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Use Your Decor to Make Your Home Feel Warm
Wall color always has a lot to do with the warmth of a room. Bold colors with lots of warmth are getting even more popular – especially oranges, brick-reds and fuchsia. It may be daunting to do a whole room in these colors, so even doing just a focal wall in one of these colors would help do the trick. Lighting is also very important in ensuring the coziness of a room. Of course, ambient lighting such as candlelight will add the most warmth but task lighting is also …
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Turn Winter Blahs into Winter Blues with Colour
Painting “feel-good” colours on your walls may help get you through the cold, says PARA Paints Feel the need to escape this winter? Create your own getaway by surrounding yourself with soothing colours, and the feeling may pass. That’s the message of leading architectural paint brand PARA Paints. "Colour is a powerful tool to create mood in a room, and the notion of colour therapy takes this one step further. Discover how you can use colour to actually feel better in a …
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The Voice of Colour: PPG’s 2012 / 2013 Colour Trends
PPG’s 2012 / 2013 colour trend forecast calls for an awakening of the senses, a new positiveness, a search for increased intensity, and a sense of luxuriousness.
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CMG Names 2012 Colour of the Year
If you’re planning ahead for 2012 and want to know what is happening in terms of colours, the Color Marketing Group (CMG) suggests Boyz-N-Berry, a “deep rich purple with slight red undertones. It is mature and elegant yet has a youthful edginess. It reflects our changing mindset on so many issues — off centre and unconventional, spiritual, meditative yet impulsive. It is serene and in control.” It is also able to blur the line, being both masculine and feminine and appealing to everyone.
