The colours of your head office will impact much more than just your business’ aesthetic. Paint colours have an impact on how your business is presented to clients and staff alike, as well as the overall culture and productivity of your business.
Your paint colour and quality play an essential role in client relationships and staff morale – after all, you don’t want your office to be a workspace your team dreads coming into every morning.
When you’re ready to give your office a new look, hire a professional commercial painting company to ensure that it gets an expert-level colour scheme and painting. Anything less can reflect badly on your business.
Here are a few of the techniques you can use to pick a new colour scheme for your office.
Choose Colours that Complement Your Furniture
If you plan on keeping the same furniture in the space you’re painting, opt for colours that complement or nicely contrast those pieces. For example, choosing the same colour of the trim on a couch, the accent colour in a filing cabinet or a colour in a piece of artwork can be the starting point of an extended colour scheme.
Pick three colour strips from the paint store with that colour, and, because each strip contains five or six complementary or analogous colours, you now have 15-18 colour options. Choose your favourite for the wall colour and two others from different strips to use as secondary, accent or flair colours for the same room. You can then use the first strip to choose room colours for adjacent rooms or offices. This creates colour continuity or “flow” throughout your workspace.
Pick Colours Based on How they Affect Mood
Another technique for choosing a colour scheme for a room or area of your office is to do so based on the type of mood or feeling you want that space to evoke. Colours can be categorized into three main groupings according to how they make a viewer feel:
- Active colours: Active colours are tones that can stimulate and excite the mind because they are vibrant and eye-catching. They are also warm and brightly-hued colours such as reds, yellows and oranges and are commonly used in study rooms, offices and for accent walls.
- Passive colours: These are colour tones that evoke a calming effect and promote focus and relaxation. Passive colours are popular choices for bedrooms and break rooms and give smaller spaces a more spacious feel. In general, passive colours are cool and soft-toned such as blues, greens and purples.
- Neutral colours: Neutral colours include black, white, brown, gray and cream and do not easily fit within one of the primary or secondary colour families. Many hues can be neutral as long as they are less vibrant than adjacent colours. For example, light pink appears as neutral when next to a navy blue, scarlet or emerald.
The mood you wish to set in a room within your office should be based on how that space is to be used.
Hire a Consultant
A colour consultant can help by providing you with paint colour ideas and samples or even a custom-designed colour palette for your office to match a corporate colour scheme. Gather colour ideas and have them ready for your meeting.
A colour consultant can also assist with challenges caused by natural and installed lighting to ensure your office maintains the right look and feel all day long.
