Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interiors of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space.  An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordinates, and manages such enhancement projects. Colors are an important dimension of designing interiors.

A sense of color is instilled as a key designing skill in the students of the department of interior design in Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences (JIMS) VK II. Colors make valuable contribution to the interiors. They can pep up the overall ambience of the space by diluting the eye-watering side effects of an overtly bright shade if combined with soothing color combinations.

Every color has a story

Interior designing students often have multiple queries regarding colors. It is important to note that that there is actually a structure for every color on the rainbow! The pastel palette is absolutely captivating and adds excellent design quality to any space. It is said that where color is scarce, details flourish. It is this attention to detail that the designers want to add to the look and feel of the structure by abstaining to the use specific colors. Shades like pista or mint green, beige, peach, lavender, ivory, gray and white give the impression that the design is colorless. These shades are often used in different hues and with an extra color to soften the open spaces. Such combination helps in achieving contrast and even brightening up the space. For example, an ivory may have a yellow undertone. White may be a little ivory or yellow and blue may have a tinge of other shades as well.

Pastel colors can be used in the design and decoration in two main ways – first for a soft, minimal look and second to convey strong and noisy impressions. Choosing an appropriate color palette for space is vital. A bad choice of color can cause a space with the potential to look beautiful ending up being an absolute eyesore.

Color Schemes

Colour can broadly be classified into two categories- warm tones and cool tones. Warm tones, such as red, orange and yellow energize a space, and consequently the occupants of such spaces find themselves find themselves upbeat on most occasions. Cool tones like green, blue and purple provide a relaxed, serene air to space.

It is common for the interior designers to use 60-30-10 rule where the dominant color (usually a neutral shade) takes 60 per cent of color space followed by a slightly bolder shade taking up 30 percent space and lastly the boldest hue taking up 10 percent of the color space. A contrast of warm and cool colors can be another color scheme at play.

Color scheme is an area of interest for most of the students studying interior designing and some of them even carve a niche sense of colors by the end of their learning at the Department of Interior Designing at JIMS VK II.