Whether you realize it or not, colors play a huge role in your surroundings and your mood. Take a look at nature. The world looks and feels different during the cold days of winter with lots of white snow. In the summertime, the green leaves and brightly colored flowers tell a different story. Colors can have a dramatic impact within your home as well. If you're stumped on a color to use within your home, consider choosing an interesting shade of grey. Grey is a very complex color that some people usually avoid due to its stereotypically somber effect. However, it can do wonders for a room in a few ways.
1. Grey walls
Grey is an excellent color to choose for your walls. It's a great way of instantly adding edge and sophistication. While black is a beautiful color for the walls, it can be a hit or miss and a little unforgiving. Grey is a happy medium and is difficult to get wrong. If your dining room has wainscoting on the lower portion of the walls, paint the
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Grey accessories
A really good art piece makes a perfect design statement on the walls. Find a really gorgeous grey canvas with an ombre effect. The gradient from white to grey can easily make a strong design statement. Since silver appears like a shade of grey, use silver lampbases with grey lampshades to add illuminate the room. Beneath your feet, rugs can truly tie in all of the decor and create a solid foundation. You can choose a grey rug. A popular trend involves using grey area rugs with pops of colors like purple, pink or yellow.
Dark themed interiors might seem like they could be depressing.Ironically, when dark themed interiors are executed correctly, a space becomes instantly inviting, chic and interesting. The warmer shades of grey aren't the typical shades of white, so they already look unique. The cooler shades of grey aren't unforgiving as black, so they are easy to execute. Don't forgo this easy way to turn a drab room into a fabulous one. [Click here] to read other articles by
In The Valley of the Ashes the color gray can be used to describe nearly everything in the town. This includes the people, the land, the cars, and even the air. “Occasionally a line of gray cars crawl along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up and impenetrable cloud” (23). The color gray is used many times throughout the book but mainly to describe The Valley of the Ashes. Another color that is not primary and used often in the book is the color
Our muted, elegant colour palette will provide the perfect backdrop for your best pieces of furniture, in studios or one-bedroom suites, and all of the amenities you’d hope for, like accessible showers, are in place.
There's no harm in trying new things while decorating your home! There are many do's and don't when decorating your home. But you'll never find out what they are without trying new things. If you have an idea go for it! Although everything may not end up looking the way you wanted it, but you can refurnish almost anything and find a alternative use for it!
In The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald uses gray to show hopelessness. Fitzgerald uses the quote “but above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it.” (pg.23) He used the color gray to describe the valley of ashes many times. The valley of ashes was a place where poor people lived and many bad things happened, Tom cheated on Daisy with Myrtle and she was from the valley of ashes, Myrtle was also hit by a car and hit there. The color gray is know around the world as meaning sad or depressed such as when people say the skies are gray to show someone is sad.
The room lacks a variation of color, sticking to the monochromatic theme of gray. The shades of gray are neutral. It has a dull tone to it, representing loneliness, depression, and isolation from the rest of the world. The contrast is the screen of a computer, which is bright and filled with color; red, yellow, purple and blue. It stands out and displays that Facebook became the entire world.
Seeing more than a few strands of "tinsel" in your hair lately? You're not alone. Going gray is one of the most prominent signs of aging, and it occurs when your hair loses a natural pigment called "melanin". Hair may also go gray due to a genetic predisposition, exposure to environmental toxins, and poor overall health.
High school is about becoming your own person, creating a new image for yourself and establishing your personality. Dyeing your hair can be a fun, creative and harmless way to express yourself. Hair is not forever, it is a renewable resource, and it will grow out and you can always dye it a different color. The one dyeing their hair is the one that deals with whatever the consequences may be, not the parents. Making this decision for myself now will better my experience for making more considerable decisions as an adult and in the future.
Lastly on the list for colors that Fitzgerald uses is the color gray. The color gray is used to represent to town of ashes, and people that are lifeless. In the novel when Nick and Tom go to valley of ashes he describes the town as, “ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air” (Fitzgerald, 1). In this quotes Nick is describing the town as all gray, nothing
Cooler colors can be more soothing and calming, but can also invoke thoughts of sadness. Many people see colors differently though. If someone had an experience with a certain color, when they saw that certain color, it could trigger them to think about the experience. In The Book Thief color
First of all, colors itself have many different variations, colors play a deep roll the openly describes the differences between development in characters, setting, and tone. For example, in the beginning of the novel it began with the main character Dorothy being able to see the depressing: agree in her house. Gray being a very neutral and somewhat upsetting color shows early development and the importance of colors. Another example, some of the characters and lands were recognized to color. The land of the Munchkins was a bright happy blue, the land of the Winkies wear yellow and the land of the Quadlings were red. Colors
Colour schemes are used to unify artworks and it consists of three common schemes: warm, cool, and neutral. The warm colour scheme is vivid and energetic and tends to advance in space. It consists of red, orange and yellow. Cool colours give an impression of calm, and create a soothing impression. Blue, green and violet are a part of this colour scheme. Neutral colours give a feeling of calm and quiet atmospheres and it consist of grays, blacks and whites. The monochromatic colour scheme is based on several values of one hue. The analogous colour scheme is made up of hues that are next to each other on the colour wheel. Complementary colours are
The artist’s use of color in their work, gives the viewer many different feelings and emotions. One painting by Georges Seurat named Evening, Honfleur utilizes many different colored dots, or points, to blend and balance the different colors. His painting gives a more realistic and textured color to his work, bringing the artwork to life. You can almost see movement in the painting. I even find his use of the color grey as a means to add a calm serenity to the painting. It gives a very great interpretation of an evening on the shore.
This house style I think fits my personality, is more modern and sophisticated with a touch of simplicity, still resembling aesthetic touches. Cultural values are not yet seemed to be lost because you can always add a sense of you to your house through decorative aspects. I think one way I would to these without losing the significance of my house style is changing the color of my house. The major distinction between these modern houses is that they are painted white, and I want mine to change a bit by painting with some neutral color such as beige or gray. This would still keep the same format of the house, but will add something unique about me to the house and it would show it to
One place that I see every day but don’t put much attention to is my house. The house that I live in is near by a park and a gas station. My house is small and cozy is made of steel frames, the anterior part of the house has a beige and pink color that combine a beautiful shade. The inside of my house has many portraits of family members and drawings. I have a total of two bathrooms and four rooms a kitchen and two living rooms. We have a living room that’s used for grown-ups and the other one is used for the children. The kitchen table and chairs are made of wood, in the ceiling there is big chandelier. The walls of my house are painted in different colors that are green, beige and pink. I like that every room has its own different color, it’s not boring it brings life and shade.
The neutral colors include black, gray and brown. Black is worn to funerals, but black is also worn by people who thinks it makes them look “slim.” Exactly right there is where people get the good and bad feelings from the color black. Gray is a symbol for neutrality but depression could also be associated with it. Brown can be a soft color, since it is the color of many things in nature, that is where people can get the earthy association. Others can say it shows lack of sophistication.(Wright)