Color Schemes: For Every Room
Jun 9th, 2009 | By Aisling | Category: Feng Shui books
Feng Shui recommends different colors for each area of your home or business.
However, to do that, you may need advice beyond standard Feng Shui books.
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Annie Sloan’s Color Schemes: For Every Room can make your home or office look as if you’ve hired a professional decorator.
Let’s say that you’re working on your Fame and Reputation area. That’s what visitors usually see first when they enter your home or office. Red is recommended, but… then what? Many people get stuck at this point.
In Annie Sloan’s lavishly illustrated book, you can start at the “Reds Plus” page and choose a color theme.
For example, if you’d like a Pacific Islands look, start with Hibiscus Red–a slightly orange-ish red–and accent it with Gauguin Blue, a greyish medium blue.
Next, turn to the Pacific Islands section of the book and see lots of other colors that will work well with your basic red and blue “islands” theme. You may want to add Banana Leaf Green, Lagoon Blue, Guava Orange, or Mango Yellow.
If these colors don’t sound familiar, the book shows good, large swatches. You can take the book to the paint or home furnishings store to match the looks that you like.
If you’d prefer an African Visions theme for your Fame area, Ms. Sloan suggests starting with Ghana Red and Clearwater Green.
If you like antiques, choose the Neoclassical colors of Aubusson Pink and a lovely bamboo shade of brown called Sandstone.
All of those color combinations can work well in your Fame area.
But, this book shows you more than fame colors.
For your Feng Shui Money area — that’s the back left corner of your room, home or office — colors are really important.
Don’t overload that corner with purples! Instead, you might choose an Elizabethan Pageant theme, and a muted Lavender Sachet shade, accented by a lovely pale Cambridge Blues.
If you favor vivid colors from the coast of France, Ms. Sloan offers an Impressionist palette.
Or, Mambo Carnival colors may jazz up an otherwise sedate or dark corner.
This book helps me to break out of the “crayon box colors” approach to Feng Shui. I’m using this book when decorating, but also for innovative color combinations in my art and photography.
If you’re working with color for any reason, I highly recommend Annie Sloan’s Color Schemes: For Every Room. It’s one of the most useful books in my Feng Shui bookcase.
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