Imagine life without color: you wouldn’t know night from day, stop from go, dead from alive. These and much more are the significance and relevance of color in our lives. In the same way, people react to colors. They are moved by it, and respond to it according to what emotions a particular color may evoke in the seer.
Color gives a room personality. It give furniture life and creates an atmosphere and character that you may desire to have for a particular area of your home. Color creates visual illusion. Color can create the illusion of having more space than reality allows. Brighter space. Cozier space. Narrower space. etc etc.
A good designer or housewife know their colors when it comes to decorating and home furnishing. If either would like to improve their home, they mustn’t be afraid of using a bit of color. They must understand that in decorating a room or picking out other items of home decor, color is extremely significant.
But, there are some basic principles that must be remembered with working with colors. When you are working with colors in home decorating, there are two basic types–warm and cool colors or tones.
What are the warm colors and cool colors and how do furniture in their tones affect the entire look of the room? Warm colors are based on yellows and yellowish colors, oranges, browns, greens that include veridian green and olive greens, burgundy red, red orange tones, dark browns, reddish copper and such colors. On the other hand, cool colors are based on blue, pink, purples, and light yellows, turquoise, cyan, light greens and such colors. Warm and cool tones or colors create different moods in a room. Warm tones create a severe, and heavy look. Warm colors also make the room smaller. However, designers love to use this color especially in decorating and selecting furniture for a library, a study, or a home office, and rooms of houses in areas with winter season because it creates a cozy atmosphere and usually compliments the warm color glow of fireplaces and hearths. They create an atmosphere conducive to thinking.
Cool colors or cool tones, on the other hand, are best to use in decorating rooms for the young. Cool colors create a light, breezy atmosphere. These colors also make the room seem a bit larger than it is and less severe. Light-hearted and carefree. These cool colors are good conductors or light.
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