Christmas Color Palette Finder
Upload a photo of your living room. We'll read the colors already there and suggest a Christmas palette that complements your room instead of fighting it. Free, no signup, photo never leaves your browser.
Or click to browse. Your photo never leaves your browser — all color extraction happens locally on your device.
How it works
1. The tool reads your photo. A color quantizer runs in your browser, finds the 5-6 most dominant colors in the image, and skips near-whites and near-blacks so a sunny window or a black TV doesn't drown out the actual room.
2. It classifies the room. Warm-toned vs. cool-toned vs. neutral. Light vs. medium-bright vs. moody. Vivid vs. softly saturated vs. restrained. Three axes, roughly 27 possible room types.
3. It picks the Christmas palette that complements. Six palette templates: classic traditional, Scandinavian hygge, modern minimalist, Craftsman / earth tones, modern farmhouse, and jewel-tone glam. Each is mapped to the room characters it complements best, and each comes with 5 specific decorating recommendations tied to a full house-style guide.
Your photo never leaves your browser. Color extraction is fully client-side. No upload to a server, no AI service involved, no record kept. You can close this tab and the photo is gone.
The guide
Taking a photo that reads true
The tool can only see the colors your camera caught, so the photo matters more than anything. Daylight is best. Warm lamps and overhead bulbs push everything toward yellow, and a room that is really gray-blue can come back reading as beige.
Stand back far enough to get the walls, the floor, and the big furniture in one shot. Those are the colors your decorations have to live with. A close-up of one cushion tells it about the cushion.
Skip filters and portrait mode, and try not to let one bright object fill the frame. A red sofa in the middle of the photo will pull the result toward it, which is correct only if the sofa is the room.
Turning the palette into decorations
The palette you get is four or five colors, but you do not need to use them equally. The simplest way to use it is the one decorators use for rooms: one main color for most of what you buy, a second for about a third of it, and a small amount of the accent.
In practice the main color goes on the big things you see first: the ribbon, most of the ornaments, the stockings. The second color is for the gift wrap and the table. The accent is for small things that catch the eye, like the tree topper or a few statement ornaments.
Greenery and warm white lights sit outside the palette. They work with every one of the six, so you do not need to count them.
Questions about the palette finder
- Do you upload or keep my photo?
- No. Everything happens in your browser. The photo is never sent to us or anyone else, and nothing is saved.
- Why did it recommend that palette?
- It sorts your room by three things: warm or cool, light or dark, and bold or muted. Each of the six Christmas palettes is matched to the rooms it looks best in, and you get the closest match.
- Can I get the exact color codes?
- Yes. Tap any swatch to copy its hex code, which you can paste into a paint store's color finder or a shopping search.
- Does it work on a phone photo?
- Yes. Any normal photo works. Daylight and a wide shot of the room give the best result.
- Is it AI?
- No. It measures the colors in your photo directly and follows fixed rules to pick a palette, so the same photo always gets the same answer.
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