Play with color for your decoration !

On these dull and cold winter days, we want to renew our decor more than ever to feel good at home. To boost your interior decor, there's nothing like playing with color! Here we offer some tips for choosing the right colors and using them wisely.

Choose the right colors

The choice of colors for its interior decoration can be influenced by its own tastes, by the seasons or by current trends. To make the right choice of color, it's important to decide whether you want to make lasting changes or just accessorize your interior with a few pops of color that you can then change easily.

If you want major changes, it can mean radically transforming a room, especially by deciding to repaint it, either in full or on a section of the wall. This will bring a different atmosphere to your whole room and even give a different perception of the pieces of furniture installed there. Once done, it's up to you to see if the set is right for you or if you need to add new elements, in the same tones as the chosen color, to create a monochrome and an even more harmonious atmosphere.

To help you choose the right color in a sustainable way, it can be useful to look at the symbolism of colors and especially the impact of colors on our perceptions and on our moods. If color psychology is by no means an exact science and the effect produced by colors also depends on our culture and our history, there are however proven points which show that, very often, our perception of colors and their impact on our mood are inspired by the perception of colors in nature.

Thus, the blue evoking the blue of the sky, is a soothing and relaxing color. Conversely, red, and bright colors in general, would stimulate strong emotions and lead us to the side of energy instead. Yellow, which is deeply positive, would be preferred to increase confidence; finally green, symbol of the state of nature par excellence, refers us to abundance, harmony and renewal ... Depending on the rooms you want to transform and the activities you are going to practice there, choose the appropriate shade . It is therefore not recommended to use bright colors in a bedroom.

Use color by touch

If you do not want to make a radical change in your decoration, or if you like to regularly change the atmosphere of your interior spaces, the best solution is to choose only a few points of color, via cushions, lights ... that you can easily replace when you feel like it.

This solution, easy to implement, can easily be renewed at each change of season where, in addition to color variations, you can also play on the choice of materials: soft and comforting in winter; fresh and light for summer.

You can then adopt several strategies.

You can favor a color or a colored range that you like at the time; thus creating an elegant atmosphere in monochrome. It is not obligatory, and often impossible to have only one identical shade, since the colors render differently according to the materials: the same red on a lampshade and on a fabric will not be perceived exactly at the same time. 'identical. It is therefore preferable to favor a palette of shades in the same range of colors but all a little different in order to create a richness and a diversity of perception.

Another solution is to integrate dots of different colors in the same space. Without necessarily resorting to bright colors, this will give dynamism to your decoration and can boost the atmosphere of your room.

For example, the range of Enri coat hooks, inspired by the quintessential colorist painter Henri Matisse, will draw on your wall an abstract colorful pattern of rather muted tones. You can then use these different colors on other decorative accessories to create a harmonious and refined whole.

In any case, color truly brings a contemporary dimension to an interior. It is then up to you to choose the degree of contemporaneity that you want to give to your decoration: it will be more moderate if you choose colored touches in a decoration of mainly wooden rooms; and more radical if you decide to also use colored furniture or combine colored pieces with graphic furniture, in black or white. It's always about finding the right measure and atmosphere that suits your temperament and the purpose of the room.

For an original decorative effect, it is often enough to find one or two very marked colored pieces which will give all its identity to the piece: either by the liveliness of the color, or by their size, these very characteristic elements go become the centerpiece of your decoration and sign, by color , the original dimension of your decoration.