How to Effectively Use Color in Your Home

The use of color in your home can be fun and exciting.

Warm colors are known to excite; cools colors to calm. The following is a list described to colors.

• Red: (think passion) stimulates, arouses, heightens awareness.
• Blue: (think water; the ocean) relaxes, calms, transfixes.
• Yellow: (think sun) recharges, energizes, revitalizes.
• Green: (Blue/Yellow) stabilizes balances.
• Orange: (Red/Green) cheers, orders.
• Purple: (Blue/Red) protects comforts.

Warm colors work well in areas where you wish to stimulate conversation and promote interaction. Think lively yellow in the kitchen; demure red in the living room; terra cotta orange in the den. These are rooms where family and friends congregate and interaction is expected.

By contrast, you want to put cool colors in areas where you relax: lavender bathroom; ocean-blue bedroom; forest green study.

Now that you know more about which colors evoke what moods, it should be easier to begin selecting colors that not only fit your design palette, but your emotional palette as well.