little bit of chaos in their home’s décor, rather than finding a colour that meshes well with the existing décor in any given room, you can go wild and find a shade that will stand alone as a bold centrepiece in the room disrupting the space around it.

We find that patterned blinds are great for this, as bold patterns can act as a centrepiece in the rooms décor and creating contrast with other décor elements, without looking too out of place.

 

Now that you know all about colour matching with your FREE fabric samples, it’s time to browse the DotcomBlinds store and get your samples ordered, so you can begin the next step in your home’s décor journey!