Feng Shui Colors
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Color
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Used To
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Can
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| Red |
-
Distract
- Warn
- Agitate
- Heat
|
Cause action,
reaction, interaction and alleviate depression, attract attention,
emphasize significance or importance, alert, be a reference point or
center of focus |
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Yellow
|
- Lighten heavy work area
- Clarify confusing area
- Elevate mental activity
- Counter effects of diminished daylight
- Denote physical or emotional warmth
|
Cheer, help
with recall, make a small space feel bigger
|
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Blue
|
- Create mystery
- Suggest quality
- Denote coolness
- Relay seriousness of purpose
- Have privacy
|
Help with
focus, make small crowded spaces tolerable, help with defining personal
boundaries in public spaces, give privacy to workstations in large
offices |
|
Orange
|
- Denotes fusion of person to place
- Where people need to communicate with each other
- work spaces
- Where conversation needs to be sustained
|
Create a sense
of camaraderie Stay
away from pure orange in:
|
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Green
|
- Create connectedness
- Feel at peace
- Support nurturing
|
Assist us in
making life changes, relieve the stress of close, tedious work, motivate
conversation |
|
White
|
- Denote a strong ego
- Initiate a gentle individuality
- Show you have nothing to hide
|
Elevate status, expose carelessness, reveal nurturing, infuse a place
with calmness
Stay away from pure white in: Busy offices |
|
Black
|
- Assert independence
- Create intrigue & mystery
- Suggest warmth
- Pinpoint concentration
- Declare power
|
Hide
incompetence, reduce self-consciousness
Stay away from pure black in:
Service organization |
|
Brown
|
- Ground
- Security
- Connected
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