How to Make Your Home a Stress-Relieving Haven: Part 1

Written By: Sanya Duggal

Imagine this: You head home after a long, tiring, 10-hour working day. Probably stop to buy some daily home stuff. On the way, there’s traffic, honking, and lots of noise. All the struggles of modern life. Now imagine if after it all, you come home into a warm and welcoming vibe. You feel comfortable, relaxed and cozy.

This ideal feel is something that we all want, and in fact, need. But how to get it? Does it need too much effort? No! The best part is that it’s very easy to change the vibe in your home into the one of a stress-reliving zone. Here’s how:

Use color therapy

Research shows that varied colors in your home are not only beneficial, but therapeutic. Specific colors can create and change one’s mood, mental health, energy emotions, and outlook on life.

Here are some suggestions on which color to be used in specific rooms of the home:

1. Blue, the color of sky and water, symbolizes calm, depth, tranquillity, trust, confidence, loyalty, wisdom, intelligence, faith, and stability. It is a good color for bathrooms, and bedrooms.
2. Orange represents happiness, fascination, creativity, excitement, success, and encouragement. Therefore, it can be best used in areas where you want to create an energetic, lively, active environment. Kids' playroom or family room will be ideally suited for this vibrant and zippy color.
3. The color of sunlight, Yellow, creates a warming effect. Yellow is the color of life, energy, intelligence, and most importantly, happiness. Though, how this color is used, changes its impact significantly. A dull, pale yellow can make you feel sick and inspired. And a cheerful yellow, even gold, will look brilliant when used for decoration. Relaxing areas of the home can be decorated using different shades of yellow.
4. Red is an intense color. It signifies desire, power, passion, determination, and love. Red also stimulates a healthy appetite, so it can be used best in the kitchen (on table cloths, decor, or a wall). However, when using in a bedroom, subtle shades would be better.
5. The color of nature, Green represents purity and serenity. The most comforting shades of green are Aqua and Olive green. These can be used almost everywhere - like offices, outdoor living spaces, porches, formal dining rooms, patios, and bathrooms. Not only for decoration, green can be used in another form too. Natural Plants can be placed in the living and dining rooms. They emanate a sense of abundance and endurance.
6. Combining the energy of red and the stability of blue, the color Purple signifies luxury, nobility, and power. It looks radiant in luxury homes and in children's bedrooms.
7. White denotes purity and is perhaps the only color which can be combined with any and all colors. It can be used everywhere in your home.

Every color has its own significance and if used correctly, can create a positive, relaxing environment in your homestead.

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