Physical colour in the environment effects our moods , relationships ,and well being. As a tool for healing, colour can be gazed at,meditated on, used in art and use in one’s personal space.

The use of colour in interior decorating the home has a profound effect on our emotions. The colours you see in your surroundings have a huge but perhaps largely subconscious effect on your moods, actions, and mental emotional states of being and function.

Colour is the key for successful decorating, as it produces a physical and emotional presence. Colour can visually stretch space, raise or lower ceiling height and alter emotional levels.

By understanding colour principles, and keeping free channel with your own intuition and taste, play with Padmini product and you’ll develop an eye for adventurous colour combination.

Colour science: In the physical plane colour is the result of light hitting an object. the colour we see is the frequency of light that is reflected off an object as light strikes it. Colours that we are able to see form the visible spectrum . rainbow and they react with each other either by harmonizing or contrasting with each other.

A colour wheel is an image of the spectrum bent into a circle . The colours adjacent to each other on the colour wheel form a related harmonious sequence. ^When you are mixing colours of paint or fabrics the Primary colors are Red , Yellow and Blue . of all colours, primary colors are strongest in form, they provide rooms with brightness and visual bounce.

Orange, green and violet are secondary colours and are made by mixing equal parts of two primary colours. yellow and blue make green blue and red make violet red and yellow make orange .

The tertiary colours are mixed from equal parts of a primary and the secondary colour next to it on the colour wheel . yellow- green, blue- green, blue- violet, red- violet ,red- orange, yellow -orange, are the tertiary colours.^ White things reflect all frequencies of light, black things absorb all frequencies of light.

Complimentary colours are those opposite each other on the colour wheel and they intensify each other when placed next to each other . The complimentary colours of the pigment primaries are Red compliment = Green Blue compliment = Orange Yellow compliment = Violet All colors including browns, grays, and neutral colours are mixed from combinations of primary and secondary colours.

Hue is another word for colour it is used to describe close or similar colours , scarlet and crimson are both hues of red for example.

Intensity refer to how bright a colour is. Vivid bright colours have strong intensity, pale grayed colours are weak in intensity, adding white to strong red creates weak pink, graying a hue by adding the complimentary colour also weakens it.

Tone refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a colour. when white is added to a colour the result is a tint of the colour pink is a tint of red. Adding black to a colour results in a shade of the colour.