Color in Interior Design

The psychology of color and how color affects human behavior is now a serious study. Classrooms, hospital rooms, restaurants, office rooms are painted in color to influence the behavior and mood of the people who use these rooms. Even companies package their products in special color to attract your attention and encourage you to buy. What about your home environments? Do you use colors?

Red is known to stimulate the appetite, and it’s a perfect color for dining rooms. While blue and green are the colors of nature and could be popular for bedrooms. Yellow and orange are energizing like the sun, it should be better in kitchen. Terracotta (brownish-red/orange) can be ideal in a home office, it has the energizing effect of both red and orange but isn’t so bright that you won’t be able to stay at your desk.

Strong colours are best confined to the rooms that have less usage such as. No one spends much time in these rooms, so you can afford to be bold. Just because these spaces may be small or narrow, don’t be afraid of using vivid color, maybe by painting the space dark burgundy or navy? A touch of aqua might be the finishing touch. Decide on your main color and then add carefully selected accents.

If you’re stuck for ideas when trying to decide what color scheme to choose for a room, look at the furniture and objects you want to use. Many interior designers build up complex color schemes from just one item.
Look around you and have fun with color!