Choosing a color for your home
At this moment of time is extremely valuable, making the house as a place of comfort and fun is very important. At the time of an existing home, he will be able to rest and refuge from all kinds of pressures outside world… Relax, release tension, to spend time with loved ones, and do other things.
You can help create the atmosphere you want by choosing the right color for your residence. In this case the colors can have an important role. Through the selection of the right color, the function of each room in a house that there will be more optimized, which will affect the atmosphere, emotional, physical and spiritual.
This world is so rich in color and every person must have their favorite colors respectively.
What role of color in life?
Colors have an important role in human life. The existence of strong relationships with emotion, the color of the house can generate energy and create a certain mood or feeling, even capable of expressing a human personality. Color has the power to heal and balance the emotions, and can create harmony in the spaces in the house. By selecting the right color, living with a peaceful atmosphere to relax or a room full of enthusiasm for the socializing will be realized.
Hesitate in choosing a color?
We should be interested to choose a color, but that often happens is any doubt in selecting the colors for the home. What color match? This color is good or not? We recommend that this color is used on which side? Are some questions that often arise during the home decorating? When faced with a wide selection of colors, usually will avoid confusion and ultimately chose (again) safe colors, namely white with all the variations and nuances in order to avoid the risk of “wrong color”. In fact, the world is so rich with color, and each person must have their own favorite color.
How do I choose a color?
There are opinions that say, in terms of choosing a color, just follow what your heart. This advice sounds simple but it could be true, because there is no rule that became mandatory in the process of color selection for residential. However, in practice, choose a color for every room in the house is not always easy.
Activities to choose the color is not like making a cake by following a recipe that has been clear dose or the order. This is a creative process involves many aspects, ranging from the architecture of the room, furniture and other objects that we already have, to the new needs and goals to decorate the room. In addition, the choice of color and style of the house and its interior arrangement of course not separated from lifestyle residents, who shaped and defined by:
- Role in society
- Family background
- Experience
- Age and sex
- Taste
Each person is unique.
Do not forget every individual member of the family is a unique individual and have different tastes to each other. Is normal if each family member has opinions and desires vary according to individual needs. There must be differences in the nature or character of each individual, including in terms of preference and choice of colors. This is where the challenges lie in creating a harmonious occupancy for all family members. Color choices and decisions to bring the atmosphere and a certain character in a room or entire building style should be adapted with the function, theme, and the main character who wants to be presented at home. Of course by not ignoring the needs and tastes of each family member.
Color can create a certain impression and cheerful atmosphere that brings residents and people who come to feel at home.
There are four (4) main things to consider before planning your color selection at home, among others:
1. Understanding the ins and outs of color depth, so that you can combine and choose a color well.
2. Knowing how to combine the right colors.
3. Recognizing the diverse character and color effects.
4. Recognizing the importance of the theme color to get the atmosphere you want.
By considering all four of the above, you will become more focused in determining the best colors in your home
The theories of color may be very interesting. But do not get too hung up on rules, because there never really rule in choosing a favorite color.
As an initial step to facilitate the selection and determination of colors that can express yourself, you need to understand the sense and the basics of color theory.
Color is a form of light or radiation of electromagnetic waves, generated from sunlight that pure white.
The human eye can see color when light passes through a prism of bias and separates light into seven (7) light waves of different frequencies, namely: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. So, one can see the color thanks to the light entering the eye, That is why humans cannot see colors in a dark room without light.
One of the most popular ways to understand the distribution of colors is to recognize the color circle (color ring). On the basis of the color circle are twelve (12) colors, divided into primary colors, secondary and tertiary.
Primary Color: consisting of red, blue and yellow. The colors are called primary colors because they cannot be obtained from a mixture of other colors.
Secondary Color: can be obtained by mixing two of the primary colors, namely:
- Yellow red = orange
- Yellow blue = green
- Blue red = purple
Tertiary Color: can be obtained by mixing the secondary colors and color in the circle next to color, namely:
- Yellow orange = golden yellow
- Red burnt orange = orange
- Yellow green = lime green
- Blue-green = turquoise
- Blue-purple = indigo
- Red purple = crimson
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