Decorating with Color
For thousands of years, colors have been used to solicit emotional responses from both humans and animals. When you’re getting ready to decorate your new apartment, think about the moods that you want to convey in each room. Read below to find out what each color can do for a person emotionally and sometimes physically. Perhaps you’ll discover why red is your favorite color too!
The color RED is the warmest of all colors; it’s associated with heat, love and comfort, it symbolizes action, confidence, passion, courage, life, survival, passion, lust and vitality. Red can also be an intense color that creates feelings of excitement, intensity, danger or even anger. If you like red, you’re probably an extrovert. Using red in the home can increase your enthusiasm, interest and energy. It can subconsciously create confidence and help you get over fear and anxiety.
The color ORANGE is a power color. It’s not a good color to use in a kitchen if you’re on a diet as it is said that it increases the craving for food. Orange symbolizes enthusiasm, creativity, warmth, play, endurance and vitality. If your favorite color is orange, you’re probably a curious person who loves to explore new things. People who like the color orange are most often caring and honest. Orange is a dynamic color and can be used in a similar manner, for similar purposes as red, yet it is not as harsh. Orange can be used in a room to increase creativity, provide levity and create action.
YELLOW is a color that is great for kitchens as one of the properties of the color is to increase metabolism. Yellow symbolizes happiness, joy, wisdom, intellectual energy and it brings clarity and awareness into a room. It is cheery and warm, but be careful of the shade that you use when decorating with it. Since yellow reflects a high amount of light, it is the color that is most fatiguing to the eye. Bright or mustard shades of yellow can also generate feelings of frustration and anger. It has been noted that babies tend to cry more and people are more likely to lose their tempers in yellow rooms. In a room, yellow can help sharpen memory and concentration skills, help make better decisions, cheer you up, provide relief from tiredness, panic or exhaustion and help with creative projects.
If you’re a big nature buff, go GREEN. It symbolizes nature, self-respect, life, tranquility, good luck, fertility, health, learning, growth, transformation, money, harmony, well-being and, on the negative side, jealousy. Green can be used in decorating to create balance in a room. Green can help improve reading ability, relieve stress and help in the healing process, both emotionally and physically. In a room, green can be calming, help provide the impetus for change or growth and help protect against fear and anxiety.
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