Color Info

The following tips may help you decide while picking the color for the interior or exterior of your home. If youre still unsure regarding which color to choose, call the experts at GIL Painting Company. One of our professionals will be happy to help!

Blue
Blue is the color of the sea and the sky. It is often associated with stability and depth. It symbolizes loyalty, trust, wisdom, intelligence, confidence, truth, faith, and spirituality. Blue is considered beneficial to the mind, body, and soul. It produces a calming effect and slows human metabolism. Blue is strongly associated with calmness and full tranquility and is therefore a popular color for bedrooms.

Red
Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with war, energy, danger, power, strength, and determination as well as desire, passion, and love. Red is an emotionally intense color. It increases respiration rate, enhances human metabolism, and is said to raise blood pressure. It is also said to increase appetite, so is often used in kitchen and dining room settings.

Orange
Orange takes the energy of red and the happiness of yellow and combines them. It is associated with sunshine, joy, and the tropics. Orange represents fascination, enthusiasm, creativity, happiness, determination, success, attraction, encouragement, and stimulation. Orange is a very hot color to the human eye, so it gives the sense of heat. Orange increases the oxygen level supply to the brain, stimulates mental activity, and produces an invigorating effect, so it is often used in office settings where increased mental activity is desired.

Yellow
Yellow is the color of sunshine. It's associated with happiness, joy, intellect, and energy. Yellow gives out a warming effect of cheerfulness, stimulates mental activity, and generates muscle energy. It is often chosen as a cheerful color for nurseries and childrens rooms.

Green
Green is the color of nature. It symbolizes harmony, growth, freshness, and fertility. Green has strong emotional correspondence with safety and great healing power. Dark green is also usually associated with money. To the human eye, it is the most restful color and is therefore a popular color for bedrooms and dens.

White
White is associated with innocence, purity, goodness, light, and virginity. It is considered to be color perfection. White means safety and cleanliness. As opposed to black, white usually has a positive connotation. White is the most popular color for interior painting.