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Jul 6th
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No 3. The Yellow Effect
Mar 27th
The Yellow Effect is the third 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 Yellow Effect
A field of yellow sunflowers lets nature provide the perfrect canvas. Be inspired! (Source: Getty Images)
Yellow (Source: wikipedia.org)
Simply, a happy yellow feature wall. (Source: GettyImages)
Nothing spells sunshine like the colour yellow.
Y ….. Yielding
E ….. Energetic
L ….. Loving
L ….. Laughing
O….. Optimistic
W….. Welcoming
Yellow is the colour of welcoming energy & optimism. The mother of sunshine, yellow reveals your inner creativity. Walk into a space with a splash of yellow & you are likely to be greeted with a smile. A full space of yellow ochre wraps you in the colours of the sun, warming your heart & inspiring your head.
One of the three primary colours, yellow is simultaneously a long and short wave light stimulant to our eyes. Red & blue are the other two primary colours.
Decorating with the colour yellow:
Painting ‘banana cake’ in a family room invokes a convivial atmosphere. An ‘egg yolk’ yellow throw rug, teamed with a focal cushion, is sure to promote energetic brainstorming sessions. Matt ‘poplar’ yellow, brushed across sanded floor boards, will mellow with wear & 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)
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