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Bellevue Square: At Home with New Hues Ready to refresh your home for spring? Bellevue Square has a wide selection of home furnishing stores that can help you energize your home with vibrant colors and decorating ideas. As more of us move toward expressing our individuality in the home, color becomes the most visible way to make an impact. Requiring confidence and caution, color is the quickest and least costly way to transform a space. Warm colors such as red, orange and yellow invite, stimulate and excite. In the mind’s eye, warm colors advance, creating the illusion of intimacy. Cool colors, like blue, green and purple comfort and relax. Cool colors recede and can make a small space appear loftier. Although selecting color is always a challenging (and rewarding!) task, there are ways to make the job easier. A great tool for taking the guesswork out of planning is a color wheel. You can use it to examine relationships of colors to determine which combinations work best to create the effect you desire. So where do you begin to dare to decorate? A great place to shop for ideas is at Bellevue Square – with its many and varied home stores, you’re sure to find something to brighten your world in stores like: The Bombay Company, The Bon Marche Home Store, Crate and Barrel, Eddie Bauer Home Collection, FireWorks, Haley’s Cottage, Home Kitchen, Illuminations, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Select Comfort and Williams-Sonoma.