Severna Park Painters: Paint Your Walls, Change Your Mood, Science Proves It

Severna Park painters from CertaPro Painters® explain through science how colors affect moods. Pink is calming, blue is tranquil and white is clean. If you’re considering a wall color change, now might be the time to look further into the side effects of colors in rooms. Paint your walls, change your mood and here’s the science that proves it.

A painting company in Australia partnered with a Virtual Reality(VR) producer and a team of psychologists to test color and moods together as they pertain to the environment people live in.
Google Daydream VR headsets were provided to over 700 volunteers for the experiment. They were programmed to show five paint colors in three different types of rooms. After seeing each option, the user was asked how they felt from a range of emotions like cheerful, excited or tense. They reported the feeling and intensity. Because VR is a more realistic feeling, the users were able to report more realistic outcomes versus just pictures of rooms in the colors. The immersion into reality allowed the users to feel more real feelings to report.

The Results Are In

Pastels in green, blue and purple gave the users a feeling of calmness while brights in the yellow, pink and orange families were said to cause excitement. Darker rooms, while in vogue for quite a few seasons, were reported to cause feelings of sadness and depression.

Not every dark color caused this reaction. Accents in the colors didn’t negatively affect any users. Consider painting only an accent wall if you are opting for dark and vivid colors. The research studied not only home environments, but retail and restaurant spaces as well. So what did the colors do?

Green Has Shown To Increase Productivity

If you are planning an interior painting project for your office, home or work, use the color green to encourage productivity. It is also said to lessen eye strain.

Orange Can Stimulate Your Brain

Orange combines red’s passion and yellow’s joy. The researchers found that orange rooms increased oxygen to the brain and energized the people in the room. Brain activity spiked while in orange rooms.

Red Ignites Passion

Be cautious in the use of red since it can cause hearts to race and stress to increase. When used appropriately, it is can bring on feelings of passion.

Bring The Colors Of Nature Into Your Space

Calm nerves and create a stable feeling with walls of blue. The color is used to decorate spas and resorts for the serene feeling it brings forth. Many corporate offices have employed blue or green walls to enhance efficiency and reduce anxiety among the workers. The employees said they were more at ease and had lower heart rates.

Aggression Comes with Black

The National Hockey League found in a 2003 study that when players wore black jerseys, there were more fights and the teams were more aggressive. After the study was released, a rule was implemented that uniforms must be mostly white. The color, however, can be useful in a boardroom or closing room.

Gray Can Complement Other Colors

Gray causes people to feel passive, which seems like a good idea. It also makes those in it feel lethargic and removed. Pick your grays wisely by pairing it with other colors that provide the benefits you’re looking to achieve.

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