If you are planning on making a home for yourself, or changing your home deco and using this year's spring colors, then you need to know a few guidelines …

If you are romantic and very calm, try using soft and romantic shades of pinks & reds. Dusty rose, muted mulberry, pale blush, carnation, pink icing and cotton candy provide welcome comfort while hinting at gentle color. These colors are all from the SOFT category.

If you are more active and like the freshness in the world, then fresh shades of cool blues and greens such as aqua, azure, sky blue, turquoise, teal and apple green lend an airy atmosphere, ideal for compact areas with low ceilings or rooms that lack natural light. These colors are all from the FRESH category.

If you need a touch of warmth and you are brave enough to use bold colors, then rich shades of reds, blues and purples, in addition to shades of wine, clay, brick, cranberry, midnight blue, deep nautical blue, grape and plum all provide bold warmth within open concept homes or expansive areas that contain elevated ceilings. These colors are all from the RICH category.

If you need to liven up a dark space, and you don’t mind bright colors, then bright blues, greens, oranges and yellows appear as lively sapphire, royal, emerald, lime, tangerine, nectarine, butterscotch and dandelion. Mixed with crisp whites, these bright tones offer a lively atmosphere within even the darkest spaces. These colors are all from the VIVID or VIBRANT category.

If you want to be contemporary, and enter into a timeless world, then flexible whites contain variations of ‘basic’ white and include hints of pastels, cool pearly whites or creamy whites, such as ivory or vanilla. Interesting twists on traditional ‘white’ tones, add style and a bit of color to any surface.

If you want to stay close to earth and the environment in the privacy of your own home, then neutral tones take the form of natural themes and focus on sand, ecru, tan, moss, fern, wheat, soapstone and straw. Consumers increased preferences for natural materials such as woods, metals and stone particularly harmonize with the added demand for the earthly neutral color palette. These shades are all from the NEUTRAL category.