



For this reason, it is best to view your paint outdoors and always take home a tester pot to view it in your planned room. Natural lighting will have a significant effect on how a colour will look in a room, and your shade could end up looking vastly different to how it appeared in the shop. Our colour blocking paint ideas provide plenty of inspiration, whether you're going for a harmonious or contrasting colour scheme. However, use it with caution: the infinite combinations and the relationship between colours are oversimplified in the wheel, and there is so much more to creating a successful decorative scheme. Your starting point may well be deciding whether you prefer a harmonious or a complementary scheme, and in this case the rules of the wheel can certainly be an aid in your colour selection.
