Color in the interior - we create a unique cosiness in the room

Color in the interior plays a huge role, it is the color scheme of the room that makes it cozy and makes it stay longer. Thanks to the color, a favorable visual climate is created, the creation of which must be approached carefully and creatively. A good combination of colors in the interior can improve mood and well-being, as well as create a unique cosiness.

Color in the interior

Competent selection and a good combination of colors can hide certain room flaws, as well as emphasize their advantages.

Using color, you can visually resize the room. With proper selection, you can narrow or expand the walls and lower or raise the ceiling of the room. In addition, color is able to affect the emotional state of a person.

Before deciding on the choice of color for a particular room, it is necessary to think over the general concept of the room and the apartment or house as a whole. In this case, not only the color of the walls, ceiling and floor, but also the color schemes of curtains, upholstered and cabinet furniture and interior doors.

You must study the advantages and disadvantages of your premises. After that, decide to emphasize or hide certain objects using color. The color of various interior elements will depend on such factors as the natural illumination of rooms, the proportions of the rooms, the color change from artificial lighting, the emotional effect of color on a person.

Warm and cold colors - how to add color to heat

All colors can conditionally be divided into warm and cold. The main warm colors are red, yellow, orange, as well as all kinds of shades. In addition, warm colors include apricot, fawn, cream, coffee, green. The interior of the rooms decorated in warm colors, the windows of which do not face the sunny side, is lighter and forms a feeling of warmth.

Basic warm colors table

Color nameColor view
Yellow Yellow
Orange Orange
Red Red
Cream Cream
Pale yellow Pale yellow
Apricot Apricot blossom
Coffee Coffee color
Green Green color

Cold colors include: blue, blue, lilac, purple, light gray and silver, as well as their various shades. These colors can be used in rooms with good natural light.

Primary Cold Color Chart

Color nameColor view
Blue Blue color
Blue Blue
Lilac Purple colour
Purple Purple
Light gray Light gray
Silver Silver color

The color scheme of the interior, depending on the location of the premises

Choosing the color of the interior, it is necessary to take into account the location and lighting of the rooms. Despite the fact that the room is located on the sunny side, its natural lighting may be insufficient due to the small opening of the window, vegetation or other buildings. The main rule that you must remember is that the darker the lighting in the room, the brighter the colors of the interior should be.

Thus, rooms with low light are best finished in light pink or light yellow tones, but not white. The thing is that surfaces painted white in low light look gray. And it spoils the interior a bit.

Interior spaces that are well lit should be done in colder colors and shades. This will slightly calm the sunlight and make all the surfaces in the room not so faded. At the same time, saturated colors should not be used in rooms with good lighting. It all depends on where you live geographically.If you live in central Russia, where the number of cloudy days is more than sunny, the premises should be decorated with lighter colors and shades.

How to color correct room imperfections

The competent use of colors and modern finishing materials allows you to correct various imperfections in the premises. Thus, you can visually raise or lower the ceiling, expand or narrow the walls, beautifully beat various niches and ledges.

Warm colors and their shades visually increase the room. In addition, you can visually change the size of the room by changing the saturation of these colors. If the color saturation is large, the room will visually appear smaller. Conversely, if a room is painted in cold, for example, blue tones, it will seem more spacious.

As for the finishing materials, the room wall of which is decorated with a small pattern, for example, wallpaper with a small abstraction pattern, will seem more spacious. When using finishing materials with a larger pattern, the room will visually look smaller.

If it is necessary to visually increase the height of the ceiling in the room, then the finishing materials are applied to the walls up to the ceiling. In some cases, for this purpose, the ceiling or part thereof is painted or finished in the color of the walls. Vertical lines on the walls also increase the height of the ceiling, but at the same time they will visually reduce the size of the room.

The visual shortcomings of a long narrow room can be corrected by painting long walls in light cold tones, and the end walls in the same color but more saturated or even warm saturated colors.

How to color correct room imperfections

The combination of color in the interior.

The coloring of various elements of the room varies depending on the combination of color in the interior. For example, a combination of blue with yellow gives a violet hue, and with red a greenish tint. In the interior of any room is a mass of objects whose colors are interacting with each other. Your task is to ensure that all objects placed in the room are in harmony with each other. A very important element of any room is furniture and its color and type of wood should be combined with the color of the walls.

Wall color combination table with furniture color and wood type

Furniture colorWood typeWall color
Yellowish BirchBirch texture MapleMaple texture Gray,
blue,
green
Ocher OakOak texture Dark green
olive
Reddish
brown
Red treeRed tree Yellow,
Gray
Brown NutWalnut texture Beige,
olive,
Gray,
yellow

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 Photo gallery of various color options for the interior.

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Red color in the interior. Photo - sxc.huWhite color in the interior. Photos - Flickr.comThe room is light green. Photo - sxc.hu

The room is a dark red color. Photo - flickr.comThe combination of fawn with white trim openings. Photo - sxc.huThe room is in white. Photo - sxc.hu