Series: Color and Mood - Orange "Nails/Fails"

Orange acts on both our physical and emotional levels (see aspects of red and yellow in prior posts). Positive aspects focus on issues of physical comfort - food, shelter, warmth and sensuality. Negative aspects veer to deprivation and scarcity. It's a fun color, but too much can tip towards the frivolous and immature.

Positive aspects: Physical comforts, food, warmth, security, abundance, sensuality, fun

Negative aspects: Deprivation, intellectual indifference

 Relaxed and confident; no wolf at the door

...gets stranger the longer you look

Nails fun

 Aiming for sensual...

This would look lots better if the lamps were on; that 'light to make color' thing...

The dreaded accent wall...

Great use for orange- a little goes a long way

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Series: Color and Mood - Violet "Nails/Fails"

Violet has the shortest wave-length in the spectrum, often described as purple. As the last visible wave-length before the ultra violet ray, it has been linked with time, space and the cosmos. It takes awareness to a higher level of thought, encouraging meditation. As the color of royalty it has a long association of conveying luxury and quality, but too much or the wrong tone reads cheap and garish faster than any other color.

Violet: Spirituality
Positive Aspects: Awareness, vision, truth, quality, luxury
Negative Aspects: Introversion, decadence, suppression

Just a shot of a complex purple to energize the neutrals

...a little feminine, but works

A tolerable accent wall

....and this is where things go wrong....

Ditto

hmmm....

Hard not to make pastel versions a bit girly

Oh, stop...

Adorable girls bedroom

Great use of space! And check out the painted edges on the roman shade; love it!

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