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" Did you know that red stirs the appetite, while blue lulls you to sleep? Color has a potent emotional effect on all of us, so choose your hues wisely to stimulate different moods. Your style selections for each room should cater to the feelings you want to evoke. In the early 1900s, government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses hired color consultants to dictate the perfect palettes for everything man-made, from office cubicles to condiment packaging. Thanks to experts like Faber Birren, the best-known color guru of that era, hospital operating rooms are typically painted a pale green for its soothing effect, and many products on supermarket shelves are red, because this is an attention-getting color. Hues were chosen based on their capacity to produce a desired outcome, such as increased productivity by workers, improved safety, and better sales. Birren carried color analysis into the home, and dubbed his study of mood-altering hues &amp;quot;psychodecor.&amp;quot; While his term never quite caught on, the idea of using color to enhance your comfort did; it&amp;#039;s still one of the easiest home improvements you can make. Bring out Your Social Side: Warm Hues The warm portion of the color spectrum-which includes reds, oranges, and yellows-caters to our social side. Use these energizing hues in rooms where you tend to gather and entertain. You&amp;#039;ll find red is especially hot in dining rooms as it stimulates both appetite and conversation, and flatters your guests in a rosy light. While extroverts tend to gravitate toward warm colors and won&amp;#039;t hesitate to use the brightest ones just about anywhere in the home, the more timid among us go for warmth in smaller doses, like a peach-tinted powder room, for example. When used in transitional spaces, such as entryways or halls, strong reds, oranges, and yellows can give you a quick burst of energy. Instead of applying these powerful colors to the largest spaces, reserve them for fun accessories and accent pieces. And it&amp;#039;s easy to turn down the heat of a yellow, orange, or red room with complementary bursts and splashes of violet, blue, or green as a secondary palette choice. More: Free Daily Horoscopes for Your Sign Tap into Your Medative Moods: Cool Colors Blue, green, and violet make up the cool side of the color spectrum, and serve our thoughtful, meditative selves. Blue can literally cool down a room, making the ambient temperature seem much lower. Use it as a dominant hue in an exercise room, where you&amp;#039;ll hopefully work up a sweat on the treadmill. Blue also aids insomniacs who find they toss and turn in warm-colored rooms. Its softest shades help you focus in areas such as a home office or studio. Deep green evokes a sense of comfort and tranquility ideal for living rooms, dens, and libraries. Just as real greenery rests the eye (it is directly opposite red on the color wheel) and complements a floral landscape, green walls harmonize rooms full of pattern and texture. Violet is the most cyclical color. It enjoys a bit of fanfare every few seasons, particularly in economic boom times due to its association with royalty and wealth. Pale violet relaxes you when used in bedrooms and baths.  Be a Showoff: Neutral Backdrops  Neutrals include whites, grays, and browns, of which there are hundreds of variations. What neutrals really do in rooms is create a bare backdrop and set the stage for playful and creative interior decorating. They allow your home&amp;#039;s architectural details, textured fabrics, colorful artwork, and accents to create the mood in each room. Think of a neutral scheme as an inscrutable, empty canvas; it&amp;#039;s full of potential and simple to change by adding or subtracting furnishings and accessories in selected primary or secondary hues. Punch up the warm tones with saucy citrus-hued pillows; try softening the monochromatic look with greenery, a collection of amethyst glass, or a blue throw. A single, well-chosen, colorful object can inject energy into a neutral room. Get Comfortable: Color Combinations  The right color combination is, of course, the one that makes you feel most comfortable. To make the task less daunting, try to remember the principle of three: Choose one warm color, one cool color that complements it, plus a neutral. Then, depending on the nature of how you use a room, one hue will dominate, one will complement, and the neutral-perhaps a white or beige-can be used as a unifying thread throughout the home (for trim and ceilings, for example) to pull together the whole look. Find Your Balance: Adding White  Although you can find just about any color imaginable, paint manufacturers still sell more varieties of white than any other hue. Most whites, however, are blended with tiny amounts of color that can emit an underlying tone. So how do you know which white to choose? &amp;quot;Off-whites can work against each other in a color scheme, if you use more than one,&amp;quot; says Emmett Fiore, a senior color specialist for Fine Paints of Europe, which offers more than 100 off-whites. &amp;quot;Select just one to create continuity.&amp;quot; Using white for the trim? Pick the trim paint first, and use it as your palette&amp;#039;s base so the other colors will harmonize with it. So You Wanna . . .  Shed a few pounds? Paint your dining room blue. Since there are so few naturally blue foods, our minds cannot readily associate the color with eating. Have a long-lasting marriage? Steer clear of yellow kitchens. According to an interior-design legend, married couples argue more in them. Brighten up a dull space?  Every room should have at least one black object in it to enhance the colors in your room. Try it, it works! Design like a pro?  Just follow men&amp;#039;s formal attire with the rule of 60-30-10: Sixty percent is a dominant color (the suit), 30 percent is the secondary hue (the shirt), and 10 percent is the accent (the tie). For more color tips, check out Mark McCauley&amp;#039;s Color Your Home Beautiful (Rockport). "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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