The phrase "design schemes" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the plans or strategies for developing or creating something. For example: "We discussed several design schemes for the new office building."
The production will have entirely new lighting and design schemes.
Incidentally, do people ever talk about decorating or design schemes anymore?
The lighting and design schemes give the restaurant a sepia sexiness.
That makes it really suitable for contemporary and modern design schemes".
Round knobs have a stylish look that works well with modern design schemes, but they are difficult to grip and turn.
Forget the still life over the sofa: ho-hum accouterments have given way to ambitious design schemes that are equal parts amenity and advertisement.
The signage of the New York City subway — stylish Helvetica, white-on-black type — is one of the most universally recognized design schemes in the world.
One of the new design schemes included the elegant Egg and Series 7 chairs, designed in the 1950s by the Danish architect Arne Jacobsen.
In his HGTV series, Mr. Durie rescues forlorn yards in Southern California with design schemes inspired by gardens and landscapes from around the world.
The IFS adds: "It looks as if the government is aiming to pay councils not only to design schemes that the government likes, but to design schemes that don't cut support as much as councils' funding is being cut, leaving them to make up the shortfall from elsewhere in their budgets".
NeoPlanet 5.2, which is free at www.neoplanet.com, also has ardent fans, thanks primarily to its library of more than 500 colorful design schemes -- skins, in Net jargon -- that you can download and apply to it.
