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Color and Your Home Environment!We all want to create a healing and peaceful environment around ourselves. The colors in our surroundings affect our physical, emotional and mental health. By carefully selecting the colors that surround us, we are indirectly caring for ourselves in both prosperous and hard times. In stressful times, or when we are going through a period of illness or depression, it is easy to neglect ourselves. These are the times when the good vibrations from the colors in our home can reflect back to us as a positive energy. The colors in our home environment give us many clues to our personalities and inner feelings. Careful chosen colors can build our sense of self, so that we are better at coping with the stresses of life and enhance our relationship with others. Color preferences coincide with major changes in our lives and a change in attitude or physical state is often accompanied by a change in our color preference. Color is the most important single ingredient in preparing a color scheme for your house. Attractive colors cost no more then drab ones and a holistic design does not have to be outdated in style. If you understand the therapeutic actions of different colors you can blend these with your color personality and ideas relating to general fashion or home style trends. Your home should include a palate of colors that reflect 3 qualities. The color that you find most pleasing, most relaxing and most inspiring. The most pleasing color represents your personality and outlook on life. The most relaxing should reflect a color that has a calming effect on you to aid in healing on a physical, emotional and mental level. Your inspiring color is your mental color that helps you to tap into your logical and intuitive mind. Red Décor: Red colors work best in places that require warmth and physical action. A hall, staircase, kitchen and playroom are a suitable place for the red decoration. Orange Décor: Orange colors have a strong and beneficial effect on the digestive system, so this makes for a great color in an eating or dining area. An orange room will make you feel secure and comfortable. Yellow Décor: Yellow colors can have a dual effect, it should be used in combination with other colors because it by itself has no anchorage. Yellow can be an uplifting happy color if it is chosen in golden, primrose of butter cream tones. It is a great color to stimulate mental activity, so it is quite useful to use this in a study or office area. Green Décor: Green is the color of nature. It creates a feeling of comfort, laziness and relaxation. It provides balance for all other natural colors and brings a deep sense of healing at many levels of being. Blue Décor: Blue rooms create a calming, expanding and relaxing environment. Light and soft blue make us feel quiet and protected. Deep blue has even a more relaxing effect and it is best suited for the bedroom, while bright blues have a cleansing and refreshing effect and are great to be placed in a bathroom or powder room. Violet Décor: Violet is created by mixing blue and red, so it provides relaxation and activity. It is the color that is best suited for the creative individual and the room in which they utilize their creative capabilities. Brown Décor: Brown is the color of the Earth, so it brings us a sense of protection and stability. Bring it into your home decor with many different hues such as tans, warm pink-beige, or terra cotta to bring warmth and grounding into your color schemes. Written by Nancy Arruda
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