Color Zoning: The New Way to Define Spaces Without Walls

 We are all in love with the idea of open-plan living the beautiful flowing area where the light is free and the talk is flowing naturally, through the kitchen island to the living room. It is free, social and contemporary in nature. Nevertheless, as most of us have realized, this absence of walls can sometimes render a house one one big open room in which it is hard to tell where to work, cook, eat, and rest. This is where color zoning, a design concept where color is the language that defines our spaces beautifully and subtly comes in. It is not so much about building, but it is about intention.

What is color zoning, then? Essentially, it is the ability to develop areas of different visual appearance in an open space through the use of diverse colors, textures, and tones. Suppose it were to make chambers in a room which are not visible. You might base your home office space with a comfortable terracotta on the bottom of one wall, base your dining space with a deep rich navy on one accent wall, or base your reading corner with a soft sage green as opposed to using drywall and two-by-fours. It is a highly practical and creative design strategy which allows you to organize your life and provide your house with the additional richness and personalization. The artist guides the eye and heart to create an organic flow that feels both intentional and spontaneous.

Using paint to define a space

The pre-eminence of color zoning in dealing with the primary issue of the contemporary home is where its real ingenuity lays. We often lacked that cozy intimacy and clear definition of rooms so often afforded by the open space that we tried to seek. That we receive back through the zoning of colors without the need to pay and definitely not the need to commit to a restoration. It also creates visual boundaries and the brain is automatically notified that you are in a different zone that has a different role. People find it especially effective in shared spaces that serve multiple purposes, such as a studio apartment or a large room that functions as a kitchen, dining area, and living room.

Color scheme for open floor plan

Because their color scheme radiates warmth, the two areas immediately begin a silent dialogue that feels different yet perfectly blended. The mental separation necessitates the use of color zoning since it is necessary to those of us who have been forced to convert bedroom into a workspace. To give your working days a visual and psychological niche, you can paint a gray wall back of your desk a vivid invigorating gray or a silent and focused blue. When you sit in your office, you are in your office. When you turn over, the neutral and soft sounds of the environment where you sleep signal to your brain that it is time to relax. It is a simple transition that leaves a massive impact on your ability to focus and, what is just as vital, to pull out.

Wallpaper colour chart

You can mark out a hallway with a bold, patterned runner; you can make your kitchen island stand out against the cooler, low-key light in the living room by adding three pendant lamps with warm-colored bulbs that cast a golden glow over the working area. You can find your palette in the furniture itself, a navy blue sofa on light-walled walls immediately imposes itself. Of course the choice of colors is also important. This is the point of intersection of emotion and function. We can use our zoning to take advantage of our natural knowledge that color affects our feelings. Warm colors that are warm colors and which are naturally welcoming and comfortable include rich browns, terracottas baked by the sun and golden mustards.

Guidelines for Achieving Harmony Through Conscious Color Zoning

Mild rules to follow are scarce just as with any form of self-expression. The most common are jumping without thinking and using too many contrasting colors competing and conflicting with each other instead of being compatible. You should also be careful to test your paint samples at different periods of the day to observe how their character is radically altered by the morning sun, as by the evening artificial light. Remember your overall narrative of the house; every section of it must have a sense of a chapter and not a book. The goal is the harmonious flow, or the visual rhythm that takes one through the next area.

Color zoning, in the end, is not a design craze and instead a way of living in a more conscious manner within the four walls of our house. This is a subdued statement that our homes should transform to show how we work, live and dream. It allows us to create the form of what surrounds us and we create limits with perception and beauty more than it is with physical things. Look again at your open space, then. Take a brush, a rug, or a light and begin to draw the lines that you can see in your every day life, but that are not seen. You will find that you can make the rooms that you need without a single wall, so beautifully and delicately.