Each room in your house should be unique and amazing in its own way. One quick trick you can use to give each one a personality all its own is to use different colors to define living spaces more distinctly.

Painting your walls a different color for every area is a good idea especially for open-space housing, where the rooms open into each other and there are no dividers to distinguish the kitchen from the living room or the dining area from the foyer.

You can use subtle coloring techniques to emphasize a feature of a room, or you can also use it to signify transition from one room to the next. For example, you can paint your doorways a darker shade than the walls. You can also employ this technique for highlighting important places in a room, such a recessed bookcase or your breakfast nook.

When choosing colors for every room, pick a shade that’s already dominant in your home rather than getting a color that’s completely alien to your design or theme. Are your throw pillows mostly red? Get a color that goes well with them. The trick is not to play around with the color wheel too much, and striving the achieve a particular harmony throughout the entire house.