Color And Space

Modern Scandinavian design is warm and spacious, with clean lines and elegant simplicity.

Clean, uncluttered visual environments create an open and uncrowded atmosphere, countering the feeling of being cooped up inside, restricted and limited.

Look around you at your own home and work environments to see where you can create the illusion of space and distance, and simplify and harmonize what is already there. What could be added or changed to enhance or create a peaceful, yet vibrant and warm atmosphere?

Scandinavians also use color to make their inside
  environments lively and energetic.

Carl Larsson's paintings show his use of the color red as an enlivening element in  clothing and interiors.

Ingmar Bergman's award winning movie Fanny and Alexander is filled with rich

color and open airiness in the home of the happy and lively Ekdahl family, contrasted with the drab dullness of the antagonist's home.

Add color to your winter environment. Buy a red scarf, a red cap, add a glowing red glass bowl to your dining room table, filled with colorful ornaments, flowers, or fruit.

Golden reflective accents add light, faceted crystal light catchers suspended at your window create rainbows on your walls and furniture when the sun hits them.

Add color, bold and lively color, choosing the colors that give you joy--your own personal good response colors.

Comments

[Janice]

Hi Pat

Great new blog and article about adding some winter cheer to your home. It's amazing what difference the environment can make. People who are affected by winter light levels should always look at how much light a home gets at that time before deciding to move there.

I commented on my SAD blog at http://allaboutsad.com/blog/2006/12/20/sunny-and-toasty/ to help spread the word.

Janice

[Pat Gundry]

Hey, thank you Janice!!

I've added a link to your main SAD site as the first one in my new list of Sunny and Toasty Links.

Pat