We’ve all experienced that moment walking into a home and being instantly swept away, transported to another time and place. The colors of the walls, the fabrics, the shapes of the furniture inform our emotions and make us feel in a specific way. Those experiences leave us wondering what exactly about that space had such a profound effect on our emotional state, perhaps the blending of all the design details, which fused together, brought us into a new state of being.
Color Theory
Interior designers and artists around the world have long asserted that color influences human mood and emotion. Careful consideration of color within a space can have a profound effect on the psychological fortunes of the inhabitant. From anxiety to depression, calmness to concentration, the color palette can have a substantial impact on real human emotions. That’s why carefully choosing the often overlooked wall paint, furniture and art can literally change one’s life. By not giving importance to the issue, many people end up neglecting certain rooms of the house simply because of a bad color choice. That’s why we’re here to help you make your color decisions and, hopefully, get every room in the house used and loved by everyone.
Warm or Cool
Warm tones include colors under the red category, such as red, orange, yellow, and whites. These colors can make us feel a number of different emotions. Take the color red for example, which is considered the most extreme color of all. Red can make us feel many different emotions, all of which are intense and moving. Anger, love, excitement, passion, power, and control are all possible emotional byproducts of red, depending on the hue, context, and our associative processing. But other colors in the warm category, such as orange and yellow, can influence us to feel comfort, love, safety, happiness, excitement and motivation.By examining colors in the cool spectrum, such as blue, purple, green and white, we can often experience a different side of emotions. In fact, these cooler colors help improve concentration and focus, while remaining calm and relaxed, and are therefore very suitable for those areas of the home used to engage in work, study or any activity that requires concentration and calm.
