Room Redo

One of the best design tools is a wash or splash of color. But how do you pick the right color for the room? Colors play a major role in your life and color choices throughout your home and office will influence your mood, so be mindful about your color choices.

Whites and Neutrals: These hues project purity, cleanliness, and neutrality. Whites add to your mental clarity, encourage us to clear clutter or obstacles, purify thoughts or actions and evoke a feeling of fresh beginnings.

Yellows: What is the first thing you think of that’s yellow — the sun, of course. Yellow is powerful color that suggests warmth, richness and happiness. Yellows in the right doses can make you feel happy or give you more energy.

Reds: Even more powerful than yellows are the reds. We associate red with love, danger, desire, speed, strength, and even stop signs. It is considered the first color that is recognized by human eye and this color promotes alertness, increases vitality, increases strength, and stimulates conversation. Ideal for dining rooms and kitchens, a dash of red as an accent can spice up other rooms as well.

Greens: A fresh color to use in almost any room. It represents nature, environment, health, good luck, youth and fertility and is associated with a healing force, nature and growth. You can use green almost anywhere, as long as it is the right shade.

Blues: Considered a universal color, it represents peace, tranquility, stability, trust, confidence, security, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and even depression. Blue can slow the pulse rate, lower body temperature, and reduce appetite. Blue is known for its calming effect and should be used in any room you would like to promote tranquility and peace, like a bedroom.

Browns: Representing earth and steadiness, many people’s first association with brown is chocolate, which symbolizes smoothness and luxury. Brown tends to make us feel luxurious, elegant, comforted, earthy, wiser, and stronger. If you need a touch of sophistication in a room, brown may be just what you need.