Explore Color Meanings
to Reflect your Personality

Color meanings and the social associations tied to them, can help choose colors for your home.

Before you begin to select colors for your home, wouldn’t be interesting to know what your favorite color reveals about your personality, and the physiological responses are to the body?

This is an outline of those beliefs and what color meanings have when rooms are decorated in those colors.

What is your favorite color?

The color of passion, you are a mover and shaker who do nothing half way and lets others know where they stand.

Red represents courage and self confidence and is associated with love, compassion, arousal, anger and excitability.

Adrenaline is released in the presence of red and it stimulates brain activity. Appetites are heightened along with the sense of smell.

Use red in the kitchen or a rich red is sophisticated for a dining room. Red can also be for a party or game room and small spaces.

Yellow

If you love yellow, you are an optimist who accepts people for whom they are and wants everyone to feel good.

Yellow is full of energy and life. In its true form yellow denotes happiness and warmth and increases awareness.

With a freshness of youth, paler shades of yellow denote goodness, wisdom and clarity and enhance concentration and clear thinking.

Color meanings for yellow energizes and relieves depression, improves memory and also stimulates the appetite, but can cause allergies to flare up more frequently in people of all ages.

Using the appropriate shades and in moderation the best rooms for yellow are the kitchen, dining room, study, and the children’s playroom.

Blue

Blue tells us you're optimistic and sees the sunny side of life. A bit dreamy, giving others the benefit of the doubt.

Blue is tranquil and is associated with peace and relaxation. It symbolizes strength and knowledge, loyalty and justice. It can increase productivity and enhance communication and decision making.

Pale blue suggests insecurity and introspection as well as the imagination.

Blue is the color most likely to lower blood pressure and decrease respiration, but is the least appetizing and if overused this color can be depressing and a bit cold.

Ideal for sleep and over active children, use blue in bedrooms, the bathroom, library, study, or the family room.

Orange

To the human eye orange is a very hot color combining the energy of red and the happiness of yellow.

Orange is warm and friendly and fosters a sense of home.

Deep oranges are rich in beauty and are associated with dependability and strength, while lighter hues represent comfort and the relieving of stress.

Orange increases the appetite, induces relaxation, promotes circulation and helps to relieve muscle cramps.

Rooms for orange could be the dining room, family room, a formal living room, the guest room, bathroom, and entryway.

Green

A preference to green shows a person who is a terrific listener with a natural curiosity.

Green is the color of nature and is soothing and calms. It is used in hospitals to relax patients. Aqua, a blue-green is associated with emotional healing and protection.

Green is a friendly and comfortable color, and the most restful color to the eye.

Dark green is conservative and associated with wealth and security. Lighter green represents new growth and a sense of renewal.

Color meanings for the green hue helps alleviate depression, nervousness and anxiety and lowers blood pressure.

Green works well in the bedrooms including the guest room, bathrooms, living and family rooms, a media room, a library and of course a garden room.

Purple

Combining the stability of blue with the energy of red, purple is sophisticated and associated with royalty, wealth, power and ambition.

Theatrical, spiritual and magical, purple provides a romantic and peaceful environment. Purple promotes inner strength, wisdom, kindness, artistic talent and creativity. But can also be considered artificial and decadent.

Lighter shades reflect innocence, imagination, femininity and a love for the aesthetic. It suppresses the appetite, relieves tension and is good for migraines.

Use purple in the bedroom, living room and the bathroom.

Pink is a celebration and if you love pink you have a genuine concern for others.

Lighter shades are associated with sweetness and can be calming but very pale pink sometimes is associated with lethargy.

Bright pink rooms are good in the playroom, but use a lighter pink in the guest room or bedroom.

Black

An affinity for black indicates that you're loyal and committed to all of your relationships. Lovers of black tend to be emotional and make decisions based on emotion rather than logic.

The color of drama, color meanings for black is associated with power, strength and authority. It is sleek and sophisticated and has elegance with a formality.

Black enlivens and contrasts with other bright colors.

In small quantities it stimulates, in larger quantities it can be oppressive and can quickly bring on a feeling of depression.

Use black in moderation and on accessory pieces and accent items.

White

Those who favor white are open to experiencing new things. White symbolizes purity, cleanliness and innocence.

Rooms for white are a guest room, entryways, the master bedroom, bathrooms, and a music room.

Brown

Brown is associated with the earth and implies sincerity and genuineness. It reduces irritability and mental tension.

Brown is a good choice for the study, a library, a media room and a guest room.

Gold/Bronze

If you love gold (and who doesn’t?) you have high hopes and ambitions and enjoy life to the fullest.

Gold evokes the feeling of prestige and illumination of wealth and often symbolizes high quality.

Silver Color Meanings

You long to be immersed in your own thoughts away from the busy world.

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