Dollhouse Decorating – The Neutrals: A Room With White Walls

Consider your miniature white room a blank slate, an opportunity to do whatever you want, and go wherever your creativity will take you! This positive approach is a lot better than being intimidated by what at first glance looks like a colorless space.

Not so! There are hundreds of potential color schemes in a white room because every wavelength of the visible spectrum is in white. The rainbow is a fractured white. That’s right! Take white light and fracture it into a spectrum and all of the rainbow of colors appear. White will go with any color. There are bluish white and whites with green, pink or beige undertones. Winter white (gray) and Bone (beige) are so popular that designers and paint manufacturers conspired to give them a name. That's marketing.

In decorating, we to let the room inspire us to see what the room wants us to do with it. Are there wonderful ocean views? Then a color pallet of water tones is indicated: blues, greens, with pops of fuchsia and orchid for accents. Does the client live in the desert Southwest, with a terrace facing mountains that reflect every imaginable earth tone at sunset? The color scheme could have deep red, burnt-orange, gold, bronze-like browns.

in the real world, where the decorator has to deal with whatever property is presented. And the owner. Miniature enthusiasts have no such hurdles. We have in total control of our projects. Where do you want your dollhouse to be?

One of the greatest assets of working with the color white is the ability to showcase your 

own personality and style in your interiors, without having to compete with the color on the walls If you love artwork, sculptural pieces, consider displaying it on an all-white wall, over an all-white fireplace mantle or over your all-white bed. All eyes will go right to your one-of-a-kind artwork without you having to try! The same is true with any elements that commands attention.

You have the entire universe of color to allocate between the walls, furniture, floor coverings, accent pieces and trim. What do you do with all this freedom of choice when you're 

in the Home Depot shuffling the paint swatches and feeling like you've got a loosing hand in a card game? Use the Internet. There are a number of interior design and paint manufacturer sites that have free tools to play around with color combinations. Better Homes & Gardens has a neat tool called Design A Room Online. 

Here's a link: https://tinyurl.com/os8gqpn

Using such tools can give you a starting point, but that's all, just a start. What you see on your computer screen is not what you're going get in the paint can for all sorts of electronic reasons. But it sure makes changing your mind about combining colors easier.

Have fun!