CHOOSE YOUR HERO AND SIDEKICKS

Understanding how a palette will be weighted is an important part of putting colours together. Marianne recommends starting with three colours and having an image of a colour wheel to hand.

To begin, choose your hero colour. This could be one of the colours you found when you squinted at your object. Now for your hero’s sidekick, this is your supporting colour which will link the rest of the colours in the palette together. Finally, choose a neutral colour, this could be your wood or carpet colour for instance.

Marianne uses Oxford blue, white and stone as an example of a three-colour palette. Once you’ve pinned down three colours you love the look of together, you can expand the palette to five colours. These additional colours can add a bit of excitement to the palette, or simply extend the same feeling.