Rugs and colors

First and by far the most important is color. It is a fundamental instinct of human beings to react to color because color is light. Even a tiny baby will reach for the brightest toy in sight.

This universal reaction is emotional and personal, not intel­lectual at all. Color attracts or repels you; it stimulates or depresses you; it excites or calms you.

Three or more colors used together can, just like notes of music, make a harmony or a discord. All nature's color schemes are harmonious.

Some people have an innate ability to combine different colors in varying amounts so they instinctively achieve harmony in man-made objects.

The rest of us can learn to do this by studying a color chart and the simple basic rules of color theory. Perhaps your harmonies won't be as subtle or as original as an artist's, but they will certainly not be discords, and you can play a color tune in your own house to please yourself and to give an immediate reaction of pleasure and well-being to those who walk into it.