Lesson 2: Picking Colors
Your home should be joyful.
Full of color, full of charm and full of delight.
If you’re ready to create that but aren’t sure where to start, you’ve found your place.
What’s the secret?
You’ve been assuming that people with beautiful, colorful homes just have a natural eye for it. Like some people are born knowing what goes together and some aren’t.
They aren’t. They just have a color palette.
That’s it. That’s the secret. A simple color palette is the thing that makes every design decision easier, faster, and more cohesive– and once you have one you’ll wonder how you ever made a single choice without it.
Here’s what I discovered
If you want a colorful home that actually feels cohesive instead of chaotic, you need a color palette.
Not because some design rule says so, but because it’s the secret to making confident decisions when you have no idea what you’re doing.
Before a color palette
Before I discovered the power of a color palette, I was completely overwhelmed by decor decisions. Wall colors! Lamps! Fabrics! Where do you even begin?
My spaces were disjointed. Elements clashed. And the worst part? I didn’t even know where to start fixing it.
Maybe you feel the same way. You walk into someone’s colorful home and think I want that— but when you’re standing in a store staring at 47 throw pillows, you freeze. You don’t know which colors go together, what will look good, or how to make it all feel intentional instead of random.
You’re not broken. You just need a color framework. And using a color palette is the one thing that changed everything for me.
A Color Palette Is For You If
- You love color but worry your rooms will look “too much”
- You freeze when shopping because you don’t know what will work together
- Your spaces feel disjointed even though you like each individual piece
- You want design decisions to feel easier, not harder
Want a peek at ours?
Now feels like a good time to share our home color palette! That shares our colors, but the how behind it (how I chose these colors, how to build your own, and how to actually use them in a room) is all inside the membership. Can’t wait to show you!
Get the detailsWhy A Color Palette Changes Everything
It gives you a framework for decisions
I’m incredibly indecisive (hello, indecisive libra here!), and despite what my Instagram might suggest, design decisions do not come naturally to me.
Well, they didn’t used to.
Having a color palette has given me actual confidence. I truly mean it when I say a color palette is the foundation of every design decision I make. It simplifies choices and ensures each element works in the bigger picture.
It creates flow throughout your home
A consistent color palette is the secret to a home that feels intentionally designed, not randomly decorated.
Simply put, repeating a set of colors ties everything together– but the trick is not to use the same colors in the same way in every room.
Maybe you paint trim in one room a lovely green, then use that same green in a smaller, more accent-like way in an adjacent room, like a picture frame, a vase, a throw pillow. That’s the thread that ties your spaces together.
The consistent use of your chosen colors, in varying shades and applications, creates beautiful flow from one space to the next.
Each room feels like part of something bigger and more intentional.
Shopping becomes so much easier
Once you have a curated set of colors, shopping and decorating get dramatically easier and more satisfying.
Not only does it make it easier to say yes, it’s also easier to say no.
See a gorgeous rug that’s just slightly off? Because you know it doesn’t vibe with your carefully chosen colors, you can confidently walk away. You’ll know it won’t contribute to that harmonious feel you’re creating.
And honestly? That’s good! It saves you from those ‘what was I thinking?‘ moments later on.
If you’ve ever bought something you loved in the store only to get it home and realize it doesn’t work– you know exactly what I mean.
I have an entire example inside the membership of exactly how this works in real life– choosing between two rugs for our bedroom using nothing but our color palette. It took five minutes. I’ll show you exactly how I did it!
You can move pieces around freely
This might be my favorite benefit. Once you have a consistent color scheme, you can easily swap pieces around without overthinking it.
I move things constantly– lamps, pillows, art, little objects. And it works, because everything shares a similar color vibe.
That fun lamp in the living room? Move it to the entryway. Swap the throw pillows. Everything will still look like it belongs. Because it does.
Lesson 2: Action Items
Look around your home for one thing you already love that has color in it. A print, a pillow, a rug, a mug. Just one thing.
Pull three to five colors from it. Don’t overthink it. Just look at your starting piece and notice what’s there. These colors could be the beginning of your palette.