Amber color: how to use it to give a touch of style to the house
Halfway between yellow and orange, amber is one of the most popular colors on the Pantone scale. It lends itself to countless color combinations and for this reason it is often chosen to furnish homes. The amber stone, on the other hand, is a fossil resin that has been known for millennia. Positive, intense, warm and enveloping: using the amber dye is not difficult and in this article we will explain how to do it. If you are interested in furniture, don't miss the video!
All shades of amber
Amber is a color between yellow and orange whose name derives from the stone of the same name, a fossil resin known for thousands of years and used not only as an ornament but also for its beneficial properties. Amber is a semi-transparent stone. with a thousand shades: it can be at the same time a beautiful intense yellow or turn towards the warm orange, depending on how it is hit by the light.
According to chromotherapy, or color therapy, then, amber is a shade that gives a sense of well-being and relaxation, capable of reducing stress and giving energy to those around it. This particular shade is obtained by mixing the red (100%) with some green (74.9%) but without any touch of blue; the RGB is 255, 191, 0 while the codes of the shades of amber are:
- RGB 244, 196, 48 saffron yellow
- RGB 255, 204, 0 orange-tangerine yellow
- RGB 229, 190, 1 signal yellow (the tint of the arrows, for example)
- RGB 250, 210, 1 traffic yellow (i.e. the yellow of the traffic light)
Inside the Pantone scale, however, amber is identified with the code 14-1045 TCX.
How to decorate the house with amber
Amber is an energetic and intense shade, characterized by the ability to instill a sense of great welcome in those who decide to use it to furnish their home. Amber is one of the most suitable shades for decorating the kitchen, living room and sitting room. because it gives brightness and elegance to the rooms. In combination with white it becomes super chic, while if it is combined with other warm colors such as red and orange it takes on an ethnic character which is very suitable in the living area.
Many also use the amber color to paint the walls of their home: it is a strong choice that goes against balance with sober and not too elaborate furnishings. In this case, the material to be combined is certainly wood, which accentuates the warmth effect typical of this shade. In the bedroom, however, the yellow-orange should be used in small doses because, given the large amount of energy it manages to transmit, could disturb sleep. In the bedroom, in general, it is advisable to use more restful shades such as green, white or blue, however, nothing prevents you from daring with small hints of amber here and there.
Choosing to use amber paint on small portions of the wall can also be a good idea. This color, in fact, manages to give light even to a particularly dark environment. It is no coincidence that it is one of the most used solutions by home designers to give brightness to small and windowless rooms.
How to combine amber with other colors
Amber is a color that goes perfectly with:
- the White
- the Red
- the yellow
- the orange
- purple
- the blue
- the green
There are few colors with which it does not go well because it is a truly versatile shade full of possibilities. Many use it to furnish even small rooms such as the bathroom (in combination with metal or country-style furniture) or for the outdoors. The kitchen and the living room are, in general, the environments where this color finds its greatest use precisely by virtue of the chromatic intensity that characterizes it. In fact, it is enough to paint a wall in this color to immediately notice the difference in terms of light; amber, then, is also very much combined with white or light gray because it manages to warm these colors and make them more vibrant.
Although amber is one of the easiest colors to combine, there are some hues that make this color famous for the homonymous stone, a little too intense. Its opposite is, for example, light green: matching this color to an amber painted wall can be a bit excessive.
