Seven Essential Color Concepts for Designing Spaces (12 Jun 2006) Understanding a few essential color concepts will help you design your living and work spaces more purposefully. Embrace the colors that work best for your specific space. Here are seven Design Psychology color basics:
Design Psychology: Fabrics (12 Jun 2006) From a riot of color in bold chintzes to the gentle rustle of taffeta, fabrics influence our mental attitude in many subtle and not so subtle ways.
What is Design Psychology and How Will it Help Me? (12 Jun 2006) "I wish I had learned all this before we bought our first house 25 years ago, and before we had our children. Not only would our homes be more harmonious, but so would our lives together. It's amazing to learn how colors, lighting, sounds, and patterns affect us so deeply."
Physiological Response to Window Coverings (12 Jun 2006) Each house is different, but no matter what your home's style or composition, you'll want to give careful consideration to your choice of window fashions if you're going to create a warm and happy feeling for yourself, your family, and your guests.
Whats So Special About My Front Door? (12 Jun 2006) Your front door welcomes all to your home. This declarative statement of your house -- the exclamation point of your home --needs to sing out your welcoming note.
Three Great Concepts for Remodeling a Master Bedroom (12 Jun 2006) (Good short article for homemakers.) Since it's one of the places people spend the most time, one of the most satisfying home makeovers is the main bedroom. Here are three ideas for creating a dynamic new main bedroom space:
Design Psychology: Beds and Emotional Well-Being (12 Jun 2006) Design Psychology offers new bedroom makeover ideas concerning your bed for supporting your emotional well-being. Giving thought to your emotional needs when designing your bed placement and enhancements helps you create a bedroom for joyous living.
Three Types of Lighting for Room Remodeling (12 Jun 2006) When remodeling a room, choosing the correct lighting is one of the most important considerations. Proper lighting sets the atmosphere of the room, creates a particular mood, or provides accent to an architectural style. Lighting also accentuates the good aspects of a room or disguises a room's shortcomings.
Home Remodeling: Colors and Temperature Perception (12 Jun 2006) Colors contain underlying psychological meanings and evoke particular feelings when we see them. All of us have preconceived notions, learned from childhood memories and family customs concerning colors. Choosing correct colors is vitally important for creating a specific look and feeling in a room, and the ways that colors affect our perception of temperature should be one of the first considerations in a remodeling project.
Choosing Color Schemes: Colors and Physiological Response (12 Jun 2006) Color affects human beings on a variety of levels, including changes in our very body chemistry. Therefore, a considerable amount of thought should be given to the color scheme of a room, depending on its use and the effect you're trying to achieve.
Color Help: Color Theory and Design Psychology (12 Jun 2006) Color theory is an entire science unto itself, and to get a full picture of how it all works, I'd suggest picking up a few art books. In this article, however, we're going to take a brief look at the essentials of color theory, in light of the concepts of Design Psychology. we'll first list a term, and then offer a short summary of how the term relates to Design Psychology.
Colors: Their Connotations and Perceived Meanings (12 Jun 2006) Throughout the ages, colors have been used to evoke certain emotions, and an examination of the history of color offers fascinating insights into the human condition, as well as showing how different cultures have developed different attitudes about color. Here are a few examples of what various colors have come to represent over the years:
Research Concerning Color in Homes and Workplaces (12 Jun 2006) Over the years, many studies have been done in countries around the world to try to discover how human color preferences affect the choices we make in decorating our homes and workplaces, and one dominant fact has consistently emerged: our choice of colors seems to be based largely on the intended use of the space, whether it's in our homes or at our places of business. Here are a few of the findings from various studies:
Color Help: Choosing Color Combinations (12 Jun 2006) Choosing a color scheme can be a nerve-wracking business. For instance, I anguished over the colors to paint the exterior of my Victorian house, I ordered every book on old house painting that I could find, and I discovered that they all contradicted each other on the basic "rules."
Color Help: Color Imagery for Happy Homes (12 Jun 2006) Color researchers have estimated that up to 70% of our subconscious reactions to people and environments are based solely on our reactions to color. With that in mind, it's important that you give special attention to the effects you want to create when choosing the color schemes for the interior spaces in your home.
5 Steps for Creating a Garage You Can Love – and Use (12 Jun 2006) According to a 1994 study by the U.S.Department of Energy (and we won't even explore what launched that study!), 25% of people with two-car garages didn't park any cars in them and 32% parked only one.
An Interview with Design Psychology Expert Jeanette Fisher (12 Jun 2006) Design Psychology empowers you to create a fabulous home that sustains your emotions, using techniques based on science. Design Psychology turns spaces into happy places.
