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How Changing Room Colors Can Quickly Transform the Room from Ow to Wow

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If you’re spending a ton of time at home, or even if you are out and about more than most, having a clean, beautifully designed home to come will set the mood when you first arrive from frantic to calm. 

It’s your home. Design it in a way that thrills, excites, calms, and inspires you and your loved ones. By creating a beautiful space, you’ll be excited to spend time in the rooms and happy to return when you do leave.

That doesn’t mean you need to take the house down to the studs and rebuild it from the skeleton. There are little subtle ways to change the feel of a room and space that don’t require a massive overhaul, but there are a few things to consider if you want to remodel. 

To avoid costly overruns, consider what purpose you envision for each room, the type of color scheme and accents you’d like for it, and last but not least, how comfortable is the room to be in for long periods of time? Is the room too dark, has too much light, too hot or cold? 
Answering these three areas can help you develop a better design and budget correctly. 

How Color Affects A Room

It’s a fact, even a little change in a room’s color can affect your mood and change the way you see your living space. 

Color to a room can make a space feel intimate, and a small room appears larger. There’s a whole psychology of color and space that goes into interior design and how to make your house feel like a home. 

So much of your design concepts should highlight your personality and the type of visceral reaction that you want visitors to experience when considering your design. From making your bedroom cozy and inviting, redesign your kitchen, brighten up your room, and make your living spaces the envy of your friends and family. 

3 Things You Have To Decide Before Doing A Room Makeover

Before you begin a room remodel, there are a few things you need to consider first. 

What is the room’s primary function? Is it one that you plan on hosting people in, or is it someplace private and intimate just for you and your loved ones?

1) Once you decide how you’d like to utilize your space, you can begin to sketch out a few concepts that you’d maybe like to see.

2) Now that you know your room’s plans selecting a color scheme is crucial. For example, if you’re planning on hosting people in the space, you’d want to have colors that compliment the usage. You would wish for fun colors such as orange, pink, yellow or red. These colors all are stimulating and give the room a warm, cozy feel that guests would feel comfortable to engage and relax in.

Colors do so much to influence our moods, and a good interior designer will work with you to highlight the differences of each, but here are things to consider with color schemes:

  • Orange: Warm, cozy, creative
  • Yellow: Sunny, comforting, inviting
  • Red: Intimate, passionate, comforting
  • Pink: Fun, lively, positive
  • Blue: Calm, meditative, peaceful
  • Violet: Spiritual, cooling, appealing
  • Green: Restful, invigorating, natural

Colors such as brown, gray, and black may make the appearance seem drab and dreary, but used sparingly with vibrant highlights of color can add an extra “pop” to the room.

Keep in mind that bright, bold colors should be balanced with moderate tones to keep them from overwhelming the visual. For example, red is a color that can overwhelm, so consider using it sparingly. 

3) All the interior remodel you do becomes worthless if your room is too hot or too cold. Nobody wants to be in a room that feels stuffy or freezing, and if that’s the case, you need to get better airflow, heat, and insulation for the room.

Google a local contractor specializing in insulation to make your room(s) a place people want to be. For example, in Southern California, a Google search for Orange County insulation installation services will provide a list of the best services for your needs. 

Now that you know what you want to do with your room, deciding on how to decorate it is the next step. 

A good interior decorator will assist your planning with color schemes, adding texture elements to the room, the room’s overall flow from furniture, rugs, accessories, and the best place to position them for the ultimate effect. 

A good design will highlight your home’s beauty to accentuate the mood and elevate the space into something desirable and comfy. 

Little embellishments like art and color schemes of rugs and furniture can add to space’s dimension, all coordinated with the overall theme you have for the room.