SELECTION OF PAINT COLOUR FOR YOUR OFFICE AND HOME

Selection of a proper colour scheme plays a major role in your office or home. It gives you happiness, inspiration, motivation etc. and makes you feel great. The process of choosing a colour can be made easy by analyzing your requirements and well planning.

Office :

Generally, an office is a busy place which employs different categories of staff who are likely to get stressed during working hours and as such a cool and calming effect should be maintained in office. Cool colours such as blue and green are most appropriate or either choose cool colours green to red violet for a calming effect.

However, make sure the colours you select match with the office furniture, ceiling and flooring.

Choosing of colours also depends on the lighting system prevailing in an office. If it receives a significant amount of natural light, bright colours should not be selected as it will look too bright. If the office receives less lighting, choosing of bright colours would be appropriate.

If an office is made of separate cubicles with glass partitioning which makes visible from one room to another, the colour scheme chosen should match with one another.

Home:

In selecting colours for a home, the living room could be with white or neutral grey and beiges for the walls and ceiling to have resemblance with the window & door curtains and the floor. The external walls could be a darker colour of the internal walls.

Buying Paints:

Once you have planned the colours you want to purchase, go to your nearby paint shop and obtain colour samples. You can try the paint colours on a sample board or wall and observe the painted sample wall at different times of the day, with and without lights. Hold the paint samples against furniture, curtains, floor and other accessories to see if you prefer the colour scheme.

Colour Combination:

Once you have decided the colours you wish to use in your office or home, you can use different colour schemes to enhance the look of your office or home. Combine varying shades of a particular colour. For eg: a light blue wall paint goes well with a slightly more saturated version of the same blue as a trim colour. Use colours that are next to each other like light pink and dark pink with red, or blues combined with acqua or even purple. A warm brown and cream colour will look marvelous with natural wooden furniture.