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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 & set your More >
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Mar 8th
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Connecting colours, spaces, shapes, ideas and dreamsColour Consulting Design & Drafting Holistic Property Planning Helping you co-ordinate the paint colours, finishes, materials, furnishings, functionality and ambiance of your home, office or property, resulting in a creative, personal and appropriate transformation of your space. Read more … Because we understand how architectural elements, materials and structures interrelate, our solutions and suggestions are more than skin deep. We design interiors, exteriors, renovations and property makeovers based on relevant building codes, structural soundness, designs and plans that work for your lifestyle. Read more … Connecting the differing elements of your home or property is a critical component of successfully designed spaces. Archecolour is driven to finding creative, sustainable solutions so that your space flows seamlessly: from inside to out … or outside to in. Read more …
Each day, Archecolour is privileged to share a knowledge-bank of design, interior decorating, architectural, diy and colour palette expertise with friends and clients just like you.
Archecolour - helping you visualise
For 25 years this has, and is, our favourite thing to do. Each house, room, kitchen, backyard, property or farm has a story waiting for your personal chapter. Your More >
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 More >
The amazing new rice fields of Japan
Feb 24th
The creativity of agriculturalists, the world over, never ceases to amaze me.
Enjoy these photographs inspired by the simple & necessary agrarian act of growing rice.
Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan, but this is no alien creation. The designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different color rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.
As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge. Rice-paddy art was started there in 1993 as a local revitalisation project, an idea that grew from meetings of the village committees. The different varieties of rice plants grow alongside each other to create the masterpieces. In the first nine years, the village office workers and local farmers grew a simple design of Mount Iwaki every year. But their ideas grew more complicated and attracted more attention. In 2005, agreements between landowners allowed the creation of enormous rice paddy art. A year later, organisers used computers to precisely plot planting of the four differently coloured rice varieties that bring the images to life.
Napoleon on horseback can be seen from the skies.
This was created by 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 astronomical object: More >
