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Wall colors and decorations in the home are mostly viewed in terms of appearance – what will look attractive. However, color psychologists suggest that choosing the right colors to beautify your home can greatly impact you and your family’s mental well-being.
Leslie Harrington, a color expert from Old Greenwich, says that color is generally a nonverbal language that most of us can speak. The colors we utilize to paint our walls and closets aren’t just because they look pretty, but we can use them to help maintain our emotions.
Other experts also believe that considering the function of each room before assigning a color to it is a great way to create a mentally healthy abode. Picking a primary color would be the next step. This has not been proven scientifically, although homeowners along with other psychologists agree that some shades are more effective than others at enabling calmness and positivity. Would you like to know if all this is true?
Perhaps you should try reading this rundown of the essential spaces in your home and their corresponding color match in terms of the mood they evoke.
The Rooms And Their Colors
Living Room And Porch. Yellow, red, oranges and earth colors such as beige and brown almost always work great in the living room and the porches or hallways. These tones are said to encourage conversation. The warmness calms the space and people are inspired to gather together and talk. The connection is there when they are embraced by these colors.
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Dining Room. Shades of red on your decorations are effective in creating a cozy dining area. Aside from stimulating conversations, red is also an appetite enhancer. Color consultants also believe that when someone’s dining room is red, guests will think that the owner is a great cook!
Kitchen. Experts agree that people who have fond recollections of their family in the kitchen when they were children would do well to create the same kitchen in their current homes. If you had a pretty kitchen with blue and white hues, then those are probably the best colors for your own kitchen, to rekindle the past happiness and perhaps pass it on to your family.
If you don’t have any particular scheme in mind, then yellow and red are some of the commonly chosen tones. If you’re health conscious and are aiming to lose weight, however, just stay away with the red and stick with yellow. Even the restaurants would agree with this idea!
Bedrooms. Naturally, colors that are cool and light to the eyes are best for the bedrooms. Lavender, green, and blue have a wonderfully calming effect. When you’re stressed and your mind is boggled, let your bedroom be your respite. Red is a no-no for this space, as it suggests heat and is said to increase one’s heart rate and blood pressure.
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Bathroom. We always want our bathroom to reflect cleanliness, which is why white has never gotten out of style. But recently, the emergence of spas has encouraged homeowners to create their bathrooms in such a way that they feel they’re in the spa or in the ocean, so the blue-greens and the yellow-greens are in, as they signify clean and fresh.
Those are some wonderful ideas that you can follow if you’re planning to build a home, or simply want to do a home makeover. There’s no harm in trying, and it’s never too late to change those past color schemes if you want to stay happy, calm and mentally healthy in your own abode.