Commercial Painting

Why Paint Colors Matter Inside a Medical Center

Posted on November 26, 2019

CertaPro Painters® of Saint Charles, South County, and West County has a lot of experience with medical facility painting. We’ve had the pleasure of painting many of the doctor’s offices in the area, and we’re always looking to improve the look and feel of other medical facilities throughout Saint Charles. If you’re considering new paint for your medical building, we’ve identified some of the best ones below.

Why Color Matters in Medical Facility Painting

Wall colors can turn up the creativity or cooperativeness, and businesses use that to their benefit. When it comes to healthcare facilities, color can help bring healing and optimism into a room. When you head into a paint job of any sort, it’s important to choose colors that lend themselves to the goal of the room. Medical facilities can increase happiness, healing and more with just a color choice. Since the days of sterile, stark-white waiting and patient rooms are gone, here are some colors to consider.

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Red

The warmth in red brings vitality and energy to a room. Blood pressure and adrenaline are increased with it, so avoid it in rooms for patients with hypertension. When used moderately, the color can help stimulate appetite and alleviate depression.

Orange

Children’s hospitals often use the color orange because of its benefits. It gives off warmth, joy, and happiness. This could be due to the association with oranges and their Vitamin C antioxidant properties. The fruit can fight free radicals and the color can improve attitudes and outcomes.

Yellow

When it comes to healing colors, yellow should top your list. Besides being bright and cheery, the color can stimulate intelligence and detoxify the body. For patients who are sluggish, yellow can help bring creativity and energy into the room. Yellow can create issues with digestion and stomach problems, as well as cause insomnia, so use it sparingly.

Green

Natural green gives off balanced healing properties for restfulness. It can also promote growth and renewal. Experts have noted the color is great for circulation, including the heart and lungs. Greenery inpatient areas also promotes comfort and equilibrium, good qualities for patient and waiting rooms.

Blue

Blue is known widely for its properties of calm and serenity. Like the sky and sea, blue can help with high blood pressure and fast heart rates. It’s widely used in spas for the serene feel it gives a room, something that can be employed in healthcare facilities. Besides the calming effects, the color is associated with eyes, ears, nose and the senses around those.

Pink

While pink is mostly associated with femininity, it also gives feelings of caring and affection. It’s a color that is healing and soothing. Because of the happiness it brings into a room, places like hospitals and prisons have used it to encourage calmness and reduce erratic behavior.

Purple

Purple and violet are great colors for healing the spirit. They can also help with insight and higher consciousness. In hospitals, purple can help with issues in the cerebral and nervous systems.

How to Use Healing Colors

Use colors associated with particular disorders in rooms used to treat them. Utilize colors that encourage openness, healing and anti-anxiety for rooms that you use for therapy. The colors can increase good outcomes for patients when combined with treatment.

Pediatric treatment areas lend themselves to color therapy. Bringing in color helps keep small patients calm and stress free, while helping caregivers relaxed as well. Since there are normally murals and colorful art on the walls, it’s easy to incorporate these colors in.

If you work with those in the elderly community, take into account that they could be suffering from vision issues. Avoid bright colors and lights, instead make the patients comfortable with lighter counterpart colors. Go less vibrant for brightly lit areas.

Critical care units can benefit from pastels in blue, violet or green. They are calming and soothing while reducing stress. For these intense areas, avoid colors of energy and stress like red, yellow or orange.

Contact Us for Painters Near You

Our team of professional painters can help you with your medical center painting project. We offer free in-person estimates during a day and time that is most convenient for you. You can call us to schedule an appointment at 636-922-2917 or click here for our online scheduling form.