House Paint Colors and SchemesPicking out house paint colors is a little easier with the use of a handy color wheel. There are no rules that say you have to incorporate a color scheme for your paint colors, but a scheme does help keep colors balanced and properly combined.Studies have shown that colors impact emotion, appetite and our perception of size, so keep that in mind when selecting paint colors for the rooms in your home. Painting a small room with dark colors will cause the room to appear smaller in size, but painting that same room in bright colors makes it appear bigger in size. The complementary scheme is simple and probably the most common. Choose two colors directly opposite from each other on the color wheel and select one of those colors as the dominant wall color in the the room. Paint one accent wall using the second darker color, but only one accent wall per room otherwise it dilutes the contrast.The wall that you choose for the accent color is your own preference, but consider using the wall directly
opposite of the door opening. An accent wall opposite of a door opening looks nice when entering a room because it creates an attractive focal point.You can use any two house paint colors under the complementary scheme, as long as the colors are directly across from each other on the color wheel.Another common way to paint a room using this color scheme is to use it in a room with chair rail molding. Paint the darker color below the chair rail and the lighter paint color above the rail.