Your home should be a place that supports you to live your best life. Decorating your living spaces with furniture and accessories that suit your lifestyle and brings you joy is one way to get the most out of your home, but it's certainly not the only factor to consider. Today, interior design is often aimed at promoting the overall wellness of homeowners. No longer is the only focus of home design how a space looks, but also how it makes the people who spend time there feel. One way to influence the way you feel at home is through color therapy. 

Intentionally incorporating home decor color schemes that help you feel calm, comfortable, and relaxed is a small step that can have a significant impact on your overall mental and physical health, including reducing your blood pressure. Even better, color therapy is a decorating technique that is easy enough for virtually anyone to embrace in their own home. Check out these color palette inspirations from the experienced design team at Star Furniture that can help you create living spaces that promote peace, tranquility, and good health for you and your family.

Understanding Color Therapy

If you've ever noticed that the way you feel is often impacted by the appearance of your surroundings, you aren't imagining it! Color has the ability to make us feel excited and energized, calm and relaxed, and a variety of other emotions in between. Interestingly enough, the impact of your color choice goes beyond emotion. There's reason to believe that certain color combinations can also affect your physical health, for better or for worse. While some colors can contribute to feeling anxious or stressed, others could put you at ease and even help to reduce your blood pressure.

Because of this, many people are turning to color therapy to help them feel calm in their home while reaping the health benefits that come along with reducing stress, including lowering blood pressure. Color therapy, which is sometimes referred to as chromotherapy, is an approach to improving your mental and physical health by utilizing color to alter your mood and biology.

Rooted in the ancient traditions of countries like Greece, China, and India, color therapy has become popular in modern home decor to complement traditional medical treatments. While research behind the effectiveness of using color therapy to treat certain health conditions is limited, you don't have to be a medical professional to recognize the impact that color can have on your mood and mindset which then can affect your physical wellbeing. 

Blue: A Hue for Serenity

When it comes to decorating your home in a way that reduces stress and promotes relaxation, incorporating the color blue is an obvious choice! Whether you choose cool shades of sky blue or deeper shades that are rich and refined, blue is a color that will help you decompress the moment you walk in the door.

Even better, blue is a color that is versatile enough to act as a vibrant accent in some spaces yet balanced enough to appear as a neutral in others. For this reason, it's a great option to use if you're apprehensive about decorating with color. Check out these ideas to welcome different hues of blue into your living spaces from the interior design team at Star Furniture:

  • A light shade of blue could create a lovely backdrop for your bedroom or bathroom while a darker blue could act as an eye-catching accent wall in your dining room or home office.
  • Blue accessories in your kitchen can make the space instantly feel more serene and inviting. Place a bouquet of blue hydrangeas on your countertop, display fruit in a blue ceramic bowl, or brighten things up with a small blue lamp to give the entire room a fresh upgrade.
  • Add depth and visual intrigue to your living room by investing in blue furnishings, such as a sofa, an armchair, or a console table.

Green: Nature's Soothing Palette

Take a hint from the serenity of the outdoors and surround yourself in the color green! Get inspired by the wide variety of green hues that can be found in plants, gemstones, and insects. From muted olive shades to bright and bold lime greens, the perfect green for your home is out there waiting to be found. 

Thanks to its tranquil aesthetic and effortless versatility, green is a color that can easily be used in every room of your home. The Star Furniture design team has plenty of ideas to seamlessly incorporate green furnishings and accessories in your living spaces, including:

  • Painting the walls: stick with a lighter shade for your bedroom or go bold with a rich forest green in your dining room to make a dramatic yet inviting statement. 
  • Hang a painting of a landscape on your wall for a subtle yet tasteful pop of green.
  • Keep things simple by sprinkling potted plants in every area of your home to add much-needed color, texture, and enhanced air quality.

Soft Pink: Gentle and Calming

Decor with a feminine feel has made its way into popularity in recent years and isn't going anywhere any time soon. People from all walks of life love the soft hues of pink that are known for their calming, gentle ambiance. What better reason to add the color pink to your own home design than to soften the feel of your living spaces in an instant?

You don't have to cover your home in bright shades of hot pink to embrace this contemporary aesthetic. Instead, consider adding subtle pink accents that will add to the coziness of the room. Blush throw pillows, dusty rose curtain panels, or an area rug with pops of magenta can all be lovely additions to your current home decor without creating an overtly feminine aesthetic.

Lavender: Relaxation and Tranquility

It's no coincidence that the scent of lavender has become synonymous with relaxation and wellness. It's no surprise then that the color can be used in the same way. Similarly to pink, lavender can add a subtle softness to any room in your home. Muted lavender shades are an excellent choice to incorporate into bedrooms and bathrooms where rest and relaxation are critical. If you're drawn to the calming effect of decorating with shades of lavender, don't be shy. Embracing this gorgeous color is a surefire way to create attractive spaces that help you feel at ease. Here are some tips from the trusted Star Furniture design team to help you get started:

  • Incorporate lavender into your bedding, such as on your sheets, comforter, or accent pillows.
  • Add a lavender armchair or ottoman to your bedroom for a playful yet calming pop of color.
  • Place a lavender plant on your bedside table so you can enjoy the appearance of the beautiful flowers as well as its lovely fragrance.
An elegant, traditional bedroom featuring a large bed with a high wooden headboard and patterned bedding in neutral tones. Two framed artworks hang on the wall above matching bedside tables with lamps. To the left is a dresser with a mirror and decorative items, alongside a wall art piece resembling a cluster of oval shapes. The room has a serene color palette with gray walls, white drapery, and a subtle geometric-patterned area rug, all illuminated by natural light from large windows

Beige and Earth Tones: Grounding and Comforting

It's no secret that earth tones have a way of grounding us and helping us feel calm. Perhaps that's why neutral color schemes, including beige and earth tones, are so popular amongst interior designers. If you're looking for a way to create living spaces that feel stable and comforting, decorating with a neutral palette is a good place to start. Along with contributing to a calming atmosphere, beige and earth tones can help your home feel contemporary yet warm.

Decorating with earth tones may be the easiest route to getting started on incorporating color therapy in your home. After all, it's not difficult to find just about any piece of furniture or accessory in the color beige. The secret to using beige in a way that’s stylish and compelling is to use it sparingly. A room that's saturated in beige or another earth tone might end up looking dull or uninspiring. When used properly, neutral colors can help your living spaces feel intentional and calming. Here are some tips to incorporating beige and other earth tones in your living spaces:

  • Use them to anchor the space. Beige and earth tones are wonderful options to use on large pieces within a space, such as a sectional or bed frame, to provide a clean foundation that other colors and textures can be built upon.
  • Earth tones can also be used to break up spaces that already have a lot of colors and patterns in them. For instance, beige curtains or an area rug can tone down a room with furniture in patterned upholstery.

Integrating Color Therapy into Your Home

Decorating with color can sometimes be intimidating for new homeowners, especially if it's a shade that you've never used before. It's important to remember that there are countless ways to welcome color into your living spaces. You don't have to limit yourself to decorating with a particular shade or replicating ideas that you see others doing. The trick to integrating color therapy into your home in a way that is practical and works for you is to start small. Instead of making green or pink the primary focus of a space, start by bringing in a few small accent pieces in the color of your choice.

No matter what colors you're decorating with, the room as a whole should feel balanced and cohesive. Likewise, it's critical that you choose shades of color that you feel inspired by. Who cares if someone says that blue can help you feel relaxed if you don't like the color blue? At the end of the day, your home should be a reflection of your personality and taste. If you don't love a certain color, choose one that you do love.

The Impact of Furniture in Color Therapy

Just like decorating with particular colors can have an impact on how you feel in your home, the types of furniture you incorporate to your living spaces will as well. Because of this, it's worth considering how the furnishings you bring home will contribute to the appearance, functionality, and ambiance of the space you plan to place them in. If a certain piece of furniture isn't attractive, comfortable, or easy to use, chances are that it will be difficult to feel relaxed and at ease when you use it. On the other hand, the right furnishings don't just make your life easier but can help make doing simple tasks at home a pleasure.

At Star Furniture, we're proud to offer a vast selection of quality furniture that are intentionally made to enhance your quality of life at home. Along with being beautiful, durable, and cozy, many of our furnishings feature the blues, greens, pinks, and earth tones that can help reduce your blood pressure at home while others are sure to complement them beautifully. 

Start Your Color Therapy Journey at Star Furniture

The environment that you surround yourself with can play a critical role in your overall mental and physical wellness. If your home doesn't currently help you feel your best, it's time to make some changes. The good news is that transforming your home into your own personal oasis where peace and tranquility prevail is simple enough for any homeowner to accomplish. Incorporating therapeutic colors into your living spaces, such as blue, green, pink, and beige, can have a powerful impact on your mental and physical health.

At Star Furniture, our trusted interior design team is committed to helping you get the most out of every space in your home. With our large selection of quality furniture and 100+ years of decorating experience, we can help make the process of decorating your living spaces with calming, grounding colors as simple as possible.

Visit us online today to check out our bedroom furniture, colorful accessories, and more before stopping by one of our convenient showroom locations. We can't wait to help you create the relaxing home you've always wanted!