How To Use The 60-30-10 Decorating Rule
The 60-30-10 rule has been helping decorators create balanced colour schemes for decades. The premise is simple: roughly 60% of a room provides the dominant backdrop, 30% introduces a secondary colour or material and the final 10% brings in the accents. But the designers we spoke to agree that the value lies less in sticking rigidly to the numbers and more in using them as a starting point. Here’s everything they had to say…