Room Color Treatment In planning the color treatment of a room it should be considered as a whole, remembering that every color introduced will have its effect upon the other colors. Far more effect may be obtained by color than by ornament. As the effect is greater, so greater care should be taken in using color in decoration. The first consideration in choosing the color scheme for a room is the exposure of the room. If it faces north or east, warm tints should be usedsomething that will give full value to all the light that gets to the room. Conversely, a color that absorbs light should be avoided, red or dark blue, for example. The craze for neutral colored backgrounds has led us into the fallacy of using a putty color or blend in all rooms, regardless of their exposure. This is a pity, since a north room so needs the artificial glow from a warm tinted background. The suitable colors for a north or east room are tan, buff, brown, rose, apricot, pink or these combined with one another or with a cool tone. The room with the southern or western exposure requires a more neutral toned background, gray, putty color, white and black, blue-green, mauve and mulberry, in fact, any shade that has of itself a cool effect. In these rooms the purpose is to counteract the excess of sunlight and glare and their subsequent effect on the nerves. For color reacts on us in an extraordinary way: too much brilliant color excites and tires us, and too drab colors give us no stimulus. Next Page: Colors for a Living Room. |
