Do you believe color therapy can create a tranquil home?

I am very interested in this as well.

As far as psychology and color I can tell you that the drunk tank at our local police station is painted pink. When I asked about the color (and no- I was not in it at the time ;) ) the officer told me that studies had shown that pink had a calming effect on inebriated people.

My kitchen is fox hunt red. It does not bother me at all but I am not in there often.

My walls in one room are golden yellow- and I have to be honest that I never really took to that color and would like to change it so I will follow this conversation.

Colour is a personal issue; but you have to take into account the light in each room. Darker rooms should use the warmer parts of the colour palette; polenta, peach, maize, lime, honey, etc. They should lighten the room and cheer you up.

You have to be careful with the really bold colours as you can feel even more depressed in a bright purple, orange, kelly green, fire-engine red, etc room.

Tak some of the good decorating magazines out of your library and find rooms that you like.

I have painted my entire house an off-white with a little yellow in it. This allows me to see the beautiful outdoors since half my walls are glass. I don’t want to be distracted. I have bare floors with throw rugs and no curtains anywhere. Mini-micro blinds in bedrooms and baths only.

My training began at MOMA in New York, which paints all its walls with what amounts to Benjamin Moore’s Linen White, a practice I have continued in my home so that my artworks and decorations attract the attention, not the wall colors. The one exception to this is my bedroom, which has a rosy tint that makes naked flesh look particularly nice.

I come from a family of migrants (we moved a lot) so we always paint all our walls white because we never know when we will have to put the house on the market. My current house has all walls and woodwork painted in Devoe Egret, a slightly warm white. Coincidentally, everyone in my family also has a lot of artwork and collectibles, so white tends to be the safest color to showcase our stuff.

However, if I were to use color, I think I would opt for dark green in the bedroom to help create a good place for sleeping, something bright, such as yellow, in the kitchen to help me wake up in the morning, and then probably other shades of green or blue in the rest of the house (I like green and blue – they make me think of the outdoors).

From what I understand, pink has actually been shown to be calming only for a short time. After that it becomes intensely irritating. Also, the red, yellow and orange palette found in fast food restaurants is used because it makes you want to eat quickly and leave.

Yes, I believe colour choices in decor impacts mood. It has to be tailored to the house occupants. Do your research before you make changes!

Strictly speaking, colour does nothing.

More loosely speaking, coloured light can affect tiredness. Paint wouldn’t really cause this, since light and pigment do different things.

White can be pretty safe.

No, but it can support the effort of creating a tranquil home in my opinion.

Many women benefit from light peach walls because it makes the skin on their faces have a little glow.

Yes, I believe so. A few years ago we, my wife and I, had to repaint some of the rooms in our house. We choose different colors for the rooms (light blue in the boy’s room, pink in the girl’s room, and deep red in the study). I noticed that whenever I was in the study I often felt agitated and warm but whenever I was in the boy’s room I felt relaxed. I read about colors and mood afterwards and that was when I realized that color did affect how one felt. Here is an article about colors and mood: http://freshome.com/2007/04/17/room-color-and-how-it-affects-your-mood/

Blue for a boy and pink for a girl? Where did you come up with that?