It helps to choose the colors you plan to live with in your home with awareness¹ of how different colors affect your emotional and physical states. Every color has a unique vibration² all of its own, and this can significantly affect how you feel in a room.

Simple Solution:

Using this simple chart, you can choose a room's color to be in balance and harmony with the role you want a room to have in your and your family's life.

Red: A room that is painted red will energize³, inspire activity and movement, help passion, and be powerful and stimulating⁴. A red room can also be exhausting and overpowering, and stressful for those who are anxious. Pink is less demanding. Choosing a red bedroom would not be restful, although some red can be used to enhance sensuality. A red exercise room would be energizing⁵! In Feng Shui, red means luck.

Orange: Orange rooms encourage happy, joyful⁶, social gatherings⁸. While an orange dining room or family room can stimulate⁹ the appetite, it is a great choice for such gathering⁷ places. Orange enhances parties, communication, positive feelings, and general good cheer.

Yellow: Yellow rooms inspire intellectual clarity, organization, clear-headed articulate thinking, and happy energy. Yellow is considered a color for the logical left side of the brain. Yellow is also very bright and somewhat energizing, so one needs to choose its placement with care. A yellow office might be intellectually beneficial, but not allow restful downtime, for example, so one might want to choose to include yellow accents instead of painting each wall yellow.

Green: Green rooms are very restful but combine with an energizing quality. Green is the color of outdoors, calm and active at the same time. Green brings balance and harmony to a room, and can be used as a calming place for people who are troubled or in need of refreshment¹⁰.

Blue: Blue rooms are often chosen for bedrooms and meditation¹¹ rooms because its cool energy is very calming, restful, peaceful, and spiritual. Blue helps inspire a quiet meditative¹² quality, and color therapy with blue has been found to reduce blood pressure. Blue is also useful to make one to sleep.