When you’ve become weary from a day of high activity and exhausting interactions at work, there is no better prospect than retiring to the comforts of your abode as the evening beckons. Simple gestures, such as opening the door, taking in the soothing smell and sound of a familiar home environment, or finally coming face-to-face with your favourite living room painting, can do wonders to your well-being.

That is, if your home interior design evokes a positive response from you. How does home interiors influence your mood? And how do interior designers help in the process?

Can You Be Your Own Interior Designer?

When you look at an empty house or apartment, are your bursting with potential possibilities of a transformed space, or do you see only stark empty floors and walls. A talented interior designer sees the former, while most of us are underwhelmed by a bare bone structure. Investing in a good home interior design service not only maximizes your home’s potential but also customizes it to your unique lifestyle needs. If you are so lucky as to be endowed with a fine eye for aesthetics, interior designers can help you make sound decisions to incorporate your unique stylistic signature and create your dream home with expertise, attention to detail and creativity.

Interior Design Impacts Moods

Good interior design can uplift your spirits. There’s nothing more relaxing than walking into a well-appointed space after a tiring day at the office. Depending on your lifestyle needs, designers will consider your varied tastes in designing your rooms.

Imagine walking into a bedroom that is adorned with your least favorite color and your least favorite motif. That doesn’t sound inviting, does it?

Home interiors can significantly affect your emotional response. When your home is tailored to your personal preferences, you will derive more joy whilst seeking a respite from the hustle and bustle of life. Your home should feel like a sanctuary where you can totally relax.

Some of the elements affecting our moods in home designs are colour choices, lighting selection and space planning.

The Vital Role of Colours

Choosing the right colours for your art, walls, and furniture is a major decision. For walls alone, it is much more complex than just picking out your favorite colors for the wall. Have you ever seen the professional paint color fan deck featuring thousands of shades of colors. Which one to pick? Even after you have zoomed in on a particular color swatch, there is no telling how the color will actually look on an entire wall, as natural and artificial light affects the rendering of colors on our perception. Interior designers take less of a gamble when specifying colors only because they have literally worked with a wider array of colors than the general population.

Nonetheless, as the homeowner, you play a crucial role in identifying colors you can relate to as a starting point for your interior designer to work on. You can select warm and striking colours if you want to bring excitement into your home. Or, you can choose a minimalist palette if you are going for a calming atmosphere.

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Here are some house colors and the moods they convey:

• Red. Red is one of the most vibrant colour there is. Red thrives in a fun and friendly environment. It is also said to be a conversation stimulator.

• Pink. Pink features predominantly in the bedrooms of girls. At a more sophisticated level, pink speaks of femininity and compassion. 

• Brown. Brown is a popular house color. This is because brown can create any mood that is desired, depending on its shade. One example is beige which is classic and formal.

• Orange. Some people shy away from using orange because it can be overpowering. But it has an inviting feel. It is also a color that stimulates the appetite.

• Green. Green is the colour of nature, one that people often associate with jungles and forests. This colour refreshes the soul. It is also versatile. When complemented with different shades, it can create an original yet calming room effect.

• Blue: Blue is often associated with masculinity. The color of the sky and the sea creates a sense of coolness in the room and conveys a sense of peace.

The tone of colours you use in your home can be used to express your personality. There is also the intricacies of picking complementary and contrasting colors for the best effect in furniture, décor and artwork. The bottom line is, colors in the home can affect our moods subconsciously.

The Effect of Lighting

Lighting sets the overall mood of a room. Soft lighting is flattering on skin tones and creates an air of romance. Bright spaces uplifts the spirit and engenders a happy mood.  In contrast, a dark room conveys a sense of mystique, or can be downright depressing.

Paying attention to the lighting in your residence is very important. Certain rooms like the study and the kitchen need to be well-lit for practical reasons. However there is a fine line between well-lit and glaring. Other areas may be lifted out of the mundane with accent lights and decorative light fixtures. A good-looking lamp has to serve both form and function to truly elevate the ambience of a space. With the majority of lighting retailers going online nowadays, it is even more challenging to visualize the proportion of a light fixture relative to the sofa, dining area or bedside table. An experienced interior designer can help enhance the ambience with the right specification of lights.

Expanding Your Space

Have you ever been in a situation where you are annoyed for no rhyme or reason? You then decide to declutter your space. And voila! You feel surprisingly uplifted after seeing that you are lounging in a more spacious area. There is a visual component in the perception of space. Keeping a space tidy helps tremendously.

Interior designers can help in creating accessible storage so keeping chaos at bay becomes an easy feat. Untidy wires can also be hidden behind furniture or custom-built shelves. Interior designers are also adept at estimating the correct size of your wardrobe and shoe cabinet so your cupboards are neat on the inside and the outside.

Further, a talented interior designer can reconfigure the layout of an entire home to accommodate lifestyle needs and to bring natural light into darker areas. Effective space planning can not only reclaim real and usable space in awkward layouts, but also visually expand the perception of space.

The clever placement of mirrors and decorative demarcation of zones can make a space look larger than it actually is. Colors have an impact on space perception as well. There is a debate on whether dark colored walls or ceilings recede and hence make a room appear bigger. The answer is it depends on the color combination. Darker tone monochromatic walls and ceilings will make a room look smaller. In a dual tone room, the dark wall will recede visually.

Create a Happy Home with Excellent Interior Design

With many tricks up their sleeves, the right interior designer can truly maximise your home potential and create a home interior that will positively influence your mood.

D’Perception Ritz has worked with many clients to transform a ho-hum space into a fully customized home solution that is a joy to wake up to and return to everyday. Partner with us to achieve that dream house interior design and ensure a happy home! Contact us today at +65 6533 5797 or via ritz@dperception.com.sg.