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How to choose appropriate color?

May 20th, 2009

Color design is very important, especially if you have decided to choose it on your own.
1. It is desirable to learn more about coloristic.
Unfortunately combination of colors can be unpredictable- sometimes you can get nice grouping, but sometimes it can be terrible.
2. Except a color difference in the different areas it is also necessary to consider, that it will look different at illumination.
Here it is necessary to consider many factors - the sun, lamps, and shades.
3. Color of furniture should be considered. Including a way of coloring - in one case it can be monophonic wall it is possible to color a bottom one color, top - in another.
4. What about floor?
It is not a secret that floors can be made of different materials - parquet, laminate, linoleum…It is clear that it is simply unreasonable to arrange magnificent interior with linoleum floors. So, if you want some luxury, then you should choose parquet floor.
5. Rooms - bedroom, sitting room, kitchen…
It is desirable to choose calming pastel colors for bedroom.
Sitting room - is your visiting card, so it should impress your guests. Color can be different - it depends on your taste.
6. If you donтАЩt have furniture…
If you still do not have furniture, you can create general image of your home and try to combine colors. in this case, design ideas are recommended.

Dark blue color in interior

May 12th, 2009

From all colors dark blue is more often connected with concept of beauty. Since the most ancient times it is popular all over the world. Dark blue - is the color of eternity, connecting the present with the past and the future. Magicians and wizards used to dress dark blue color. In the middle ages people in blue, knew true. In Ancient Egypt pyramid from within was colored in dark blue color. The Buddha and Krishna are also of dark blue color. In myths dark blue color is a divine color; it is a color of mysteriousness and value.

From the psychological point of view, dark blue color associates calmness and peace.
Dark blue - is the most popular color of “cold” scale. Its expressive possibilities are really inexhaustible. It, as a rule, associates with the sky and the sea; it possesses ability to transfer both lightness of clouds, and calmness of the cloudless sky, and a deep gloom of night. Color of the sea depends on the sky, depth, time of day, weather conditions and even features of a sea-bottom: it fluctuates from dark blue-violet shades to pale aquamarine.
Two shades of dark blue are considered as cores. Light blue (blue) - color of the sky, refreshing cool, height, freedom, peace. It is color of carelessness, pensiveness and romanticism, it calms, radiates reliability, but thus, looking at it, it is impossible to concentrate. It is color of “quiet emotionality”; it gives the chance to be outside the limits of a society, it expands space.

Dark blue (indigo) possesses the properties similar with blue, but as its intensity is high its influence on the person is much stronger. It is a symbol of consciousness, depth, and internal source of life. This color is very much appreciated by Japanese and Chineses. But tending black, it gets a grief shade, leads to depression, and causes oppressing action, anxiety, excessive gravity, grief, grief.
Dark blue color is strict and mysterious; its presence in interior always gives refinement and nobleness to a room. But because of coldness its use in an inhabited interior is very uneasy problem. In excessive quantity it can even lead to depression. Therefore skilled designers counterbalance its warm tones: red gives interior expressiveness, yellow - freshness, and peach - luxury and elegance. Mixing it with yellow, we receive green shades, and with red - violet.
Orange - is a complementary color to dark blue. It is organically combined with white and dark brown. If it is the deep dark blue it is necessary to combine it with the same deep shades of red, brown, green and white.

Thanks to the calming influence dark blue color is often used in bedrooms interior- the most silent part of the house. After all images, which are matched by dark blue color - late night, silence, darkness, a fairy tale…
It approaches as primary color for sitting rooms, where it can vary in various shades: from dark blue in a carpet covering to dim blue in drawing of wall-paper. “Blue sitting room” calms and weakens after the working day. If with a bedroom and a bathroom all is clear and unequivocal, in dining room prevalence of dark blue color is not always good.
Physiologists prove that dark blue color reduces appetite, so if you are wishing to grow thing, you can use this color in your kitchens interior.
If the hall premise is small or narrow, there is a reason to paint it completely in purely blue color. It will give to space of a hall lightness and unusual cleanliness.
Blue color is recommended for office interior as it will help to settle down conflict situations.

Multi-colored walls

January 30th, 2009

You can always make a choice and you can always bring something new to your life. If you want to make your room look different, we recommend you to bring some changes.
If windows of room face the west and there is enough daylight in the room, it is possible to divide it visually on two parts, having colored walls of the room in different colors. For example, that, the wall, which is opposite to a window and one of adjoining can be colored in dark quiet tone, and that one, close to the window, - in more light color.
Two zones - light and dark, quieter and active will turn out as though. And due to magic of color more dark corner is as though removed, and light extends. Therefore the room visually looks larger.
In order to increase space more light ceiling of the same color, as a wall (for example, beige or yellow) will help.
How to choose appropriate color?
- Red - is exciting color, it is full of energy. But thus it causes subconscious feeling of alarm because it is often interfaced to interdictions and dangers. Especially it is not necessary to take a great interest in red color, if you are quick-tempered person. It is undesirable for children’s room.
- Yellow - is solar and warm color, it cheers up. It is considered, that it makes active intelligence, helps dialogue, therefore perfectly approaches for registration of an educational zone. It is color of the counterbalanced people.
- Orange color stimulates appetite; it perfectly approaches for creativity and causes inflow of inspiration.
- Green is the quietest color, it is a color of the nature, and therefore it installs feeling of balance and sensation of stability.
- Dark blue color is cool, but it is also quiet color, which associates with the sea. It also well promotes rest, removal of a pressure, imagination.
- Violet color helps to dream, it is often chosen by people, who love history, know about many generations of the ancestors.
- White is a neutral color. In a white interior it is easy “to play” color details, which it favorably emphasizes.

Dressing by color

January 13th, 2009

From all possible ways of dressing color - is the most dynamical, the fastest and impressing one. All without exception, professional designers like to experiment with various combinations of colors in interior.
It is important to understand, how colors are combined. For achievement of the effect conceived by you three basic schemes can be used: monochrome, one-voice-frequency and contrast.
The monochrome scheme uses shades only of one color. It can be any color, and for revival variations of one shade of different saturations and a tonality are used. Monochrome schemes assume unity, harmony, open space and continuity. Effect is always calming. However be cautious, so that the room did not become boring and monotonous. It can be wall-papers under painting with a convex relief or decorative plaster.
The one-voice-frequency scheme combines close on a spectrum colors, and the nearest shades of the next, “related” color. For example, if the basic tone is dark blue, your scheme can include blue-green, blue-violet and red-violet shades. But it is possible to make the scheme more interesting, having added shades of different saturation and brightness. One-voice-frequency schemes will give more energy and will stimulate your activity.
The contrast scheme - is the most courageous and strong one. And, as the eclecticism is in fashion now, it combines contrast or opposite colors, such as yellow and dark blue or red and green.
But do not forget, that contrast colors on a background each other seem more brightly, therefore use the given scheme more cautiously, include colors of different brightness and saturation. The supplementing scheme is ideal for rooms, where there is a vigorous activity, for example, for kitchen or sitting room.

Orange mood in your interior

October 29th, 2008

Orange is a color of a youth and optimism. You can use it for interior creation, and you will always have the sensation of pleasure and a holiday in your house.
Orange color causes sensation of heat and feeling of pleasure. Not without reason in the nature this color is the original indicator of maturing of fruits.This color causes increase of palpitation and always draws the attention. Citrus and spices are the basic associations, connected with orange color.┬а In small amounts orange color awakes fun, pleasure, thoughts about summer and the bright sun. Surplus of the orange can seem impudent, vulgar or cheap. By the way, the pure orange associates with availability, for this reason marketing experts use it in advertising and in price lists, designating sales and special offers.
Correct shade
If it would be desirable to paint the big surfaces by orange color, it is better to prefer its moderate shades. For example, peach color. This shade is good for a bedroom. In consciousness of people it usually communicates with freshness and health. Darker shades of orange, such as ╨╛╤Е╤А╨░, terracotta and saffron are perceived as natural colors and are usually associated with the southern countries and exotic culture. These colors are better for using for a drawing room. Especially effectively they will look in interior, for which ethnic style is characteristic. Soft, but the sated color of tangerines will suit for children’s room or kitchen. For bathroom it is better to prefer more pink shades of orange - coral or salmon. In combination with turquoise these shades will create atmosphere of sea resort in a bathroom.

Dressing by color

January 3rd, 2008

From all possible ways of dressing color - is the most dynamical, the fastest and impressing one. All without exception, professional designers like to experiment with various combinations of colors in interior.
It is important to understand, how colors are combined. For achievement of the effect conceived by you three basic schemes can be used: monochrome, one-voice-frequency and contrast.
The monochrome scheme uses shades only of one color. It can be any color, and for revival variations of one shade of different saturations and a tonality are used. Monochrome schemes assume unity, harmony, open space and continuity. Effect is always calming. However be cautious, so that the room did not become boring and monotonous. It can be wall-papers under painting with a convex relief or decorative plaster.
The one-voice-frequency scheme combines close on a spectrum colors, and the nearest shades of the next, “related” color. For example, if the basic tone is dark blue, your scheme can include blue-green, blue-violet and red-violet shades. But it is possible to make the scheme more interesting, having added shades of different saturation and brightness. One-voice-frequency schemes will give more energy and will stimulate your activity.
The contrast scheme - is the most courageous and strong one. And, as the eclecticism is in fashion now, it combines contrast or opposite colors, such as yellow and dark blue or red and green.
But do not forget, that contrast colors on a background each other seem more brightly, therefore use the given scheme more cautiously, include colors of different brightness and saturation. The supplementing scheme is ideal for rooms, where there is a vigorous activity, for example, for kitchen or sitting room.

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