The Colour Wheel: Where Your Home’s Story Begins

Have you ever walked into a space and instantly felt calm… or energised… or completely unsettled—but couldn’t quite explain why?

Colour has that power. It shapes how we feel, how we move, and how we experience our homes every single day. Before we talk about rules or palettes, let’s pause for a moment and ask a few important questions:

How do you feel when you walk into your home right now?

What atmosphere would you love to create—cosy, uplifting, grounding, bold, serene?

What is your favourite colour, and how does it make you feel when you’re surrounded by it?

At the heart of making these choices with confidence lies a simple but powerful tool: the colour wheel.

Think of it not as a set of rules, but as a guide—one that helps you translate emotion into colour and colour into feeling.

The colour wheel shows us how colours relate to one another.

It begins with the primary colours—red, blue, and yellow—the building blocks of every hue you see around you.

When these blend, they create secondary colours like green, orange, and purple, and from there, softer and more nuanced shades emerge. This is where personality, mood, and depth begin to show up in a space.

Understanding these relationships helps you make choices that feel intentional rather than accidental.

It allows you to ask:

Do I want this room to feel restful or energising?

Should this space wrap me in warmth or open me up with light?

How do I want to feel when I sit here at the end of the day?

When used thoughtfully, the colour wheel becomes less about theory and more about creating harmony—between rooms, between colours, and most importantly, between your home and the life you live in it.

In the next steps, we’ll explore how to use colour in a way that feels natural, personal, and deeply aligned with you—because your home should never just look beautiful. It should feel like home.

We invite you to go on a collour journey with us as we explore the impact colour plays in our lives.

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