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published by KatieDid Design
May 2002
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April 26, 2002 ------ May Issue ------
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IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Editorial
2. SUBSCRIBER SPECIAL
- Scarves
3. TIPS & TRICKS
- Hanging Pictures
4. FEATURE ARTICLE
- Color Basics
5. E-ZINE OF THE MONTH
- Gardener's Paradise
6. BOOK OF THE MONTH
- Traditional Home Magazine
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Hello Dear Readers!
Some of you may have already discovered that my
website and email went down this past weekend... that's why this issue is
late! Apparantly my website host wasn't paying it's bills, so every
single site they hosted went 'off the air'! Fortunately, I was in the
midst of changing hosts, already, so I was able to get everything back online
in less time than I would have otherwise. (I thank God for that.)
As far as I can tell, everything's working again, but I apologize if any
of you tried to access the site or send me an email during the past several
days.
I've written a new article on color basics this
month. I've tried to give you a good foundation on the various aspects
of color itself. I hope to bring you a new article next month on combining,
matching, and coordinating colors.
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1. SUBSCRIBER'S SPECIAL
- Scarves
This month's Subscriber Special is on Scarves as
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2. Tips & Tricks
- Hanging Pictures
When you are hanging pictures and other wall decor,
try to hang them in groupings, rather than just spacing them out. And
try to coordinate these groupings with your furniture.
Let's say you have a sofa against a wall, and you
need to hang something above it. Try choosing a large picture
to center over it and two wall sconces to hang on either side. Or choose
several smaller pictures and arrange them in a grouping, then center the
grouping over the sofa.
Many homes have an easy chair in a corner of the
living or family room. You need to balance whatever is on either wall
behind the chair. A pair of coordinating pictures is a good idea. Or,
if you have a window or bookcase on one side, then hang a grouping of pictures
or items on the other wall to balance the corner.
If you don't have a piece of furniture to 'anchor'
the wall grouping, then make it dramatic enough to stand on it's own.
Say you have a large collection of family portraits and photos to hang.
When arranged as a complete collection,
they are eye-catching enough to fill an empty
entryway wall.
Have fun!
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This article Copyright 1999-2003 - Kathleen Peters, KatieDid Design. Reproduced with permission.
Kathleen Peters - 'Katie' - is a custom window treatment and bedding designer, and owner of KatieDid Design, her online shop. She is also the editor-in-chief of Decor, Decorating, and Design, a free bi-monthly ezine filled with articles, tips, and guidelines to help with your home decorating.
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3. FEATURE ARTICLE
- Color Basics
Knowing and understanding color is a basic fundamental
necessary for successfully decorating your home. It's important to
be able to recognize the hue, clarity, and shade of each color you consider
so that you can choose wisely and incorporate them effectively in your home's
color scheme. You can't just go by color names, since every designer,
fabric manufacturer, paint store, and retailer uses their own names and shades.
Remember, one man's lilac is another man's heather. (*smile*)
The most important aspect of color to consider is
hue or tint. The color wheel is a useful tool to help organize the
millions of hues out there.
Imagine a circle, divided into six pie slices.
Each slice is for one of the six basic colors - red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, and purple. It is a rainbow in a circle. Now take away
the dividing lines between each color, and let them blend together... you
now have red-oranges, orange-yellows, yellow-greens, etc. and so forth all
the way around the circle to purple-reds.
Here is a picture of a color wheel to help you visualize it:
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Every color on earth belongs somewhere on this wheel.
And every color can be muted with black, or have it's shade lightened with
white. Let's study it.
Red, yellow, and blue are known as primary colors.
By combining the right amounts of each, every other color on the wheel is
created. Orange, green, and purple are known as secondary colors -
they are really composed of the two colors on either side. So red and
yellow make orange colors, yellow and blue make green colors, and blue and
red make purple colors.
You must learn to see 'into' colors so that you
have a general idea where on the color wheel it belongs, and therefore HOW
MUCH of each primary color is in it. This is called the color's hue
or tint. Let's take green for an example. Pure green - grass
green, as I call it - is exactly half way between yellow and blue.
It is equal parts blue and yellow, so neither primary color really is noticeable.
They cancel each other out. But as soon as more yellow is added, it
begins to look like a yellowish green, like olive green, khaki green, and
apple green. But if more blue is added, then it brings the color the
other way around the color wheel - giving us colors like sea green, teal,
and aqua green. Realize that we are not talking yet about how dark,
light, bright, or muted a color is, but rather which colors contribute to
it's tint.
It is important to be able to recognize this when
you're trying to match colors - this is why green is not just green, and
why two separate greens may clash. We'll talk about mixing colors in
next month's article.
Clarity and shade adjust and modify the hue of a
color, and are just as important to understand. They are separate,
but they often work together. A color's shade is simply how light or
dark it is, while the clarity of a color is how clear or muted the color
is. Any hue from the color wheel can be lightened with white to make
it paler, and/or it can be muted with black or grey (which is really both
black and white) to mute it. Neither one of these factors changes the
ratio of primary colors in the hue, it simply adds white and/or black.
This time let's take pink for our example.
Fuchsia is a color that most of us are familiar with. It's mostly red,
with just a hint of blue. Let's say that this particular hue is 90% red and
10% blue. We can now take that hue and change it's clarity by adding
black to darken and mute it to a wine color. We can instead keep it's
clarity, but lighten the shade by adding white to get a pale clear pink.
Or we can both mute it and lighten it by adding both black and white to get
a soft mauve. Can you see the difference? All four 'colors':
fuchsia, wine, pink, and mauve contain the same red:blue ratio of 90% and
10%, so they are the same hue and belong at the same place on the color wheel.
But each has a different clarity and shade.
Here is another picture to help you see and compare the difference:
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These are the basics of color. When you understand
these fundamentals, and have learned to see 'into' colors, you gain the power
to distinguish between them accurately in a knowledgeable manner. Next
month's article will go into combining, matching, and coordinating colors
in your home.
Have fun!
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This article Copyright 1999-2003 - Kathleen Peters, KatieDid Design. Reproduced with permission.
Kathleen Peters - 'Katie' - is a custom window treatment and bedding designer, and owner of KatieDid Design, her online shop. She is also the editor-in-chief of Decor, Decorating, and Design, a free bi-monthly ezine filled with articles, tips, and guidelines to help with your home decorating.
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Remember, if your decorating isn't fun,
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--- Katie <><
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