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No. 2 The Orange Effect
Feb 25th
The Orange Effect is the second in our FREE 7 part series, The Rainbow Effect. This series demystifies why and how the effects of decorating with one of the 7 colours, or bands, of the rainbow, may affect the mood, ambience, or energy of your home or office space.
The Orange Effect
The Orange Effect
Painting & decorating with the colour Orange
Orange blossoms & orange fruit
Have you ever tried to peel an orange? Did you challenge yourself to peel it into a single-cut ‘snake’? Can you peel an apple? Red or green, quite simple really – isn’t it? Or not!!
An orange normally requires the use of a peeling instrument a little more robust than your average potato or apple peeler, but once achieved, I know, I feel like framing the result.
The challenges of decorating with orange.
Orange is the colour of vitality, energy and exuberance. Full of life and vigour, orange delights and surprises. Look at an orange painted wall once, turn around, look again and you will feel a different response. Now that is creativity! What other colour of the rainbow can achieve such a moving feast?
Named after the orange fruit, the first recorded use of orange peel as a colour name in the English language was in 1839. Orange is a secondary colour despite its inclusion More >
How many colours in a rainbow?
Feb 13th
As a designer & decorator, I am often asked to describe how a particular colour, or palette of colours, affect a person’s mood or the ambiance of a space.
A rainbow is the supreme cohesion of how colours can work in your home. If nature can project a colour, shade, tone or tint in one rainbow, then you know you can successfully use that colour to subtle, stunning or secret affect in your home or office.
While it is not my intention to “Unweave a rainbow” (Keats), nor contribute to the debate over Newton’s (1672) “sevenfold prismatic description” of a rainbow, it is my purpose to introduce you to this wonder of nature, providing a generic know-how guide to the influences which can be exerted by each of the seven (7) commonly divided bands (Newton), or colours, of the rainbow.
The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines a rainbow as “an arch of colours visible in the sky, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun’s light by water droplets in the atmosphere”.
"an arch of colours visible in the sky, caused by the refraction and dispersion of the sun's light by water droplets in the atmosphere" (Concise Oxford Dictionary)
It is our own personal vision that transmits those More >
Welcome to Archecolour
Jan 25th
pron: áarki kúller
Inspirational colour/color, interior design, architectural design & planning, paint selections & decorating solutions for your space: home, office or farmyard!
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Extensive and diverse experience within the architectural, building & interior design industries, both commercial & domestic, equips Archecolour with close to three youthful decades of fulfilling the brief. Beneath the akubra, are studies & practice in each of these industries together with the claim to fame: inaugural Dulux colour consultant.
Blogs, Twitter, instant messenging, webcams, Skype & email are just some of the tools Archecolour uses to communicate. These tools allow you to resolve your design or colour dilemmas quickly. The largest design & decorating email group of it’s time & kind in Australia (mid-1990′s), which Archecolour originated out of, is testiment to the personalised ability to communicate colour & design – online.
Susan, the owner, is currently undertaking a degree in Ecological Agriculture which serves to direct, expand &, at the same time, merge agricultural, architectural & people-focussed passions. You can be assured that a holistic & sustainable solution. suiting you and your life. is what you will receive if you email Archecolour now.
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