Red screams passion. Not only can it make one feel excited, it can also instantly brighten up anyone’s mood. It’s also an attention-grabbing colour, so you’re probably more of an extrovert. 

Tips for your home: 

– Add a hint of red to your kitchen or dining room. It helps to stimulate one’s appetite, as well as conversation as the colour tends to make people feel more social.
– Use sparingly, as too much bold red hues won’t help relax you. Consider using deeper shades of red, like wine red, that’s more soothing.
– Complement with soft lighting, especially mood lighting, to soften the whole look.

This one is for the daydreamers. The colour blue emanates a dreamy and soothing feeling hence making one feel relaxed. It’s also linked to good qualities like loyalty and inbues a sense of tranquility and peace into any interior. You also may or may not love the ocean.

Tips for your home: 

– Add blue furnishings to your bedroom to create a calming ambience and prime you for a good night’s sleep.
– Deeper shades of blue tend to look a bit more sophisticated, and is used in many scandinavian-style homes.
– Pair with white furnishings for a nautical look.

Yellow and summer share similar characteristics – fun, bright and cheerfulness – which is why many people relate the colour and season together. It’s a happy colour that’s often associated with the sun and sunlight, so a person with this colour in their room probably has, well, a sunny disposition. 

Other than that, yellow is also known to boost one’s confidence.

Tips for your home: 

–  This colour is very welcoming and helps to stimulate one’s mental activity, keeping your mind ‘alive’, so use it in living rooms, study rooms or kitchens.
– It’s an excellent colour choice to brighten up a duller part of the house you wished received more sunlight too. 

The colour green is typically associated with the great outdoors, so you’re probably a fan of Mother Nature if you have lots of green accents in your home. More natural shades exude peacefulness and harmony, indicating a calm personality, while electric or lime-green shades inject a bit more excitement into the interior and can showcase a more outgoing personality. 

Tips for your home: 

– One way to have the colour green in your home is by adding plants. It’s a great way to bring nature in and breathe life into your living space.
– Click here to see even more inspiring ways to bring green into your home. 

When the colour white is used, it creates a clean and simple aesthetic which is common in minimalist designs. People with mostly-white or off-white interiors can be seen as sophisticated and stylish, especially when white walls are matched with furnishings in varying shades of white.

Alternatively, it can also suggest a lack of creativity (no worries, click here for paint ideas to inspire you!)

Tips for your home: 

– Due to its versatility, whites can be paired with any colour for your home and can work in almost all rooms.
– Layer your room with different tones of white to create a room that has depth, so that it doesn’t look so stark and clinical.
– Click here to discover how to choose the right white for your walls.

Light woody colours are ubiquitous in homes all over the world because it’s warm, friendly and safe. It signals a homeowner who’s practical, down-to-earth and has a no-fuss approach to things. Deep chocolate or espresso hues create a more cosy vibe and can suggest that you enjoy the feeling of togetherness.

Tips for your home: 

– Light woody colours matched with white can make a home appear larger.
– Click here to see how to bring the Japanese woody minimalist look into your home.

Homeowners who favour an orange interior might tend to be more out-going and confident but also a bit reserved, especially if the colour chosen is more rust than tangerine.

Tips for your home: 

– Much like red, orange helps whet appetites, so use it in places like the dining area and kitchen.
– Consider more earthy, muted shades of orange like terra cotta or pumpkin if you’re unsure about the colour.
– Balance orange furnishings with pieces of a complementary colour, like blue.

It’s a complex colour that points to a more creative, unconventional type of individual, one who’s not afraid to try new things. Best used in living rooms and dining spaces to bring in a sense of sophistication and style.

Tips for your home: 

– Purple is the colour of royalty, so using a dramatic eggplant hue for instance can make a room look more luxurious. However, it can also cause the room to seem smaller.
– Lighter hues like lilac or lavendar can create a restful, meditative vibe that’s perfect for bedrooms and study rooms.

A grey accent wall or walls indicate a more reserved, independent person with a sophisticated colour palette. Greys are known as the “new neutral” because they’re a bit more exciting than black and white, and are seen in many modern homes nowadays.

Tips for your home: 

– Darker grey shades suggest a certain boldness, while lighter shades are safer.
– The key is to balance the grey(s) out with colour, because too much grey in a room can look rather depressing.

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Text: Nurul Jannah / Additional Reporting: Elizabeth Liew

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