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AFM's Ayurveda Essence

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CREATING BALANCED

COLOUR COMBINATIONS
 

Ayurveda (literally, "the science of life"), brings the benefits of an ancient healing system into your environment with meaningful colour choices.  For AFM's Ayurveda Essence, we've created a specific range of 108 colours in highly distinctive palettes.

 

Ayurveda therapy blends the physical and mental attributes that comprise of our body and mind.

A configuration of these attributes are known as our dosha , or constitution.  The three body/mind doshas are Vata, Pitta and Kapha.  Vatas tend to be a lean build.  Pittas tend to be rather compact but powerful and muscular.  Kaphas tend towards softness and roundness.  Most of us are hybrids of these profiles, with one aspect predominating.

The Vita palette is a collection of muted and subdued earthly tones.  Our Pitta palette is one of complex colours with a cooling and calming orientation.  The Kapha palette contains vibrant and stimulating colours with warm overtones.  Use Ayurveda Essence to create an environment that enhances you physical and emotional well-being.

Learn more about AFM's Ayurveda Essence.  Please visit us online at www.ayurvedaessence.com

Although juxtaposing colours can be complex, a few single principles can help your intuition succeed.  Colours in a room amplify one another.  This principle is known as simultaneous contrast.  So to help ensure success, try keeping the quantity of your paint colours to three or four.  Dominant wall and ceiling colours can be enhanced by contrasting trim colours.  Remember that the colour of your furnishings can be tailored to create additional support and dimension.

"108 colours
 

in highly distinctive palettes"
If you are using lighter colours it's easier to integrate contrasting colours that oppose one another on the colour wheel.  For example blue is opposite to yellow and green is opposite red.  The opposites will subdue one another and help balance your scheme.

If you are using deep and bright colours consider keeping your choices in closely related grou.  For example a dusty rose will snuggle up to a murky maroon without either of the colours becoming amplified in a way that seems overbearing.  Using closely related colours is one way to make them harmonize: they soften one another.  Consider an accent wall.  This involves painting one wall in a room a markedly different colour from the other three.  Accent walls can be bold and vibrant and they can add tremendous dimension to your space.

 Another approach is to consider the function of a space and the amount of ambient light it normally contains.  Hallway and connecting spaces can augment a whole house-scheme when outfitted in neutrals.  The neutral transitional areas serve to introduce the schemes of featured rooms.

Value is the term used to describe how ligh or dark a colour is.  When you chose the value of a colour, you are making a decision how much light will be reflected from the freshly painted surfaces.  A room with low light may benefit from the use of pastels a from AFM's Ayurveda Essence you can take a step toward emotional and physiological enhancement  from within your living environment.

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VATA
Vata individuals are light and dry by nature with a general tendency to a thin frame and low body mass.  Skin and body functions can benefit from vigilant hydration.  Balancing techniques can reduce anxiety.  Deeper colours suggestive of moisture can create balance..
Dominant element:  air
Palette strategy:  grounding

Find your Vata colour                                              Find your Pitta colour

PITTA

Pitta individuals may develop occasional inflammatory conditions.  They have a general tendency to a moderate, athletic frame with a muscular body .  Cooling therapy may lower a tendency toward irritability.  Balance may be derived by colours that cool, moderate, and soothe

Dominant element:  fire    Palette strategy:  cooling              Find your Kapha colour

KAPHA
Kapha individuals have a tendency to a large frame.  Emotional nature tends toward calmness.  Stimulating therapy can avert tendencies toward inertia and lethargy.  Balance can be derived by using mobilizing colourssuch as bold, stimulating and bright accents.  Midtones and pastels may create the best colour schemes.
Dominant element:  water    g
Palette strategy:  stimulating

 

 
     
Note:  the colours presented above represent Ayurveda Essence colours as closely as possible, but the final appearance is determined by substrate texture, tion.  The palettes work by creating specific emerging effects. level, ambient lighting, application method and other environmental and design factors.  Sample brushouts of actual paint are recommended.

Also, please note that the content of this page is a reproduction of the AFM's Ayurveda Essence: creating balance with colour brochure.
Our self harmonizing palettes help simplify the task of combining colours successfully.  For Ayurveda Essence we've created a broad range of harmonious colours in highly distinctive palettes.  We invite you to select from the palette that seems akin to your basic constitution.  The palettes work by creating specific emerging effects.
AFM's Ayurveda Essence was developed with the collaboration  of Michael Fallarino, a New York based color consultant, building contractor, holistic counselor, and widely published  writer.  Mr. Fallarino incorporated the principles of East Indian medicine and design into all aspects of his work.
In addition to our Ayurveda Essence line, we offer a paint catalogue   All of our interior paints are available in semi-gloss, eggshell and flat sheens, and our exterior paint is available in a satin finish.  At AFM, we create solutions to the pressing problem of pollution  from building materials and household products, and offer the most extensive line of chemically responsible paints, finishes, and maintenance products available in the world today.  Whether you are parents-to-be creating a safe environment for your baby, or an architect writing the specifications for a multi-storey complex, you can trust AFM to safeguard your installation process and your indoor air.

We also offer a full  line of stains and wood finishes, sealers, cleaners, and other building products.

The above content has been sourced from the afmsafecoat.com (manufacturer) and cbrproducts.com (master distributor for Canada).

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