Kitchens by Riland

Colors play a vital role in affecting our moods and manners. Professional color experts say that every color has its own psychological effect that impacts human mood, energy level, and appetite. The years of researches on color also emphasize that colors elicit our strong responses. That is why, kitchen, the place where we spend much time to cook food to serve and eat, makes a strong impact on the cook as well as on his/her cookery. The colorful kitchen cabinet will surely give a pleasant and energetic effect, when the proper color combination is applied over the kitchen cabinet walls. The warmer colors like yellow, red, orange and gold make people hungrier as these colors stimulate metabolism. However, these colors give the feel of heat and can cause your kitchen to get overheated. Nevertheless, blue tones are capable enough to balance out this effect.

There is a biological reason for why people prefer blue kitchen cabinets. Blue color rarely occurs in human food sources. In general, there is no animal or no plant that bears the blue color; even if there are any exceptions, they are inedible or not good as a nutritional source. The absence of blue pigment in food has made human beings averse to food. This bio-psychological effect of blue color has twice-fold benefit. It is an inspiring color for the cook to prepare more delicious dishes at the same time it will make the people who wish to peep into the kitchen less enthusiastic about the prepared dishes. Thus, blue represses hunger, which is the reason that restaurants, bars paint the kitchen cabinets with blue shades.

Besides this, blue tones are appropriate for your kitchen cabinet, since they evoke your thirst as they give the sense of liquidity and water. This is because many lakes, rivers and oceans are blue in color and make us thirstier. This is an ideal theme for a natural or a beach-based kitchen. There are many tones available in the market to choose from the blue color. You can opt for the darkest navy reminiscent of night sky or choose paler duck egg bluish shade. Since blue color easily mingles with the other colors, you can combine the color with yellow and pink to give your kitchen a country kitchen look. Generally, the light blue color gives your kitchen classic as well as hygienic feel, whereas the dark blue will give a sense of coldness in stead of giving welcome feeling. Hence, you should wisely choose the color combination before you paint your kitchen cabinet in blue shades.