Paint your palette
cool & calm WORDS VIVIEN HORLER
Colour has a strong effect on our emotions and can influence our moods. It is important to give thought to the shades you choose for your home
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THE COLOURS with which we surround ourselves can have an enormous effect on how we feel. Without even realising it, our emotions can be dictated by the colour of a room. Yellow can make us feel bright and sunny, dishwater beige can feel dreary. Knowing this, you can use colour
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to change a room’s energy: cheerful, cosy, calm or restful. Violet and purply shades are associated with wisdom and the mind. They can be wonderfully soothing and calming for bedrooms, helping us to sleep. Soft blues inspire creativity and communication, both of which make
them suitable for a home office. Blues are cool, and not distracting, and also introduce the restless energy of the sea. Creamy pinks are the colour of love. They invoke the beauty of garden roses and are calming and restful. Pink is such a powerfully soothing colour that it has
been used in prisons to calm inmates. Yellows and oranges are vibrant, stimulating and cheerful. They are lovely for home offices but are not so great for small spaces as they can be overwhelming. Yellow is a good colour for southfacing rooms that get little sun as it will brighten them up.
