... and should you decorate with it? I had fun taking a True Value color quiz over the weekend and discovered that my personality is a "yellow." I read further and found that a sunny yellow would help a home be cheery without overwhelming. But this is assuming that you should decorate in colors that match your personality. Should you?
I wanted if to see if my love of orange in the home coordinated at all with my personality, and I think yellow is close enough. (I don't think I could stand too much yellow in my home, but I get the point about bright colors being good accents. Thank you color quiz.)
However, some cheery people like a fairly neutral space so that they can relax after a day's work, and actually use a neutral palette to calm them down. In college I was more introverted and purple was my favorite color. But I decorated my dorm with a lot of yellow, as I was hoping the yellow would prevent homesickness and keep me upbeat. (It did.)
Which are you? Do you like your space to mirror your personality exactly? Or do you choose colors to complement your personality, and to affect you in a certain way?
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Ha! Mine said red - I love all colors but that is definitely not one of my faves, at all!!!
I love the pillows though - anyone know where they are from?
Hmmmm. My color, it says, is Black! I like it for wardrobe (although it's risky with furry pets!) and for basic furnishings (in lacquer or leather, mostly) but not a LOT of it. And frankly, I don't look great in it either, although that's not always a motivator! (I wear it anyway...)
I don't think I could deal with a totally black room, unless maybe a home theater where darkness must prevail. So for me, it would have to be an accent. For large expanses I like neutrals or even brights, but usually a limited pallette and nothing with a lot of pattern. (Well, there are those drapes in the family room...)
Brown? Brown? Me????
I think quizzes like this oversimplify so much that they are essentially meaningless.
There are so many things that can influence the colours you use in your home... The "bones" of the space, the quality and quantity of light, the materials in the home....
Blues I would say.
I would love to find a deep deep olive green pillowcases or cushions - like this color anyone?
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Black. That's no surprise though. But my favorite color is gray, and I decorate with it, a lot. Gray curtains, gray rooms, gray rug... not a gray room with a gray rug and gray curtains though, too much gray.
mine says black too! i mean, wha?
i would've said yellow, although my favorite color and the one i surround myself with is green.
shoot, i'm just claiming the whole rainbow.
Mine is red! That's my favorite color.
I like warm colors in a room, like red, orange or yellow, but recently I like to use these colors more like accents with a cooler background like blue-green or blue-gray, but also a creamy white.
I'm not too sure about this - I got black as well, then changed a bunch of responses and got purple.
Purple really purple??? Hmmm...I have anything purple! Maybe I should incorporate it...you think?
I landed red (or black if I changed one answer).
I think that's kind of funny since red says "Your interests in many areas of life often leave you scattered, but when you focus you can accomplish anything you put your mind to," and black talks about how well I focus.
While I like red, I don't really decorate with it. I have a few rust coloured things in my main room and I like reddish wood but mostly I have neutrals and greens.
I'd say decorate with the colors you like/love, forget the quiz.
Black, not surprisingly.
I got red - eh. Don't think so!
Besides, I'm not really a one color kind of gal. I like to play the color field.
I too am highly skeptical of this quiz. Red? Um, no. Changed a couple of the answers I was so-so on and now I'm Black? These are probably the two colors I decorate with least in my home. (And the personality descriptions were way off too.) I'm all about blue, green, yellow and orange (and brown, if you count all the wood.)
BruceS63--
15 points for the Charlie Brown reference!
I got red, which is not a color I use very much, except in very small punches. I'm much more drawn to blues and greens.
My current, new apartment is based on accents of bright green, aqua, and dark brown against a palette of neutral pale creams and grays. It seems to work in my northern exposure and feels both energizing and soothing (which red definitely would not!). I imagine the colors we're drawn to give a balance to the "color" of our personalities.
They must be trying to move some black paint, cuz I got Black too.
Actually, I got so flustered by the "Coach or Player" question, I'm not sure ow I answered the rest of the survey. :)
I've always tested as blue but I am red here. I am not a red fan.
I got red, but I like blues much better...
Oh and Patrick, I was flustered by the Coach/Player questions too!
Looks like it's only got red and black as the answers, with some rare combination getting brown.
I got black, and I hate to decorate with it. I like bues, greens, and browns, with cool neutrals. My favorite color is green, and I don't really decorate with it, even...
My Grandma decorated with only her favorite color and her whole house was different shades of purple. She loved it. I guess it's just up to the individual.
clampers--
Lol!
At least it didn't ask "Pitcher or Catcher". But then maybe I would have gotten a nice "versatile" gray.
It called me PURPLE!!! I feel sick.
Yellow? I hate yellow!
Hmm, I got black. As far as color goes, not really me.
But the description that's given... um, yes... 100% me. :)
"Nothing can stand between you and your demand for a calm environment. To be free of conflict and disagreement is the only way to live. In fact, it’s this philosophy that probably allows you to be comfortable in conditions that would normally bother others. Your ability to focus is undisputed, and while you enjoy attention, you still have problems understanding how to handle it. No other color out lives by the golden rule as much as you do."
But a calm environment for me isn't neutral tones and coordinated colors. Like it says, my ability to focus is undisputed. For me, calm is something that makes me happy. Stick me in a deep pink and rich orange room and I'll be perfectly calm and relaxed... so long as it makes me happy.
I got "red" and it is spot on! It's my favorite color to use, but I have to reign it in sometimes since it's such a powerful color. My boyfriend says it looks angry, pshaw
Mine was green. I do like accents of green in my apartment ... but I have mostly neutrals, splashes of blue, and lots of black.
Lucky me, I got my favorite color: red. Pretty spot-on.
mine said red too my fave!
tho it looks like many ppl share the like =)
didn't understand why the clothing preference part only had sweat pants, jeans, and suits...ARE THERE NO OTHER CHOICES?
Purple? This is the last color I thought I would turn out to be! My bedroom is splashed with sunny yellow and my kitchen is full of retro elements with such colors as yellow, orange and green! There is absolutely not a drop of purple in my home let alone my wardrobe! Crazy quiz!
Black! Screw you parent's that say I always look like i'm going to a funeral, its my personality color!
I love black clothes, it goes with everything, i like black accents as it makes things pop a bit for me, i dont think you have to live in a room of it because its your color tho.
I got gray and I think that's about right. I really thought everyone here would have scored "gray" too.
!!!!!!-- BruceS63 --!!!!!!!!!!!! Hilarious.
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Red is the furthest thing from my personality. And house-color preferences too.
I AM, however, intrigued that my personal favorite colors for my home, are ones that best compliment to my skin & face, and are my favorite to wear because of them looking good on me.
(Uggh, quizzes/questionnaires like this depress me, knowing that some people think it's legitimate to reduce our minds to a OR b OR c. Simplistic. Totally dismissible.)
Ha!! I got red.... no surprise... my whole bedroom is red!!! and on the right location acording to feng shui!!!... never bored, never bored.....
I got grey. Even when I changed the one question that I felt 2 answers were correct, I still got grey. Interesting. I have a grey and creme bathroom, and I love it.
I got purple, which has been my favourite colour practically since birth!
lol patrick (is there another one?) I was thinking the same thing re: pitcher and catcher, but that's a whollllllllle other topic ;-)
black???
that is so NOT me!????
Yellow? Well I do have a sunny personality. I've never had a favorite color, but I am a redhead so every four or five years when the color palette turns to colors that flatter my complexion, I tend to load up on them.
What!? My colour is black!?
Okay, I like black. I wear a lot of it. Hello, because it's so practical and you can own fewer things. I don't think I want to decorate my home in black. I need colour! Lots and lots of colour. Turquoise, green, purple, hot pink...gimme!
That said, I do think every room should have a little black in it somewhere.
My colour is red! Not very surprising as I have a red kitchen, bathroom and bedroom!
I love the colour red, so passionate, chic and beautiful!
I, based on the 10 or so innocuous questions, am a "yellow." And, seeing as I just painted a room in my house yellow, I guess it worked? :)
I was labled with gray, which is really not me. My apartment has all gray walls and carpeting and it drives me nutty. I fight back by adding as much color as I possibly can!
Black! So surprising, yet not really. I wear black all the time. Most of the time actually. But my house if full of COLOR!
Mine said red, but that's probably my least favorite color to decorate with.
I got red. Red is so not right for me. I actually mostly despise red and hardly own anything in the colour (which is funny, since all of Canada turned itself red for the Olympics and I wore... green!). Although I am often drawn to other people who wear red, so maybe I do like it?? whatever. I cannot foresee myself decorating with it, unless it's an accent in a carpet or something.
The description is half-on, particularly the part about accomplishing things if I put my mind to them (which means I don't accomplish what I don't want to, ha! so much for my current job!). This quiz is so half-baked, it's no wonder most of us are ending up with really weird colour answers vs our own actual preferences. But really, from such a simplistic quiz, how can you expect it to be precise or accurate. ... particularly if they then use phrases like "energetic bursts of energy" in the descriptions.
I think these quizzes are mildly amusing, just to see what happens and how I react to it. But I don't need a quiz to tell me my personality color -- I don't even care what my personality color might be. I like what I like, and I compromise with whomever I live with and what THEY like, and my decor looks fine. (My FAVORITE color is teal, but I don't actually have any of it in my decor...)
Huh... apparently my favorite color fits my color personality.... RED!!
"You boast incredible willpower and are capable of overcoming obstacles that would normally leave others shaking in their boots. You have a penchant for colorful environments and often impress others with your energetic bursts of energy. Your interests in many areas of life often leave you scattered, but when you focus you can accomplish anything you put your mind to." Yup.
purple????? how did that happen?
I got black the first time, which makes a lot of sense. When I changed one answer, I got red. Not a huge fan of red, but I don't dislike it either. Maybe I'll try something different with some red!
I have a theory; if you said you're liberal and artistic, it probably gave you black...I DID used to be a Goth, but I got so tired of black...but yeah, black is what I got.
I got black, but I'm much more likely to use purple and green.
I got red, which is definitely a color that I like in my home. The two main colors I'm drawn to seem to be blues and reds. I have a big oriental rug that is mostly red with some blue accents in my living room, so that brings a lot of red into that room. But I definitely like to have different colors around me and never too much of any one.
I am gray.
I love gray. I have a gray metal bed frame but have been hesitant to use that color on my walls or as fabric. It is like silver which I also love.
Hmmmm...possibilities abound.