Archive for the ‘Color’ Category

Feng shui at the workplace

Saturday, March 10th, 2007

We spend about 1/3 of our livetime not only in bed but at our workplaces also. Therefore the better we manage the workplace, the better mood we have while our working time and the more results we obtain in the career. To improve these results an Ancient Chinese science “Feng Shui” can definitely help us.

One of the major ideas of Feng Shui is to pay more attention to your workplace decoration including its colors. According to Feng Shui each color is an expression of the certain kind of energy. Color is able not only to affect our mood, but also has an influence at our health. That’s why and type of modern fashionable white & black & grey offices are absolutely harmful for the health as they have only three colors. To say true - there have no one color! Grey color is a type of black color and black is not color and white color is not visible for your eyes. We see black when the surface reflects nothing and only absorbs light.

White is color indifferent one and therefore doesn’t have any energy. The same we can say about the influence of the variety of too bright tones. The motley color scale attracts attention only in the first moment and to stay in such interior is rather tediously. So the advice is to use more “gold” tones while your workplace decotation. They are light orange, yellow, beige, “coffee with milk” color, warm red tone and calming green color.

Vitamin interior

Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Spring has finally come! Spring is a time of a general avitaminosis when in a head there are so much light and fresh ideas, and you don’t have any forces for their realization. The matter is that the weariness and tiredness which have accumulated during the winter. Today we advise you to fill the house with vitamins, which will help to lift vitality.
Energy Of The Sun
Yellow color, almost as chocolate, speeds up work of a brain and helps to solve challenges without a special pressure. Unfortunately, cabinets often make out in dark, black or brown tones (for solidity), greater office premises are interpreted in cold and transparent white-blue colors. It is no wonder that the first one makes a psychological pressure on the person, and the second one does not allow to concentrate - useful ideas disappear through white-blue colors, as through air. So, yellow color should become the ally among the representatives of creative and intellectual trade. Not without reason even the bulb - an eternal symbol of the arisen idea - is also shone by fervent yellow color!
Designers, psychologists and dieticians unanimously recommend using this color for the kitchen’s interior. It stimulates healthy appetite and promotes a well-known warm and cozy atmosphere when the kitchen unites functions of rooms for negotiations, a hall for meetings, and a pantry for secrets.
And nevertheless, being an excellent medicine for melancholy and chronic weariness, yellow color is moderately good. It is not necessary to be surrounded with subjects of exclusively yellow color - it can become the reason of irritability and excessive excitability.
Emerald Effect
Similarly to yellow, green color has the most different shades - dark and light, warm and cold, that allows using it in an interior of any style. It is possible to not to be limited to wall-papers or textiles. Indoor plants, a picturesque kind on park in the open window - all these are the aspects of deep color of freshness and rest.
However, green can be not only gentle, sated, but it also can be poisonous. Therefore, working with this color, it is better to not overload mentality with excessively bright shades and persuasive patterns. Be not mistaken with pale-green color: at all universality and even some severity of this tone it is important that it did not remind all known “hospital” a shade.
Orange Fresh
Orange color is so bright, that sometimes it is compared on force of influence with white color. It seems to burn with its light and children’s spontaneity. Anywhere, where the orange colo is represented, it would be desirable to move and to operate.
There can be an impression, that orange color does not remain any place for other bright accents. And, certainly, it is complex to imagine monochrome design in orange tones. Actually,both contrasts  are possible. In fact this color, as well as other one, can be darker or lighter, more brightly or more easy. Such interior perfectly approaches for a nursery, sitting room and kitchen.
Tasty color combinations
We have considered three most energetically useful colors, and each of them is good. But we also can transform an interior into the whole multivitamin complex in which curative properties of all three shades would be combined.
Orange and green are derivatives yellow and consequently perfectly it supplement. Besides, they are well combined with each other, creating “fruit” mood in the house. It is no wonder, that such extremely appetizing combinations are often used for kitchens.
All three colors can create an interesting composition with various shades blue, dark blue both violet colors.

How choose an appropriate color for your room

Friday, January 19th, 2007

White interior

White color brings light and coolness. White color is perfectly combined with any color, it is universal, especially well it harmonies with a natural tree. The room issued mainly in light tones, causes more positive emotions. White color will be especially good for small rooms as it visually expands the space. White walls create effect of weightlessness and cleanliness.

Red interior

This bright color approaches for creation of accents, for example, in accessories. However it is not necessary to use red color in a plenty: the abundance of the red color can negatively affect mentality and create an oppressive atmosphere in a room.

Green interior

It is color of the nature, grasses, trees, and it brings you a feeling of confidence of and securities. However, surplus of green color “presses” and oppresses, it should not be too much in an interior. It can serve as a fine background or addition to furniture and accessories, to shade subjects of the room. Nevertheless, green color brings a life and air the house. And even if you don’t like it, do not forget about plants - even a few greens in a room are a piece of a pleasure and a good mood.

Dark blue interior

It is color of the coldness and calmness. It gives to a room the refinement and nobleness. However, the surplus of dark blue makes premises cold and even gloomy. Therefore it should be counterbalanced by means of warm tones.

Yellow interior

Yellow color is usually associated with heat and coziness. This color fills any interior with hospitality and cheerful mood. If you are not a big fan of the yellow color, but dream to recover and warm the house, it is possible to use only bright accents in different parts of the room. It is well combined with green and red colors.