Room color and mood

If you’re thinking about painting rooms, you might as well read up on how color affects mood.

Crimson can make some people feel irritable. With red invoking feels of rage and hostility is a color that should be avoided as the main color of a room. Sitting for long periods of time in a room this color will likely breakdown any peace and harmony you are striving to create in your home. Ancient cultures used the color red to stimulate the body and mind and to increase circulation.

Huh. News to me. While I think there are some universal truths to this stuff, I suspect some of it varies from one person or culture to the next.At the very least, try to find rooms that are painted in the colors you’re considering and spend enough time in them to see how they make you feel. I personally find any shade of blue depressing, not calming, when it’s all over the walls. On furniture or in trim here and there in the room, it’s a different story.

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Posted in Do It Yourself on April 24, 2007