Take it easy

Want a place where you can go to relax – lounge, read, watch television and simply unwind? Consider using the calming, comforting color blue. Blue slows things down and eases stress and tension. In fact, a blue room can have a profound influence on how you feel in it because the color has been shown to decrease blood pressure and slow respiration and heart rates.

To encourage relaxation in a living room that you also intend to use as a gathering place, cooler blues, such as Rushing Stream or blue green, such as Summer Dragonfly, are great options.

Glacier colors, like Midwest Spring, are ideal for use in particularly warm rooms since their coolness helps to calm the mind and foster clarity of thought.

A blue living room may even help prevent mindless snacking on the couch. Cool blue plates are renowned for diminishing the appetite. So eating off blue plates in your blue living room may be one of the best-kept diet secrets ever.

Lush greens, like Roof Top Garden tend to be the most soothing colors on the eye. Using green in a living room promotes repose but has enough warmth to cultivate comfort and togetherness.

If you're an avid reader who enjoys curling up with a good book, a pale yellow, like Ray of Hope, may suit you. Yellow is the color of enlightenment, stimulating the intellect and logical mind.

So if you’re longing for a tranquil, serene place where you can go to kick back, there's a good chance one of these colors may be for you.

Source:
Color Healing Home pp. 16, 19, 44, 72, 75, 76
Management Decision Vol 44(6), 2006. pp. 783-789 TITLE: Impact of color on marketing

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