Tuesday, April 20, 2021

the psychology of color

I love color. Allllllll the colors! I like earth tones together. I like cheerful and vibrant colors together. I like pastels. Pantone's color of the year this year is gray. Interestingly, gray is my new favorite neutral color! (And if you ever wanted to know about Pantone, here's a great article; https://learn.g2.com/what-is-pantone ) I love that colors make you feel something. Who knew that restaurants use red a lot because it makes you hungry!  Yellow makes you feel happy. Blues and greens are considered calming colors. Purple makes you feel creative.

And color makes you associate things together. Like, why does white and navy blue together make you think of something nautical? Orange and black are great together but you'll always think of Halloween when you see them. Why is pink assigned to girls and blue assigned to boys? I LOVE black and white together but WHY are there so many shades of black and white????  

No wonder it's so hard for me to choose a color theme. I would like to have a house that could change, seasonally :-)  In the summer it would be cheerful, red, bright blue and yellow. In the autumn, rich earthy tones. In the winter it would be all blues and gray. In the spring, pinks - orange - lavender - greens. See?!?!?! This is why I've had FIVE comforters/bedspreads in the last 10 years!! 

Sorry honey.

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