Yellow color symbolizes a feeling of warmth and sunny comfort.
Modern designers prefer to use yellow to decorate living spaces.
The room turns out to be a fairly bright and comfortable space. It's a pleasure to be here and have family gatherings.
The living room in yellow light allows you to plunge into an atmosphere of lightness and unsurpassed comfort.
The intensity of the color palette can be adjusted based on the age category.
For older people, light yellow shades are considered the most suitable. Bright and rich colors are suitable for the younger generation.
The main advantages of yellow
The color yellow has a number of benefits that have a positive effect on the human subconscious. These include:
- charges with a positive mood;
- has a tonic effect on a person’s psychological subconscious;
- increases performance;
- allows you to unleash your creative skills.
Quite often, creative and ambitious people prefer a warm palette.
Notes of joy and enthusiasm
You can use yellow as a background or just as a rich accent, you can do both. This approach to color will appeal to those who love a palette of sunny, joyful colors: from lemon to dark yellow, which are reminiscent of the beginning of dawn.
Bold stripes of bright color in combination with other colors besides black will become an extremely interesting option. But you can only leave rugs or sofa cushions with such sunny colors.
Combination of yellow with other colors
Modern technologies make it possible to obtain a fairly diverse color spectrum of shades of yellow. All shades of the pastel palette are considered an excellent combination.
Many designers prefer to choose the safe option of beige and light yellow.
You can add bright accents using a more saturated tone. Mustard textiles against a neutral color scheme add an element of luxury to the living room space.
You can complement the interior with snow-white decorative elements. These can be figurines, vases or beautiful photo frames.
Darker tones of cool shades create a unique design.
Experienced designers advise combining dark blue and purple colors. Yellow in this composition adds a bit of warmth to a dark interior.
Tips for proper design
- If there are a lot of brown surfaces in the living room, then you need to use materials with different textures and patterns. The same design with the same type of textures threatens to make the room faceless and blurry. Brown color makes it possible to combine materials such as wood, stone, leather, brick, skins, mats and others;
- This color is perfect for luxurious interiors; it looks soft and elegant together with gold, glass, fur, and harmonizes with expensive fabrics and crystal. In the old days, estates and rich houses were often decorated in this shade. Therefore, today brown color also characterizes the desire for high prices and excesses, preventing rooms from looking tasteless and pretentious;
- It is not recommended to combine brown with gray. Combinations with black and purple will also be unsuccessful.
Living room decoration
Excessive amounts of yellow color can cause prolonged depression. In order not to overload the interior space of the living room, it is recommended to use a sunny shade as bright accents and decorative elements.
Furniture in neutral colors (gray, tan or white) helps complement the cozy atmosphere of the reception area.
The walls should have a pastel color. A yellow carpet adds a pop of color to your living room.
Textiles in warm shades of yellow (mustard, lemon) sets a positive mood for the entire interior space.
In the reception area, just add a few accent pieces to create a stylish stop.
Psychology of color
Colors have a strong influence on people, and this is due to the associative series.
To explain our own attitude towards the color yellow, it is enough to remember where it catches our eye most often. And Mother Nature loves him very much. Yellow is the rays of the sun, dandelion fields, sand dunes, ripe bananas, exotic birds and fish. It exudes warmth, attracts attention, and in its brightest shades literally screams and is insolent. This is the difficulty of using yellow color in interiors: it will never agree to play second roles and, being in excess, will quickly get boring, or even completely reduce the design concept to bad taste.
Psychologists have discovered interesting properties of this color:
- invigorates, inspires optimism and sets you up for productive work;
- promotes concentration and memorization of large amounts of information;
- makes any room seem lighter, warmer and more comfortable, visually expands the walls and raises the ceilings.
Sociable, active, expressive, self-confident people, whose lives are filled with movement and bright emotions, feel good in yellow rooms. But for those prone to melancholy, calm and thoughtful natures, yellow walls will put pressure on the psyche, irritate and even provoke headache attacks.
The photo shows a stylish living room, where the yellow color of the walls is repeated in furniture and decorative elements and contrasts well with black details
What furniture to choose?
Furniture for the living room should be selected in accordance with the chosen stylistic direction. The classic style is characterized by the presence of natural solid wood in the interior space. The color scheme is made in light yellow or dark shade.
For a high-tech style, it is recommended to choose multifunctional furniture accessories that will save space. The surface of such objects has a leathery or dense texture.
The yellow set adds sophistication to the living room design.
As for the fittings, it should have a large number of chrome elements. The legs of a furniture design can be thin or, on the contrary, massive.
Selection of brown wallpaper and accessories
Choosing the finish for a brown living room makes you think a little if you choose a rather rich tone as the main color. As a rule, the main emphasis is placed on the wallpaper - brown coverings in the living room should be chosen carefully and carefully.
Most often, the floor in any room is made darker, but in a room in a coffee color scheme everything can be different: light wood-colored flooring will be harmonious even if the walls and furniture are more saturated.
Much depends on the area, lighting and geometry of the room:
- If there is sufficient illumination in the large hall, you can choose an exceptional photo design for the living room in brown tones. These are stunning landscapes - summer, autumn, sea, mountain. This includes macro photography - small branches, small buds, shells.
- Elegant wallpaper for the living room in a chocolate palette can be plain - for an accent wall or with a pattern in a classic, geometric, abstract style.
- Brown wallpaper in the living room interior can be more neutral - light, universal, background . There is room here for both monochrome solutions and ornamental designs. In the first case, a gradient design is appropriate for the original arrangement of the hall with the play of light and shadow. The presence of drawings on the walls determines the nature of the composition. Large ornate patterns with a floral hint are the priority of a classic interior. A small flower is a choice in country and Provence style. The stripe is in English design.
An accent wall can be a wall that does not catch the eye when relaxing in the living room - behind the sofa. Even a dark surface opposite the window will look less bulky. The choice of finishing for the remaining sides depends on the geometry of the hall.
It is advisable to “spread” a narrow room visually. To do this, choose a horizontal strip. In the same way, choose wallpaper for a room with dark brown furniture - here it is important to create an absolutely neutral background that will seem weightless. And the bright accents in such a living room can be different, although a sense of proportion should be observed. For example, when choosing milky or beige wall coverings and rich chocolate furniture, you should use a couple of more eye-catching details.
If the style involves a larger number of accessories, you should choose those in the color of the furniture or walls, otherwise the space will be overloaded, and even the most elegant color in the design will be ruined.
Among the mandatory details that no room can do without are brown curtains and curtains.
Here you can use interesting combinations:
- Brown tulle in the living room interior can be matched to the lightest or, conversely, the darkest finish . Thicker curtains can be in the same color with bright accents. But, as a rule, this is the exception rather than the rule.
- Most often, dark, thick curtains with neutral curtains that blend in with the trim are chosen . This option fits organically into modernity, classicism, and contemporary. In this range, you can choose aristocratic gray-beige canvases with a chocolate frame, caramel-coral with café-au-lait curtains, violet curtains with curtains in a mocha shade.
- Curtains can be bright - in the accent color, but with an addition in the background shade . Turquoise curtains with chocolate drapes, green grass curtains with thick coffee linens look rich.
- Terracotta curtains look luxurious against the background of light brown floors and walls, but with dark chocolate furniture and details.
You can find many options for combining brown with other neutral, pastel or bright shades, and all of them will be interesting, sophisticated, and elegant. This is facilitated by the versatility of the earthy palette - harmonious natural duets, modern solutions in the shade of coffee, chocolate, cocoa with other “food” tones - caramel, milk, shortbread. All this together turns out warm, aromatic and, of course, delicious.
Yellow as decoration
Various details made in a sunny palette help to dilute the light white living room. Yellow curtains or drapes create an unrivaled ambience in a room's design.
The presence of additional tiebacks of a darker shade acts as a bright accent. You can supplement the composition using:
- floor vase;
- a beautiful lamp;
- paintings in a bright yellow frame.
As you can see, everything is quite simple. The main thing in the decorating process is not to overdo it with bright colors.
A competent combination of colors guarantees the desired result.
Examples in the interior of rooms
The living room gives this color probably the widest scope for expression. Pale yellow tones are ideal for walls, while more saturated ones are ideal for furnishings and decor. Since this room is the “face” of the house, feel free to choose all kinds of yellow accessories for it: rugs, flowerpots, paintings, pillows, floor lamps.
A bedroom in yellow tones, especially bright ones, is a dubious decision. This is the color of intelligence, motor activity and ebullient energy, and in the bedroom both the brain and the body should relax. Although, many people like pleasant pastel shades of yellow and do not at all interfere with a restful sleep.
A children's room is traditionally decorated in bright, cheerful colors, especially if we are no longer talking about a baby, but about a tomboyish preschooler. So some rich yellow elements will be quite appropriate, but you shouldn’t completely paint the walls in this color - it will disturb the child and prevent him from getting ready to relax in the evenings.
The kitchen is truly an ideal haven for any shades of yellow, not only the acidic ones, favored by fans of hi-tech and minimalism. Many products have a natural yellowish color (cereals, beans, butter, fruits and vegetables), and the interior in “edible” colors has a positive effect on appetite and inspires delicious cooking.
The bathroom is another suitable springboard for yellow. Entering such a room early in the morning, you will instantly wake up, recharge with vigor and positivity, and set yourself up for a fruitful working day. However, it is better to dilute the yellowness with a white or light gray background.
Surely there are people who, under no circumstances, would decide to use yellow in the design of their home. At the same time, there are devoted fans of this sunny, life-affirming color, ready to surround themselves with it to the maximum. If you are one of them, go for it!
