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Color - part of interior decorating

Color is the most important part of interior decorating.

Everything we see has color and we need to be able to select color to enhance the space we want to decorate.

That entails choosing multiple colors and can become overwhelming.

Red is the color of roses for valentines day, romance and lust, red is an exciting color, stimulating and exciting.

No wonder the extrovert that wears a red suit to a business meeting gets noticed, not only for their boldness in color choice, but the sense of power that it carries.

Red is brave and carries good luck, it is a very popular and important color in asian societies.

How do we use it in the home?

To make a room feel cosy you can use red for the walls, it will enclose the space, but it does make it more intimate.

 

 

 

Orange We often overlook using orange as we find it bright and bold and too brilliant to use in our homes.

It is a warm and happy color and useful for old people's homes and institutions as it is an anti depressant and decreases hostility and irritability as well as being cheerful and fun.

It is good for use in classrooms, or where large groups of people congregate as it improves social behavior.

Orange is a fantastic color to use as an accent. Throw around some bright orange cushions to brighten up a dull color scheme, add some orange flowers to a vase to enliven the room.

Use orange as a feature wall to create a focal point, add a purple vase on the table and you have a striking feature. Using color in small amounts is a good way to introduce strong hues into your home.

 

 

 

 

Yellow Color is vital element for interior decoration in your home. Without it our house would be dull, and so would our lives. We use color to empower us, to cheer us up, to raise emotions, to color our world and personalise it.

There are many meanings for the color yellow, the most obvious ones being sunny, warm and radiant.

We use yellow more than we know it, cream is yellow, it is yellow tinted with white. Cream is an extremely popular color as it is warm but not overpowering, it is more friendly than stark white and we use it in every room and a lot outside the house too.

It is an innovative color and sharpens the memory, perfect for the office environment.

 

 

 

 

Green is a hue or color, but it is also a great neutral. It teams up well with most colors, as you can experience by looking in your local florist's window.

Green with almost every color that you can think of, and they always look stunning.

Green is a restful color and used to keep actor's nerves steady before they go on stage, the green room, as it is called.

Green is thought of as traditional, the green and red of christmas ornaments and decorations.

It is a color that is often associated with wealth, and many top schools and university's have green as their color of choice. This green is usually a dark forest green, strong and secure.

 

 

 

 

Blue is one of the three primary colors, red, yellow and blue.

Blue is a very popular color and is what I call a safe color to use with interior decorating.

It is always in fashion, the shade of blue changes but not greatly, and we can therefore use it with great confidence in our designs.

It is a calming color, great for using in bedrooms and bathrooms.

It is useful for children's bedrooms as they can simply alter the color of the accents and accessories as they get older and change the way blue looks.

 

Purple or violet is not seen commonly in todays homes, it is a color which suggests royality and spirituality, so perhaps it can be a bit intimidating around the house!

By adding white You can create a tint of purple and these colors are know as mauves, lilacs and lavenders. These softer more restful versions of purple are used in our homes, especially in bedrooms and bathrooms as they promote day dreaming and inner calmness.

 

 

 

Black is a fantastic color for interior decorators, the Japanese use it frequently with rich glossy lacquer paint finishes, highlighted with red.

It is an excellent color if you want something to disappear, use a matt black and it often goes unnoticed.

Black, being a neutral can team up with any color, and can have a striking effect. Think of the bumble bee - yellow and black stripes!

Black with metallic gold, silver, copper and brass creates an opulent look. It is often used for joinery hardware to create an elegent accent.

 

 

 

White light actually contains all the colors within it, we just can't see them as they are being reflected. The neutral "colors" range from white, through the grays to black.

White is the most commonly used color in interior design, especially in areas where bathing, cleaning and food preparation are prevelant. This is due to the fact that you can see anything that appears on white and wipe it up, keeping the surfaces clean and germ free!

White combines well with black to form a stunning high contrast look.

Yellow and white create a crisp fresh feel and red and white suggest a nautical theme. Blue and white gives a timeless look, and it just keep teaming up white with any color and you can't fail. That is why it is so popular!

 

 

 

 

Grey is a neutral and the color you get when you mix any primary colors together.

It is very useful in interior decorating.

It is subtle and stable to use, it is not dramatic like black or white, the other neutrals, therefore is is good to use with other colors as it does not dominate them.

An example of this is using hot colors, hot pink, hot blue, hot green.

These look funky and fun on their own but can be a little gareish, with the addition of grey they become compromised and drawn back into line and make a statement but a more subtle one.

 

 

 

 

Brown is a warm and safe color, it encapsulates or desire to have natural things around us.

Brown is often the color we call wood or timber, it is grainy and fundametally earthy. Because it is natural it goes with almost any color. Designers love brown! It has replaced the neutral gray at the moment, and is everywhere you look.

Chocolate brown leather sofas, with thick lookalike fur throws and cushions. Brown Flockati Rugs, with sheepskin cushions.

 

 

 

24.10.07 11:05, Comment