The document discusses different colors and their symbolic meanings and associations. It provides quotes about various colors including black, white, gold, blue, orange, red, green, brown, and their connotations of power, purity, prestige, authority, fun, passion, earthiness. It also discusses using color, texture, and contrast to create visual interest and unique spaces.

2. We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely
admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that
beauty.
~Author Unknown

3. “Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”
Author unknown

4. Black
conveys authority, power, seriousness, boldness and can be somber. It
creates drama and is often a very good background color. It works well for
high-end markets or in youth markets to add mystery to the business image.
Note the use of
dark and light to
define how the
spaces work

5. "People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black.“
Henry Ford

6. White
conveys purity,
truthfulness,
cleanliness and
refinedment.
It can project neutrality.
Note –
the curve of the counter draws your eye to the silver mirror on the wall

7. All of us have moments in our
lives that test our courage.
Taking children into a house
with a white carpet is one of
them.
Emma Bombeck

8. GOLD - prestige, success, high quality,
wealth and promise of better times
Note – the wallpaper creates the mood for the space, draws your eye into the room.

9. All the gold which is under or upon the
earth is not enough to give in exchange
for virtue.
Plato

10. BLUE
authority, dignity, security and
faithfulness and implies fiscal
responsibility and security
Note – the curved bench helps to
draw your eye toward the ocean

11. Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are BLUE, and the dreams
that you dare to dream really do come true
Lyman Frank Baum

12. Refreshing and Sophisticated:
A mix of blue and green,
turquoise has a sweet feminine
feel while the darker teal
shades add lively
sophistication.
Note the red boxes in the kitchen
adding a little extra to the solid
Colour of the kitchen.

13. Water is life’s mater and matrix, mother and medium.
There is no life without water
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for medicine, 1893-1986)

14. Brown - conveys earthiness, woodiness, and natural
Note how the timber softens the space

15. “Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.”
Pablo Picasso

16. Note how the timber
frames this kitchen
but the orange
draws you in.
ORANGE - conveys fun, exuberance, new attitudes and is
appealing to intellectuals. It is good for accenting things
and to create a playful environment

17. “Orange is the happiest color.”
Frank Sinatra

18. RED
conveys aggressiveness, passion,
strength, and vitality and is great
for accents and boldness.
It also stimulates appetites and is
associated with debt.
It can be used to grab attention.

19. Beauty, to me,
is about being comfortable
in your own skin.
That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
Gwyneth Paltrow (American Actress b. 1972 Los Angeles, California, USA)

20. Put some green in your life when you want:
• a new state of balance
• feel a need for change or growth
• freedom to pursue new ideas
•protection from fears and anxieties connected with the demands of others
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21. A three year old child is a being who
gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-
six dollar set of swings as it does out
of finding a small green worm.
Bill Vaughan

22. Note the use of texture vs colour
"What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a
tolerable planet to put it on?“
Henry David Thoreau

23. It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.
Bern Williams

24. Definition: (noun) - A principle of art, contrast refers to the arrangement of
opposite elements (light vs. dark colors, rough vs. smooth textures, large vs.
small shapes, etc.) in a piece so as to create visual interest, excitement and
drama.

25. We do not live an equal life but one of contrast and patchwork; now a little joy,
then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet, lecturer, essayist, 1803 -1882

26. Using a number of warm colours together can create an intimate and homely feel.
Note the use of colour not only in walls but in the furniture and
fixtures to create the full effect of the space

27. I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

28. Using materials, colour and contrast to create something unique – to create a stage

29. Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else.
Let your light shine.
Ophrah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004

30. “Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”
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Colour sayings from “What color is your marketing and what is it saying? “
By J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr, CEO of JG Ebersole Associates and The Renaissance Group
Song – True Colors by Phil Collins