Home Painting: The Effects of Color

After a whole day of tiring work, home is a place we all go to. Home gives us a feeling of comfort, privacy, and security. The type of color you use for your home greatly effects the way your personality unfolds. Different colors trigger different emotions. Unbalanced color co-ordination in your home can lead you feeling low or depressed throughout the day, thus affect your overall health.

* While home painting, choosing the right color for your home is not as difficult as it seems as all you have to do is to select the correct combination of colors which in turn would lead to your having a harmony with life. One must also note that the effect of color chosen on our personality can change depending on various reasons like age, financial, and mental condition. There are some predefined emotions and reflections a color can have on our life, some of them are:

* RED: Being very intense color, red is represents hotness because of its nature it has a stimulating effect as increase in heartbeat and heavy breathing. Also considered the first color that is recognized by human eye this color promotes alertness along with vitality, strength and survival instinct. Red is a color of love, it boosts physical energy and attracts attention. Excessive use of red as a home painting color in your home can cause heart related problems with exhaustion and high blood pressure.

* BLUE: This color has a calming and soothing effect. Blue is represented in ocean and sky and thus is universally liked. Dark blue is considered ultra modern color. Excessive use of blue as your home painting color can result in emotions like quietness and depression.

* GREEN: This color represents life. Closely linked with nature, Green is considered to be related to growth, harmony, renewal and fertility. This color if used in home painting would also have calming and refreshing effect, as green is also known to have calming effect on humans, Green is used in hospitals for having soothing effect on patients and studios as “green rooms” where TV artists relax before going on-air.

* PURPLE: This color represents nobility, royalty and was an effluent symbol of wealth and power in the Elizabethan era and Chinese Empire. It helps self esteem, dignity and induces a feeling of self respect. Too much of purple at your home as a home painting color can lead to over confidence.

* BROWN: The color brown represents earth and steadiness. Like earth it induces a feeling of being “down to earth”, comforting, wise and stronger.

* ORANGE: Orange represents harvest and fall. It shares common properties with red and yellow because of it being a mixture of these colors. This color also represents sexuality, social outgoing and creativity.

* BLACK and WHITE: Black color provides calmness it is a heat absorbent and symbolizes authority, power and submission. White as a home painting color can be to keep clean. White symbolizes innocence and purity, it helps in creative process getting new ideas and helping thought process.

Home painting is an art that takes patience and lots of handwork along with proper knowledge of colors. So go ahead and explore what colors mean for you and make your home a better place to live.

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