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Readers Respond: My Favourite Colors for Home Decor and Why I Like Them

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What colors make you feel most comfortable, happy and content in your home? Have you tried several colors before deciding on your current wall color? Do you like to experiment with color? What are your favourite colors and how do they make you feel? Share Your Color Choices

My room is..........

My room is puple but i'm gettin' a bit sick of it what would be the best colour?
—Guest Hiya

hollea

clear shades of yellow, although clear golds are difficult to find. These colours promote a sense of peace, relaxation, contentment for me, particularly when BLENDED with red to rose tints.
—PatriciaGG6288

the colorof my bedroom

My room is a teal green. Is this to dark or wrong color for a bedroom. I love the color. Reading the article it says use color of skin tones. Should I repaint ?
—Guest Rachel

COLORS TO USE OUTSIDE MY HOUSE

I LIKE FOR THE BODY: YELLOW (PYRAMID GOLD), TRIM:WHITE AND FOR THE FRONT DOOR GREEN (AMAZON JUNGLE)
—Guest MEBRITT3

favorite color combination

dark brown and chartreuse. i have this in my hallway and the chartreuse is a real eye opener, the brown grounds the color. it feels happy and alive.
—Guest kari dandrea

blue on one side of bedroom?

I love green, black but not on the wall,i have put blue on one side of the wall in my bedroom, is that ok? (south side)
—Guest arshaad

Color Choices

I have a red couch and purple chairs, but muted lolor pictures on my walls. Is this okay to mix?
—Guest DJ

Share Your Color Choices

I choose my living room (f/wall)to be paint with brown colour..is that ok?
—Guest haslinda

my bedroom

My bedroom wall colour is off white. Head of bed is in the south. Hope this is good feng shui.
—Guest Lalani

colors

I have chose bedroom colors of our new home as follows: different shades of brown colors, peach, light green, soft yellow, maroon. Hope that doesn;t create bad feng shui.
—Guest amar

colors

Red,green,and blue. I enjoy bright colors in clothes and around the house.
—Guest nancy

Colors to paint a bedroom

Well I'm 16 years-old and I'm decorating my bedroom. The colors a want to use are pink, yellow, or purple.
—Guest Karen

color choice

I love blue, yellow, pink and I'm starting to love green, all shades of green.
—KarenelaineSchmeling

My Coloured Interpretation

When using dark red, and maroon as a base on the walls it turns on the passion switch. If cream, forest green and yellow and white are used together it feels to me like my Nanny's Garden where we hung up laundry. When the walls are black with bright examples of textiles , pictures, and Assortment/Oriental/Jewelry type things, it helps me brainstorm, dance, gives me inspiration, joy, reminds me there are endless possibilities and dares me to dream. Yes, it depends on what I am going for, what reflects this or what aspect or way of life is for me. It brings up memories though at times, may trigger anxiety, a scattered and unfocused state of being, so I like to change the room 360 about once a month or so.
—Guest Sky Alexander

Spanish Sunset

I got really inspired from this one picture: http://floriandra.deviantart.com/art/Golden-sommer-day-37991696 I wanted to try to use a more golden/sand color of the sky on 3 walls, then make a rich red pop on the 4th focal-wall, but I don't know if it'll all look cooperative. The gold-enhanced version of the sky would probably look more like this, if not just basically a neutral sand color: http://floriandra.deviantart.com/art/The-other-dimension-101552151 I hope these colors could work with a feng shui room; I have plans for the walls to be based off those two colors, then have dark coffee-tone furniture with silver accents, and just make the room look really classic yet edgy--because I'm a rocker girl, but I like things to look mature and artistic.
—Guest Torik5

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