Colors shape our lives no matter where you live, your job, age or gender. If you have at least one eye that’s working, you can confirm that in our day to day lives colors play a huge role. A basic example to this can be traffic lights. Red, yellow and green all together symbolizes stop, ready and go for the most of us. These colors control the traffic and without them there would be chaos all over the place.
“Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions,” the artist Pablo Picasso once remarked. Seeing different colors makes us feel different feelings. Let’s say the police wants to interrogate you but you know you didn’t do anything wrong. They take to a room that’s all red. From the floor to the ceiling, the table, chairs all of them are red. What would you feel at that moment? You would probably feel more nervous than you were before. Your blood pressure would increase and maybe you would start to rethink your actions. It can make you feel like you committed a despicable act and you are going to be punished for it even though you know you didn’t do anything wrong.
Now let’s say that they take you to a green room with a wide window. The room is in this light green color and the sun is shining through from the window. The chairs and the table look bright because of the sunlight. You would probably feel calmer and more peaceful. “I didn’t do anything wrong and I’m going to prove it.” These kinds of thoughts can represent what you would think at that moment. See? All you need is a little change of color to almost admitting to something that’s false.
Using color theory to your advantage is the norm for interior designers. Knowing what your client wants and delivering it in a certain way that makes them feel ‘somethings’ is what interior designers do. And to do that they need… colors! If they want a calm and peaceful place to maybe, read books or paint, their designer will choose colors like green or light blue instead of red or brown. That’s because green and blue symbolizes calmness and nature whereas red symbolizes danger, attention or anger.
Even if you are not a designer; in even the smallest tasks, like choosing an outfit, you pay attention to colors, what they symbolize and how they look together. Maybe you thought that you didn’t pay attention that much but I’m pretty certain that you changed your mind after reading this. Make sure to always remember color’s affects and try to use it to your advantage.