Color Psychology.....Can it help you decorate your home?

Yes, Color Psychology can help you create the desired effect in your Home. We all naturally have colors we are drawn to, so why not use these colors in our space. However, color affects different people in different ways.
Color is very powerful, it can improve or affect your moods, it can make a space look smaller or bigger, it can make your home feel warm, cool,cheerful or dramatic. Your home can feel cozy by painting with warm colors or a narrow space can feel wider by painting with different colors on opposite walls.

The furniture, accessories and paint color can create a certain mood in your space.
Color is all around us.Most people in the past especially in Naija, tend to paint their homes in one color. Mostly in cream, white, brown or blue. However, people have started embracing the use of color in their homes. It is all about finding what colors you love and recreating it in your space.

The colors used to decorate rooms in a house can affect the occupants' moods. Find out why:

Red

Associated with: danger, passion, energy, warmth, adventure, optimism

Best for: Dining rooms as it promotes sociable and lively feelings, and stimulates the appetite

Pitfalls: It can be overpowering and lead to headaches. Either vary the shade, paint one wall red, or use it for accessories only. Don't use red in a baby's room.

Pink

Associated with: Love

Best for: bedrooms as it can be peaceful and restful. A hot fuchsia can introduce passion

Pitfalls: can be appear to be very girlie and sickly sweet. To counteract this, introduce hints of dark charcoal or black.

Orange

Associated with: stability, reassurance, warmth, and is thought to aid digestion

Best for: Living and dining rooms

Pitfalls: might keep the occupant awake when used in a bedroom. It can make a room look smaller because it's an advancing color, so make sure the room gets plenty of light

Green

Associated with: nature and energy, calming and restful, balance (halfway between red and blue) security, stability

Best for: bedrooms, living rooms

Pitfalls: too much green is thought to make people too complacent or too laid back. Inject some red or orange to counteract these feelings.

Blue

Associated with: calming and soothing; promotes intellectual thought; believed to keep hunger at bay; loyalty, serenity, authority, protection, contemplative, prevents nightmares

Best for: bedrooms, bathrooms, studies

Pitfalls: can look cold and unwelcoming. Make sure it doesn't look too chilly by choosing a blue with a warm undertone.

Yellow

Associated with: sunshine and energy, stimulates the intellect

Best for: kitchens, dining rooms or north-facing rooms

Pitfalls: not very restful for a bedroom. Yellow is thought to enhance feelings of emotional distress.

Lilac

Associated with: spiritual matters - suggests the misty area between the sky and heaven, feminine

Best for: bedrooms and bathrooms to create a stress-free sanctuary

Pitfalls: can be insipid. Liven it up with black or silver, or both.

Purple

Associated with: creativity, fertility, joy, but also magic, evil, death and sex

Best for: bedrooms

Pitfalls: can be overpowering.

Brown

Associated with: security, stability and very practical

Best for: living rooms

Pitfalls: introduce a livelier color for mental stimulation such as green or blue.

Black

Associated with: death, eccentricity, drama. It's a non-color that absorbs color and reflects nothing back

Best for: using in moderation

Pitfalls: depressing - think of all those angst-ridden teenage bedrooms. Use it to temper the sweetness of other sugary colors such as pink, but don't use it as a base color.

Based on these analysis... What is your true color? And how does it affect your moods?

Culled from bbc.co.uk/homes

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