Contemporary Decorating
Zesty Lemon Relaxer

Feel a breath of fresh Spring air with contemporary interior design color schemes in lemon yellow. Get a lovely, light and airy feel in your home. Hints and tips... find out how...

This is a fresh, clean look, with a spring like feel. It would be good for creating a bright, airy feel in any room, where you want to feel lively and alert.

This look could be used in pretty much any room of your house, from a light and airy living room, to bright kitchens and bathrooms, even fresh-feeling bedrooms.

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Yellow is a particularly good color to focus the mind and is good for creativity, intellect, memory and studying - so in a home office, study or anywhere you need to think hard or have your wits about you would be a good place to try such a scheme.

Yellow is such a bright and welcoming color - it makes a lovely strong statement in any room you use it, and makes your home feel warm and inviting.

It also reflects the light around wonderfully well, so can help make your rooms feel lighter, brighter and airier.

The lemon yellow I have used in these decorating color schemes is particularly good for this, as it picks up on the cool green tones in the color yellow (rather than the warm orangey tones of certain yellows). This gives a greater feeling of space.

For this lovely airy feel in your home, keep the overall feel light and bright - mix your zesty lemons with cool creams and taupes, whites, greens and even silvers, greys and pale blues, for quite a light, 'shimmery' feel.

• deeper greens
• deeper blues
• deep russets, oranges and reds
• darker neutrals - deeper greys and browns

For a fresh, light feel, any furniture should be pale in color, although you could go for either a very modern, streamlined style, or a more traditional look. Either will work well and still give an overall contemporary decorating feel.

Consider furniture and accessories in:

• pale woods
• white (you could paint existing furniture)
• reflective surfaces such as:
  • chrome
  • stainless steel
  • mirrored

Your soft furnishings and window treatments should be kept quite simple and streamlined to keep in with the contemporary decorating style.

Anything too big or fussy can overwhelm this bright and fresh look, and lose a little of the light and fresh feel.

Don't feel shy of patterns though - simple patterns of stripes, flowers and foliage in a contemporary style can add much interest and depth to your interior design scheme.

A suggestion of foliage in curtains, cushions etc can also give a really comforting and relaxing sense of nature which goes well with the fresh, spring-like feel of the look.

I hope you like this 'zesty lemon relaxer' idea to decorate your home...

Take a look at some lovely lemon things on eBay which could complete your look...

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