Choosing the color of your paint.

FreshAce · 10-27-2004, 07:48 PM

Using this simple chart, you can choose a room's color to be in balance and harmony with the role you want a room to have in your and your family's life.

Red: A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help passion, be powerful and stimulating. A red room can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious. Pink is less demanding. Choosing a red bedroom would not be restful, although some red can be used to enhance sensuality. A red exercise room would be energizing! In Feng Shui red means luck.

Orange: Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer.

Yellow: Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear headed articulate thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing, so one needs to choose its placement with care. A yellow office might be intellectually beneficial, but not allow restful downtime, for example, so one might want to choose to include yellow accents instead of painting each wall yellow.

Green: Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony, healing, and rejuvenation to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment.

Blue: Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to soothe one to sleep.

Purple/Indigo: Purple is very comforting, protective, spiritual, and calming. It is a rich color which inspires faith, intuition and trust. Entire rooms painted purple could be overpowering, but a light violet could provide a very healing and calming atmosphere.

White: White rooms work anywhere combined with accent colors. White is very purifying, uplifting and cleansing, although too much white can reflect a sterile, isolating quality. White ceilings are recommended because they reflect light and brighten any room.

TheLoveTurtle · 10-27-2004, 09:19 PM

I find it best to see what color suits the room!

FallenAngel · 10-28-2004, 12:50 AM

Also a tip on choosing the right paints for different rooms that can be seen from other rooms, as in an open floor plan: Make sure to choose several diferent colors that will be used throughout the room, not necessarily the paint itself. Depending on how many rooms that connect that you want to paint, use colors taken from other rooms that can be seen as use this as a wall color in one of the rooms. This will give an even flow from room to room, be pleasing to the eye and make it easier to move different pieces of furniture or knick-knacks from room to room and they still coordinate. It also give it a nice, put-together homey feel.

10-27-2004, 07:48 PM	#1
FreshAce Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 16	Choosing the color of your paint. Using this simple chart, you can choose a room's color to be in balance and harmony with the role you want a room to have in your and your family's life. Red: A room that is painted red will energize, inspire activity and movement, help passion, be powerful and stimulating. A red room can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious. Pink is less demanding. Choosing a red bedroom would not be restful, although some red can be used to enhance sensuality. A red exercise room would be energizing! In Feng Shui red means luck. Orange: Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful, social gatherings. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer. Yellow: Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear headed articulate thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing, so one needs to choose its placement with care. A yellow office might be intellectually beneficial, but not allow restful downtime, for example, so one might want to choose to include yellow accents instead of painting each wall yellow. Green: Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony, healing, and rejuvenation to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment. Blue: Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to soothe one to sleep. Purple/Indigo: Purple is very comforting, protective, spiritual, and calming. It is a rich color which inspires faith, intuition and trust. Entire rooms painted purple could be overpowering, but a light violet could provide a very healing and calming atmosphere. White: White rooms work anywhere combined with accent colors. White is very purifying, uplifting and cleansing, although too much white can reflect a sterile, isolating quality. White ceilings are recommended because they reflect light and brighten any room.

10-27-2004, 09:19 PM	#2
TheLoveTurtle Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9	&The Temple OF The Screaming Electron I find it best to see what color suits the room!

10-28-2004, 12:50 AM	#3
FallenAngel Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 4	Also a tip on choosing the right paints for different rooms that can be seen from other rooms, as in an open floor plan: Make sure to choose several diferent colors that will be used throughout the room, not necessarily the paint itself. Depending on how many rooms that connect that you want to paint, use colors taken from other rooms that can be seen as use this as a wall color in one of the rooms. This will give an even flow from room to room, be pleasing to the eye and make it easier to move different pieces of furniture or knick-knacks from room to room and they still coordinate. It also give it a nice, put-together homey feel.


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