Guide to Interior Design Colour Schemes For Your Home
Colours can transform any space, turning a plain room into something strikingly beautiful and making you feel happy in the space you’ve created.
But choosing the right colours can be tricky, especially if your goal is to create a home that reflects your unique personality.
Let us share with you our top tips for choosing interior colour schemes that you’ll love and perfectly reflect the inner you.
Understanding Colour Psychology
Colour is an integral part of our human experience. It constantly surrounds us in nature, art, fashion, and life. Colour evokes moods, atmospheres, and environments, and it can be used as a tool for self-expression or as a mood booster.
All of this makes colour preference an incredibly personal thing. The way we interact with each colour depends on our culture, gender, the environments we live in and even our visual capabilities. Yet, we all share universal colour connections found in nature, like the happiness of sunny yellow, the freshness of green grass, and the calmness of a blue sky. Some shades are steeped in cultural significance, whether we like it or not: the pure white wedding dress, ‘pink for girls’, and ‘lucky’ clover green.
Understanding colour psychology is the key to creating a meaningful interior colour scheme, as the theory explores the influence of colour on our emotions, moods and even on our behaviours. Knowing this, you can strategically select colours that bring feelings of comfort, tranquillity, creativity or energy, aligning your living spaces with the intended emotions.
Warm and bright colours, such as vibrant reds or lively yellows, can stimulate activity and creativity, making them ideal for spaces where energy and inspiration are desired. Cool colours, like blues and greens, can be used to promote a calming and tranquil effect.
If you’re struggling to choose the right colour for rooms in your home, learn from celebrated interior designer Lola Swift about the psychology of colour.
Discover what each colour brings to a room, where it is best used, and its pairings.
In this guide, you’ll learn the impact of choosing colour in your home covering:
The positive and negative associations with colour
Which colours work best in rooms
How colours pair together
Cultural influences of colour
Finding Your Dream Colours
For some, playing with colour is intuitive and enjoyable. For others, it’s a daunting task; the infinite colour combinations seem overwhelming.
Ultimately, colour is an incredibly personal thing, so it comes down to finding colours that you love, despite the latest trends or the opinions of others!
Have a think about the colours that make you feel good and the tones of those colours. Do you sit happier in a place with soft, relaxing or dark, dramatic tones?
What psychological effect do these colours have on you? Does this match the feeling that you want to have in this room?
Don’t be afraid to love the colours you love. Learning to trust your gut instinct on colour is how you end up with a happier home!
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