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Monday, July 15, 2013

Psychology of Colors in Interior Design

Have you thought that the colors around you affects you in direct and indirect manner? Most of us don’t pay much attention to choosing right color as much as we pay attention to choose a style, look and size. Every color even it’s in furniture or wall they all matters.

The objective of this article is to give you a detailed psychological aspect of each color to help you chose the right color for serving your purpose and enhance the room.
Colors are classified into primary, secondary and Tertiary colors

Primary colors: Red, Blue and Yellow are called primary colors they aren't divided from any other colors but all other colors are consisting of them.
Secondary colors: These colors are a combination of two primary colors i.e. Green made from blue and yellow, orange made with red and yellow etc.
Tertiary colors: these colors are made from combining two secondary colors according to their hue of those colors i.e. Yellow +orange = yellow-orange & Red + orange = red-orange… etc..

Colors can be classified as warm, cold and neutral colors

1-Warm colors: Red, Yellow and Orange are referred to as warm colors, those colors are known to raise your blood pressure, raise your energy, heart beats, & increase your temperature. This makes you feel warm.
2-Cold colors: Blue, green and purple, are known to slow your heartbeats release muscles & lower temperature thus make you feel cold.
3- Neutral colors: There are some neutral colors as violet and gray, those colors depend on the percentage of warm or cold colors in them.

Also black and white can change the hue of colors according to the percentage of them in colors. 


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