My bunnies to be evicted

[LittlePuffyTail]

But just to the living room, lol. I’m painting the rabbit room tomorrow. It really needs a fresh coat of paint. It’s a light purple and I want to re-paint it purple but a bit brighter. I was wondering… some people paint certain rooms specific colours because of the effect colours can have on your mood. Just wondering what effect purple is said to have upon one’s mood. Anyone know?

I’m eager to get the room done so I can start work on Bindi’s cube condo and then I will be making one for Storm and then Olivia.

[jerseygirl]

Think purple is supposed to heighten spiritual awareness or something. Colour may have an effect on you but not sure about the bunnies. Don’t think they even see colour (?) But if they do, maybe you’ll have some Zen Bunnies!

[LittlePuffyTail]

I didn’t think about the fact that they don’t see colours like we do. I’d like to know exactly what they see when they look around.

[FluffyBunny]

I remember reading that bunnies can see blue and green, but not as well as humans..

[jerseygirl]

 Well I just had a site up that I pasted a link to in Henri’s abcess thread. Also had info on vision – so I took a look. Apparently they don’t see red. So red looks like a green or bluish-green to them (How we know they see green as we do???) Anyway, in this diagram, rabbits supposedly see all the cubes as the colours in the left column. To them, this diagram would be four identical columns – all the same as the 1st one.  So I guess purple would look like a blue green colour to them. (Which is said to be relaxing and calming )

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[jerseygirl]

Mmm…now I’ve gone and confused myself – lol. Why wouldn’t they see yellow then, or white? Here’s link to where this info came from so now you can be as confused as me. If you’re not, please explain it to me! http://home.pacifier.com/~ppenn/color1.html

[RabbitPam]

That’s really interesting. I looked up the site. I lecture my tour groups for kids on colors and values (ie. shades).

Quick lesson on white and black: in human eyes, they are not their own colors at all, but rather the black is when you see the entire spectrum absorbed by what you’re looking at. The light goes in and stays in, so it’s as if you put all the colors in a pan and smooshed them together. It turns black.

White is the reflection of all light, all the colors in the spectrum bounce off what you’re looking at and go back to your eye, so they all reflect together and when merged – it’s white. So if a bunny has no apparatus in its eye for picking up the red from a spectrum, either they will never see black or white, or more likely, they do, and it’s just the colors they do see merged as above.

The range of light varies for animals, as well as birds. I recently learned that birds have a wider range of color spectrum than humans, so those birds we think look alike (so how do their mates find each other?) actually have this very subtle distinction among them that our eyes cannot pick up, and to them the difference is clear as day.

So the purple will look deep blue. They probably need to recognize sky, grass, fields, and shadows of predators.

Lavender means highest spiritual plane, is at the human head in the chakras, and is spirituality. So if you want to be calm around tension at work, wear a light purple shirt! Purple is equated with royalty, or a stronger devine link, thus kings wear purple robes. A bit more ego than spirit.

Light blue would probably be soothing to bunnies, and green even better, unless it makes them hungry! I expect brown is popular to them for recreating a burrow. Maybe the darker willow huts are more appealing for that reason.

Blue is throat chakra, for communication. Green is the heart chakra, for love and compassion. Etc.

[Battie]

I think they must study the rods in cones in an animals’ eye to determine which colors it can’t see. That’s just a guess though.

I think a purple room won’t be wonderful, especially if you have wood floors. It would be a little dark but would probably create a pleasant atmosphere.

[Beka27]

Posted By rabbitpam on 03/02/2009 5:22 AM

Light blue would probably be soothing to bunnies, and green even better, unless it makes them hungry! I expect brown is popular to them for recreating a burrow. Maybe the darker willow huts are more appealing for that reason.

 

 

lol!  Dirt brown, there ya go!    That will be an interesting color!

I know that they can see the blues and greens, but that’s interesting to think that other colors would just look blue and green to them as well.  I guess I thought other colors would just look grayish, with the blues and greens being the only ones that stand out.

We’re thinking about painting our kitchen in the next couple of weeks.  We like the flint blue from Behr.  It’s a very soft blue, with almost some greenish undertones.  It’s very pretty.

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