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How Beautiful Interiors can Affect Your Personal and Work Life

Have you ever noticed how your mood changes upon entering a space that’s attractively decorated? That happens because beautiful interiors have the power to affect your psychology.

By Syed BalkhiPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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How Beautiful Interiors can Affect Your Personal and Work Life
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Have you ever noticed how your mood changes upon entering a space that’s attractively decorated? That happens because beautiful interiors have the power to affect your psychology. The way you decorate your space has a strong impact on your emotions and perceptions.

No matter how exhausting or depressing your day maybe, you can instantly feel calm, relaxed, and happy when you return to a beautiful and organized home. But why does that really happen?

Well, there can be several reasons for that. Let’s look at a few of them

1. Well Lit Room Makes you Feel Alert

You must have noticed that you feel more awake in a room that’s well-lit as compared to the one that’s poorly lit. You might think that how well your home is lit has nothing to do with your psychology.

But in reality, living in bright and properly lit rooms can make you feel more productive. This increases your efficiency and helps you get better results at work. So by allowing enough sunlight to brighten up your room, you can feel more awake and alert and eliminate lethargy and laziness from your life.

2. Wall Art Acts like Mental Therapy

Try walking into a room with empty walls after a long day. The next day, see what it feels like to enter the same room but decorated more vibrantly with great wall hangings and creative wall art. See if you can feel any difference.

The wall art in your home is not simply a way to decorate your empty walls but is a reflection of your personality too. It helps you bring life to your room and make it feel more lively.

Wall art acts like mental therapy and helps you overcome feelings of loneliness, anxiety, and depression. It improves your mood by making you feel refreshed and more prepared to return to work the next day.

3. Your Mood can Change with the Interior Color

The color of your room hugely affects your psychology. For example, the color yellow is associated with creativity and happiness. So if you’re a creative person, you can boost your creativity by painting your workspace yellow.

Similarly, if you work in a very stressful environment, it can be a good idea to paint your room in one of the neutral shades. Colors like that have a calming effect and help you destress easily.

So do some research and find out what color suits you best for your professional and personal space. It can help you increase your productivity, decrease anxiety, and even help you sleep better if you want.

4. Plants Make you Feel Relaxed

Do you like having plants in your house? Having some indoor plants in the house can not only help you increase its visual beauty but can also help you in several other ways.

As we all know, plants help purify the atmosphere. So by having more indoor plants, you can purify the air you breathe.

Not just that, having plants around you can help you improve your focus, increase attentiveness, and boost your concentration.

So if you’re willing to work on your concentration level, get more plants. It can also work wonders if you add a few small pots of natural plants to your work desk. It also helps you relax and decrease your stress level.

5. Perception of Space Helps your Feel More Open

Well-designed interiors can help you feel more open and broaden the way you perceive the world around you. For example, living in spaces with more windows and open space, and less enclosed space can give you the feeling of more.

This also helps you feel more free and liberated. If you are living in small spaces with not much open space, think strategically about how you can create more space by using the illusion of space.

Use mirrors and scale your furniture to the size of your room to make your space look bigger. You should also consider organizing your things properly to avoid the clutter and mess around you.

This will not only make the space look better but will also help you declutter your mind and feel more relaxed every time you walk into this space.

So that’s it. You now know how beautiful interiors can affect your psychology and change the way you feel, think, and behave. Now it’s your turn to utilize these tips and create a space that leaves a positive psychological effect on you and anyone who visits you.

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Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi is the founder of WPBeginner, the largest free WordPress resource site. You can learn more about Syed and his portfolio of companies by following him on his social media networks.

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