Using Colour Psychology To Design Your Home

Before you start shopping for home furnishings and decorating your living spaces, you need to devise a full colour scheme so you know that your rooms will look and feel as you’d like, without coming across as chaotic and full of clashing shades, tones and patterns.

It can be difficult to get colour palettes right if you’re new to home styling, but you can maximise your chances of success if you use colour psychology to help you choose different shades and tones.

Before you make any decisions, it’s important to think about what kind of mood and atmosphere you want to create in the various rooms at home. Once you have this in mind, you can start looking at different colours to see which ones would best help you achieve what you want.

Blue is one of the most popular choices for homes, particularly in places like the bathroom, with the colour enjoying strong associations with emotions like confidence, loyalty, peace, trust and tranquillity. Different tones of blue work incredibly well in bedrooms and other parts of the house where you want to relax.

Green, meanwhile, is currying serious favour among homeowners right now, with the biophilia trend showing no signs of slowing down as people crave greater connections with nature and the outdoor world. 

A hugely positive colour to bring in at home, green represents balance, restoration and growth, and there are so many different shades that you’ll be able to introduce it throughout the house in all sorts of exciting ways.

As for red, which was one of 2024’s most popular shades, the colour is an energetic and powerful one, inciting a range of different emotions, from ambition to excitement… so it’s a wonderful choice for areas of the home where you need to be productive and active, such as the kitchen or the at-home office.

And, of course, we can’t ignore the colour white, which will always be a stalwart option for our homes, conveying innocence, purity and cleanliness. Minimalism will always be a top interior design style and white works incredibly well with this particular look – and there are so many different shades of white that you can easily avoid a clinical feel.

You can also make your white backdrops pop quickly and easily with injections of colour here and there, since white works well with everything… perfect if you’re new to the world of painting and decorating.

Whatever choices you make, just remember that the colours at home can make a huge difference to your energy levels and your general mood, so it’s important to take your time, consider different palettes and work out what you like and what you don’t.

Once you’ve made your final decisions, you can start decorating! If you need any help or guidance relating to roller blinds and other window treatments, get in touch with the Pret A Vivre team today.