ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN: Colour & Dominance

Give your interior a new life with your choice of color

Be bold with your color choices. Especially the elements you can change relatively easily, such as wall paint, you can experiment with. Not everything in life needs to be a safe beige or creamy white.

ELEMENT

Colour refers to the amount and type of pigment, hue, value, saturation and perceived temperature. In this example the colour element refers to the bright turquoise paint on the walls and the ceiling, as well as shades of turquoise in the mosaic tiles on the bath wall, on the curtains, and spots of turquoise in the painting on the wall and inside the washbasin.

PRINCIPLE

Dominance gives a design interest, counteracting confusion and monotony. Dominance can be applied to one or more of the elements to give emphasis. The principle of dominance has been boldly applied to the colour element in this bathroom. The turquoise colour dominates the entire space.

OUTCOME

The dominating turquoise colour makes the bathroom vivid and yet keeps it within the cool range of colours, reminiscent of waters, seas and sea life. This is a very strong application, very dominating the interior, and yet it creates a most attractive impression as the choice of colour is very natural for this room.

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