How does your home decor affect your mood?

For many of our clients, their house is more than just a home; it is that refuge or personal space where they can rest from the daily hustle and bustle of their lives. Therefore, for many of them, making their home a tidy, comfortable and peaceful place is essential to feel at ease.

With the irruption of the Covid-19 in our lives, in addition to being a refuge, homes have become the living space where we also telework, exercise and even where we enjoy leisure and free time with our family or friends. Therefore, many of the new decorative projects for contemporary homes have been closely related to satisfy our mood. And the direct relationship between the interior decoration of our home and our emotions exists.

Throughout the day we perform various activities at home: we cook, read, play sports, shower, sleep, etc.. When performing each and every one of these tasks we experience different emotions, largely subject to the interior design and decoration we have chosen at home.

Currently, there are many clients who come to Molins Design studio to reorganize the interior of their homes and adapt them following the rules of emotional decoration; that which aims to generate positive emotions, through a more comfortable, safe and personal home.

If you want to know more about how the decoration of your home can affect the mood of those who inhabit it, we encourage you to continue reading today’s post. Below, we explain the key factors of interior design that affect your emotions and that will help you achieve a more practical, comfortable and happy atmosphere at home. In addition, we will take the opportunity to give you some tips and tricks on how to improve a forgotten corner of our home. Don’t miss it!

If you want to know more about how the decoration of your home can affect the mood of those who inhabit it, we encourage you to continue reading today’s post. Below, we explain the key factors of interior design that affect your emotions and that will help you achieve a more practical, comfortable and happy atmosphere at home. In addition, we will take the opportunity to give you some tips and tricks on how to improve a forgotten corner of our home. Don’t miss it!

As you know, not all people have the same tastes: we do not appreciate in the same way the same smells, or the same colors, etc.. Therefore, it is very important to know the people who live in a home to customize an interior design and decoration according to their mood or emotions.

Some people prefer open spaces and open to the space, while others choose multifunctional furniture to suit each room of the home.

Others prefer to center the decoration of their home around an element of rest as important as the sofa.

In any case, it is not enough to have at home the latest trends in interior design or decoration, but what makes us feel more comfortable. This factor is key to add welfare within our home.

By choosing the shapes and colors of a home we are influencing our own brain and that of our guests. Depending on the chromatic range chosen, as well as the general lines of the house, we can make people feel more confident and relaxed or, on the contrary, stimulate them to exploit all their creativity. It all depends on our style and tastes!

Warm colors help to recreate daytime and daily use spaces, such as the living room, kitchen or dining room. Areas where we usually share conversations with friends and family throughout the day.

Therefore, opting for earth tones, grays and oranges help, in these spaces, to increase our attention and creativity.

However, cold colors, generally present in bedrooms and bathrooms, are intended to convey serenity and relaxation. Hence, white, beige, blue or green tones are the great favorites for this type of rooms. In addition, these colors become great allies of space, generating a greater sense of spaciousness.

When the sun comes out you feel full of energy and strength, but when it rains and the sky is cloudy you tend to get depressed. Does it happen to you too? The truth is, we are all susceptible to weather changes, and so is the lighting inside our home. Its greater or lesser incidence affects our mood, altering our energy levels.

Therefore, it is vital to have several entrances of natural light inside our home. A factor that, combined with different lighting fixtures, will help us to improve the vision inside our home and will contribute to focus or give the importance it deserves to different spaces or elements of our decoration.

It is very important to dedicate enough time to organize the lighting in our home, in order to achieve a balance between natural light and artificial lighting.

A concept we all know as neuroarchitecture, or the science that studies how the environment we see influences our emotions. For example, we know that high ceilings favor creativity, while low ceilings help increase concentration and generate a certain peace of mind.

The same is true for the type of furniture chosen. Depending on its shape we can experience a type of decoration that influences more or less our mood, as well as our behavior at home. Thus, furniture with organic and rounded shapes bring us tranquility, while elements with pronounced angles keep us alert.

Decorating the home with plants and flowers brings warmth and vitality, as well as a touch of freshness. In homes located in the city, this type of decoration influences your mood and will be essential to feel at peace at home. Creating a space close to nature, which will help us to increase our productivity and also improve the air quality.

If you do not want to place natural plants at home, we recommend you to bet on natural wood furniture. A good way to harmonize a seemingly simple space is to introduce in it some unique piece that brings style and elegance to our home. As well as any textile with floral or tropical print. The details in green, blue and other tones that evoke a wild atmosphere will bring nature closer to home.

Although sometimes it may seem impossible, it is essential to keep your home clean, tidy and ventilated to have a harmonious distribution.

Having an organized space generates efficiency and reduces stress. Therefore, try to establish a rigorous order at home, placing the elements that you are going to use daily and removing that decoration that does not influence your mood or emotions. From Molins Design we advise you to follow the maxim: “Live with less, to live better”.

It will also be important to have an aroma that makes a difference (and that matches our tastes, of course). As you know, the sense of smell activates our memories. Therefore, it will be vital to take into account the smell that transmits our home and its different rooms.

Choose a fragrance that defines you and is not overwhelming. Fresh scents such as lemon, lavender or tea tree are perfect for creating the perfect atmosphere. You can achieve a 100% personal scent thanks to the fragrances of the Le Compositeur designer diffuser. Take a look!

Make the necessary adjustments in those rooms that you do not use. You may need to stop and think about your needs and how to better distribute the space. To do this, we advise you to get rid of what is extra and place a decoration according to your mood, which is more functional and adapted to your daily tasks.

For example, if you are passionate about sports, it may be a good time to create a small gym at home, with the machinery and accessories that suit your exercise routine. It may also be the ideal time to give life to a new corner where you can relax reading a good book or watching your favorite series. Set your priorities and make the renovation or intervention in your home that best suits your needs.