The art of decoration involves making designs using motifs or colours on surfaces as well as efficient handling of the design components in a manner that is aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Interior decoration is therefore an aspect of decoration that deals with the total arrangement of things in an apartment (home or office) in order to bring out the interior beauty of a place. This mostly has to do with the interplay of colours to achieve a unique internal appearance of a home or an office. There are basically three prominent ways of viewing colour usage interior decoration. It can be either approached harmoniously, complementarily, and contrastingly.

The popular way which many people approach colours in interior designs is in terms of ‘harmony’. Harmony is a term often used to qualify a pleasing combination of colours in a given design. For example, it is common to walk into an office and observe that the curtains, walls, furniture and even the floor of the office are looking green. The green colour may be artistically represented in various shades: light, dark, mid-tone, etc. Or even if the furniture may have a different colour, some green flowering designs or spots may be found on the dominant colour which makes the entire design appealing to view. » Read more: Different Aspects of Viewing Designs in Interior Decoration