You can open source a color scheme by creating a color wheel using personalized objects.
Open sourcing a color scheme is a great way to ensure that home design meets the tastes and interests of any homeowner. Open sourcing is used to map a path by choosing personalized sources. In the case of a color scheme, you are mapping a path to a personalized color design. Because the term "open source" is such a broad concept, knowing open source a color scheme takes some specific know-how. A few easy to follow steps will ensure a perfectly open sourced color scheme that translates to the ideal home design. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Paper and pencil
Interview the homeowners. Inquire as to their likes and dislikes, interests and hobbies. Don't mention color in any of your questions. Instead, concentrate on the personalities of the homeowners. Ask questions such as, "what do you do for fun?" and "what's your favorite food?." Ask between 10 and 15 questions.
2. Golf tees
Review your notes and search out objects that represent the list of likes and dislikes. Choose objects that are no more than four inches in diameter. For example, if the homeowner states that he or she loves baseball, choose a baseball as your corresponding object. If he or she is passionate about golf, find some golf tees to represent this passion. Repeat this process for each of the items on your list, choosing small objects that represent each item.
3. Arrange each of your found objects in a circle on your round tray or platter, leaving the center of the tray open. This collection will serve as the source for your color scheme. By using a round platter or tray you are, essentially, creating a color wheel from your found objects. (Note: It is possible to complete this project using a cookie sheet or square platter, but a round surface proves most efficient).
4. Baseball
Present the tray of collected items to the homeowner and change the focus by requesting that they examine not the objects themselves, but the color of each object. Ask the homeowners to each select the first color their eye is drawn to. Place these objects in the center of the tray. These first two color choices will serve as the benchmark for the color scheme. For example, if Homeowner One chooses the golf tees and Homeowner Two chooses the baseball, your two main colors in the room will come from these choices. Remove these two options and follow the same technique for all the additional items. Build a list of choices from the top down. For example, color choice one should correspond to the most prominent color and each choice thereafter should decrease the prominence of color in the space.
5. Paint
Announce to homeowners that their first choice will be used most prominently in the space, such as wall color, and the second color will be the second most prominent color in the room, such as window treatment or furniture. Be sure to allow the homeowner the option to throw out any color he or she does not like. After all, it is possible for the eye to be drawn to an ugly color. Use your open source objects as inspiration for the color design in the space.
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