Color as the Great Atmosphere and Mood Creator in Home Decorating

Let’s explore Colors and their effects on atmosphere and mood and their best uses in Home Decorating …

The Blue Color Range

Illusion Qualities –
• Cool colors recede, so they make a room look larger

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• It’s a popular bedroom color for its restful and rejuvenating influences
• Blue/turquoise is superb for focus and concentration, so it’s great for business working areas like the home office
• Good for rooms with southern exposures

Great Accent Colors -
• Yellow, orange, gold or terra cotta

The Green Color Range

Illusion Qualities –
• Cool colors recede – so they make a room look larger

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• Great for rooms where the focus is rest, relaxation and recreation like family rooms, sunrooms, also bedrooms
• Good for rooms with southern exposures

Great Accent Colors –
• Green works well with and complements most other colors – a genuine team player!
• Green teams up superbly with apricot, soft peach or terra cotta
• Soft greens mixed with natural colors create a relaxing and restful room
• Sage green is a hugely popular decorator color, around which many other colors complement and accompany in perfect harmony
• Team it with purple for a sumptuous mix – try apple green and blueberry purple, or teal green and deep lavender

The Yellow Color Range

Illusion qualities –
• Creamy yellows and warm golds make a room appear brighter and larger - creating a comfortable appearance to your room

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• One of the most popular colors for kitchens and family rooms – fantastic, glowing and uplifting!
• A beautiful light and pale buttermilk yellow will simply make your room glow!
• Good for northern aspect and exposures. Keep it light and don't over do it!

Great Accent Colors –
• Bright yellow goes well with blues – awesome in fact!
• Warmer tints go great with the red family
• Great accent colors ‘combo’ – yellow with reds and a touch of Black

The Red/Orange Color Range

Illusion Qualities -
• Warm colors advance and come toward you – so they make your room feel cozier and smaller

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• Great for making a grand statement with on a feature wall
• Good for rooms with northern exposures

Great Accent Colors –
• Contrasting green
• Black
• Yellow or Gold

The White/Off-White/Cream Color Range

Illusion Qualities –
• White will always make a room appear larger
• White is a good color for making dark hallways or confined or small spaces appear brighter looking and larger

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• Be careful with using a stark white as it may give your room the antiseptic feel of a hospital - consider off-white instead
• Consider using soft tint colors on walls and moldings that will make the room more appealing and inviting
• White on features like cornices, door-frames, skirting boards and picture rails throughout your house will really tie your home together with a fabulous integrating theme, no matter what other colors you have in your rooms

The Purple/Violet Color Range

Illusion Qualities –
• Gives a room depth, uniting the contrasting qualities or blue and red

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• A stunning feature wall
• Paler purple or lavender are great for bedrooms

Great Accent Colors –
• Apple green, teal green/blue
• Apricot
• Yellow

The Brown Color Range

Illusion Qualities –
• Gives a room depth and stability

Best Uses in Home Decorating –
• If you’re wanting to achieve a Rich and Traditional look
• Try a mocca or coffee pale brown – it’s exquisite!

Great Accent Colors –
• Burnt or burnished orange, terracotta
• Apple green
• Warm Yellow or Gold



While not color ranges in themselves, these 2 colors must be included here –

Gold

Black