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MAKING A CREATIVE CHOICE IN COLOUR

Last week we explained how to find the perfect colour for your kitchen by studying its features.
Now that you have the 'basic' concept, here are a few original ideas to give your ambiance real style.

Colours as actors
Imagine you are a director:just as on a cinema set, the choice of shades and colours can become a sort of casting experience.
The lead part in the kitchen is played by the colour of the units. In the example shown to the left, the doors have been chosen in a walnut stain, a shade of brown (consisting of yellow, red and blue).
Walls and floors, the co-stars are, inùstead, respectively yellow (a component of brown) and sand (a yellow with the addition of white).
The final detail lies in choosing the worktop:again, the above photograph shows Chardonnay, a shade of yellow.

Style variant
'Split complementary' is a variant of the complementary colour scheme.
This combination includes three colours: one pure and two tertiary adjacent to its complementary colour, like blue and two shades of orange.
You can be inspired by this 'trio' to create your own personal matches: for example by combining blue (rather than orange) with some similar shades, such as cream or cinnamon.

Creative monochrome
If you prefer to opt for a specific theme or single colour type, there are plenty of solutions that will help you prevent the ambiance from being monotonous.
Simply consider just how many variants of natural colours there are! From earth brown to sand yellow or clay red: there really is a wide range of different hues you can choose from to bring your kitchen to life.

Follow your Chakras
Chakras are the force centres or spiritual senses that in medicine correspond to the endocrine glands.
There are seven, divided up into three higher chakras and four lower chakras, and each of these corresponds to one of the seven colours of the rainbow (plus white).
According to this idea, the choice of a given colour can affect the different centres differently.
For example, yellow corresponds to the stomach and if chosen in the kitchen can therefore help good digestion. Blue, in the throat, stimulates speech and creativity.
Red, positioned at the base of the spinal column, is linked to balance and security.

The photographs show the following kitchens: Amélie (photograph 1), Crystal (photograph 2), Tribe (photographs 3 and 4), all Scavolini.

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