It’s February, do you feel like this?
via “Life in a Venti Cup” blog If winter’s gloom is getting to you, or, if you are simply having a gloomy day, there is nothing like a touch of sunny yellow to brighten up your day! Yellow is the color of sunshine. It’s often associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy. Yellow produces a warming effect, arouses cheerfulness, and stimulates mental activity. Bright, pure yellow is an attention getter, which is the reason taxicabs are painted this color. So, you can use yellow to evoke pleasant, cheerful feelings on these cold, dark winter days. In the Chakra system, yellow is considered the color of self empowerment. It is the color of the third chakra, located in the solar plexus. The solar plexus represents the seat of emotions. It also represents confidence and optimism, as well as a feeling of personal accomplishment. Here are a couple of quick ways you can add a pop of yellow to cheer up your home:
via Kara Butterfield
- Lemons-display lemons, on your kitchen counter, dining table, LR coffee table. They smell good too!
- Flowers-my favorite, daffodils, tulips what ever works for you. A bunch on your desk, in your bedroom, on the kitchen counter.
- Throw Pillows, Lamps, Throws-where ever, just pile it on.
- When re-decorating consider adding a piece of furniture in yellow. A chair, a sofa…it always will look cheerful!
via Elle Decor
- Add a yellow blanket on your bed.
- Warm, luxurious yellow towels for your bathroom.
- Accessories for your desk or your kitchen.
- Paint a wall, or better yet paint a room, especially a kitchen!
- Add a piece of art that has a lot of yellow in it.
- Throw on a scarf, and don’t tell me blondes can’t wear yellow. I do all the time and LOVE it.
via Style Bytes
- And last but not least, get a kicky haircut and add some highlights to brighten up your energy!
that’s me!
How will you add a bit of sunshine to brighten up your day? Leave me a comment below and let me know! I love hearing new ideas. In the meantime, check out the video below, I bet it will cheer away your winter gloom!
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Hi Irene,
I’m a former yellow hater, however…oddly…I was moved to paint my powder room yellow (it was a dark, uninviting, cold looking room) and accented with lovely curtains from a company called Saffron Marigold (they have gorgeous hand-printed Indian curtains, duvet covers, etc). I now LOVE the room and it feels warm and light. I agree with you about winter…I do love it, but the romance is now over!
Fan of your work,
Renée
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I know Renée. I too never liked yellow, having been told for years that blondes can’t wear yellow. Once I got over that, I’ve grown to love the color and the warm sunny feeling it creates.
I’m glad you like what you see here! Much appreciated.
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I love and work with colour too Irene but from a different perspective. It was lovely to look at all the different ways this uplifting colour can be used in interior design to brighten up all those dull corners. Very refreshing.
Fiona Stolze
Inspired Art and Living
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Thank you for the uplifting splash of color and the fun video! I have never thought of yellow as a good color for me to wear, but more recently have liked having yellow around me. Just last year we painted our bedroom and one of our bathrooms yellow, and I love that we did that! We are also working on a new website where we are going to use yellow, and yellow is actually part of our logo, too. Blue and yellow were my husband’s racing colors! Here in California we have been having bright sunshine for the last week or so, which I am very grateful for!
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Our first home was what I call our yellow house as almost every room was a shade of yellow. It just doesn’t seem to fit here and I have an aversion to yellow clothes. Maybe I need to reintroduce the color into my life again to overcome our winter that won’t end until May!
Louise Edington
Facing Fears For Freedom
http://louiseedington.com-
Try flowers Louise, or a bit of yellow in your art. Even just spots of the color can be very uplifting and in a dark room help to brighten it up!
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I like the intro to your blog. Very witty! I am not big on wearing yellow because it looks awful on me since I am a blond, but I love the decorating ideas and accents you suggest. I just may have to implement some of them in my home!
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Irene – I love yellow in a home. It’s so cheerful and happy. My childhood bedroom had yellow walls – I think that made a permanent impression on me!
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I love the song on the video, one of my favs.
Years ago a fung shui designer told us we needed to add yellow to our bedroom. I never got husband on board, but I think now I’m just going to do it. Also, my office is the darkest, smallest room in the house – it will not be displaying lemons and whatever other yellow things I can find around the house!
I almost always have lemons in my fruit basket on my kitchen table.
Great ideas, thanks so much for posting!
Lisa Vitale
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WOW! Irene – it is like you are inside my brain! I just came back to dreary, grey Pittsburgh last night after a few days in sunny CA…..needless to say I am miserable!
I LOVE the suggestion of putting out a platter of lemons! Off to the grocery tomorrow – to get some! Thanks, Rachel
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Glad you liked it Rachel and it helped. A bunch of daffodils as well or a daffodil plant would be good too. Sending some CA sun your way!
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Lovely blog post. Thank you. I feel much better already 🙂
I love yellow on other people. As a brunette with “winter” skin tones (I am told) the only yellow I can wear is a cool yellow. -
Hi Irene,
Thanks for this cheery post, and the wonderful video. The story goes that during a stressful time in his life, George Harrison was visiting his friend Eric Clapton and wrote “Here Comes the Sun” to cheer himself up. It’s a nice story — why not believe it?As long as I can remember I’ve always owned a yellow shirt, which I wear on “down” days. I replace it every few years, and it’s almost time again.
We All Live on a Yellow Submarine
Robbie
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LOVE that story Robbie. And yes we do live on a yellow submarine. Actually when I traveled through Europe at the end of high school, there was a club in Munich called the Yellow Submarine, and yes, it was wild.
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SWEET video. I love color. In my last house in Arizona I had each room painted a different shade of yellow. People were freaking out. The painter kept asking me if I was SURE . I told him my last house was lavender. The only color scheme they seem to know in AZ is brown & rust. PLEASE the most of the state is brown and rust. In this house we have now I add color by using Mexican ceramics and potter. For example I have a big beautiful ceramic tile swan with lots of yellow, orange, and other colors.
Lisa Ann Landry
Vibrating positive energy…what are you vibrating?
http://www.imagedevelopmentgroup.com/index.html-
Yes Lisa Ann, and yellow definitely vibrates a positive energy!
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I don’t love the color yellow, but I love this blog post 🙂 The visuals are fabulous and the start with the “Dear John” letter to winter is so funny! You have quite the artistic touch 🙂
Brandy Mychals
Communications Coach
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Don’t worry about it Brandy. We are all attracted to colors that on some level we vibrate with or need some more of. So, what’s your favorite color?
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Irene,
I feel so fresh and clean now! So funny, I have been hearing a little voice in my head saying “try yellow!” It’s the one color I”ve never really used at home but I’m considering it. Loved the video – what program do you use to create your videos?
Great post!Carrie Hansen
Studio C Interior Design-
Glad you like Carrie. Yellow can be brought inside in so many ways as discussed. Try something easy like a bunch of yellow tulips!
I make my videos at animoto.com
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Not a big fan of yellow…As a photo album creator and teacher I recognize that it is a good contrast and just “has” to be used sometimes, though. I do like a golden soft butter yellow color (and I look good in it too), but I have never added it to my decor. I have been known to use a vase full of lemons at Easter time too, so I guess I might be a bit in denial (that happened with pink, too). Oh-oh, the next thing you know I’ll be posting photos of my yellow room!
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or…perhaps…yellow hair? : ) Yea, I had a yellow room as a child so stayed away from yellow for a long time. Now, I have touches of it and shades of golden yellow on a few walls.
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I love yellow. I love yellow rooms and yellow accents. I dont have any yellow clothes. Interesting. Maybe I should. Yellow flowers and fruits always make me smile. I like to create a color palette on a table that zings around the room in small touches. A great way to bring yellow into a client space is using National Geographics in piles on bookshelves or on a table.
Jennifer Duchene
Home Makeover Mixtress blending Lifestyle and Laughter
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I have always been a yellow person. First thing I’ve always done when moving into a new place is to pain the walls yellow! Different shades, but, to me, it just makes all the difference.
Having just moved into a totally white apt., (and being told that if I paint I have to return it to white,) the prospect of painting again is a bit daunting (I just painted my last apt. yellow only 6 months ago) . However, every time I walk into the living room, my reaction is the same- “can’t wait to get some yellow paint on there!”
(Interestingly enough and as an aside, my hubby, who is normally totally non-observant, just said last night that we need to paint the walls yellow! I nearly fell off my chair as I didn’t think he ever noticed anything like wall color.)
Candace Davenport
http://www.ourlittlebooks.com ~ Little Books with a Big Message-
Candace…your husband is GREAT! Boy would I have loved to use him in a study about the energetic effects of color on a person. Obviously he “missed” the yellow and it’s sunny effects, even with our warm sun outside. I hope you are loving your new apartment and being in Marin, aren’t you? Close by, we should get together sometime for coffee. Thanks for your enthusiastic commenting
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I’d love to get together Irene! But I’m in Richmond now (Point Richmond to be exact!) after being in Marin since 1975!
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Ahhhh…point Richmond. Well, I go to Oakland and Berkeley often right past you. Not much further
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What a nice upbeat cheerful post Irene. I love yellow and yes, it does brighten the mood doesn’t it? My home office used to be a greyish beige (Ugh!) and I just recently painted it a nice golden yellow color and it looks like the sun is always shining in that room. What a difference.
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Irene – I appreciate the range of expression you bring to the color yellow! When we first bought our house five years ago, I walked through the empty space (which had been whitewashed prior to going on the market) and I knew we’d be painting before moving in.
So I would come visit the house at different times of day, observe the light, imagine living here, working, entertaining, meditating, dancing, reading… all the kinds of activities I knew would happen in our home. Then I began to ask the house what it wanted. (I know that can seem esoteric, but since everything is energy, I knew that the house had its desires too.)
I sensed the house wanted to be kissed by sunshine. And so… there are five different shades of yellow on the lower level and open loft. If you’d asked me, “Do you like the color yellow?” I would have said, not really for paint… but here we are!
I do look forward to the day we get together in person… we have much to connect on!
Tambra Harck
http://EmergentWomen.com-
Yes…we do need to get together Tambra. And of course I always ask a house what it wants when I design. Hence my philosophy called Energetics of Space@. We do indeed have much in common!
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Let’s set a date… do you have my email? office at tambraharck.com
and love “Energetics of Space!”
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it’s home@irene-turner.com Tambra. I am available the week of the 21st and then not till the third week in March due to travel and guests. Would love to connect. Where are you located?
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Irene,
I simply loved this. Love you.
You made me so happy this morning.
Our kitchen has three kinds of yellow going on: yellow paint and two different kinds of yellow wallpapers.
When are you and yours coming over for dinner?
~Bruce
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Would LOVE to come over, meet Susan and get to know you both…but it’s cold there. Why don’t you come here? It’s sunny and between 70 and 80? Sunday?
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I love this. yellow is one of my favorite colors and my living room is yellow still i don’t have many yellow clothes. Anyway thanks for the fun and interesting ideas
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Sometimes just a touch of yellow in clothing will do. Like in a stripe, a belt, a fun bag, rain boots. It’s fun. Fun to hear you have a yellow living Room Jules. Happy almost spring
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Hm, you wrote this as Winter was leaving, but I’m reading it as Winter is coming on- and I feel myself falling into hibernation mode and need to snap out of it! I think I’m going to try and find some yellow flowers to put in my place, the gloom is getting to me. I don’t think I have any yellow clothes but I like the idea about the lemons as decoration. I know I have a couple of those in my kitchen. I didn’t know yellow was the color of self-empowerment, but could really use some of that, and some confidence, and definitely some optimism. Thanks for the ideas!
-Lizzy
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