Your Mood and Colors

Did you know that the colors that surround you can influence your mood?

Did you know that a orange or a red room can stimulate your appetite and that a blue plate will make you eat less? Many restaurants use reds and orange in their interior. 

Orange can also create laughter. It is a good color for a room where you would entertain your guests. 

Did you know that yellow is bright and cheerful, but if you have a whole room painted bright yellow, you can start feeling angry? 

Red can stimulate. It is also a color of power. A woman giving a speech wearing red, demands respect. It is also the color associated with lust. 

Greens and Blues are soothing colors. If you have a board meeting and you want more creativity, you might consider painting the room with invigorating colors. Blues and greens make for soothing quiet times. 

Pink can soothe, however, pink can inhibit aggressiveness. If you are planning on your daughter becoming a lawyer, maybe you might want to give her a different color. Maybe light lavender would be a refreshing change. 

Black, which is not a color, shows authority and independence. 

White, which is also not a color, reminds people of innocence and can be refreshing. 

Purple is the color of mystery and intrigue and is comforting. 

Look around your house and see what colors your rooms are. Do you think you need to paint a hall? Or how about the kitchen? 

Years ago, when I was in the Real Estate business I was told if you want to sell a house, paint the kitchen orange. The mindset on that philosophy was, if the woman liked the house, and then walked into the kitchen to see an orange kitchen that she would immediately think, “If this house was mine, I would paint that kitchen.” Which would start the process of making the house hers, just so she could change the color of the kitchen. 

That goes back to just how our minds can work. A thought placed into our heads, and the reaction to that thought. 

Try a dash of color and see how it can change your mood.