Personal Use:
Use when you need to meet a demanding day, or when you feel drained of energy. The colour red provides the power from the earth, and gives energy on all levels. It connects us to our physical body.

Home Use:
Stimulates the appetite so good for an area in the Kitchen or Dining room and great for any activity area. Be careful when choosing the tone and depth of red. It can, when used as a darker tone make spaces smaller and claustraphobic. When used well red and all its variants can make a space feel warm earthy, inviting and cosy.

Personality traits:
Courageous, confident, humanist, strong-willed, spontaneous, honest and extroverted.

Chakra:
The Root Chakra is governed by red energy.

Personal Use:
Brings joy to our workday and strengthen our appetite for life. Orange is the best emotional stimulant. It connects us to our senses and helps to remove inhibitions and makes us independent and social.

Home use:
Great for fun and sociability, so any activity or creative areas would benefit. Family rooms benefit from this warm inviting colour. As with strong yellow, vibrant orange is not ideal for bedrooms or stressful environments like offices due to its stimulating nature. Also good for Kitchens.

Personality traits:
Enthusiastic, happy, sociable, energetic, sporty, self-assured and constructive.

Chakra:
The Spleen or Sacral Chakra is governed by orange energy.

Personal Use:
Gives us clarity of thought, increases awareness, and stimulates interest and curiosity. Yellow energy is related to the ability to perceive and understand. The yellow energy connects us to our mental self and can relieve depression.

Home Use:
Useful for stimulating mental activity and creating confidence so a great colour for study areas, activity rooms and entrance halls. Strong yellow could interfere with sleep in a bedroom as it tends to keep our minds alert, better to choose a soft yellow that helps you wake up in the morning. Not good for areas of stress.

Personality traits:
Good-humoured, optimistic, confident, practical and intellectual

Chakra:
The Solar Plexus Chakra is governed by yellow energy.

GREEN Balance, love, self-control

Peronsal Use:
Helps relax muscles, nerves and thoughts, cleanses and balances our energy to give a feeling of renewal. Peace and harmony. Green connects us to unconditional love and is used for balancing our whole being.

Home use:
Encourages tolerance and understanding. Its a good idea to use this colour as a background to other colours as all that balance and harmony could turn into inactivity and indecision!

Personality traits:
Understanding, adaptable, self-controlled, sympathetic, compassionate, generous, humble, nature-loving and romantic.

Chakra;
The Heart Chakra is governed by green energy.

BLUE Knowledge, health, decisiveness

Personal Use:
This is a mentally-relaxing colour. Blue has a pacifying effect on the nervous system and brings great relaxation. Ideal for sleep problems and hyper-sensitive children. Connects us to holistic thoughts and gives us wisdom and clarity enhancing communication and speech.

Home use:
Good for any room except those used for exercise or play.

Personality traits:
Loyal, tactful, affectionate, inspiring, inventive, caring and cautious.

Chakra::
The Throat Chakra is governed by the blue energy.

INDIGO Intuition, mysticism, understanding

Personal Use:
The indigo energy connects us to our unconscious self, and gives us the experience of being part of the whole universe. Strengthens intuition, imagination, psychic powers, and increases dream activity. Helps with inner faith and seeing the bigger picture in life. Reinforces commitment and loyalty to others.

Home use:
Sedative and useful in quiet places like bedrooms or treatment rooms. Not good for areas used for entertaintment.

Personality traits:
Intuitive, fearless, practical, idealistic, wise and a truth seeker.

Chakra:
The Brow Chakra is governed by indigo energy.

Personal use:
Purifies our thoughts and feelings giving us inspiration in all our undertakings. The violet energy connects us to our spiritual self bringing guidance, wisdom and inner strength. Enhances artistic talent and creativity, and mental agility. Will help you to inspire others and generate a charming and friendly attitude.

Home use:
Good for meditation and prayer calming for body and mind so is excellent for places of worship, and in its pale violet form restful in bedrooms

Personality traits:
Inspirational leaders, kindly and just, humanitarians, self-sacrificing, visionary, creative and strong mentally.

Chakra:
The Crown Chakra is governed by violet energy.

PINK unconditional love, nuturing

Personal Use:
This soothing red variant nutures, helps disolve anger and encourages unconditional love.

Home Use:
Good for a baby's room or a child's bedroom.

TURQUOISE cool, calming

Personal Use:
Cool and calming, good for the nervous sysem and immune system.

Home Use:
Great in any room, although not ideal in activity areas.

MAGENTA balancing, fulfillment & wholeness

Personal Use:
Combines both red and violet, so represents earthly and spiritual matters for a balancing effect. Uplifting, it creates a feeling of completeness and fulfillment.

Home Use:
Works well in lecture spaces, not ideal for play rooms or activity rooms.

BLACK reflection, inner searching

Personal Use:
Gives us the space for inner searching and reflection.

Home Use:
When used with another colour it enhances the effect of that second colour. It is not ideal used alone in a room, but used carefully it can compliment other colours in almost any environment.

WHITE Clarity, purity

Personal Use:
It emphasises purity, illuminates our thoughts giving clarity.

Home Use:
Can be used in any room, but could be a little intimidating on its own. Best when broken up with another colour or with plants, sculptues, pictures, etc.