Colorful Interior Design: Styling Homes with Personality
Colour and the Senses
A course by Geraldine Tan , Interior Stylist, Blogger, and Content Creator
Joined July 2020
About the video: Colour and the Senses
Overview
“Colour, in addition to its visual perception, can be experienced through the sense of smell, taste, and sound too. In this lesson, I will talk through a few associations of colours with senses, and then you can explore how to use this concept for your colourful space.”
In this video lesson Geraldine Tan addresses the topic: Colour and the Senses, which is part of the Domestika online course: Colorful Interior Design: Styling Homes with Personality. Explore the psychology of color, lighting, and patterns to design inspiring and welcoming interiors that enhance your home.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Colour and the Senses Colour, in addition to its visual perception, can be experienced through your sense of taste and smell. In this lesson, I will talk you through a few associations of colour with your senses. There's a phenomenon known as synaesthesia that evokes a sense of taste and smell when a colour is seen. This occurs when sensory input pathways cross over in the brain. We all have a degree of synaesthesia, but the stimuli sense is not often strong. This is an interesting concept because we could use a reverse approach. We could enhance the effect of a particular colour by using...”
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Course summary for: Colorful Interior Design: Styling Homes with Personality
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Areas
Color Theory, Decoration, Interior Decoration, Interior Design

Geraldine Tan
A course by Geraldine Tan
Geraldine Tan is an award-winning interior stylist, blogger, and content creator based in London. As a child, she enjoyed rearranging furniture and styling and later went on to discover a love for reading interiors blogs. She eventually started a blog of her own, Little Big Bell, where she found herself posting more and more about interiors and decor alongside her day job as a doctor. Geraldine later began sharing her colorful interior style on Instagram, kickstarting her career as a content creator.
Since then, she’s become one of the UK’s leading interiors bloggers. Her work has been featured in both national and international media including The Sunday Times Home, YOU Magazine, Red magazine, Glamour, Livingetc, Evening Standard, and more. She has also collaborated with brands like Acqua di Parma, Jo Malone, L’Occitane, Amazon, Disney, Lego, and PayPal, and won awards including The AMARA Interior Blog Award for Color Inspiration.
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