Creating Luxury with Color

If you are in a service oriented business and wish to create a luxurious, posh and glamorous atmosphere for your customers and employees, decorate with shades purple, burgundy and red-purple.  This could apply to curtains, pillows, furniture, wall hangings and rugs.

Purple represents royalty and luxury.  In darker shades, it is considered a wealthy color.  It suggests spirituality and blends the heart and mind with the physical and spiritual.

Red-purple shades indicate great passion and strength of will.

Burgundy symbolizes wealth, success and prosperity.  It invigorates a room and brings it to life.  Burgundy is honorable and builds deep ties.

My Pantone color picks that inspire this luxurious look are:  Pantone 41-2-7c (dark purple), Pantone 37-3-7c and Pantone 38-1-7c (red-purple).

My color picks from Behr's Virtual Color Center that inspire this look are:  Wild Grapes S-G-660, Delicious Berry S-G-690 and Vin Rouge 110D-7.

If you are a small business and want to enhance your work place atmosphere with new colors, contact Divine dZigns at info@divinedzigns.com.  Divine dZigns offers interior design management and color consulting services for small business.

The Color Palette: Color Advice for Your Home!

My whole reason for launching the Divine Living and Home line really stemmed from my own journey in decorating my condo. I move in July 2008. A year and half later – I’m just about done! But I’m still adding the final touches. I guess it has taken me this long partially because I was trying to keep my decorating expenses within budget. But mostly it was because I simply could not find exactly what I was looking for and I could not decide on a color scheme/palette. Before I moved in, I spent many hours looking through the numerous paint swatch cards at Home Depot and on www.Behr.com ’s Virtual Color Center (a great resource!) and finally decided upon a somewhat neutral color palette for my interior walls. I selected Expedition Khaki for both my master bedroom and second bedroom, Baked Scone for my living, dining, front entrance and kitchen and Heirloom Orchid for both my bathrooms. At that point, I wasn’t exactly sure what my color scheme for my interior décor was going to be, but my style is normally to stick to a neutral palette and spruce it up with colorful accessories.

Let's start with my bedroom, since this is the room that is totally complete at this point! Getting the furniture was fairly easy. My bedroom furniture came from West Elm (www.westelm.com). But finding accessories, in particular, wall art was my challenge. I wanted abstract wall art and I suddenly remembered these photographs that I took in Paris while sitting in a moving car.  As expected, the photographs ended up being blurred and out of focus, but they looked interesting to me.  So instead of just deleting the photographs I digitally enhanced them further to make them look more artistic and abstract.  That is the moment the wall art for my bedroom came to being! I call it Paris Nights. I’ve received so many compliments on this art work that I was inspired to stay up until midnight one Saturday night  to go through my stockpile of digital photos that I've taken over the years and digitally enhance the ones I liked to create this "new" art.

This is how my Divine Living and Home line came to being. I figure other people may face the same challenges that I did when it came to decorating so why not start this new line and this blog to help others create a nice home or office atmosphere. So I’m here to help – if you need help selecting the right paint colors for your home or office, please email me at Info@divinedzigns.com!

I’ll be back later to discuss my living room and the color palette I selected for that.