To surprise people with your apartment’s originality and add unique faint notes into its design, you should not arrange a grand repair or some other radical changes

To surprise people with your apartment’s originality and add unique faint notes into its design, you should not arrange a grand repair or some other radical changes. It’s enough to add some color elements firstly or change your apartment’s color spectrum radically, this way you will create absolutely different mood for your apartment.

It was known since long ago, that color can have medicinal or oppressive effect on a person’s mind, can add physical health and capacity for work, or, vise versa, bring apathy or even worse - depression into your private life. Of course, choice of color spectrum for your apartment - is your personal idea, but combination of your own taste with theory and knowledge of this business can bring you a striking result.

There’re two ways of decision here: either add changes into decorative style (curtains, table-cloths, coverlets), or use different wall coloring. Firstly you need to choose a main color voice: either walls, or materials. It’s better to start building composition with walls. And then you can choose upholstery fabric to match with general tone of walls: for lighter walls you should choose darker materials; for darker - lighter (for example, for straw colour walls choose violet, cherry or dark tones of materials).

Remember, if you prefer some certain color in cloth or make-up, then it’s not necessarily to choose same tone in your interior: it will meet your requirements and look faultlessly in interior not always. Before changing something, you should firstly experiment with different color spectrums - you know, each tone gives absolutely different effect.

Thus, if you prefer blue color, it’s more appropriate to use it in a drawing-room. This color calms down, and it means, your guests will like it most. But here you should note such nuance: if your windows overlook the north, then in winter such room won’t be very comfortable. Here some variegated and bright decorations will help you, which will make a cold interior of your drawing-room warmer and more comfortable. For example, pillows of absolutely different color, than your interior, will look good here (apricot, whity-pink or bricky); wall panels or pictures (also textile).

If you are a spirited and impetuous person, then most likely your favorite color is red. Naturally, you intend to use it in bedroom. Here we will dissuade you from using it in the holy of holies, as during rest it will be an undesired irritator, which cannot calm you down, disposing to a quiet and calm sleep, but, to the contrary, will excite your nervous system and make you suffer from insomnia. But this doesn’t mean you should completely refuse from your favorite red color - there’re lots of its tones (terracotta, faded wine-coloured, subdued bricky). These tones will create intimate, calm mood, which is necessary in a room for sleep and rest.

Some prefer using bright colors in kitchen. And they are right: scientists proved, that they contribute to digestion and excite appetite. Orange and yellow are considered most optimal. So, if you are an ardent fan of these colors, then you can use them in a room, where a woman spends most part of her time bravely.

But, as it’s known, too much water drowned the miller. So, don’t strive to use these cheerful colors too much, as, with all due respect to them, they still can irritate, if taken in big doses. It’s better to diversify them with some other tones, matching them. For example, pistachio-coloured, dark-blue, brown accessories will look excellent in an orange kitchen, and almost all tones of red, light-grey and dark-blue go with yellow color wonderfully. And don’t forget a golden rule here: if kitchen curtains and furniture are bright, then you should “calm down” walls, and, vise versa, if you have bright wall-papers, then curtains, table-cloths, dressers and shelves should be “calm”.

You should use a special approach to color choice in nursery. It is considered, that children like everything bright and motley. But remember, oversaturation with bright and motley can also tire. That’s why it’s necessary to create a delicate color balance in a nursery. General coloring should be light (for example, creamy-yellow, forest green, horizon blue, lilac), and furniture - better white or of natural wood color, but colorful is also possible. In general, the brighter furniture is, the more reserved wall-papers, curtains and coverlets should be.

Well, how to check color appropriateness to interior? It’s very easy: look at a color you chose steadily while bright lightning for at least 1 minute, and then close your eyes. If you see bright spots - your choice is unsuccessful, and it will be difficult to live in such coloring.

As you can see, harmonious color decisions and counterpoint give birth to a new, unique sounding of your interior. And so, you should only choose an appropriate variant for you and enjoy executed work.