Psychology is making many advances every other day because, in the advance of technology, it has the ability to map out our thinking processes and what affects them.
Well, psychology is the science of studying the human mind. Many recent studies and journals in psychology suggest that colour.
Let it be the wallpaper colour of our room, the colour of the dresses we wear, the colour of our surroundings has an extreme impact on our emotions and moods.
Now, this finding is great news for us because we can manipulate our moods by just changing the colour of our surroundings!
Colour Effects
It is nothing new that colour or the ambience that we prefer, indirectly talks about our personality and what kind of a person we are.
Most of us usually are unaware of this fact and hence make many mistakes in deciding the colours around us and ultimately have a negative impact on our head. We can use this fact to make our life livelier and better.
Now a colour can have a different impact on our heads depending on our age, gender, what ethnicities we belong to and finally our climate.
Well, now it must be making sense as to why people associate a grey colour to gloomy mood and gloomy climates such as a rainy day.
Now, there are two kinds of tones in all shades. They are the warm-tones and cool-tones in a colour.
Warmer tones and shades usually tend to activate our mind, whereas colder tones may calm us down or slow us down.
So, certain colours that belong to the same tones and same families may generate similar responses in our head.
Well, now these facts must have already started manipulating your head. So do not forget to keep the following facts in your mind the next time you are selecting wallpaper colours for your room or home.
How To Choose Your Home Wallpaper Colour
When choosing a wallpaper colour for your room, first forget the trends. Once you choose the colour, you can then think of the appropriate interior designing trends.
Trends are stuff that is in the season once, and completely become an old school in the blink of an eye, so do not worry about them.
One should worry about the colour combinations since they can be tricky at times.
What may sound completely right in your head might not look right when applied! Choosing proper colour combinations might intimidate you at first, but everyone soon gets better at it.
One should choose the combinations in such a way that they set the ambience of the room and you feel like doing the thing that the room was intended for.
Apparently colour has the ability to completely change the look of the room, including the furniture, the size of the room, the lighting in the room and the shape of the room also!
So one should have an armour of facts about the effects of colour on the mood of the room and the owner of the room as well.
Before choosing the colour palette, one should ask themselves the following questions- What is the purpose of this room?
What kind of ambience do you want in the room? What kind of mood do you want to generate in this room?
How would you want to achieve that mood? Then and then only you can ask yourself- Which colour can help me achieve the answers to the above questions.
If one questions them like this before going into taking any sort of decisions they can do no wrong and achieve the best for their head and house.
To answer these questions, you can take the help of magazines, artworks and videos where prominent interior designers and psychologists can give the array of facts and figures.
Nobody is born a perfect designer, so do not be intimidated by the idea of taking external help for the wallpaper designing and colour choosing process.
This step is extremely crucial in taking wise and proper decisions. One shouldn’t skip this step if they want to avoid regretting their decisions in the future.
Another great idea would be deciding on the textiles such as tiles and carpets in a huge array of colours and then deciding the paint colour.
Colour Combinations
Once you have finished with the deciding the wallpaper colour, colour combinations and the textiles, always keep in mind that you have to limit yourself to about three colours in one room.
Adding any more colours would ultimately confuse your mind and your perceptions of emotions which are interrelated to the colours.
Also, too many colours may make the room look cluttered and clumsy. One should experiment with the colours but not too much that you might get a headache!
Avoid putting too many colours belonging to different families.
Colours affect and manipulate our mind in three different ways. These are active, passive and neutral.
One should match the colour of the room with his or her personal interests and desires, tastes and the purpose of the room, be it a living room, a bedroom, a study room or an office room.
Wallpaper that is lighter makes the room look expensive, they make the room look brighter and ventilated, they make the room look larger.
Darker wallpaper, on the other hand, make the room look dull, smaller and less ventilated, they also make the room look sophisticated and give it an intimate feel as well.
Red
Let’s start with red colour wallpaper. A red colour is related to energy and danger. Red colour has the ability to raise the room’s energy levels. Now it must be making sense as to why discos and clubs are dark with red lights!
The more the intensity of the colour, the more ability it has to pump an adrenaline rush in our bodies. And red has the highest ability to do that.
So, red colour can be used in a room which needs constant energy to keep us going on with life, hence, living rooms, dining rooms and banquet rooms in a house can be painted with hues of red colour.
Red colour has the ability to pull people closer and manipulating in starting conversations, seems very interesting but it is a proven fact!
Psychologists have proven with their studies that red colour shows strength in the personality of an individual, it can create a very extremely strong first impression.
Red can also be used to create intimacy in bedrooms but can be too stimulating at times. If you paint a room red and visit it after sunset or under the light of a lamp, it can make the room appear elegant and poise. This happens because the light of the lamp mutes the colour to an extent.
Yellow
Now coming to yellow colour wallpaper, it is a bright colour. One may feel that the environment has become lighter, just by imagining yellow colour.
This happens because we associate a yellow colour to the sun and mimics a brighter impression and feeling. It apparently mimics sunshine and has the ability to create happiness.
That’s the reason that yellow happens to be the best colour of choice for kitchens and dining rooms, food is happiness.
It can energize and uplift the mood of a person and the room in an instance. It can also be a great choice for the bathrooms since it can make you feel more fresh and dewy like the spring season.
Though yellow wallpaper can cheer you up, studies also suggest that yellow in main rooms can increase the temper of an individual.
Yellow is also a very bad choice for nursery rooms and children bedrooms because it can make the babies and toddlers cry.
When yellow is put in large amounts, it leads to frustration and anger. In chromo therapies, therapies that involve colours yellow has said to stimulate the nerves and purify our bodies.
Blue
Blue is the colour of the sky and just the perfect colour for a calm and relaxing mood. The colour blue is popular for its amazing effects on reducing blood pressure, slow respiration and also heart rate.
Because of its medicinal benefits, it is widely recommended for bedrooms and bathrooms. It is better to balance the warm hues with the light blue colour that is if you select it as a primary colour in the room.
Even when using blue colour wallpaper as a primary colour, one has to be careful enough to choose lighter shades of blue. Darker shades of blue generally evoke sad feelings.
Green
Combined with the essence of both blue and yellow wallpaper, green is the most restful colour to the eye. It combines the refreshing quality and cheerfulness, which are separate qualities of blue and yellow respectively.
The colour of nature, green is suitable for almost every room in the house. It is extremely calming when it is used as the main colour for decorating.
Widely used in bedrooms because of its quality that helps infertility, it is also used in the kitchen, where it cools down the surroundings. It helps people by helping them relax by relieving their stress.
Purple
It is claimed to be a very royal colour. In its darker shades, purple wallpaper exhibits dramatic, rich and sophisticated qualities.
It is said to be very rare in nature and therefore, is a very royal colour and is often associated with luxury.
If used as a secondary colour or an accent, it showcases a very deep meaning. The lighter shades of purple, however, bring the same relaxed feeling, which can be felt from the colour blue.
It is recommended to use lighter shades of purple in bedrooms and hallways and darker shades to be often used for secondary colour in living rooms.
Orange
Orange wallpaper is quite a bright colour. It has energetic effects and evokes excitement and enthusiasm. It is not really recommended for living rooms.
However, it is widely preferred in gyms and exercise rooms. It helps in bringing out all the emotions needed to be released while working out.
The orange colour is believed to be famous for healing lungs and increasing energy levels. This too works great in lighter shades and can be used in bathrooms as a secondary colour.
Neutral Colours (Black, White, Grey and Brown)
It is very important for a room to have a touch of neutral colours. In fact, it is recommended for every room to have bits of blacks, enough to give out a clean display.
Too much black is never preferred inside houses, but black coloured accessories tend to display a very bold look.
On the other hand, brown wallpaper gives out a bold and leather look too. Generally, men are more attracted towards brown colour.
Lighter shades of brown represent genuineness, while a few darker shades can make a person sad and emotional.
White and Grey are a good combination and can be used for flooring the house and on ceilings. White reflects light and represents innocence and purity.
White is preferred everywhere because of its quality to blend in but is very difficult to maintain because it gets dirty easily.
Grey is just another variant of white with a tingle of black mixed. One cannot distinguish if it is a lighter shade of black or white and can be used as a secondary colour for most of the decorations.
Crimson
Widely considered as a colour that evokes rage, wallpaper with crimson colour is critically avoided in living rooms. Staying in a crimson colour room for long might make a person very irritated and the peace and the harmony can be greatly disturbed.
It is used in small quantities because of its effects, however, is still a very popular colour for fashion and accessories.
Wallpaper Colours are a very important factor in a house. They affect our mood greatly and can be used in a reverse psychology to help us improve our feelings rested deep within.
Choosing the right colour combination for a house can make a lot more difference in family behaviour and can nurture the mood of children growing in that house. Good wallpaper colours in a house can be an essence of a good life.
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