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5 top reasons why you may want to decorate with the colour yellow
Mar 27th
5 top reasons why you may want to decorate with the colour yellow:
Painting with the colour yellow
- Expose your optimistic personality
- Radiate energy
- Surround yourself with sunshine
- Put your happy nature on display
- Sheer fun
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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 >
5 top reasons NOT to decorate with the colour orange !
Mar 8th
5 top reasons to why you may NOT want to decorate with the colour orange:
Painting with the colour orange
- Can create a warning sensation
- Most people will have a reaction (!?!) – they may, or may not inform you of
- Difficult to pull off
- So retro – 1970’s
- Evokes fake tan gaffes
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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 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 >
What is an orb?
Feb 9th
Thursday, December 31, 2009
What is an orb?
As our planet spins and tilts a little, it is quite serendipitous to launch this blog as the earth experiences a blue moon (did I mention colour!).
Occurring every 18-20 years, the blue moon, tonight, also heralds the end of 2009.
In an ever evolving and revolving world … designs, colours and plans follow suit. Archecolour is here to help you secure the designs, colours and plans that you are most comfortable living in or working with.
Graphics, stories, projects and thoughts will populate each loaded with the intention of sparking inspiration and helping you acheive the comfortable, wakky, slick or chic space you are seeking.
Now, back on topic …. an orb: is Orb (noun)
1. Sphere: a sphere or spherical object 2. Jewelled sphere of king or queen: a small sphere usually made from a precious metal set with jewels and with a cross fixed to the top of it that forms part of a sovereign’s ceremonial regalia. 3. Eye: Eye or eyeball 4. Area of interest: A sphere of interest, influence or activity 5. Concentric planet-holding sphere: Astronomy: one of the concentric spheres that were formerly believed by astronombers to hold the planets in their orbital paths 6. Spherical More >
