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Repaint Your Walls
The power of color has been intensely studied, including how it affects your mood within the home. Along with its ability to make a small room feel bigger, or a big room feel more intimate, certain colors can speak to you more so than playing it safe with white or beige walls.
“Color is all around us and even in our vocabulary. We say we feel ‘blue’,” says interior designer and color expert Elaine Ryan. “It’s part of our core, but for many years color has been excluded from our homes … but now I see a real love for it and people wanting it in their home. It’s all about finding the colors you respond to and that make you feel good.”
When you’re ready to paint, check out these tips and techniques for the perfect paint job.
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Use Aromatherapy
“Use aromatherapy, candles or room spray with scents that are calming, energizing or nostalgic,” says Khrosid. “Our olfactory response is linked to the emotional center of the brain, causing similar feelings of those experienced in past memories. Certain scents can also stimulate happy or calming mood states. Lavender can bring about calm, fresh cut grass can stimulate joy, citrus can ignite energy and pine can decrease stress.”
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Let in the Light
According to research from Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates, exposure to light is linked to improved mood, so go ahead and open those curtains and blinds, or even remodel to invite more natural light in.
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