Colouring Your Home

COLOURING Your Home Where Best to Use & the Emotions they Invoke EMOTIONS Power (Use in Moderation) Trophy Room/Den Living Room Command & Dominance (Too assertive for use in most homes) Thoughtfulness TT Accent Colour Friendly (Are the best reds for home interiors) Bathroom Accent Colours Creative Potential Quietude Kitchen Power (Avoid using on more than one wall) High Energy (Use in Moderation) Accent Colour High Energy Intuition (Avoid Large Areas) Dining Room Sooth Accent Colour Restraint (Use in Moderation) Bedroom Gastric Connotations Accent Colour Maturity Female Bedroom Home Office/ Creative Spaces Confidence Stability Invoking Fertility & Pride Status & Prestige Coolness Accent Colour Spiritual Harmony Billiard Room Grandeur Accent Colours Purification Sensuous Femininity Dressing rooms/ Closets Accent Colour Nostalgia Ceilings Spanning the entire colour spectrum, but tending toward grey and white, near-neutrals are associated with harmony, Accent Colour Small Spaces reticence, and formality. Accent Colour Views of foliage and green landscapes have been shown to reduce symptoms of ADD in children. Rooms lit with blue spectrum light (found in both sunlight and blue LEDS) promote alertness. White evokes sanitation and cleanliness WARM VS. COOL So far as colours are concerned, 'atmosphere' depends upon a calculated balance between hot and cold tones. - Jean Baudrillard Physiological Reaction Reduced heart rate Lowered blood pressure Increased heart rate Slowed Respiration • Increased blood pressure Dilated blood vessels Heavier respiration - Constricted pupils SATURATED VS. UNSATURATED + STIMULATES: RESTRAINS & INCREASES: INTELLECT RELAXATION & DEFERENTIAL BEHAVIOR SENSUALITY FRIENDLINESS & WARMTH VERBAL WIT & CRITICAL ANALYSIS CONFIDENCE IDEALISM INTROVERSION www.psych.rochester.edu | www.interiorimagesinc.com webpages.marshall.edu www.ajbasweb.com | www.scientificamerican.com | www.coloracademy.co.uk SOURCES: DESIGN55