Fluttering your eyes open to grey-coloured walls, with the sun’s radiance searing through the silver curtains, inevitably casting a soft glow on the walls which then bounces off to create a shiny glimmer on the cream and black coloured duvet, is quite the sight to behold.
When a house is not just a house, but a home, color choices for the walls and furniture, is something worthy of great attention and detailing. The ambience of a room subtly affects countenance, dark-themed rooms unconsciously create gloomy atmospheres, dull-themed rooms create drowsy and passive countenance, while bright and vibrantly themed rooms create an active and happy atmosphere.
Choosing the colour theme for a house goes beyond the wall colour, it canvases the curtains, the bedpost, the door, the designs for bed covers, the chairs, the cabinet, the dressers, the drawers, the closet doors, the mirror frame, the kitchen tables, the dining table, the hanging furniture, fixed appliances and basically everything added to the house, a disarray of colors would most likely give the place a scattered and disordered feel even when void of items.
In most colour combinations for homes, having the colour of the curtains matching the bed stand, and the furniture and bed covers or duvet a matching shade with the walls gives a certain uniformity, that easily gives comfort.
It’s been scientifically proven that the colors sensed by the eyes relay a certain response to the brain, for instance, red colours automatically signals danger, black colour automatically signals moody or gloomy, bright colours like yellow give warmth signals, blue and green give calming signals and blue is mostly preferred, dark blue is usually associated with night, giving off a passive response, red and orange are related with arousing, curtains that let the sunlight stream through most often than not affect morning rise and mood, pink unconsciously streams love and having a shade of pink on the walls of your home never goes wrong, yellow is associated with exuberance and energy and walking into such rooms unconsciously make your mood lighter and helps appreciate beauty.
Be it consciously or not, colour has a rather great effect on how the brain relates with our surroundings and the influence which colours have on the brain has a great effect on one’s perception and reactions, this is mostly because it is intertwined with our anxiety, heart rate, arousal, biological clock and general physiology.
Colour choices for homes would preferably give a calming and welcoming effect, alongside a homely and vibrant aura. After a long day with all the stress you put up with and your eyes already adapting to the particular colour pattern in the office and on the surrounding environment along the drive leading home, a contrasting change in scene and colour pattern would be slightly uncomfortable. However, walking into a familiar room of soft-coloured walls would be very quick to ease into an acclamatory. Coming home to an off-white painted room with silver and grey curtains, and a dark blue milky-way designed duvet sprawled out on a cosy king-sized mattress with a black bed and matching furniture definitely sets the welcome home feeling making you oddly at ease and immediately ready to end the day.
Colors are important or so we say. Do you agree? Let us know in the comments.
