Complementary Colors - Do Opposites Attract?
Decorating Tips and Tricks
Bespoke FM
4.6 • 827 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We have something complementary for you today ... a lesson in COMPLEMENTARY colors and how to use them to your advantage in your decorating.
Blue - Orange
Yellow - Purple
Green - Red
Yup, those are the 'complementary' colors, but are they or are they not.
Science says they are and we explain how you can use them in your home to great effect.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, we have something complimentary for you. |
| 0:12.1 | I'm Kelly Wilkins. I'm here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. |
| 0:16.8 | Before we get on to the tips today, I have to share my news with you. |
| 0:22.8 | My news is that I was on the news. I was on ABC 7 last weekend with the weekend anchors, and it was so much fun. I'm not |
| 0:30.8 | going to lie to you, it was a little nerve-wracking to make sure everything was going to work out |
| 0:35.2 | well. But once we got rolling, I had such a fantastic time. |
| 0:38.6 | So I hope you check it out. |
| 0:40.3 | I popped it up onto my YouTube channel and it is also on my Instagram. |
| 0:44.3 | So if you get over there quickly, you can see it there in my stories. |
| 0:48.5 | It's also in the story highlights. |
| 0:50.4 | So now let's get into complementary colors. |
| 0:54.4 | Decorating with complementary colors. |
| 0:58.0 | Color is back on the horizon. |
| 1:00.2 | So we wanted to dive in today to show you how you can use complementary colors in your decor. |
| 1:07.0 | Complementary colors are the colors that lie opposite on the color wheel. |
| 1:13.4 | The colors that are opposite each other are orange and blue, green and red, and yellow and purple. |
| 1:22.7 | Then there's another one that gets a little bit more into different tones and things like kind of like the secondary |
| 1:28.3 | complementary colors but this is like the main one so that that's what we'll focus on today |
| 1:33.6 | yeah and when i was researching for this episode i did not see a lot of rooms done this way |
| 1:42.1 | interestingly enough well it's kind of harsh in a sense because obviously the colors are opposite on the |
| 1:49.9 | color grill, so they're very different. |
| 1:51.5 | But when you dive deep into this whole idea of complementary colors, they are pleasing, |
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