Color Analysis Ideas for Your Home Decor

If you love seasonal color analysis to help you find the clothing and makeup colors that suit you best, then why not try it in your interior design? Create a bedroom or living room founded on your favorite seasonal colors with our expert tips.

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How Seasonal Color Analysis Can Work in Your Home

The suddenly trendy-again concept of seasonal color analysis matches hair color, skin tone and eye color to the colors that look best on you. It's an idea that was first popularized in the '80s thanks to Carole Jackson’s book Color Me Beautiful. If you want to go straight to the source, you can find the book here.

But we think that interior design is also a great place to put color analysis into action. In traditional color analysis, color schemes are divided into seasons: autumn, winter, spring and summer. An array of subcategories go deeper to match your look to the appropriate seasonal color family: Deep Winter, Cool Winter, Clear Winter; Clear Spring, Warm Spring, Light Spring; Light Summer, Cool Summer, Soft Summer; Deep Autumn, Warm Autumn and Soft Autumn.

We've taken that same formula to determine the rooms that best suit you, that not only make you look great but also feel great. Read on for HGTV's picks of rooms for every color season.

Warm Autumn

Warm golden undertones define the Warm Autumn color palette. Think iconic fall colors like ruby red and evergreen mixed with shades of brown. You can use creams and beiges for balance and then add interest with a strong infusion of color as with the rich rust chair shown here.

Julia Roberts and Julianne Moore are examples of women with Warm Autumn skin tones and hair color.

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Warm Autumn in the Bedroom

Comforting earth tones alongside deep oranges and reds make this bedroom feel warm and soothing.

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Warm Autumn Home Office

This cozy home office features moss-green wainscoting, a faux-leather desk chair in a rich caramel brown and vintage accents.

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Warm Autumn in the Bath

Changing the mood or season of a room is effortless with wallpaper. Here a simple white vanity and white window frames are given an infusion of deep color and earthiness with a wallpaper in autumnal shades.

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Warm Autumn Guest Room

The backdrop of plenty of wood and soft, tactile rugs underfoot lend a sense of comfort to this Warm Autumn bunkroom defined by fern-green bed coverings.

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Warm Autumn Breakfast Nook

The Warm Autumn color palette doesn't have to be strictly organic with a neutral base. Here, colorful greens and oranges and an array of rich colors added with artwork and throw pillows bring real personality and vibrancy to a breakfast nook.

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Soft Autumn

Soft Autumn colors are flattering and calm but never washed out. Soft Autumn strikes a balance, finding visual appeal in more muted tones that complement each other as in this dining space where buttercreams, a soft green and shades of beige create a harmonious effect.

Jada Pinkett Smith and Mariah Carey have little contrast between their hair and skin color in keeping with the Soft Autumn color scheme defined by soft, neutral colors.

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Soft Autumn in the Kitchen

Accessories do the heavy lifting to give this mostly neutral kitchen soft autumnal flair. Adding touches of ochre and fiery orange warms up the gray-green paint on the cabinets and island.

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Soft Autumn Bedroom

Always warm, never jarring, Soft Autumn delivers a spectrum of colors that emphasize gentle greens, browns and golds.

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Soft Autumn in the Nursery

If pastels aren't your style but you still want that Scandi vibe of muted colors and an on-trend look, then borrow from the softer shades of Soft Autumn as seen in the chalky-green and rust shades in this nursery.

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Deep Autumn

Rich marigolds, mahogany, plums and other deep colors define the jewel tone-leaning colorway of Deep Autumn.

Deep Autumn celebrities like Mindy Kaling and Oprah can wear the deep, rich colors of this season.

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Deep Autumn in the Living Room

A rich marigold rug balances with the tans and browns in this quietly luxurious living space.

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Deep Autumn Works in This Gathering Space

Gorgeous, rich greens in varying shades of emerald, olive and kelly bring a warm earthiness to this inviting space.

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Deep Autumn in a Den

Paint color is one way to bring an enveloping sense of seasonal warmth (or coolness) to a space, especially when color is used in a comprehensive way like this calming rich green applied to molding, walls and doors to bathe the space in comforting color.

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Clear Winter

Winter shades tend to evoke the pleasures of that time of year: bright winter-blue skies, ice, snow and cold evoked in blues and greens combined with whites and grays.

With their striking contrast between hair, skin and eye color, Zooey Deschanel and Angelina Jolie are Clear Winters.

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Clear Winter Bedroom

Clear Winter is defined by stunning contrast with lighter colors beautifully balanced against intense shades of pink, green, blue and purple. This lovely bedroom brings that sense of dark and light to the home.

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Clear Winter in a Breakfast Nook

Clear, high-contrast color palettes define Clear Winter as seen in the crisp, bright blues in this breakfast nook.

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Clear Winter Workspace

Intense Crayola-box blue works beautifully with shades of white to make this workspace feel alive and intense, perfect for getting work done.

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Cool Winter

Blues and greens and the introduction of dark colors as with these dramatically painted walls (as long as they have a cool undertone) show the atmospheric potential of a Cool Winter look. Brooke Shields is the celebrity most often identified with a Cool Winter look.

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Cool Winter Kitchen

Icy, cool colors like the periwinkle island and walls and the robin's-egg refrigerator bring the Cool Winter vibe to this lovely kitchen.

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Cool Winter Bathroom

This boho bathroom features abstract wallpaper, a Moroccan-style pendant light and a trough sink in icy winter colors.

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Cool Winter Entryway

Washed-out pastels do not suit a Cool Winter interior, but a rich shade of lipstick pink does vibe with the cool blues in this entryway.

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Deep Winter

The Deep Winter look is distinguished by using the darkest tones of the season. With their stunning dark eyes and hair, Priyanka Chopra and Lupita Nyong'o embody the Deep Winter look.

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Deep Winter Kitchen

Shades of gray give this kitchen a classic Deep Winter feel.

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Deep Winter Bedroom

More gray, coupled with a deep-black bed are balanced by the warm wood floors in this bedroom.

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Deep Winter in the Dining Room

More black accents on these chairs and chandelier balance with the grays to blend a classic and contemporary look.

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Light Spring

Light hair and skin tone make Gwyneth Paltrow a classic Light Spring. Light Spring rooms favor peach, pink, lilac and bright, intense blues.

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Light Spring Living Room

This playful Light Spring living room features a bubble-gum-pink velvet ottoman and a pair of bird-adorned upholstered armchairs, all from Anthropologie and definitely in keeping with this cheerful seasonal color scheme.

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Light Spring Bedroom

Creamy, dreamy, feminine and sweet, this bedroom is the quintessence of soft spring color.

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Light Spring Details

A floral by Stagg Design Shop and a custom-built lavender vanity and gold accents results in clean, crisp, bright details.

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Clear Spring

Colors in Clear Spring are focused and assertive instead of muted, and offer striking contrast with whites and grays. Tyra Banks and Beyoncé with their golden-hued skin and hair are examples of Clear Spring celebrities.

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Clear Spring Powder Room

Saturated warm hues mixed with vibrant bright colors deliver energy in this multipatterned bathroom.

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Clear Spring Dining Room

Whites and brights bring a sense of excitement to this dining area.

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Clear Spring Main Bath

This bold Clear Spring bathroom features colorful abstract wallpaper and a purple clawfoot tub.

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Clear Spring Guest Room

The intense colors of Clear Spring lean toward blues, purples and lilacs.

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Warm Spring

Deeper, warmer hues define Warm Spring. Warm brown tones are balanced with bright colors. Actress Amy Adams with her freckles and copper hair is a Warm Spring.

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Warm Spring Bedroom

Vibrant warm-toned colors like goldenrod and pumpkin give this bedroom a fun, lively ambiance.

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Warm Spring Kitchen

Warm-toned pastels like these cotton-candy kitchen stools bring personality to a classic white kitchen.

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Warm Spring Mudroom

Designer Jo Gick turned this mudroom into the ultimate DIY hub. A vintage fixture lights up the space, while a pocket door painted navy (Parisian Night by Dunn-Edwards) offers a view into the cute pantry. Cement tiles in solid blue, gray and white make for a fun gingham floor.

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Light Summer

Light Summer celebrities are Meryl Street and Cate Blanchett, who typify the uniformly light-colored hair, eyes and skin tone that define this season. A preponderance of blues and light pastels brings a Light Summer look into this living room.

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Light Summer Entry

This bright white entry features a pink front door, carved wood cabinet and jute runner.

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Light Summer Bathroom

Periwinkle and white and blonde tones give a fresh, slightly Scandi look to this bath.

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Light Summer Vibes in the Bedroom

Another genius interplay of soft blue, white and bone offers restful ambiance in this bedroom.

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Light Summer Bath

This traditional bathroom features soft pastels in wallpaper, a decorative mirror and a cornflower-blue ceramic garden stool.

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Cool Summer

Cool shades with blue undertones and an overall lack of extreme contrasts define Cool Summer. Zendaya and Kate Middleton are representatives of the Cool Summer look.

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Cool Summer Living Room

We love the mix of blues and cool brick reds in this living room.

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Cool Summer Bathroom

Sleek sconces by Hudson Valley Lighting and glossy mosaic tile with a sea-green tinge by Lunada Bay Tile give this relaxing bathroom spa vibes.

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Cool Summer Bedroom

The statement peacock-blue wall pulls together the varied colors in this boho bedroom.

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Soft Summer

Subtle — but never desaturated — hues like seafoam green, powder blues, pink and lilac anchor this summery palette. Mixed with warm neutrals, Soft Summer rooms feature minimal contrast.

Rihanna and Jennifer Aniston are Soft Summers with little contrast between their hair and skin tones.

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Soft Summer Living Room

Soft but not washed out, Soft Summer hues are neutral and tend toward chalkier grays and blues.

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Soft Summer Bedroom

The star of this dreamy bedroom is a tall carved-wood headboard that lends some drama to the predominantly blue tones in this room.

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Soft Summer Kitchen

A grasshopper green offers a lovely counterbalance to the white in the retro lines of this kitchen.

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