Complementary Colors - DTT Classic

Decorating Tips and Tricks

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Design, Arts, Leisure, Home & Garden

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🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 24 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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0:59.0	So today we're sharing a classic DTT episode from the archives with you.
1:04.8	Hey, we have something complimentary for you.
1:25.6	Music I'm Kelly Wilkins. I'm Kelly Wilkins. I'm here with Anita Joyce, and this is decorating tips and tricks. Complementary colors. Decorating with complementary colors. Color is back on the horizon.
1:29.2	So we wanted to dive in today to show you how you can use complementary colors in your decor.
1:35.9	Complementary colors are the colors that lie opposite on the color wheel.
1:42.3	The colors that are opposite each other are orange and blue, green and red,
1:49.5	and yellow and purple. Then there's another one that gets a little bit more into different
1:54.7	tones and things like kind of like the secondary complementary colors. But this is like the main one.
2:00.6	So that's what we'll focus on today.
2:03.4	Yeah. And when I was researching for this episode, I did not see a lot of brooms done this way,
2:11.1	interestingly enough. Well, it's kind of harsh in a sense because obviously the colors are opposite on the color
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