How to use Color in Interior Design - Color Psychology & Theory - Interior Design Essentials

Colors are your most powerful design element, if you learn to use them correctly. In this course I will teach you how colors work and how to apply them to your own interior as a professional interior designer.

Hi, I'm Auke, a Dutch architectural designer, engineer, and maker with over 10 years of experience in designing architecture, such as tiny houses, cabins and interiors. My work is mainly focused on minimalistic sustainable, and timeless design made with natural materials. Together with my wife and kids, we're constantly looking for new adventures. We love to live a lifestyle full of creative expression by sharing our ideas, skills and designs with you.

This course is part of the : interior design essential series.

And in this course I will teach you everything you need to know about: How the use color in interior design. 

Color is your most powerful tool that is often underestimated and misunderstood.

But if you know how to apply color in an interior the right way you can create an harmony and elegance, a playful and vibrant mood or calm and peaceful atmosphere.

This isn’t hard at all, I will translate the theory into practical design tools that you can use as an interior designer.

This course is perfect for anyone who wants to learn how to apply color in their own interior like a professional. People who are decorating their home, interior architects, stylists or decorators.

We'll start with how color works to create a base. Then I'll tell you about combining colors based on the color wheel with practical examples so that you learn to make a color scheme.

Then what color does to you, so about the psychological effects of color and about the visual effects of color. How to make a space bigger, smaller or higher just with color.

By the end of this course you will be a color expert who can provide color advice to others like a professional.

We will end the course with a class project called the Color Quiz to test your knowledge about color.

I’m sure this course is gonna inspire you and help you to get started right away. So let’s get started.

• Introduction
• The Color Wheel
• Color Schemes
• Tints Tones & Shades
• Psychological Effects of Color
• Visual Effects of Color
• The Effect of Light on Color
• The Color Quiz - Test Your Knowledge