Empower Your Home With Vibrant Colors

Researchers have determined that certain color families like red, purple, yellow and orange can have a positive impact on your energy level, mood, creativity and problem-solving skills. Learn the meanings symbolized by these vibrant colors along with simple ways to incorporate them into areas of your home décor where energy, activity and vitality are the focus.

Intensify Your Workouts
Red is a hot and intense color that is associated with power, strength, courage and high energy. With the ability to boost metabolism and raise respiration rates, red décor accents in your exercise room can help kick your workouts into high gear.

Use some of these ideas to add shades of red (including pink) to your exercise room:

• Add equipment like pink hand weights and exercise balls and red yoga mats and blocks.
• Stack burgundy towels in a corner or on a shelf. Place a few red or hot pink sports bottles next to them.
• Use push pins to mount posters, banners or pennants of your family’s favorite teams that use crimson colors.
• Use accent rugs with rich shades of red.
• Paint the wall that faces you when you’re on the treadmill, stationary bike or weight bench a deep or strong shade of red.
• Mount artwork on the walls with red or pink frames, or use artwork with these colors incorporated.

Use these decidedly perky colors to accent your dining room décor:

• Fill a decorative bowl with clementines or lemons and use it as a centerpiece on your dining room or kitchen table. Complement it with a rich red-orange table runner or light citrus-orange placemats.
• Keep a bright yellow (or hot orange) tea kettle on your stove top.
• Small accents can make a big impact, so look for ways to incorporate shades of yellow and orange with cookie jars, soap dispensers, storage canisters, spoon holders, hot plates, blenders, toasters and trash cans.
• Fill a large yellow coffee mug with burnt orange paper napkins and place it on your kitchen table or island.
• Place a vase with fresh seasonal flowers in shades of yellow and orange on your table or windowsill.

A kitchen brimming with vitality can help encourage healthy eating habits and foster an optimistic outlook in everything you do.

Boost Your Brain Power

Rich shades of purple, violet and lavender have a surprisingly strong effect on our ability to think and therefore, achieve. Purple is associated with wisdom, memory, imagination, creativity and strategic problem solving, making it a smart choice for accents in your home study or office décor.

Boost your brain power with a few of these home décor ideas:

• Add purple folders, notepads, mouse pad, lamp or stress ball to your desk or surrounding work area.
• Mount inspirational messages with purple frames on the walls.
• Mount a wall clock with purple accents.
• Paint a steel file cabinet, wooden bookshelf or wall shelf a rich violet and use lavender glass vases as bookends.
• Frame a map with a shade of purple to remind yourself that the world is full of potential if you maintain a positive attitude.

With a little imagination and enthusiasm, you can create a colorful home décor that is full of positive and empowering energy.