Home Painting
Does Furniture Color Affect Room Lighting?
The short answer is, yes, furniture color will affect room lighting. The color of your furniture will affect the lightness or darkness in a room, and it will also influence the best lighting choices for that room.
The other major factor that has an effect on room lighting is the size of the room. Bigger rooms can usually support a lot of darkness, where as little rooms often need a lot of light in order to feel larger and less claustrophobic.
Dark Furniture, Big Room
Big rooms can start to seem too large and impersonal when decorated with too many light colors. By decorating a room with darker colored furniture, especially in darker browns, reds or blues, you make the setting seem more intimate.
To keep the room feeling cozy and intimate, light the room with many little lamps and light sources, rather than just using a few more powerful light sources. In the evening, these little lamps placed all over the room will create pockets of warm light for the perfect setting where you could curl up and read a book.
Dark Furniture, Little Room
Furniture in dark, saturated colors can make a little room seem very small indeed. Try lightening the room by creatively placing lighting and decorative candles opposite mirrors. Decorate with bright lamps with white lampshades, rather than lamps with darker lamp shades. Finally, during the day, let in as much daylight as possible by using sheer or light filtering curtains in a lighter color rather than darker curtains. Read the rest of this entry »
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What Color Brightens a Basement Room?
Don’t think a dark basement has to stay that way. You can use color to brighten it up so you won’t even remember how dark it used to be. The trick to working with color is using shades that are bright without being bold. When you find the right color, you’ll love your transformed basement so much, you’ll want to spend more time there.
Yellow
Nothing beats yellow for warm and inviting and this combination is just right for a dark basement. Go with a pale shade to keep the room feeling light. Sunny yellow is lively because it looks and feels like sunlight. Pale shades of yellow are warm but not overwhelming. Darker flooring helps ground the room and a light-colored rug will help bring harmony.
Sage
Sage is surprisingly soothing in appearance and it’s bright enough to bring light and energy into a dark basement. Sage’s green and gray hue mix with every color in the rainbow and it also matches every kind of decorating style.
To keep the light mood going in your basement, look for light-colored furniture. If your basement is small, paint your trim the same color as the walls. A larger basement will feel brighter with trim painted lighter than the wall color. Read the rest of this entry »