Designing & Accessorizing with Red!

It's Valentine's Day and all over the country florists and Fed-Ex trucks are slip sliding away trying to deliver that special something to that special someone. Chances are those packages will be wrapped or "bow-ed" in red. It was because of the holiday that we first decided to do a special feature on the color red, but then all this white stuff started falling, and we decided that whether your ventral tegmental is being tickeled or not, we all needed a burst of red on the scene.

So we put it to designers: Why do you like working with the color red -- and how does it imact a person's environment. Wow. What a loaded question. We'll be posting more of these responses as we receive them -- and would love to hear from you too -- show us just show much your ventral tegmental is impacted by the color red!

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ELIZABETH MOORE Interior Designer & Owner of Froote and contestant on Bravo's Top Design,  tells us she loves talking color:

Red is scientifically a color that has a slower wave length, so therefore slows one down. This is why it is good in the dinning room and eating areas. Red in the guest bathroom is good as well -- as evidenced by this red tile floor.  (People need to take their time in these rooms...)

The color is a root color on the spectrum of chakra colors, therefore it is established with the sensations and aspects of what essentially are the equivalent of your ROOTS; your past, the things we do as a matter of geneological make up passed on from your cultural roots. It is a very powerful and subconscious color. In Feng Shui, (not that I am an expert) it is a color that has strong power and needs to be used in certain room only as an accent. Too much red can get you in touch with your ghosts, so to speak....

Every house needs red, even if only on the outside! as it keeps one grounded and is supposed to provide a portal to aspects of financial abundance ...

We'll be posting more designer responses -- so check back frequently!

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