FOR BRIGHT SUNNY ROOMS
There is nothing more depressing than living in a home whose colors do nothing to brighten nor lift the energy. Homes should be the place where one feels happy and comfortable. Color is one element in home designing that facilitate and boost vibrancy and vibration
Light plays an important part in the brightening because it works hand in hand with colour. A colour has no values ubles exposed to light natural or man made. Having the right colour scheme in your room gives a satisfying , relaxing and soothing effect.

Cool Colors> Green, blue, purple warm colours> Red, , yellow    orange
   
DO YOU WANT TO MAKE A SMALL ROOM LOOK LARGE?
Cool colors recede into the distance and will give a small room a larger look.
CAUTION: Never use cool colors in a dark room that faces the north! The sunlight will not penetrate the room and so the room will appear cold.Cool colors are good for warm, sunny room.
  
SUNLESS ROOM:
For rooms that do not get direct sunlight, its best to use warm colors. These will add life and brighten the room. To get a warm, cheerful look and feel, use tints of the warm colors such as pinks, salmons, peaches and soft yellows. These are versatile and good for the living room.
CAUTION: Red, orange and yellow are naturally strong colors and very dominant. To be effective, use as accent colors.
To get a harmonious look, use the opposite colors on the color wheel. This will give a blend of warm and cool colors for rooms that are not too sunny. Blend of how much warm and cool colors to use will depend on how much sunlight enters the room.
BRIGHTEN YOUR HOME SIMPLE BUT BEAUTIFUL

 On entering a living room, a living room, ‘invisible welcome sign,’ should be written in the air.
Simplicity and skillful arrangement of furniture and color in drapery and walls can influence your happiness and relieve stress after a hard day at work.
Furniture should not be randomly placed around the room as space holders. They should be carefully selected in relation to size, shape and color of other pieces of furniture in the room. Emphasis should be placed on activities that will take place in the room. EG., entertainment, resting, studying, praying.

HARMONY IN THE DÉCOR:
1. Very brightly colored pictures and other wall decorations will not be effective on a brightly colored wall.
2. A room with a dull wall/ background can be brightened when contrasted with colorful rugs, and draperies.
3. Use solid (plain) draperies with patterned walls.
4. Solid drapes can also be used with plain walls but you will need pictures or patterned furniture to make the room ‘lively’.
5. Large furniture should not be placed by the window as it will drown the natural light coming into the room. Large furniture should be placed parallel to the wall while smaller pieces be placed at different angles to create harmony. This will lead the eye around the room in a rhythmical pattern.

The theory of colour

  Effect of Colour on individuals
Colour has effect on the body and it reacts to colour every day even though many are unaware. Some colours tells you to relax while some say get up and go .People most times unconsciously react and obey them.
One example is the colours used in a fast food store are usually red and yellow they keep you going. Compare the inside of an airplane, blue green and cream makes you feel calm and safe.
Internationally in regardless to race, language culture, or intelligence people react the same to colours.
Colours are use in symbolism, and also used to tell emotion, You here statements as “cool as ice blue”, “warm as the sunshine,” “ I saw red”.
The colour we love can tell a number of important things about us, whether we are ,calm, aggressive, confident or timid, conservative or rebellious ,contented or ambitious.
However studies show that colour will not indicate your level of intelligence. It is said colour can even tell it one is at risk for a heart attack.

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What is colour
This is the result of the breaking down of white light into a single colour element by using a glass prism. These colour elements are red ,orange yellow ,green , blue indigo and violet
How colour is seen.
Colour is seen individually because it is absorbed or reflected by an object, A good example is if a piece of board is covered with green paint it will absorb all the rays of colour in white light except green. T his ray is bounce off or reflected off the board and green is seen.

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Who use colour.
Every one at sometime may say they have used colour, but there are individuals whose life work revolve around colours
1. The physicist deals with 3 primary colour which are red blue and green. These are the primary colours used in T.V. and photography they are not the same primary colours used by the artist.

2. The psychologist deals with human response to colour. Red is seen as stimulating while black is seen as depressing. Fashion designers and colour consultants stage designers who use lights
All tap into the reservoir of colour knowledge of these three classes of individuals

3. Artist deal with our response to colour too .They make use of this information in a different way. The artist could be compared to a chemist because they work with the mixing of colour pigment they deal with colour and not light. The artist primary colours used by artist are red, yellow and blue, and their secondary are orange , green and purple.

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How to use
If one is thinking of brighten the home using colour there are some things one must be aware
Complementary colour, contrasting colour, Harmonious colours, warm colour and colour intensity.
1. Complementary colours
What are they and how to use them. Each primary colour has a complementary colour. That means an object with a certain colour will go will with another of a particular colour.
Each primary colour has a complementary colour which is produced by mixing the other two primaries. So the complementary colour of blue is orange, a mixture of red and yellow. The complementary colour of red is green a mixture of yellow and blue. The complementary colour would therefore be purple a mixture of red and blue.

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Now that you have taken home brightening seriously and looking at using colours there are some basics to know about colour . If you have not been following this blog it would be good to go over the post on colour.
The post before explain what are complementary colours today we will look at what is referred to as
complimentary colours they may be contrasting or of another group called harmonious colours/

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What are contrasting colours.
The word contrast is used when describing the difference between two things –black and white, hot and cold, happy or sat are really direct opposites. Contrasting colour is there referring to colours directly opposite each other on the colour wheel. Contrasting colours are useful when doing interior decorating, if used in small quantities they bring life to a room.

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What are harmonious Colours
You learnt about complementary and contrasting colours in previous post .By now you would have gotten some colour paint and is mixing and also some swashes of fabric to better understand what you come across here . Today we will look at
1. What are harmonious Colours
Are clours any group of three or four colours which are next to each other they are also called by some as analogous colours.
They are near each other on the colour scheme and has one common colour running through each

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By now you know a little more than you did before so you can start choosing colours to decorate and brighten your home. I did say that colour show emotion and can affect your mood. Today we will quickly look at

Cool colours
These colours are associated with sea, water and, ice. They are, green, blue and purple and are used to create calm, cool atmospheres. a variety of blues can be used to achieved this. Cool colours recede into a distance so they will make as small room looks larger. They should never be used in a room facing north as they will make the room appear even colder. Mix them all and you get a great effect.

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    Warm colours

These are associated with hot, sunny day, and warm fire. Warm colours will brightening up a dull drab  room

Red, yellow and orange are very strong in their natural state. Because warm colours are very dominant and too much tends to irritate they should be used as accents. Tints of these colours are best used as they are more cheerful and softening. Some of the tints of these colours are soft yellow, pinks, peaches and salmon.

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How are you coming with your brightening home project? Now we are going a step further and will talk about

colour intensity

what it means and how this may be achieved. Any colour can be made more intense by placing it against a different background. Where a neutral grey is placed next to any other colour the grey veers towards the compliment of that colour. The edges of the light colour bleeds so that they appear to be larger .Darker tones appear to look smaller because of their shaped edges

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Colour you home brighten it to look how you want it to look .What you do not have naturally especially space then make create an illusion.
Colour illusion.
An illusion is to make something that is not seem to be. You can use colour to help do that.
Colour loses its intensity as it recedes into the atmosphere. The colour of grass is naturally green and if a grassy hill is in a distant it will look blue instead of green. Yellow in a distance will look white.
We know that grass is not green because we can distinguish between illusion and fact.
We can create illusion in our homes by painting small rooms or hallways in pastels or lighter tones of these. For very big rooms you can create an illusion of bringing the walls closer by using warm colours and tones of red, yellow and orange thus making it look smaller. Darker shade of other colours will do the same.
Create an illusion of heightening a low ceiling by painting them in lighter tones than the wall, or lower a high ceiling by using darker tones than the wall to paint it.

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One of the most important gift given to man is the gift of natural light. We should make the best of it and use it in our home brightening project. This lighting is referred to as
Directional light.
The light rays that comes from the north are rich in blue rays and can give coldness to a room if you decorate a room receiving northern light the room will seem cold .This room facing northern light needs to be given some warm colour treatment.
The light coming from the south will receive rays that are warm. This room when decorated in cool colours will still remain friendly.
An object that is placed against northern light will appear to look much bigger and the same object placed in southern light will appear to look smaller.
A room that faces east eastern Light that gives a room sunny mornings but muted midday. The afternoon offers no direct light. It is best to use a mix of warms and cools to balance out the daylight.
A room Facing West. Will get western Light and features afternoon and evening sun. Try using Use neutrals in this room. Using warm colors will overpower the room in the afternoon