""Before I looked at swatches, I picked out a few words to describe how I wanted our home to feel," she recalls. Then, she sketched out a loose floor plan and started to move from room to room, picking colors to match the mood and putting those swatches directly onto the floor plan. This turned out to be a brilliant move, as she can see how the whole house palette hangs together instantly just by looking at the floor plan."
"When Atwood found her now-home, she, her husband, and her 3-year-old daughter had been living with her parents for months. They were ready to get into their own home. "We didn't have the luxury of going through a long design process," she told me when we spoke about the book. Among the many decisions she had to make quickly was what colors to paint the walls."
During a time-constrained move into a new home, quick paint decisions became necessary. A practical color-planning method assigns mood words, sketches a loose floor plan, and places physical paint swatches directly onto each room on the plan. Moving from room to room and mapping swatches visually demonstrates how the whole-house palette interacts and ensures cohesive transitions between spaces. The tactic shortens decision time, reduces the need for lengthy sampling, and clarifies how colors will read across adjacent rooms. The process is repeatable: choose descriptive mood words, sketch room layouts, and arrange swatches on the plan to evaluate overall harmony.
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