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Green - fresh and invigorating green is a wonderful colour for the office or study. Clean, fresh and keeps you calm. The daily foods we eat can
inspire room colours, foods come in an array of wonderful shades and tones.
Yellow - my favourite, uplifting and a fantastic colour for kitchens and hallways. Brightens up your day whatever the weather.
Orange - vibrant, fiery and very tasty. Carrots and oranges make for a very good juice too. Add a bit of ginger for some zing.
shop) and cut into 1ft square pieces. Paint each
piece with your chosen colour with the tester paints
you have chosen.
Once the paint has dried, put each colour sample up
on your wall. One by one, go to each colour and look
at it for a minute, then write down every emotion
that comes into your mind whilst looking at that
colour. Scribble anything that comes into your head.
10 examples of colour moods:
Romantic Dynamic
Tranquil Excited
Sensuous Happy
Sombre Serene
Powerful Comforting
When you have completed this with each colour, sit
down and read back over your observations for each
colour. The colour that has the most relevant
thoughts to the space you are attempting to create is
the one to pick.
It’s simple, easy and you don’t have hundreds of
paint colours all over your walls; it also gets you
thinking about the space you are trying to create.
You have to live with this colour, so getting it right is
important. Having said that, if you do get it wrong,
paint can always be covered, so it doesn't have to be
a scary process.
With spring just around the corner, I have forecast a
few of my favourite colours for the season and the
meanings they have behind them.
Yellow
Yellow (being one of my favourites) is a very
powerful colour. Yellow is believed to stimulate the
nerves and purify the body. It captures the joy of
sunshine and communicates happiness. A perfect
colour for kitchens, hallways and dining rooms, it is
also fresh, bright and happy. However, some
yellows can be rather sickly, so tones are very
important. Again do the 10 minute mood test with
five tones of the same colour, and the right one will
come forward.
Green
Green always shouts ‘clean’ to me. It’s fresh,
cheerful and is considered to be one of the most
restful colours to the eye. Green is suited to most
rooms in the house, but my personal favourites are
studies, bathrooms and dining rooms. I particularly
love mossy greens, as they give a richness and depth
to a room. Green is a calming colour and therefore
helps us to de-stress and make a very peaceful room.
Orange
Orange evokes excitement, enthusiasm and
promotes energy. This colour is therefore a brilliant
one for the kitchen, playrooms or exercise rooms.
Always good for cooking up a storm and endless
squat thrusts. Accent walls in a dining room can be
made to look artistic using this colour if using a
contrast colour on the other walls. Grey is a good
companion and can achieve a great contemporary
look.
Neutrals
Neutrals (grey, white, black and brown) are the
basic decorators toolkit. All-neural schemes fall in
and out of fashion. But their virtue lies in their
flexibility. Greys can give a very fresh contemporary
look, whilst browns have a more grounded earthy
feel. Black is best used in small doses as an accent,
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