As it is known, tastes differ. When someone arranges his dwelling, he can demonstrate his own color predilections. And still, when you invade into color power, you should firstly learn its laws and orders in more detail. Every color has its own character and order.

Visual image of our house is composed of many components. Furniture was a dominant of interior for a long time. But modern designer style of furniture is fundamentally simple, functional, and has almost no individuality. Under such accentuated minimalism of setting, amount of visual impressions needs some compensation and receives it in color. Tonal interior is in fashion. This means that basic color components of room are walls, curtains and furniture upholstery coloring are decided in one whole color spectrum. As for various details - abat-jours, pillows, table-cloths, vases, small utensils they can submit to general color spectrum, and can also contrast with it, adding touches of warm tints in a cold spectrum, or, conversely, cold in warm coloring. Tonal interior looks simple like a common truth, without such pictorial disseminations.

Rainbow

Dark-blue-blue spectrum is associated with coolness, crispness of sea breeze, so these tints are so good while arranging rooms with big windows or loggias, which are open to sky and nature. Bedroom, nursery and dining room can be decided in bluish-silvery tones. Deeper dark-blue is associated with reflections, serious evening conversations; it will be good in a study or drawing-room. Dark-blue is chilly it doesnt like fluffy, long-pile materials, connected with a sense of warmth. Thats why dryish, small- texture surfaces do good for it.

Red color creates exultant mood. This is a color of celebrations. It affects as a stimulant, so, in a nursery it can be used only as some supplements. It may feel tight in chamber, small rooms, but it can greatly show its worth in a big sitting-room or main dining-room. Red color is also good in a hall of a spacious modern apartment, and like an innovation in a kitchen of vanguard design in combination with metal and plastic. Red color in interior can be of any tint from bright cinnabar to dingy- flaming and cherry tones. Red walls, red curtains or red tiled floor can add some poignancy to your interior, but like any other eccentricity such decision requires immaculacy. No unnecessary things, no casual kickshaws. All combinations of cherry, vinous, terracotta tints are good with bright-red, but pink spots on scarlet and scarlet spots on pink are unpleasant and unsightly. And in general, you may just make a slight mistake in tints or illumination and herere it is: anxiously-menacing sketch in purple tones.

Pink interior is no less capricious, than red one. It also has clearly expressed character. You can arrange drawing-room, dining-room, bedroom, a daughters room in pink spectrum in that case, when an owner herself prefers feminine style deliberately, style, full of refined small things, antique porcelain, hand-made details. However, life in pink color is quite capricious it is absolutely devoid of different modern High-Techs or massive Victorian style.

Yellow color is for tonal interiors of ecologic and ethnic trend. Various tints of yellow combine with each other unconstrained, creating a warm spectrum, full of light. Wicker furniture and natural wood will feel comfortable in creamy-yellow setting. Yellow color is undemanding, and can be chosen for almost any room in the house.

Green color draws the richness of its tints from live nature: delicacy of the first grass, lush depth of July leaves, silverness of mosses, rusty-withered autumn forest All tones and tints of green are wonderfully combined with each other, like they naturally adjoin in the nature itself. Green color can adjust to different styles of interior with the same easiness. Pure delicate light-green and grassy tints are used in modern furniture coloring, including suites of transparent plastic furniture. (Modern teenagers will be delighted with these chairs and tables, resembling huge lollipops). Furniture of simple wood, colored in dimly-green color, is much in fashion today, it imitates the effect of antiquity with success. Clean-colored green flax of any tint and wall-papers with chintz pattern on goldish background can add this ensemble very well.

In contrast to natural palette, compound and rare colors are very sensitive to the choice of their companions. Lilac, violet and purple materials and walls are elegant, but its very difficult to chose decorative accessories to them. In their languid and slightly mysterious atmosphere furniture of smooth shapes can be located harmonically, such furniture reminds us of modernist style, - then they also liked combinations of lilac with dirty-green, silvery and opalesque-chatoyant.

Brown color is natural from the very beginning: this is a color of earth and tree trunks. Brown color has a solid, agreeable and accommodating character. Brown color is associated with composure and solidity, thats why it is so good in respectable, slightly conservative atmosphere, among Victorian cosiness of studies, drawing-rooms and halls. Leather, velveteen, thick upholstery materials and velours are especially good in brown interiors. Leisurely people with stable life aims and tastes usually chose such spectrum for their rooms. Here we can often see spots of gravel, melon-yellow or creamy colors, not large touches of terracotta, bright ochre are possible in pillows, pictures, vases, walls decoration. The more severe and classical a basic color is, the more important are nuances in decorations. Thus, if a tone of leather upholstery of furniture reminds of old bronze, then additions of greenish color may remind of coppery platinum. Brown can be accentuated by light-lilac, purple, violet and even bluish.

Rules of good form

A choice of color spectrum of interior, of course, depends on personal taste of owners, but its rather good to know how to coordinate your predilections with the function of rooms and consider also that each color has its own steady figurative-associative and emotional characteristics. Say, a nursery shouldnt be gloomy, sullen or irritating. Thus, it shouldnt be arranged in graphite-grey or acid spectrum, even if parents do like these colors. And a mans study will look rather strange, if arranged in light-pink colors. You shouldnt follow also a transient fashion on color of the season in a tonal interior, as an apartment decoration is counted for rather long term. Color spectrum of living-rooms shouldnt be too exotic (say, orange or neon-green); exotics is like a spice: its good only as small, piquant additions.

You can create various variations inside of one tonal spectrum, depending on distribution of tone deepness between basic components of interior. In simpler words, someone from basic trio (walls, curtains or furniture upholstery) should be colored in lighter color, and someone in darker. Thus, in nursery and bedroom, walls should be the lightest spot, furniture should be upholstered in deeper color, and curtains may be overshadowed at all. And in drawing-room, on the contrary, walls can be colored in darker color, as the most important events of this room take place under evening illumination, which shades in deep, rich colors favorably. In general, tonal interiors are quite captious to illumination. Color variations are chosen to match both day light and evening lights.

Principle of motley

As it is known, modern fashion is disposed rather to pantophagy, than to stylish austerity. It prefers eclecticism and breaking of the rules even at those moments, where it has just built them up. Thus, after working out tonal interiors, designers began to offer us a mixture of pure, simple, childly bright colors. Kitchen panels and floor coverings, walls and furniture for dining-rooms, drawing-rooms and, naturally, nurseries were painted in dark-blue, yellow, red, green. In this fundamental multi-coloring, a term suite of furniture changed too: chairs of the same shape can have different coloring, sofa and table gladly use an opportunity to play in rainbow, and rugs, pillows and pictures on the wall are just destined to look like illustrations in a book for children of preschool age. Wed like freedom, spontaneity, when we dont feel shy of a casual color spot or slippers that we forgot somewhere accidentally.