Household Fixes

Yes what colors you have on your walls or in your rooms will directly affect how you feel. It’s been proven in many studies that have been completed. So if you want to change the feeling of a room, change the color and the dcor. But don’t overdo the choices that you make, sometimes too much will hurt instead of help.

For those rooms where you want to be able to relax and be calm in, stick with some light colored pastel choices. Yes you can repaint your walls, or just one wall to help take care of that anxiety that you might feel after a long day of work. One of the best rooms to try this in is the bedroom. Some great choices for color are a baby blue or even a light pastel pink.

For a room to have energy though you shouldn’t paint it all in red, maybe add in a few red items to the room, or paint only one wall. This color is shown to bring out passion in people, but if there is too much of the color in the room, it may actually make you feel more aggressive than romantic. So don’t get the brush out yet and paint all your bedroom walls red.

Light yellow is very appropriate for public areas like the dining room because it’s a happy, vibrant color that captures a great mood for gathering rooms. Natural light also works well with shades of yellow, so the color will work great for living rooms, sun rooms and just about any place with windows. Just keep things towards the softer end of the yellow spectrum so that the color doesn’t get too overpowering.

If you have neutral colors in rooms already, you can mix and match other colors that may not always seem like they would go together. It’s a great way to create your own look, just make sure that it looks ok, and doesn’t make a person feel off when they look at the room. Remember you should stick to two colors in the room besides your neutral color.

Colored area rugs are also an option, but you have to switch the roles and delegate a neutral color to the walls and all the other decor pieces. In that case, the rest of the room works together to help balance the visual effect of the rug, keeping the overall image from getting messy. For either arrangement, though, the rug has a central role in the final outcome of the room, so you should pay careful attention when choosing the area rug that you’ll use.

If you can’t find any color that suits your tastes, you may want to give white a try. Monochrome is a very safe choice because it can work for virtually any room, mood or purpose. Keep things from getting too boring by mixing up different shapes, finishes and textures. With the right combination, you can use extremely few colors to create an effect that’s no less dramatic.

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There’s nothing wrong with neutral colors. In fact, they are the most usual and safest bets for a design motif. However, with the emergence of more vivid tones, neutral colors can appear quite bland next to brighter, livelier shades. Colors, bolder ones that is, may very well be the key to give more energy, vibrancy and excitement to your home interiors.

It is a good idea to use items that you can already find at home. Aside from saving you on costs, you’re also able to put more of your family’s personality into the decor. A few old landscape photos from past family trips can be blown up and turned into huge images on the wall. Colored doodles and drawings by the kids on plain paper can be framed and turned into quirky yet elegant wall decor.

Painting a room with a new color is of course an obvious coloring method. However, painting is not all about redoing the entire walls. Even painting one side of the wall will already look different. For example, paint one side of a cream wall with a bright blue or deep green and in a snap, the room will look more alive. Some do stripes, trimmings, splashes and strokes. Covering the walls entirely is one coloring trick, but so is accenting with hues.

Nobody said that you had to stick with a solid colored wall, so feel free to experiment with different styles and techniques. Painting an accent wall – a single wall with a big contrast against the rest of the room – creates an immediate focal point. Applying the paint with a sponge or a non-brush applicator gives an illusion of texture and depth to your walls, making them look even more interesting and dramatic.

Decorations with vivid colors are great additions. They can be as ornamental as vases, containers, throw pillows and drapes or as simple as kitchen utensils and hanging pegs. Flowers and fruits are also color boosters without costing much.

Similarly, an area rug can do much to add to the color in a room. They’re available in a vast range of shades and hues, in addition to various prints and designs. Aside from just a source of color, area rugs also provide an additional texture to the flooring and can help define two different spaces in the same room.

Curtains serve a purpose that’s very close to that of rugs. They can either fit in with or contrast against the color scheme that you already have going around the room. At the same time, curtains give you the opportunity to play around with different textures, patterns or proportions to give your room even more interest.

It is surprisingly easy to add color to any room, especially since there are countless items that you could work with. A few simple additions and touches here and there will already be enough to create the effect of an entirely new room.

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