COLOR RED IN INTERIOR DECORATING

COLOR RED - Exuberant and Versatile
Warm Group - Primary Color

PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Courage, passion, love, excitement, danger, martyrdom, anger, fife, strength.

APPLICATION:

Application of red color is conspicuous wherever it appears, and because it is lively and stimulating, it should be used with care. Red mixes well and most rooms are enhanced by a touch of one of its tones. A variety of popular colors are derived from red when it is lightened, darkened, brightened, or dulled. For example, when red is darkened and muted it becomes maroon, and when it is lightened it becomes pink. Pink, a delicate and flattering color, is often enhanced by a stronger contrasting color and blends especially well with grays, browns, greens, blues, and purples.

Red has the most power, heat and activity of all colors. It has the energy and aggression of a chagrining bull. Red comes forward to greet you. In interior decorating use red as punctuation, an occasional exclamation point, but never as dominant color in a room. For example, in interior decorating use red for pillows, napkins, or fabric trim. If you love red use it in your wardrobe rather than in your rooms - red coats, suits, dresses, scarves, rain slickers, shoos, and mittens. If you like red you will fined ways to use it, whether for the engraving on your stationary or the interior of your car.

Keep in mined the appropriateness of a color for your purpose. If you have a room with no view, red curtains draw your eye back into the room. Too much red in a room can have the obtrusive effect of a police siren. But touches of red can ad a cheer and energy that only red can achieve. Every room should have some touches of red - perhaps a red candles, paintings, red leather books, a bowl of red apples, a red picture frame or red tulips, Chinese screen with red accents. The accent of red is hot, alive, and stimulating.