When purchasing furniture you really cannot go far wrong if you go for white!
The popularity of white furniture has increased a lot in recent times. People seem to be turning more to the minimalist look and the clean feeling that comes with it. When furnishing our home the choice is endless. White furniture can be found in dining tables and chairs, wardrobes, dressers, bookcases and much more.
You will find that the most commonly used colour in interior design is white. This is so particularly in bathrooms and kitchens where cleaning and most importantly, preparation of food is carried out. This is mainly due to hygiene and of course it makes sense that dirt shows up significantly on white and surfaces are far more readily kept germ free.
They say that technically this is not a colour as such, it is in fact a neutral.
It was Sir Isaac Newton who experimented in 1666, using a hole in a window shade that admitted a ray of sunshine into a dark room, where a glass prism was placed in such a position that enabled the light to pass through it. He found that that the ray of light was refracted when passing through the prism and spread a beam of multicoloured light in all the colours of the rainbow which appeared as white on the wall beyond.
Newton’s conclusion was that white sunlight was a mixture of different types of light, each one being a single pure colour and that each colour was bent at different degrees, violet by the most and red by the least.
So it was found that white light does in fact contain all the colours within it, they are simply not visible as they are being reflected.
I have seen some wonderful interior designs that are entirely white with maybe the odd addition of one or maybe two other colours introduced into the design. So don’t dismiss the use of white painted furniture in your decor because white interiors tend to have a very calming effect and help you relax and feel at home.
