DESIGNING WITH FLOW
Once you’ve chosen the colours in your palette, you can start to think about how they’ll be used in your home. Use testers to paint large pieces of paper. Then, you can move them around to see how they might look on the walls, floors or ceilings.
Colour can be used to link spaces in your home together. Using one of your neutral or supporting colours across all the woodwork in your communal living areas, for instance, will create a subtle feeling of flow between these rooms. For a more obvious link, paint a band of one of your stronger colours across all the skirting boards.
Marianne says that this works well for open-plan areas or rooms that come off one corridor but suggests that you might want to avoid linking more private spaces, like bedrooms, to communal ones in this way.