Beige is a popular color for home decoration and interior design. What is the symbolic meaning and psychology, including influences of the color beige? Plus, what does it suggest about your personality if you choose beige in certain areas of your life?
What Color is Beige?
The color beige comes from a combination of light, pale gray, brown, and yellow. However, it’s most commonly considered to be a pale yellow color. Beige is not one exact color, much like taupe. It has varying shades and degrees of the color.
Color Beige HEX Codes & Symbolism
Some of the most common color variations are, French Beige, Cream, Tuscan, Desert Sand, Mode Beige, Khaki, Unbleached Silk, and Ecru.
The word Beige originated in France around the mid ninetieth century. It was the color name given to the natural color of wool.
Home Decoration/Interior Design
The color beige is a very popular color in home design and decoration. Beige provides a good balance of neutrality, calm, and comfort which is ideal for the home.
While being a very popular choice, it would also perhaps suggest conventional thinking and a focus on the basics, such as family, comfort, and relaxation. It suggests a priority for a warm and relaxing environment, combined with a need for a clean living area.
Wearing Beige Meaning
To wear beige suggests a desire for comfort, neutrality, and perhaps conformity. Someone is not looking to stand out, they want to blend in with the crowd. It could also suggest a compulsion for cleanliness, which is similar to wearing white. However, unlike white, they are looking for something a little more comforting, perhaps with more emotion and life.
Wearing the color beige may suggest a desire for visual or color coordination, as it blends well with many skin tones. This may be connected to a psychological desire for order, organisation, and symmetry. Having a desire for color coordination shows a strong interest in aesthetics. They likely appreciate art in many forms.
It would likely mean a desire for a natural or naked appearance, depending on the shade. This could suggest a desire for the natural in other areas of their life. For example, a tilting towards natural and organic foods, limiting artificial cosmetics, and air fresheners.
Personality if you like Beige
You focus on the basic things in life, such as simple comforts, friends, and family. You’re friendly, welcoming and helpful to others. You tend to prefer the conventional, not looking to stand out. You have a strong desire to be seen as normal, and to be part of the majority. You’re not naturally impulsive. However, you may have obsessive compulsive tendencies for cleanliness.
Beige Color Combinations
There are many colors that go well with beige. However, here is a list of my favorites. Gray, white, brown, black, tan and dark green shades.
Influences – The color beige has relaxing and comforting influences, and encourages feelings of warmth and calmness. Beige also promotes a general sense of neutrality and impartial thinking.
