Designer Profile - Zara Stender

Spring into Color

Brighten your Home and Lighten Your Waistline Continued

By Zara Stender, CID, IDS, Allied ASID
Member, Color Marketing Group
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Here are some other ways color can compliment your life.

Use gray and blue to calm your teenager and enhance their ability to study. Paint one wall gray. Using blue accents such as blue based prints, or bed treatments against the existing lighter colored walls, will give the room a smart look without seeming too dark or intense.
Younger children are less hyper in rooms that have soft blues and greens.
To promote warm feelings of friendly togetherness in your family room, choose earth toned reds, terracotta, rust, orange and peach tints.
Use blue in your home office to enhance your ability to concentrate. One wall or just an accent will do the trick.

Zara Stender, CID, IDS, Allied ASID, Member, Color Marketing Group, is a Certified Interior Designer and color specialist. She is President of the Interior Design Society, Northern California Chapter, winner of three Bay Area design awards and the author of two books on design and color.

Zara is an independent member of the California Legislative Coalition for Interior Design and she sits on the Advisory Board for the Sacramento Valley Technical High School, a privately- funded charter school, which offers interior design curriculum to high school students. Zara is a designer for Flegel’s in Menlo Park, California. You may reach her at zaradesigns@yahoo.com