Office colors: follow our tips for a flawless home office
Office colors? Here are all the answers you need on how to decorate your home office with the most appropriate shades.
When a corner of the house has to become an office, it is not enough to make room for a desk and select a few pieces of furniture. The new environment must not only be functional, but it also has to become welcoming and encourage concentration. Among the fundamental tools we have to reach this goal, there is color. The shades and tints we choose for our walls and decoration are able to guarantee the visual comfort of the whole environment. Colors with low visual impact or saturated shades make a different impression for small sections of walls or corridors, other decoration create dynamism, and different streams of energy, without disturbing the concentration. Here you will find some practical tips of how to choose your office colors, to create the perfect work station in your interiors.
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Limit the use of saturated colors
If you use too many saturated colors for your home office, just in their purity, without brightening them with a little black or white, or if you choose these sort of shades for too large surfaces, the environment will become visually fatiguing. Instead, it is better to limit the use of such colors in your work station, and choose some details of the environment on which to concentrate saturated colors: part of a wall, elements of a corridor or a floor, portions of furniture can become the core of the office, leaving larger surfaces the task of balancing the whole area, using a palette of sober and neutral tones.
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Avoid the total white
Limiting the use of strong colors means embracing the total white philosophy in your home office? Absolutely not!. White walls, white desk, white seat, white lamp and maybe even accessories of the same color would give a sense of estrangement, creating an impersonal and unwelcoming environment: just the opposite of what we want to achieve. The total white is to be avoided because it is confusing and brings stress, just like the excessive presence of saturated colors. It is better to look for a correct balance between the color white and other shades, chasing a chromatic balance that will be able to provide us with the right atmosphere in this important area of the house.
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Pursue harmony
But what is the general rule to choose and combine colors with each other? There is one thing you must remember above all: when selecting office colors, pursue harmony. Ideally, it would be better to choose colors with a low visual impact, to make objects of different shapes stand out harmoniously. So, for example, if your home office will be integrated into the living room, you should identify the two or three colors that are already dominant in the room, and then try to respect those shades when choosing furniture and accessories for the work corner. You don’t want boring and monotone interiors, but it is important to create a coherent environment, that works well in all of its aspects.
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Mid tones are your friends
If there are not already color references in the environment, you will be perfectly free to choose, for example, a palette that includes ash blue, pale pink, sage green: these are just a few examples of the so-called mid tones colors. To fight the visual stress and facilitate the perceived comfort of an environment, it is better to choose, these type of office colors, along with light pastel tints, that are more similar to the colors of the nature.
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Choose natural materials
Colors are a factor that is not only depending on paints or finishes: it is also a matter of materials. Natural materials, along with their colors, have the ability of naturally predispose us to concentration and can become a source of inspiration for our work, and for the decoration of the surrounding environment. You can take inspiration from the natural colors and then define the entire design of the space. For instance, the type of wood of your desk, can be the same of the parquet that covers your living room floors, or can be used for your kitchen cabinets too. Let the office colors and materials guide your instinct in creating a flawless home décor.
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A touch of green
A home office needs facilitate concentration, putting you in the right state of mind to focus on your tasks. There is one color that is able more than others to give us peace of mind: it is green. If you don’t like the idea of introducing this office color in your interior design, there is a simple solution: plants and flowers! Even if you don’t have the gift of a green thumb, there are low maintenance plants that will be perfect for your home work corner.
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Children, welcome!
When you are a freelancer who works from home, it sometimes tricky to separate your job from the personal life, especially when you have kids; but maybe, sometimes, they can peacefully coexist. To keep an eye on your children when they get back from school, why not creating a mini work station for them, right next to yours? This way, they will be able to do their homework, while you work with tranquility and check on them from time to time. Moreover, their mini desk will be a fun and playful element in your home office décor. The kids’ corner could be bright and colorful, or maybe matched with your natural wood desk. Choose the style and color together with your children, it will be fun!
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