Earthy and secure, associated with nature, earth, comfort, reliability and warmth, it conveys a sense of familiarity and home.
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Bedroom: The psychological effects of the color brown are often described as reassuring, safe and stabilizing. Decorate your room in shades of earth tones to sleep “safe” and sound.
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Bathroom: While lighter shades of brown are [...]
Suggests purity, innocence, and cleanliness. May evoke a sense of sterility, but is therefore great in kitchens (especially restaurant kitchens). White can be used to give an open, spacious feeling to a smaller work area. Soft, muted, or tinted whites are the best choice for the main wall colors in offices. [...]
Black is associated with death, power, eccentricity, drama, authority, stability, strength, evil, depression, sophistication, formality, elegance, mystery, style, fear, mourning, rebellion etc. It’s a powerful color and should be used in moderation or it will overwhelm a room (and you) very quickly.
Unless you’re living the Gothic lifestyle, it’s better to use the color to “underline” [...]
Purple has both a calm yet mysterious psychological association and deeper purples and violets associate more with power and introspection. Purple in its darkest values (e.g. eggplant), is rich, dramatic and sophisticated. It’s associated with luxury, creativity, royalty, magic and spirituality. Used as an accent (secondary) color, it gives warmth and depth to a room. [...]
Orange is an intense and fiery color, but with more fun. It’s a good color for gyms or exercise rooms because it’s energy will encourage you to jump right into your fitness routine. It also offers a sense of community and tolerance. It’s a bit over stimulating for nurseries and will create too much activity [...]
The color is a favorite with hospitals because it promotes healing. It’s also the easiest on the eye. Green has a calming effect when used as a main color for decorating. Green is associated with Spring and new beginnings.
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Bedroom: On a ‘primitive’ psychological level, the color green tells us that we [...]
Blue is tranquil and peaceful, that’s why it’s often recommended for the two rooms that you tend to unwind in the most; bedrooms and bathrooms. It brings down blood pressure and slows respiration and heart rate. It has also been proven to reduce pain levels (a reason why most hospitals use blue as part of [...]
If you ask the majority of people about the first thing that comes to mind when they think about yellow, they will generally answer that it’s a cheery and happy color. The truth is that yellow is an intense color and a force to be reckoned with, it’s also the least popular color on the [...]
Red has been shown to raise blood pressure, speed respiration and heart rate. It evokes action and passion and is perfect color if you tend to be a procrastinator. Too much red can make some people feel irritable.
Bedroom: It is considered too stimulating for bedrooms and can therefore cause restless sleep. Rather settle for red [...]
psychologists have studied the influence of color on the mind for years. The effects can not be generalized to every society but it’s found that people from the same society are affected by colors in similar ways. The findings make it possible to tap into the subconscious of people and then to use this information [...]