When looking for new office decorating ideas, one of the easiest areas to tackle is your color scheme. Simply tweaking the color layout of your office can transform your office with dramatic effects.

When choosing colors for a room, it is important to consider the size of the room and whether you want to enhance it's features or change the entire perception of the room. There are some very basic guidelines regarding color that you should know when changing your color shceme, some of which we have outlined below.

• White walls – whiate or light color walls will reflect light and make your office appear larger
• Dark walls – dark color walls will make your office appear smaller
• White ceilings – white celings will make your room appear taller
• Cool colors – cool colors will make the walls appear farther away
• White ceilings – white or light colored ceilings will make your office look narrower and taller if you paint them with darker color walls

Using these color rules can give you a good starting point. If you want your office space to appear a certain way, or have a certain trait, this will give you a good base template to work from.

Taking a page from Feng Shui color combinations, we can also explore some particular color pairings.

Black and white – this represents yin and yang and balance. This color combination may be good for corporate offices or boardrooms.

Silver and Dark Purple – another yin and yang color combination, however, this particular combo also carries a strong symbolism of money.

Red and Gold – this color combination is considered very bright and is a symbol of good fortune.

Blue and Black – this combination would work well for those businesses having to do with paper or wood, publishers for instance.

Blue and Green – a combination that stresses the water element, a good selection for your business if you deal with water or liquid.

Earth tones – these colors convey a warm and inviting feeling

Once you have your color scheme chosen, you next need to decide if you want a pattern, solid color, or some kind of mix of the two elements. You can add shapes and lines to add some contrast in your office space. Any lined shape, rectangles, triangles, diamonds will work well. You do not need to add the shapes or lines to every wall to have a dramatic effect, consider three walls of solid color with a single wall containing your pattern for contrast.

This can help avoid making your office decor come across as over the top. For additional office decorating ideas you can add circular art to the walls, which will even out the shapes or lines you have chosen to include. A round mirror is a good example of something that would contrast something like a triangle pattern. This will help to soften up the office space.

By incorporating a new color scheme, you can dramatically transform your office decor. Additionally, this is one of our office design ideas that can really be done on any budget. For the cost of a couple cans of paint, you can completely transform what used to be a drab office into something new and exciting.

As an added bonus to a great new office, you may also see your production rise after the new office design is put into place. Just having a work space that you can feel good about can really make a profound impact on your state of mind. More production and less stress from a few simple coats of paint, what a deal!