COLOR
TRIADIC - minty blue cabinets, minty gree backsplash tiles, red stools/chair, yellow chair. This room combines three colors with selected spectral hues in a way that adds interest but not chaos, byt avoiding more than 3 colors. The base color is the soft mint blue, against which the red seating jumps out. The one yellow chair and floral accent are allowed to be focal points even though they are not as bold as the red. Overall, we get a high, medium and a dark color combination that work well. The feel here is cheery and full of possibilities because it does neither feels tied down to a single hue, nor does it feel overstimulating.
COMPLEMENTARY - dominant colors are neutrals. Chairs and throw pillow are emerald green, the sofa is a cranberry and the curtains incorporate bot red and green. The colors are from opposite ends of the color wheel and would overpower with too much vibrancy it they were more dominant. placing them in the high vlaue whits and neutral apsce makes them stand out. The overall feel of the room would be drab or low energy without these added complements to add energy.
HIGH-KEY - white, white, some creamtone, and green splash from the floral highlight (even the petals of the flower are so pale as to nearly be white). The high key scheme here is so bringh that details seem to dissappear and shadows are minimized. Even the detail lines of the wainscoting/paneling dissapear into the brightness. The tub is only hinted at as too its details. The four dark drawer pulls are the only departures as noatble items of harware. The feel of the room is one of energizing brightness. I feel like using the room would wake me up. The high vlaues make it a little hard to look at though.
LOW KEY - this bath uses all shades of red with a metallic pink almost salmon hue. the porecelin tub appears to be white, but is shadowed and reflecting the drapery colors. It has a low-key feel to me because there are so many shadows that appear to hide the deails. Along the back wall under the curtains, I have no idea whats going on in there. in a way that it too joins the color shceme rather than reflecting any bright highlights. It creates a very lush, imeersive feel. I don't think of this as the place to take a rejuvenating bath as much as it would be to sit, sulk and brood.
ACHROMATIC - this kitchen uses black and white to set off a room mostly absent from other colors (scant inclusion of yellow and red fruits really stand out). The kitchen stuck with the poles on the achromatic scale except for the mid level gray saof and perhaps the bench cusions. The overall feel of this room is stark. It grabs attention, but has a slighlty acute feel to it. The dominance of white makes the room very bright and has a cooler feel to it. Its not a room that exudes relaxation.
ANALOGOUS - This room uses shades of green/lime green and shades of blue / teal. Because these sahdes are adjecent on the color wheel, the bland with each other and make a friendly relaxed feel. There's no clashing. The one darker blue on the pillow stripes is a focal point to my eyes, but even that does not clash or create tension.
SPLIT COMPLIMENERY - pale olive green wall, deeper bluer green behind the shelves (could be the same paint as on the wall but at a different angle) and a salmon from the red family. This room slits the complimentery colos by not jumping directly to complemeting blue with a solid orange, nor complimenting the greens with a bold red. The yellow accent flower actually looks a bit out of place with the other color harmonies. It provides a focal opint, but at the expense of messing with the split complementery scheme. The feel is balanced (excpet the flower) without sharp contrasts/competitions in colors.
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