Its about cool and trendy homes!!

Dining rooms are social and active, where you can easily test different colour schemes. It is very important to choose the right colour for your dining room to make it appear comfortable and alluring and a place in your home where you can relax as well as entertain your guests.

Choosing the right shades and tones of colour for your dining room is significant in achieving the right apperance. So while choosing the colours, make sure you have taken in to consideration the overall size and lighting of the room. Another important factor to consider while choosing dining room colours is to consider the type of dining room you have. Its excellent if you would match the dining room colour with other decorations like drapes and furnishing, as it gives more natural and unified look.

Design your dining room to reflect your lifestyle. Here are some tips on how to go about making it cool and trendy, yet to go with your taste. Lets splash some colours:

Yellows & Oranges:

Shades of orange, such as peach and apricot are good dining room colours. The colour orange is believed to stimulate appetite and support digestion. If your dining room doesn't get much of outdoor light, paint the walls with gold or similar rich and warm colour. This will give your room an inviting feel during the day and a glow at night too.

Yellows are sociable hues and tend to stimulate conversation at the dinner table. Shades of yellow like sun-kissed yellow or butter cup yellow are good choices for dining rooms.

Reds and Browns:

Reds are renowned for its strength and power. It create a wonderfully warm and passionate feeling with a hint of excitement. It works wonders as an entrance colour in a formal or contemporary dining area.

Browns associate with our earth creating a sense of nature and tranquility.It potrays a sense of stability, security and reliablility. Selecting deep beige or browns for dining room colour can create subdued atmosphere.

Whites & Neutrals:

Whites and Neutrals gives your room a crisp and clean or soft and delicate apperance. These colours make the room seem larger, opening up the room and creates a sense of structure and space. Its ideal for creating formal apperance to your dining room.

Greens:

Brilliant and calming, greens are among the best-loved colours of nature that sits easily in your home.

Natural greens inspired by the colours of garden creates airy and calm space, perfect for relaxing. Greens can symbolise bursting energy with a touch of mordern look. Its relaxing and restful to the eyes creating a cool, fresh and calm atmosphere. You can choose among the different shades of green, lime, mint, citrus, olive or teal.

No Blues & Pinks please!!!!

Blues can give a tranquil,serene feeling and a sense of spaciousness. However, when it comes to your dining room, try and avoid blues as it acts as an appetite suppressant. Same is the case with shades of pink and violet.

Vote for your favourite shade

Start splashing colours, vote for the best dining room colour among the above 10 shades in the picture above:

Format: Type 'HA' followed by a and the correct option to 56776

Example: HA A 

Don't forget to post us your answer for the contest on Manorama Classifieds too!