Yellow is vibrant and stands out almost anywhere it is placed. It’s a great color for a primary color scheme in a room or mix it with other neutral colors to give the space warmth and character. In this article, we’re going to look at the many ways to decorate with yellow as an artistic expression of your style choices. The right choice will be based on you and your own living space making each home uniquely its own … from the bold and bright to the light and airy. Deeply saturated hues found in the wild are on the rise and inspired by everything from tropical flowers to carbon. I hope you enjoy this post, Decorating with Yellow: 25 Ways to Use this Versatile Color, as we explore the different ways you might want to incorporate yellow into your home.
Yellow in the Living Room
Pantone’s Huge Influence on Trending Colors – Empire Yellow
The Pantone Color Institute is the authoritative body that highlights the top seasonal runway colors, selects the Pantone Color of the Year, forecasts global color trends, and advises companies on colors for product and brand visual identity. Through seasonal trend forecasts, color psychology, and color consulting, the Pantone Color Institute partners with global brands to effectively leverage the power, psychology, and emotion of color in their design strategy. Their spring and summer color palette includes an array of contrasting colors encouraging experimentation and individualistic expression. PANTONE 14-0756 Empire Yellow is at the center of it all. Empire Yellow is a luminescent yellow that radiates joyfulness.
Using Yellow in the Home’s Entrance
What is the Psychological Response to Yellow?
Yellow is associated with intellect and logic and has the ability to improve analytical thinking. It is also linked with cheerfulness, happiness, and optimism. It inspires hope, and enthusiasm, fostering a positive way of thinking, as well as a thirst for knowledge. Its creative capacity focuses on mental aspects, as it inspires new ways of thinking and acting. As a practical color, it directs our thoughts to finding solutions to problems, rather than encouraging daydreaming about ideal life.
It also helps with fast decision-making, especially in stressful situations, when a mind is clouded with thoughts. As a non-emotional color, yellow ignores emotions in complex situations, organizes thoughts, and quickly chooses between multiple options. Yellow also promotes energy, optimism, confidence, and fun. In addition, Yellow stands as a symbol of happiness and positivity. This is because the brain releases more serotonin than normal when a person is surrounded by the color yellow.
A Yellow color scheme is associated with sunshine, hope, laughter, warmth, happiness, and energy. It’s no wonder it’s near the top of the favorite color list to decorate a home with. A splash of yellow on anything dull or dark can make a person feel cheerful and optimistic.
Yellow in the Home Office or Reading Room
We tend to associate yellow with sunshine so it puts us into a bright and cheery frame of mind, making it a perfect color for the home office or library. It’s a shade that can work in a home office in its more muted, softer forms. Yellow inspires clear thinking as it stimulates the left side of the brain, but be mindful of how vibrant and bright it is.
A Yellow Color Scheme for the Kitchen & Dining Room
If your kitchen doesn’t get much natural light or could use some visual warmth, yellow is a perfect choice. It’s the most luminous shade and not too far from white but has the added benefit of chasing any chill. Use it to brighten up the space where you and your family gather, and fuel yourselves with a burst of sunshine. And don’t just think canary, but amber, autumn leaves, corn meal, and the mellow glow of a sunset. I don’t know about you, but I just love the yellow dinnerware and kitchen accessories that are available right now.
I hope you’ve enjoyed, or were inspired by this blog, Decorating with Yellow: 25 Ways to Use this Splashy Color. As always, we’d love to hear from you in the comment section below. If you subscribe to updates on the right, we’ll let you know when we have new articles posted on the blog. I’ve also posted some pins if you’d like to share them below.
Until next time …. Joy
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