What Do Your Home Decorating Color Choices Say About You?

If you're drawn to particular colors, or color combinations in home decorating, this is what it says about your personality tendencies and preferences.

The Blue Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style - The Blue Color range is refreshing and invigorating and your color preference reflects that you look for your home to be your ‘Haven’, your escape, a totally replenishing retreat.

You’re a seeker of balance between your highly valued personal life and your busy working or business life and you reflect this in the way you feel about the ‘sacredness’ of your home.

Your home decorating choices are made with care and respect for this ideal. You surround yourself with the things you really love and nurture you, including symbols like water features, wind chimes and other calming, soothing influences.

The Green Color Range

You’re gifted in understanding people's motivation, and have an unusual ability to influence and draw out the best in people ...

Your Home Decorating Style - If you’re drawn to the vibrant and alive Green Color range – you have clear purpose, confidence and daring, you aren't afraid of change and want your home to reflect your colorful personality.

You recognize and appreciate the nurturing and healing quality of green and you’re highly aware of how the color makes you feel. It’s a very personal statement for you. You use it liberally in your home decorating and weave it through your home. Your very fond of the color in your clothing also.

The Yellow Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style - You love to surround yourself and incorporate into your home the yellow color range with all its elements of optimism, energy, friendliness and ease. You prefer furnishings that are casual and comfortable and easy to live in - ones that you can easily curl up in and get really cozy.

The Red/Orange Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style – You love to make a grand statement. You’re individualistic and like to surround yourself with dramatic colors and home accents and accessories. You’re not afraid to experiment with more outlandish combinations.

You’re house proud and love home decorating to be like a performance that makes your home ‘theatre’ - to entertain and be appreciated. You love to decorate your home with great and dramatic ‘talking pieces’ that are outstanding, quizzical, quirky, amusing and grab everyone’s attention.

The White/Off White/Cream Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style - You’re confident and comfortable with elegant, understated surroundings, with simple, uncluttered lines. You like to experiment against a clean and neutral background. You prefer to choose and work with a pale wall color as your blank canvas against which you creatively add further colors with accents and accessories.

You enjoy versatility and change and often transform or add variety to your accent and accessories colors to achieve a new, fresh and different look. You love displaying your belongings lovingly and prominently with flair in your home decorating.

Expanses of too strong or bold colors make you feel hemmed in, constrained and claustrophobic. You prefer the light and bright airiness of an open and expansive feeling.

The Purple/Violet Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style - Purple or Violet is a mixture of Blue and Red and therefore unites or blends the gentle calming effects of blue with the impulsiveness and activity of red.

You love contrasts while at the same time seek a balance and this reflects your sometimes complex character. You will tend toward having some dramatic bold statements in your decorating style, contrasted with calmer tones – reflecting the balance that you desire between contrasting polarities.

The Brown Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style – Brown is a mixture of Red-Orange and Black that combines the activeness of red with the strength, solidity and balance of black. You love a home decorating style that achieves a Rich, Traditional and Luxurious feel.

There’s also an earthiness appreciation in your style – colors and textures representative of nature. You most likely love the physical sensations of a variety of textures and incorporate them prominently in your home decorating.

Other Color Variations and Groupings

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The Neutral Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style – This color palette is full of neutral colors like rich creams, buff, fawn, straw, camel, pale wood or blond wood. There can be a touch of the Brown Color Range in this so it injects earthiness and an appreciation of physical sensations in a variety of textures, for example.

If you’re attracted to these colors you appreciate a contemporary look and feel, with lots of texture, like coarse and chunky woven fabrics and raffia covered lamp shades, for example. Team or accent them with friendly, compatible ‘team player’ greens and you’ll create an environment that is both sophisticated and casual at the same time.

The Pastel Color Range

Your Home Decorating Style – You love soothing pretty pastels and their softness, gentleness and ultimate enduring beauty. You’re soothed, while at the same time energized and rejuvenated by surrounding yourself with them in your Home Decorating.

You love to mix and match compatible pastel colors that incorporate the muted, dreamy colors of sunny summer days. You appreciate the effect that sunlight has in bringing out the vividness of these colors.

Colors that are reminiscent of Impressionist Art - like Monet’s Garden at Giverney, fields of wild flowers that stretch to the horizon, or Renoir’s scenes of happy people at garden parties under the dappled light that streams in through the shade of tree branches above.

You love the beauty of the color range used in Victorian, Edwardian and other period homes, and in cozy cottage gardens with fragrant flowers and aromatic herbs.

The Classical Color Tones Range

Your Home Decorating Style – You feel confident with a mixture of the very classical Neutral and Brown Color Ranges, with the addition of Gold in your accents and accessories, trims, moldings, cornices, architraves, fine detailing, or other highlights. You love the luxurious and rich feel this gives to your surroundings.

You express your strength, power and authenticity with these classical tones. You appreciate time-tested tradition, good quality and prefer colors that evoke substance, stability, and a sense of history. Fads come and go and don’t interest you at all.

The Mixture or Montage of Colors Range

Your Home Decorating Style – You love to mix and match colors of rich and bold hues that are reminiscent of other cultures, exotic faraway locations, or other times. Bold blues, reds, greens, purples mixed with black and yellow.

Perhaps your home decorating reflects your travels. Think of Moroccan, African, Egyptian, Indian, Mexican, or Spanish influences … Lots of indigenous art and artifacts incorporated into your home decorating …


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