Home Decoration Tips: How to Choose a Paint Color & Transform Your Living Room with Less Time and Money

Do you have furniture that doesn't seem to go with the rest of your house? Try a fresh coat of paint before you change your living room's décor.

Let me guess, you're cringing right now at the thought of painting your living room. You're not alone.

Even though most homeowners know painting is the most inexpensive and quickest way to transform their living rooms from drab to fabulous, they still express reluctance in vivid hues. They feel selecting the right paint colors is an intimidating task not easily achieved by amateurs.

However, finding and living with colors you really love can be easy, fun and a lot lighter on your budget.

Here Are My Top 4 Tips for Choosing the Right Paint Color & Turning Your Living Room into the Room of Your Dreams

1. Collect Decorating Samples From Your Home

The best way to begin choosing the right paint color for your living room is to let fabric lead the way. Fabric provides inspiration for a room's color scheme. It's also a more prudent starting point since painting your living room is much easier and costs a lot less than to change furniture and window treatments.

2. Study Color Schemes You Admire in Home Decorating Magazines

Turn your magazine flipping into a treasure hunt. Mark or rip out pages with rooms that you like. This will become your decorating portfolio and will come in handy when its time to pick a mood and feel for your room.

You may even see a room with the same structure as your space that you can use as a template for your wall color and furniture placement. See how the pros do it, copy them and then add your own personality twist for a fresh, new look.

3. Keep Paint Tones in Mind - and Instantly Change the Mood of your Living Room

You want to use colors appropriate to the natural setting lighting. To create the prefect place to curl up by, you must understand the psychology of color. The color wheel has two sides: warm and cool.

Just like the group name connotes, warm colors add coziness and warmth to a space while cool colors add a smooth airiness that can translate an atmosphere of peace and relaxation. Warm colors range from red to orange and cool colors range from blue to violet.