Hello sunshine! As we look at home decor and mental health, we’ll discuss how to cheer up your mood with warm tones. For instance, colors such as red, orange, and yellow are vibrant, energetic, and brightening. Yellow and orange are energetic colors that evoke feelings of excitement and enthusiasm. If you’re looking to cheer up your mood with warm tones, look to yellow and orange as they are known to increase feelings of positivity.
Yellow Tones
When we think of yellow, we think of the sun and summer time. This color is a good choice if you’re wanting to inject feel good emotions and sunshine vibes into your space. Yellow is connected to positivity, joyfulness, happiness, laughter, and cheerfulness. In addition, feelings of confidence, analytical thinking, warmth, optimism, hunger, intensity, and attention-getting. With interior design for mental health, yellow can make a space feel warm, happy, and welcoming. On the other hand, yellow can incite feelings of frustration, impatience, impulsivity, and irritability. So if you are prone to feelings of stress, anxiety, or restlessness yellow may not be your best choice. However, consider using woods or gold metals to warm and energize your space instead of yellow. Woods and golds tend to be more earthy and grounding.
Additionally, yellow is considered a lucky color in Chinese culture as it represents royalty and the element of earth. In many cultures, the color gold is associated with wealth, prosperity, and riches. In western culture gold is also related to accomplishment, triumph, opulence, and indulgence. Create a luxurious feel by adding gold to a room. Making your home feel a little more like your castle.
Orange Tones
Next, we’ll discuss how orange is another great way to cheer up your mood with warm tones. For instance orange is a color that is associated with confidence, being sociable, creativity, happiness, communication, friendliness, and being extroverted. Also feelings of flamboyancy, energy, excitement, enthusiasm, adventure, warmth, prosperity, change, and stimulation in color psychology. If you are looking for inspiration to be more creative or sociable orange is the color to do that. On the other hand, a more subdued orange, like peach, can lead to stronger communication and inspiration without being over stimulating. Orange, like yellow, may not be the best color choice if you are decorating to decrease anxiety. Look to cool, neutral, pink, and purple colors for creating calm spaces.
Red Tones
Finally, we discuss the color red and it’s intense energy. Because it is such an intense color it can increase the energy of your space as well as your emotional state. In color psychology red represents romantic love, passion, sexuality, leadership, ambition, heart, strength, and power. Remember that these associations reflect western culture. For example, in Chinese culture red symbolizes luck, joy, happiness, success, good fortune, celebration, vitality, and fertility. Red also represents the element of fire.
Moreover, red is a strong color that is most associated with action and passion. It is known to raise blood pressure, adrenaline, and heart rate. Further, red’s negative symbolism includes anger, war, and aggression. These negative aspects can incite fear and distress. Because of the strong, stimulating vibrations of red, it is generally not recommended for places of rest such as bedrooms and bathrooms.
In conclusion, red is a beautiful color. But in regards to home decor and mental health, it is a color to use sparingly. Because of red’s link to increased heart rate, this is not a good choice for people with anxiety. If you want to incorporate red but don’t want to be overstimulated, burgundy is a good choice. That is because it’s the least energetic color of all the reds. Overall, having awareness of how your body and mind respond to the vibrations of red will be key in your design decision making.
