10 Color Theory Basics Everyone Should Know

Most of us aren’t interior designers by trade and that’s okay. Whether you think of interior design as an enjoyable hobby or a necessary evil that helps keep YOUR home looking presentable, sometimes it can be tough to understand the industry lingo. After all, how often do you hear about Tertiary Colors, anyway?
So, today, we’re going back to basics. Gear up for a little Design 101. In this post, we’ll tackle color theory basics that every design enthusiast should know.

After you've read, make sure to store this link somewhere readily accessible. It’ll come in handy NEXT time you’re not quite sure whether you've chosen the right paint color.

1. How To Use The Color Wheel

Like trigonometry, the color wheel is probably ONE of those things that you learned about as a young child and haven’t thought of since. However, to really understand color, you may have to dust off some of that knowledge.

Simply put, the color wheel provides a visual representation of which colors blend nicely together. It removes all the guesswork, essentially. Most models are comprised of However, in theory, the color wheel could be expanded to include an infinite number of shades.

Don’t worry if you haven’t memorized the color wheel just yet. There are tons of ways to access it digitally. Paletton is a website that will let you create YOUR own color scheme from the comfort of your computer screen and ColorSchemer offers the same capabilities in an app that’s available for iphone.

2. What Are The Basic Colors

We bet some of you read the last paragraph and went, “12? How are there 12 colors in the color wheel? There are only 7 colors in the rainbow. “ True. But, trust us, there are, in fact, at least 12 shades on every color wheel. Here’s how things break down:

Primary Colors: Red, blue, and yellow. Cannot be made from mixing other colors.

Secondary Colors: Orange, Purple, and Green. Can be made by mixing the primary colors together.

Tertiary Colors: The six shades that can be made from mixing primary and secondary colors.

If you’re unsure of where to START when it comes to decorating a colorful interior, one of these 12 is often a good jumping off point. Pick one and it will help you narrow down your SELECTIONS until you settle on the exact shade that you love.

3. Changing Colors With Neutrals:

Once you’ve SELECTED a basic color, it’s easy to create many different versions within the same family. All you need to do is combine that color with a neutral in order to make it lighter or darker. In interior design parlance, this is known as tint, shade, and tone.

Tint: The act of lighting a color by adding white to it.

Shade: The act of darkening a color by adding black.

Tone: Slightly darkening a color by adding gray.

Many artists recommend experimenting with color by mixing paints until you have a feel for how drastically neutrals will affect a color. However, if you don’t have access to art supplies, you can easily see an example of tinting and shading by going to YOUR home improvement store and picking up a few of those sample color palettes.

4. Understanding Color Temperature

You may have heard colors described as having a temperature. A dining room may be decked out in warm tones while YOUR friend may have chosen a cool color to finish off her bedroom. These temperatures also describe where the color falls on the color wheel.

Reds, oranges, and yellows are often described as warm colors. They are typically more vibrant and seem to bring a sense of liveliness and intimacy to a space. In contrast, blues purples, and most greens are the cool colors. They can be used to calm down a room and bring a relaxed feel.

When CHOOSING color temperature for a space, you should also consider the size. Using a warm color in a tight room could make things feel a little claustrophobic. However, using cool colors in a spacious room could leave things feeling stark.

5. Complementary Color Scheme
When it comes to color schemes, complimentary is the simplest. It uses two colors that sit opposite each other on the color wheel. Typically ONE color acts as the dominant shade and the other as an accent. This means combinations like red and green, blue and orange, or yellow and purple.
This color combo is extremely high contrast, which means that it’s best used in small doses and when you want to draw attention to a particular design element. You could use it to make your powder room pop or to bring extra vibrancy to your HOME OFFICE.
If you CHOOSE a complimentary color scheme, you really need to embrace neutrals. They will provide a place for your eye to rest and keep you from becoming overwhelmed in the room.

6. Split-Complementary Color Scheme
If you like the idea of a complimentary color scheme, but are afraid it may be a little too bold for your tastes, split complimentary is a safer choice. To make this color scheme, you would first choose your base shade. Then, instead of CHOOSING the color directly opposite of your base, you chose the two shades on either side of the opposite color.
Those TWO shades will provide a much needed sense of balance to the room. You’ll still get the visual impact of bold color, but you’ll be able to incorporate more of it instead of relying heavily on neutrals to calm the space.
Split-complimentary works best when you use your base color as the dominant. However, instead of CHOOSING a saturated shade, try to focus on a color that is more muted. Then, go bold with your other two shades in the room’s accent pieces.

7. Analogous Color Scheme
The analogous color scheme refers to using three colors in a row on the color wheel. Typically, two colors will be either primary colors with the third shade being a mix of the two and a secondary color. For example, you could CHOOSE red, orange, and yellow or red, purple, and blue.
The key to using this color scheme successfully is proportion. Again, the 60-30-10 Rule comes into play. You’ll want to CHOOSE one color to be the dominant shade, one to support the dominant, and the third, most vibrant color as an accent.
Interestingly, you can also create a similar color scheme using neutrals. It’s typically referred to as a monochromatic color scheme. Simply CHOOSE black, white, and gray in lieu of brighter shades.

8. Triadic Color Scheme
Triadic color schemes, sometimes also referred to as a triad, refers to using THREE colors with equal space between them on the color wheel. The three primary colors (red, blue, and yellow) are a perfect example, as are the three secondary colors.
This type of color arrangement is often extremely bold. Since the colors are in such high contrast and pure hues are often used, you’ll most often see this scheme in children’s bedrooms or playroom areas.
When using colors that are this lively, it’s always important to consider the spaces that are nearby. You wouldn’t want to put two different triadic color schemes NEXT to each other. That would be too busy. Instead, make sure that the rooms next to your triadic space are calmer and mostly neutral.

9. Tetradic Color Scheme
After the triadic scheme, things get a little more complicated. We’re moving on to balancing four colors in the space. The tetradic scheme, also sometimes referred to as a rectangle scheme because of the shape it makes on the color wheel, focuses on using TWO distinct pairs of complimentary colors.
In this scheme, color temperature plays a very important role. Try to make sure that you CHOOSE two warm colors and two cool colors to fill the space rather than an odd number. Using an even amount of both will help bring balance to the space.
It’s also important to vary how we view the colors. Look for patterns that fall within your color scheme and don’t hesitate to mix them among your solid pieces. If you use all solids, the room will seem overly saturated, but too many patterns will clash, so focus on CHOOSING one or two to help break up the space.

10. Square color scheme
The square color scheme is very similar to rectangular in both number and name. It uses four shades, but instead of focusing on opposing pairs, the colors are evenly spaced throughout the color wheel.
No matter which colors you CHOOSE, this scheme will be comprised of one primary, one secondary and two tertiary colors. Vary the intensity of the four colors by making two shades more neutral and two a little bolder.
Again, similarly to the tetradic scheme, you’ll want to pay attention to achieving an equal number of warm and cool colors. But, rather than giving equal attention to both color pairs, you should pick one shade to dominate the space and use the other THREE as accents.

Sometimes interior design lingo can seem like its own language. No one could blame you if talking about furniture, layouts, and décor, makes your head spin. There are so many terms! In an effort to make design accessible to everyone, we’ve revisited some color theory basics. Use this as a guide before starting your NEXT project and you’ll be able to navigate it like a pro.

Did we miss any key color theory topics? Are there any other design fundamentals that you’d like us to explore? Let us know in the comments.

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Be Scam Smart

Hello everyone,  I received an interesting email sometime last month from someone by the name Adedayo (never going to be the real name)  the email reads thus...

Please we are sorry for the delays in making the payment. The Banks did not operate as a result of the holidays.Today we have remitted payment against the amount we owe. Find attached a copy of deposit slip for payment made to your account today. Kindly confirm the attached and acknowledge receipt of funds.

I knew what it was about immediately and decided to follow through. So I clicked on the attached htm file tagged as Bank teller.
I wasn't disappointed when it opened a yahoo mail page, requsting for my username and password.

     
So here is the thing. The game plan is to get gullebu people to think that someone is about to make a payment into your account, the moment you insert your user name and password, your account is hacked and all your information gone.

Watchout people, and have a great day. 

I Thought You Knew

Hello everyone, below are common misconceptions. This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Each misconception and the corresponding facts have been discussed in published literature. Note that each entry is formatted as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated.

• Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. Double-blind trials have shown no difference in behavior between children given sugar-full or sugar-free diets, even in studies specifically looking at children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or those considered sensitive to sugar.

• Humans cannot catch warts from toads or other animals; the bumps on a toad are not warts. Warts on human skin are caused by viruses that are unique to humans (human papillomavirus).

• Neither cracking one's knuckles nor exercising while in good health causes osteoarthritis.

• Alcoholic beverages do not make one warmer. The reason that alcoholic drinks create the sensation of warmth is that they cause blood vessels to dilate and stimulate nerve endings near the surface of the skin with an influx of warm blood. This can actually result in making the core body temperature lower, as it allows for easier heat exchange with a cold external environment.

• Eight glasses or two to three liters of water a day are not needed to maintain health. The amount of water needed varies by person (weight), activity level, clothing, and environment (heat and humidity). Water actually need not be drunk in pure form, but can be derived from liquids such as juices, tea, milk, soups, etc., and from foods including fruits and vegetables.

• It is a common misconception that hydrogen peroxide is a disinfectant or antiseptic for treating wounds.

While it is an effective cleaning agent, hydrogen peroxide is not an effective agent for reducing bacterial infection of wounds. Furthermore, hydrogen peroxide applied to wounds can impede healing and lead to scarring because it destroys newly formed skin cells.

And finally,

• The Quran does not promise martyrs 72 virgins in heaven. It does mention virgin companions, houri, to all people—martyr or not—in heaven, but no number is specified. The source for the 72 virgins is a hadith in Sunan al-Tirmidhi by Imam Tirmidhi. Hadiths are sayings and acts of the prophet Mohammed as reported by others, and as such they are not part of the Quran itself. Muslims are not meant to necessarily believe all hadiths, and that applies particularly to those hadiths that are weakly sourced, such as this one. Furthermore, the correct translation of this hadith is a matter of debate.

This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive, watch this space for a more comprehensive list in my next edition of 'I Thought You Knew'

Have a wonderful weekend!

Today at Work #180914

Hi everyone, here are few of the 3D designs i did in the past weeks, they are for various clients and they range from bedroom to kitchen designs. Enjoy

      

bedroom in Piemount cherry laminate

kitchen cabinet in Sienna calvado laminate

bedroom with panelled walk-in-closet

Hotel room in Romana cherry & Tobacco aida laminate

kitchen cabinets in Piemount cherry laminate

Bedroom with 4 x 6

Color Blocking In Home Decor – Tips And Inspirations

You’ve seen it all over the runways and now color blocking is transitioning from  the fashion scene into the realm of home decor. Here’s how to use this vibrant trend to add modern flair to your living space in just no time.

Ever since Yves St. Laurent interpreted Mondrian’s cubist compositions on a woolen dress, color blocking has periodically made a comeback to the runways. And it was only a matter of time until interior designers found the trend incredibly captivating. Today color blocking is not just for clothes anymore – it has moved from hauteur couture ateliers to our homes and makes heaps of a difference with its bold splashes of geometric color.

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What is actually color blocking?

Color blocking is a striking trend that has periodically returned to catwalks since the ‘70s, and is currently extending from the world of fashion to home décor and event design. It is done by pairing bold colors with no particular concern of necessarily matching them with any reason. The idea is to use contrasting blocks of solid color rather than stripes, textures or patterns, hence the name. While it is hypersaturated mixes that lie at the heart of  color-blocking, subtler versions are also possible, which makes the trend quite flexible and universal.

About the color choices

You may think color blocking is too bold an option – because that’s the first impression we get looking at the most popular color-blocked designs – but it is not necessarily true. The trend can be used to create both sophisticated and fun looks, and while it is perhaps most stunning in dazzling color combinations, it is not all about striking contrasts and looks beautiful in subtle, monochromatic versions, too. In other words, the possibilities are endless, from mild to wild.

Mild

The easiest way to take advantage of color blocking for a subtle effect is to keep everything within the same color family, i.e. to choose different hues of the same color, such mint cream, pistachio and sea green or pale pink, French rose and amaranth. You can also use colors from different families, where two could be neutrals and one could be a brighter shade. Color-blocking looks best when used upon neutral bases, so if your space is predominantly “pale”, it only works to your favor.

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 Wild
Color blocking is a dream trend for those who really want to make a statement. Make it wild and neon if you dare, but remember the design can turn overwhelming if there are too many dazzling shades competing for attention. While it’s okay to pair three intense colors, the safest formula that guarantees harmony and good balance is “one bright, one bold, one neutral”. This way you will maximize the impact of each color and avoid blinding your guest. The combination should attract attention, but remain easy on the eye.

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If you’re not confident choosing colors that work, try to find inspiration around you. Perhaps you could use a palette in your favorite piece of artwork? Flip through magazines for colors combinations that resonate with you or browse the web for palette ideas. Design Seeds is a good place to start, and so are the photo sharing services such as Pinterest, Indulgy or Dwellinggawker.

Walls

Not scared to make a dramatic statement and thinking of a big splash of color on your walls? Color blocking may be just the technique you’re looking for. One way to incorporate the trend is to paint one or two accent walls in your favorite contrasting shades and scatter complementary items throughout the room to tie it together.

Another popular trend is to select zones on a wall or ceiling and paint geometric shapes that stand out from the main wall color. It is a relatively easy project to carry out, but do pay attention to detail and prepare well before you grab the paintbrush. Measure your shape on the wall, drawing very lightly with a pencil. Then use painter’s tape to make sure the lines will be perfectly straight and apply small amounts of paint so it does not seep outside the lines. If you want to paint circles or other shapes with curved lines, it’s best to use a stencil.

Furniture

Pops of color used in pieces of furniture always make high impact on the overall décor, even if it’s just one bright chair or a table lamp. The key to making color-block makeovers successful is to give them a proper background. Whether it’s a designer piece or an old flea market find that you give new life to, they will enhance your rooms a great deal if you use them upon neutral bases.

Wallpapering or painting the interiors of cabinets or shelves in alternating hues is a fun way to work a good dose of color blocking into your décor.

You don’t need to limit yourself to just two or three shades. This kitchen is a stunning example of how color blocking can transform a bland, simplistic space into a totally unique, artful design. The cabinets bring in tons of personality and fanciful rhythm, but the white backdrop keeps them from looking circusy. Sometimes “going all out” is what makes all the difference.

Of course, you can always take the ambitious road and use a color wheel, the trend is all about fun so enjoy it!

Article Credit: www.decorlove.com

The Future is here!

I want you to meet the future of interior furniture now!
Introducing Ready-to-assemble furniture (RTA), also known as knock-down furniture (KD) or flat pack furniture, is a form of furniture that requires customer assembly. Several to many furniture components are packaged in a carton which also contains assembly instructions and necessary hardware needed for the buyer to follow in order to build the furniture item correctly.

Ready-to-assemble furniture is popular among consumers who wish to save money on their furniture purchases by assembling the product on their own and no need for delivery cost. In addition to saving the consumer money, flat pack furniture is generally simple to assemble and requires only the use of simple tools. As such, assembling it may be fun and provide the consumer with a sense of accomplishment.

Side Stool

Reading Table

Wardrobe

Hanging Shelf

Tv Unit

Merchants benefit from selling ready-to-assemble furniture because furniture that is already assembled tends to be bulky and more expensive to store and to deliver. Since the furniture does not need to be assembled in the factory, ready-to-assemble furniture is also less expensive for the merchant to purchase. Due to these many factors, selling flat pack furniture is a more cost-effective method of conducting business.

Ready-to-assemble furniture is typically packaged in a kit form with the pieces packaged in one or multiple boxes. The kit may contain a number of flat parts, fasteners, fixings, and other parts that are needed to assemble the furniture.

The furniture assembly industry has grown up around ready-to-assemble furniture and consumers can engage a service provider to come to their home and assemble the furniture they have purchased.

Center Table

Open Cabinet

Shoe Rack

Dining Table

Contact us today for your various RTA furniture items, they can be purchased for a number of purposes such as:
Living room furniture
Office furniture
Bookcases
Tables
Beds
Lounge-ware
Swingsets
Patio sets
CD/DVD storage racks
Wardrobes/Closets

I Thought You Knew

Today, i skipped all protocols and i decided to bring  'I Thought You Knew' on a Tuesday! This is a snippet of what to expect on Friday. Enjoy

• Black Box

Airplane accidents are statistical rarities. But when they happen, they're often fatal, and people want answers as to why their loved ones died.

There are usually many unanswered questions as to what brought the plane down. Investigators turn to the airplane's flight data recorder (FDR) and cockpit voice recorder (CVR), also known as "black boxes," for answers.

The strange thing here is that the box is orange in color and not black.

• Greenland

Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat [kaˈlaːɬit ˈnunaːt]) is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physio-graphically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and later Denmark) for more than a millennium.

Greenland is, in area, the world's largest island, over three-quarters of which is covered by the only contemporary ice sheet outside of Antarctica. With a population of 56,370 (2013), it is the least densely populated country in the world.

There seems to be anything really green about the greenland. Wondering where they got the name.

Greenland

• Red Sea

The Red Sea, or what is sometimes called the Etyhraean Sea, is a sea water inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.

So how did the Red Sea get it's name? Theories abound, but no one knows for sure.

It could be from the red-hued "sea sawdust" a type of bacterial that grows near the water's surface. Some historian believe the Red Sea is named for the Himyarites, a group who once lived along it's shores.

Red Sea

See you on Friday.......

Wash the Virus, kill the Germ!

I never wanted to talk on this infamous virus until recently when a friend came over to my place and he fabed (to take a friends possession without permission) my hand sanitizer which a dear friend gave to me at this perilous time. So after some minutes of thinking, i thought about something, i am using the hand sanitzer to protect my self against the most deadly virus around, but does it really do the protection job?

i'll let you be the judge of that.

Hand Sanitizer

Antibacterial hand sanitizers are marketed to the public as an effective way to "wash one's hands" when traditional soap and water are not available. These "waterless" products are particularly popular now with the emergence of the deadly Ebola virus. Manufacturers of hand sanitizers claim that the sanitizers kill 99.9 percent of germs. Since you naturally use hand sanitizers to cleanse your hands, the assumption is that 99.9 percent of harmful germs are killed by the sanitizers. Research studies suggest that this is not the case.

Germ (jerm)
1. a pathogenic microorganism.
2. a living substance capable of developing into an organ, part, or organism as a whole; a primordium.

A germ is a pathogen or infectious agent is a biological agent that causes disease or illness to its host. The term is most often used for agents that disrupt the normal physiology of a multicellular animal or plant. However, pathogens can infect unicellular organisms from all of the biological kingdoms. The term pathogen is derived from the Greek παθογένεια, "that which produces suffering."

Virus /vi·rus/ (vi´rus) [L.] a minute infectious agent which, with certain exceptions, is not resolved by the light microscope, lacks independent metabolism and is able to replicate only within a living host cell; the individual particle (virion) consists of nucleic acid (nucleoid) DNA or RNA (but not both)?and a protein shell (capsid), which contains and protects the nucleic acid and which may be multilayered.

Antibiotics CANNOT KILL viruses
A virus is an infectious agent, smaller than bacteria, which requires the cells of a living organism to grow or reproduce. Viruses cause a variety of infectious diseases, among them the common cold, diarrhea, chicken pox, yellow fever, most childhood respiratory diseases and the majority of infections of the upper respiratory passages.

In my own opinion:

I am not against the use of hand sanitizer, but thinking it does the job of protection against Ebola virus is wrong. The best way to protect ourselves from the virus is washing of hands with soap and water, after which you can still still apply your hand sanitizer to give your hands nice scent and fight off germs.

A hand sanitizer can not and should not take the place of proper cleansing procedures with soap and water.

Be smart, Be safe, Be healthy.