Before starting to talk about color psychology, each person should determine the purpose of the room they are going to paint and the amount of energy needed in that room in order to make it easier for them to choose the most appropriate color.
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Colors for living rooms and hallways
Living rooms are often a vital place where family, friends and relatives gather and need a high degree of energy. Warm colors such as red, yellow, orange, and neutral earthy colors such as beige and brown tones are suitable colors for living rooms, foyers, and hallways. These warm colors create warmth and give a sense of vitality, activity, optimism, and happiness, which motivates people to sit together and talk as it gives a warm feeling to talk with others. However, be careful when using red and yellow, as studies have shown that these two colors stimulate the feeling of hunger.
The right colors for kitchens
Kitchens are one of the rooms that bring the family together and collect memories and feelings of vitality and happiness full of love, energy and activity. Therefore, paint experts say that the most suitable color for the kitchen is the color that has happy memories and is the color of your family's kitchen when you were a small child. If you do not have these memories or prefer to change colors, you can use red and yellow shades because they have an excessive effect on the degrees of activity and enthusiasm, but if you are someone who cannot control what you eat, it is better to stay away from them and replace them with neutral colors such as white, gray, and brown. For example, red stimulates conversation, but it can also stimulate binge eating.
The right colors for dining rooms
Dining rooms are joyful places where family, relatives, and friends gather to eat happy tables on pleasant occasions. As we said earlier, red and yellow are appropriate colors because they stimulate hunger and create a sense of enthusiasm and activity. Some studies have proven that guests consider the homeowner to be a great chef in dining rooms that contain the color red. Green and its shades are also suitable colors because it gives the feeling of nature, fresh plants and vitality.
Suitable colors for bedrooms
Bedrooms are a place of relaxation and closeness to the wife or husband, which needs a high degree of calm and a sense of comfort and tranquility. Therefore, cool colors such as shades of green and blue, including violet shades such as lavender, are suitable choices because these colors emit calm feelings and a sense of comfort, as well as lower blood pressure and heart rate. The darker the color, the more intense the effect, so it is recommended to choose lighter shades.
The right colors for children's and babies' bedrooms
In their rooms, babies and children need a calm, cool energy to help them fall asleep quickly and comfortably. As we mentioned earlier in adult rooms, blues and greens are some of the most suitable colors for bedrooms because of the sense of comfort and tranquility they bring. But you should also stay away from reds and yellows in children's rooms to give them a more comfortable and calm feeling in their sleep.
Although pink is a shade of red, studies have proven that this color has the opposite effect of its red source. Pink gives a cool and cozy effect so it is suitable for use in newborn rooms.
Purple is also a suitable color for girls' rooms for its calming effect but it is also a good choice because it stimulates the work of the brain.
Colors suitable for bathrooms
White and warm colors have always been used as the first choice for restrooms because they give a sense of purity, purity and cleanliness. But nowadays, the use of bathrooms has evolved to include relaxation, rejuvenation, vitality and energy, so we find many people tend to choose green and blue shades and their shades because they give a sense of cleanliness, freshness and tranquility. But experts advise that the color of the bathroom should be one of the colors that suits the person because the person who looks at his reflection in his bathroom mirror should feel the beauty and harmony of the color with his skin to look fresher and brighter.
The right colors for a home office
A person needs to have a high degree of concentration in the office but be energetic and fast at the same time. Therefore, it is recommended to paint the office wall green because it is the color of focus and speed, but it is also one of the colors that are comfortable for the eyes, especially with the use of technology and staring at it, so you need a color that is energetic and focused but comfortable for the eyes at the same time. Studies have proven that in green offices, work is done faster and more focused than in offices that are painted in other colors. The color purple can also be used as it has the effect of stimulating the work of the brain.
Colors suitable for rooms
exercise
A person may suspect that red and yellow shades are suitable for exercise rooms, but this is a mistake because these colors are true and energetic, but they also make a person feel overheated. Therefore, you should break the colors by introducing a mix of cooler colors such as greenish-yellow or slightly reddish-blue.
