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You can change your artificial lighting and interior lighting fixtures in your home, to suit your interior design requirements... But your source of natural light is actually much more important. Decorating color, and the colors you choose, will be very different, depending on what part of the world you live in... Northern CoolIf you live in cool, northerly climes, the quality of the sunlight has a crisp, cold, bluish tinge...
Cool colors and pale blues can really suit this kind of light - think Scandinavia - they may feel rather cold though! Instead, you may want to warm it all up with some earthy reds, pinks or yellows...
You will probably find that the Mediterranean color schemes you admire on your holidays to Greece or Spain, really don't suit a living room in rainy, chilly Britain! A lot of this has got to do with the intensity of the color... Take a look at the rather muted tones used in the northern rooms above - which have a cold and blue-tinged natural light... Keeping it soft lets it work well - the bright, vibrant colors used in the picture below work best in bright light conditions with a warm glow (hot countries, with bright sunlight)... They could look rather harsh and garish under a cool northern light... If this is your home, and you love those bright colors, don't despair if you do live in the north, though... Keep those strong decorating colors to bright flashes of accents - they'll lift your color scheme right up... Feelin' HotIf you do live somewhere warm and sunny, like the Mediterranean, Florida, or California - firstly, lucky you! Secondly, the light here is much warmer in tone, as well as temperature.
This is where the strong and bright yellows, oranges and vibrant blues of a Mediterranean-style color scheme can look really stunning... Paint it all over if you want - and enjoy the color!
These decorating color guidelines will explain why that great color scheme, that looked so gorgeous in the magazine, will never look good in your home. I am really glad I found out about these guidelines - they have really helped me with my color choices. I hope you will find them just as helpful - and inspiring! Remember though, to use them as guidelines. If you have got your heart set on a particular color, or color scheme, and you feel it will work for you - then go ahead and try it! Using colors you love, will make sure you love your room too. Which Way Do Your Windows Face?North Facing Rooms
South Facing Rooms
East Facing Rooms
West Facing Rooms
This warm look is suitable for a west-facing room - or a room with warm evening sunlight with similar orange tones If you live in the southern hemisphere, you should reverse/swap the advice for north and south colors (East and West will remain the same) More Decorating Color Rules for Light
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Find out more in the interior decorating information section on room proportion. Here you can discover how to manipulate your space - make your room look good, and achieve the proportions you want. You can learn more about the color rules elsewhere on this website... Understand how to use interior design color rules in your home to create gorgeous decorating schemes Don't forget to make notes on how these color rules apply to your room on your Decorating Color Checklist... Click here to download your free Color Checklist Pdf format Opens in a new window Requires Adobe Reader to view Choose your color... Click to discover how color in interior design can affect your mood, or learn how to choose a mood for your room Also look at the section on lighting - to discover how your choice of light bulb and interior lighting fixtures, can affect your decisions on decorating in color. Custom Search New! CommentsHave your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below. |
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