Changing Color Schemes of a Room
PART 1
1. Join the website: Create an email at Gmail:
type in Gmail in Google search box look for Google
mail
Click on “Create Account” Fill in all fields with *
Use your username and password from school
2. Go to the Better Homes and Garden website
Type in address bar: http://www.bhg.com
3. Top right of screen click on “Join Now”
Create a Better Homes and Gardens account using your school username
and password
4. Click on “Decorating and Home Ideas” Tab
and then scroll down and on the left
sidebar click “Color A Room”
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5. Click the “Start Now” button
6. Step 1: Click on the “Rooms” button
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7. Step 2: Pick a photo. Click on one of the rooms.
8. Step 3: Start Painting. Choose your colors to
paint the room with.
Notice that there are 4 different places
to paint: Walls, Upper Wall, Trim and
Floor.
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You can use Basic Colors or Behr, Glidden and
Martha Stewart Colors
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PART 2 : LIVING ROOM COLOR SCHEMES
1. Create a cool color scheme for your living room. Save as “Cool”
2. Change the walls from light to medium and then to a dark value. View how the
room’s appearance changes based on the value of the paint on the wall. Save
the different color values using a different name each time.
Ex: “Cool Light Value”, “Cool Med Value”, and “Cool Dark Value”
3. Create a warm color scheme for your living room. Save as “Warm”
4. Change the walls from light to medium and then to a dark value. View how the room’s
appearance changes based on the hue’s value of the paint on the wall. Save the
3 rooms again.
Ex: “Warm Light Value”, “Warm Med Value”, and “Warm Dark Value”
5. Change the palette color to “Neutrals” and create a Neutral color scheme for your
living room. Save this room as “Neutral”.
6. You now should have 7 rooms saved.
Print 1 of the saved Living Rooms on the Colored Printer.
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PART 3 : BEDROOM COLOR SCHEMES
1. Click “Choose a Room”; Select the
Bedroom you want to use and
then begin painting
2. Create an Analogous, Complementary, Triadic and an Accented Neutral color
scheme. You may want to use a pattern in your bedroom Design.
Save as: “Analogous”, “Complementary”, “Triadic”, and Accented Neutral”.
3. Print 1 of the saved Bedroom Rooms on the Color Printer.
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