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How Color Feels in the Home
It helps to choose the colors you plan to live with in your home with awareness of how different colors affect your emotional and physical states. Every color has a unique vibration all of its own, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room.
Using this simple chart, you can choose a room’s color to be in balance and harmony with the role you want a room to have in your and your family’s life.
Red: A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help passion, be powerful and stimulating. A red room can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious. Pink is less demanding. Choosing a red bedroom would not be restful, although some red can be used to enhance sensuality. A red exercise room would be energizing! In Feng Shui red means luck.
Orange: Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer.
Yellow: Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear headed articulate thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing, so one needs to choose its placement with care. A yellow office might be intellectually beneficial, but not allow restful downtime, for example, so one might want to choose to include yellow accents instead of painting each wall yellow.
Green: Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony, healing, and rejuvenation to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment.
Blue: Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to soothe one to sleep.
Purple/Indigo: Purple is very comforting, protective, spiritual, and calming. It is a rich color which inspires faith, intuition and trust. Entire rooms painted purple could be overpowering, but a light violet could provide a very healing and calming atmosphere.
White: White rooms work anywhere combined with accent colors. White is very purifying, uplifting and cleansing, although too much white can reflect a sterile, isolating quality. White ceilings are recommended because they reflect light and brighten any room.
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add your comment »Ellen W:
any colour YOU would love to look at for three seasons. ;)
Then again, warm (sunny golden) yellow is always a good choice. (Just make sure you don't mistake it for lemony yellow or any pale nance, unless you really love them). Cool tones can be very depressing, especially in winter.
A rich (not pale) green is also a good choice.
Or just cover it with wood panels, if you'd like a warm & natural look.
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Janet Diehl: you're right!
I love the way you think. :)
My personal philosophy is that life - and that most certainly includes home decor AND dressing style - should be FUN, first and foremost!
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In a few years I am making plans to have my own house built. Now I have all the colors figured out for all the rooms except for the porch. So what color is good for a 3 season porch.
Ellen
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to Moderator: I do not understand your P.S.-Post Script. What I wrote was from my own experience of moving over and over and over - living in apartment. I like colored ceilings, and I'm weary of experts saying they should be white or beige!
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As a Feng Shui consultant I have very much enjoyed reading this article on colour and also the responses that it has inspired. In the Feng Shui I practise we do see that colours affect people in different ways. Everyone is different and so we all have different energies. So whilst some people would respond well to being around stimulating brightly coloured walls, others may find it disruptive and require softer pasted colours in their interiors.
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What I have noticed in our local nursing homes and hospitals is that every patient's room is a dull 1970's metal file cabinet beige or grey. My God, I'd hate to be stuck in a hospital for any length of time!
Color makes a World of difference in a person's health. I am convinced the lack of color during harsh Winters- as well as lack of sunlight is the reason most of us get sick from a lowered immune system. I feel color and light are some of the main factors in a healthy immune system and and I would like to see the medical establishment start waking up and using more healing colors in nursing homes and hospital rooms.
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Fooy on white ceilings. If you have a lower than average ceiling - paint it the same or a lighter version of the wall color. It you have taller than average, even 9 feet - paint the ceiling a color of it's own. White walls with a sky blue ceiling for a dining room is stunning; reverse the colors in the living room. A small bath room painted light yellow will glow with sunshine. A little bedroom with slanted ceiling all papered with the same small print on pink becomes a jewel box. Take a look at the houses of history; they have interesting ceiling! Why do we treat ceiling as if they weren't worthiy of color? It's the first thing your apt to look at when your wake up in the morning. Paint, paper, add tim or molding or beams to your ceilings. Let your personality surround you. Hang a painted branch from your ceiling, then hang all those do-dads and jewely people give you that you don't wear & don't know what to do with them. Be creative; bane plain white or beige ceilings!
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I find your suggestions spot-on. Now if only we could get the corporate world to listen...
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HUH?
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The meanings were always there, they just needed someone to put it together. Thank you!
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