Post by braided-rug on Oct 11, 2005 10:26:20 GMT 10
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I have attempted to do a garden with the help of a color wheel and of course my husband in this house and our previous one.
I got my color wheel from an issue of Better Homes and Garden magazine, we had it in Australia too. I suspect about a third of the pages are from the American magazine.
The color wheel came with arrows like a spinner. There are three ways you can have the arrows to make a color scheme. I seem to go for the one with the arrow pointing to the color of the house and straight across two arrows one either side of the color directly across from the house color.
My first attempt was on a house with terracotta walls. Terracotta is apparently a blend of yellow and orange. So I put the arrow on there and the two color on the other side one off from the middle were purple and blue. So my plantings were mainly purple and blue. Mostly buddleias actually.
I have done the opposite this time. Our house is green and yellow. They are one square away from each other so I did it in reverse. Across the other side across from the color in between green and yellow is a section with a color red/purple, which I think is magenta and mauve. It is clear on the wheel on the link.
You can see in figure D my yellow and green and the magenta it has a line pointing to it.
I am now very conscious of pale green houses now with yellow and very dull plantings around them, it has proven that they could do with that lift.
Take into considerations existing trees in all seasons.
I am sorry you will have to cut and paste this, there isn't an easy way to refind the page or find alternative links. Highlight whole address and press control c and put into address bar after highlighting and pressing backspace to remove address already there.
I have attempted to do a garden with the help of a color wheel and of course my husband in this house and our previous one.
I got my color wheel from an issue of Better Homes and Garden magazine, we had it in Australia too. I suspect about a third of the pages are from the American magazine.
The color wheel came with arrows like a spinner. There are three ways you can have the arrows to make a color scheme. I seem to go for the one with the arrow pointing to the color of the house and straight across two arrows one either side of the color directly across from the house color.
My first attempt was on a house with terracotta walls. Terracotta is apparently a blend of yellow and orange. So I put the arrow on there and the two color on the other side one off from the middle were purple and blue. So my plantings were mainly purple and blue. Mostly buddleias actually.
I have done the opposite this time. Our house is green and yellow. They are one square away from each other so I did it in reverse. Across the other side across from the color in between green and yellow is a section with a color red/purple, which I think is magenta and mauve. It is clear on the wheel on the link.
You can see in figure D my yellow and green and the magenta it has a line pointing to it.
I am now very conscious of pale green houses now with yellow and very dull plantings around them, it has proven that they could do with that lift.
Take into considerations existing trees in all seasons.
