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Ideal Home
Ideal Home
Amy Cutmore

How many colours should you have in a room? This is the formula interior experts use time and time again

A living room with a corner brown leather sofa and a two-tone wall in blue and white.

If you’re currently decorating or redecorating your home or even just a single room in it, you might be wondering, how many colours should you have in a room? And while no rules are necessarily set in stone, there are guidelines that even experts recommend sticking to.

In this case, three is the magic number of the best colour combinations that all the pros agree upon when asked how many colours one should ideally incorporate into a single room. And the formula that the number is best applied in is the 60-30-10 colour rule.

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