By Daniela Salazar
Yellow is an amazing color, yet some people are afraid of it. As you hear it, they are afraid to use it in their clothes or in the decoration of their house because it has always been believed that it is a complicated color to implement or combine.
If you have in mind to use the color yellow to decorate your house, forget about fears and do it! We tell you what its qualities are and the benefits of using this vibrant tone in the various rooms of your house to give it that touch of vitality you are looking for.
Yellow is one of the three primary colors. It is the color of joy, heat and spring, it is also a color that fills spaces with light.
Because it is a stimulating color for the brain, its use is sometimes not recommended to decorate rooms where peace, tranquility and concentration are necessary, such as a study, library or bedroom.
The color yellow is also associated with caution: in nature we can find it in poisonous animals and in everyday life on traffic signs due to its ability to attract our attention.
So if you are determined to use this color in a space in your house, it is best that it be somewhere where you need to stimulate your creativity or that is intended for fun: it could be a game room, the kitchen or the room.
You can also use a little yellow in places in your house that are very dark and where the sunlight does not reach, this will give it the feeling that it is illuminated.
Surely, you've heard of concepts such as blue monday or yellow day. Although Blue Monday is considered the saddest day of the year and is celebrated every third Wednesday of January; You know, because of the weather, the debts, the end of the Christmas season…
In opposition, Yellow Day is celebrated in the middle of summer, specifically every June 20. It is called that because, as we already explained, the color yellow is the color most associated with happiness. Some experts concluded that June 20 is the happiest day of the year thanks to various factors such as the weather and the fact that it is one of the longest days of the year, that is, one where there is more light.
If you paint everything yellow at home, your space can look saturated. On the other hand, if you combine it there will be a different effect depending on what other colors you use. For example, if you apply it with gray or blue, these colors will appease the strength of the yellow color and give a perfect balance to your spaces.
By combining it with white you will give a feeling of spaciousness to the space where you use it and with black, the result will be amazing and superb.
They say that yellow stimulates creativity and appetite, and a perfect place where we need these two elements is the kitchen, so you could well furnish it all with this color, buy a yellow breakfast table or set aside a wall so that this color shines on it,
If you're not willing to make yellow shine on any walls, how about we start testing some furniture? You could buy a yellow Acapulco chair, a single sofa, a chest of drawers or even a coffee table.
Maybe a yellow wall, or even a piece of furniture is too much for you, but if you want to start trying, you could try some decorative elements such as lamps, cushions, blankets, vases or even flowers.
