“For example, choosing bold colors, like red or orange, can evoke power, warmth, passion bright pink and yellow can encourage enthusiasm, happiness, and playfulness and blue, green, and white can soothe, calm, evoke serenity, and even lower your stress level,” she tells TZR in an email. Interior designer Diana Sfera agrees that, when decorating a home, the color you choose can have a tremendous impact on your daily mood, emotions, and even your thoughts and how you express yourself. Generally, Karen says certain colors evoke certain moods, including: Your mood within your house is your safe haven, and you may not want to fluctuate high-highs or low-lows through colors.” “Instead, you may want to maintain an emotional equilibrium and choose a more tranquil color, like blue, which signifies a calm, stable environment. So while a bright color, like red, could be uplifting in the moment, “perhaps you don’t want to walk around in that ‘high’ all the time,” she says. “When it comes to interior design and the psyche, people may give way to mood fluctuations after they experience one color for a while,” she says. However, she cautions against redesigning - or repainting - simply based on your mood of the moment. “You may realize that this white wall is not working,” she says. Karen also thinks that as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and now a global recession, people are spending more time in their homes, which is causing them to reevaluate their living and working spaces. “So, now, they want their home to be a reflection of everything they would like to feel.” “If someone has bright colors in their home, I would typically think they have gone through something traumatic or they have experienced a downturn in their life,” she tells TZR. If you’re interested in putting this psychology of color into practice in your own space, read on for tips and insights from Lin, Hafeez, and other experts who further explain the correlation between colors and emotions.Ĭolors - And What They Say About Your Moodĭawnn Karen, fashion psychologist, founder of Fashion Psychology Success, and author of Dress Your Best Life, teaches how colors can impact one’s mental health. For example, the red living room uses deep maroon accents, hand-blown amber glass, and natural terracotta to evoke a subtle, yet growing, internal energy.” “In CHROMA, a model apartment Colony recently completed at One Prospect Park West, each room embodies a specific color and its corresponding historical, emotional, and psychological response.
“As a designer, I am hopelessly intrigued by the idea of color as a psychological and emotional tool, combining the physical plane with a psycho-emotional response,” she tells TZR in an email. Jean Lin, the founder and creative director of Colony, a cooperative gallery, design studio, and strategy firm, takes this notion further, stating that not only are the colors in our home absolutely in conversation with our moods, but they’re often able to dictate them. But you may want to avoid red accents in your bedroom in order to avoid increased blood pressure and to promote better sleep. “Cool colors (blue, green, and purple), on the other hand, tend to give the room a calm and easygoing mood.” So, a red painting, wall, drape, or entryway can provide excitement and stimulation, she explains. “ Warm colors (red, yellow, and orange) tend to provide the room with an energetic and welcoming atmosphere,” says neuropsychologist Sanam Hafeez, Psy.D., director of Comprehend the Mind.
(For example, red and yellow signified certain emotions, such as warmth and excitement.) Back in 1810, for example, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote a book, Theory of Colors, on how various hues are perceived by people, linking colors to emotional categories. In fact, researchers have studied this phenomenon for a couple of centuries now. This is because there’s actually quite a bit of psychology around colors and how they affect our mood. If you’re thinking about painting the walls in your home another color, you may want to think about how you’re feeling.
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