The article deals with the importance of colour among populations of several different countries around the world, choices of colour schemes in residential interiors of these countries, as well as common and distinctive features in colour schemes of interiors. The purpose of the study is to examine, compare and analyse the colour schemes of residential interiors in Japan, Germany, Finland and Ukraine. Methodology: The main methods of the study are the following: empirical, theoretical and empirical-theoretical. The empirical method includes observation, comparison, and generalisation. The theoretical method encompasses: progressing from the abstract to the concrete, abstraction, concretization, identification, and differentiation. Much of the work was carried out using empirical and theoretical methods, in particular, comparative analysis, induction, and deduction.