Warm dining room colors create a calming, intimate atmosphere.
Your choice of paint color for the dining room, although a matter of personal taste, can influence the atmosphere and visual appeal of the room. Selecting a color palette that is warm and calming encourages conversation. Bright colors can spark passion and affect the appetite of diners. On the other hand, a poor choice of paint colors for the dining area can leave your family and guests feeling uneasy.
Work With Your Furniture
Select a paint palette that complements the style of your furnishings. Literature and pictures from the library, home-improvement stores and online home-decor sites offer suggestions for paint colors that complement dining room furniture styles, from Victorian to mission style, to contemporary. Within the selections for each style are various color palettes that are suited for formal or informal dining.
Color and Mood
Color is powerful. Although specialists disagree on the psychological affect of specific colors, sufficient evidence moves businesses to paint their walls in colors meant to influence moods. Because hot colors like red and orange are believed to be visually stimulating, incite passion and increase the appetite, they are rarely used in jails and prisons. For the same reason, red, orange and gold are often seen in pubs, restaurants and casinos. Blues and greens are believed to be the most calming colors, but not necessarily the best for dining areas. Warm colors from the red part of the spectrum reflect an attractive hue on the faces of diners.
The Wrong Colors
After narrowing down your options by considering your furnishings and desired positive psychological effect of the color of your walls, know which colors to avoid if you want to create an appealing dining and entertaining atmosphere. Blue and turquoise are believed to inhibit the appetite, possibly because blue foods are so rarely seen in nature. Both gray and blue, reflected on diners and food, reflect an unappealing hue. Since bright yellow may be overstimulating, warmer hues of yellow may be better suited for dining.
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