Behind the Red Door

I recently read an article about the color you choose for your front door and how it may send a message about your personality and the atmosphere inside your home. Here are some of the comments from the article below:

What does your front door say about you?

According to the Paint Quality Institute, your front-door color is a key to your personality as well as to the atmosphere inside your home.

"Like a necktie, which is the focal point of an outfit, the front door is the focal point of the home," writes Debbie Zimmer, the editor of the institute's newsletter. "The color there sends a strong message – in the case of the front door, providing insight into how we view our home."

And just what do those color choices say?

Paint Quality Institute doesn't comment on white, a color that may communicate "This is how the door came, and I didn't care enough about my home's exterior to change it." I am sending this message with my back doors. My front door sends a similar message: "I came with the house, and my owner is too busy writing to paint me another color."

Maybe your front door is speaking more eloquently. If you have a bright-colored front door, here is the message you may be sending, according to the paint people:

Red: You've chosen the color of passion. Your door says the home inside is vibrant and "full of life, energy and excitement."

Green: Your home is a place of health, safety, tranquility and harmony. This is a popular color.

Blue: This color, which may be the most popular, connotes home as sanctuary. A blue front door signifies that the home is calm, serene and relaxing.

Black: This color doesn't signify depression or mourning but power. The owner of a black front door is sending a message of strength, sophistication and authority. His home is a serious place "inhabited by a person of substance."

Brown: Uh-oh. This color carries a mixed message. A brown front door, either painted or stained, may convey warmth, stability and reliability. Or maybe not. A dark-brown front door suggests a desire for privacy and isolation. Changing your front-door color is a quick way to add curb appeal.

Okay so many of you have seen our designs and the way we often use some unusual colors for various accents.  What does all the other colors have to say? Some of our favorite colors are:

LIME GREEN: Is it the same as regular green? I don't think so.  Lime says inspirational, sustainable, but yet bold and lacking fear.

PURPLE: We use purple a lot in our work.  Purple is a sign of Royalty and richness.

CRANBERRY: Not the same as purple nor red.  It is it's own color family in my opinion.  I recently said in a previous post that Cranberry was the new color for 2012.  Cranberry I even painted my front door this color.  Used it to accent our house during last Christmas.  Cranberry has a bit of royalty in it along with sophistication and warmth.

ORANGE: Wow...would you really paint your front door orange? Maybe....you never can tell.  Orange says that you are playful, cheerful and just plain happy all the time.  It could also mean that you went to a school like Oklahoma State and it is your school colors!

YELLOW: There are so many different shades of Yellow/Gold that can be used for everything. The brighter the yellow the more playful and sun-worship like you may feel. The darker the yellow the warmer you feel and richer it comes across to others. Yellow certainly inspires happiness and open feelings. I think many of the shades of Yellow can be used together as well.  I have several different color stripes on my living room wall doing that very thing.  It works!

Those are just the colors of your front door.  I would love to try out other ideas that relate to materials.  What about GLASS doors? How about a silver metallic door like STAINLESS STEEL or ALUMINUM? What about CORE TEN STEEL.....with a bit of RUST? I think we could have some fun......what would these materials say about you?

Have some fun my friends and experiment with color in your latest projects.  Enjoy the color pallets!

Tangarine Lipstick

Just read an article about how wide spread the Pantone color of the year has gone.....Lipstick....Tangerine Lipstick! That's right.....well I think it is cool but then again not sure how good I would look in Targarine Lipstick...or that my wife would appreciate it very much.

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Past Blog Post

2012....New Color?

Are you ready for the new color.....MY NEW COLOR?  I know that Pantone issued the new color as Tangarine  http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/category.aspx?ca=88 .....I love Tangarine. Like I mentioned in my recent blog post about color, http://ionicdezigns.blogspot.com/2011/12/2012tangerine.html, we have used that color many times on our projects over the last few years.  Sometime in the middle of last year I became entrnaced in a new color......are you ready?  CRANBERRY.

Yes, cranberry.....we use it all the time or closely during Christmas.  Last year I did use it a bit, but since then I have been lookig for the opportunity to share in the Cranberry.....or some simlar shades. Now dont get silly, this isnt RED or PURPLE but a shade there in between. Just enough red and just enough purple to make it a RICH appearance in anything you select.

It goes great with a bit of lime or orange or even yellow.....what are your thoughts? Where can you use Cranberry this year? Congratulations to Pantone for picking another great color (that I like)...but I am ahead of you! Cranberry salad anyone?

2012....Tangerine?

I just read a quick article where they have announced to the world that in this coming 2012 the Pantone color Tangerine would be the color of the year......really.  http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/category.aspx?ca=88 I am either seriously disappointed or overly ecstatic about this news.  Why you may ask? Well, because we have been using that color for several years in many of our designs.  Maybe not "tangerine" proper but pretty darn close! Now I don't claim to be any prognosticator of the color wheel but I have been using colors before they become officially popular for the last several years.  Oranges and Purples were part of our collection 7 or 8 years ago....maybe more. Then it was Lime Green. you can just browse through some of our project photos and see where we have splashed all of this colors though out our spaces.....long before their time.

Tangerine: Let me see:

• Thompson Residence - Big stripe on my living room wall. (2008)
• Gloucester County Library - La Diva Chair and slanted wall (2003)

http://ionicdezigns.com/gloucester_library.html

• Achievable Dream Library - Throughout (2006)

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• Ionic DeZign Office - Back office wall (2008)
• Great Atlantic's New offices - accent walls (2011)
• Star Express Convenience Store - Accent wall (2011)

This one is getting it's permits right now to begin construction soon. http://ionicdezigns.blogspot.com/2011/10/we-were-contracted-to-create-new.html

• Russo Law Office - check out the interior accents being built right now. http://ionicdezigns.blogspot.com/2011/11/russo-office-complex-begins.html

There is probably more but I cannot think of them right now.  It is pretty amazing when you select a color that you feel is the right one for a project and then it is justified by seeing the industry (everywhere) make the similar selection.  you can see it Christmas ornaments, clothing, post it notes, shoes and anything else you can imagine. These selections become my favorite colors as well and yes I probably have them scattered around my house or hanging in my closet.

Pantone can make their selection and I will certain respect that.  Maybe they are just telling us that the design world has been making this selection and now it is time that all the rest of the world needs to catch up.  Last year the color Turquoise was the color.....and we were prepared.  Take a look at our Virginia Originals located on the CBBT designed in late 2009.http://ionicdezigns.com/cbbt.html

That is okay...it is good to be ahead of the curve.....maybe even being considered one of the ones who sets the trends.  Hey, I look at it this way.....I will finally be able to buy that Tangerine lounge chair for my living room to match the stripe!





So would you like to know what I am saying the new color is?......Stay tuned....and I will share soon in our project that we are developing right now.

Have a colorful day my friends!