Colors can evoke our moods, our vitality, and thinking. If you are considering decorating your living room or bedroom with a specific color, avoid just following the most recent trends. Instead, follow your heart. Consider the psychological effects of color and their role in your life.

This article explores meanings of colors and where best to use them in your house. Follow your intuition and use your best judgment. Use colors that you love or that may energize and inspire you. 

Paint colors are available in variety of shades, tones and hues but furniture, carpets, and fabric are usually limited in color options. Consider complementing accessories before choosing the color for the walls.

Bedroom & Living Room Colors

1) Orange

Meaning: Active, cheerful, energetic, sociable. 

Suggested Rooms: Use orange in your exercise room.

2) Blue

Meaning: Lighter shades of blue are associated with calmness, relaxation, loyalty, protection, blue skies, and seas.  If you love nature, enjoy intellectual thoughts, and want peace after a long day of work, then blue is perfect for you. It is found that people with blue bedrooms got more sleep than any other color. 

Suggested Rooms: Consider blue in your bedrooms or bathrooms. Aquamarine shades paired with white and natural light create fresh and revitalized feelings.

3) Green

Meaning: Green represents calming, balancing, healing, and relaxing. Additionally, this color is associated with growth, vitality, freshness, abundance, and nature.

Suggested Rooms: Paint your bathroom, living room or bedroom green. 

4) Gray

Meaning: Gray represents neutral, calm, and quiet. 

Suggested Rooms: Dark gray is a perfect complimentary color to other bright colors. 

5) Purple/Violet/Lavender

Meaning: Purple, violet and lavender are associated with nobility, luxury, abundance, soothing, and spirituality.

Suggested Rooms: Use purple in your bedrooms and living room.

6) Brown

Meaning: Brown connects with stability, reliability, and being comfortable.

Suggested Rooms: Consider brown in your bedroom or living room.

7) Red

Meaning: Red is associated with passion, excitement, powerful, love, and romance.

Suggested Rooms: Consider using red in your living room, kitchen, or dining room. Consider Earthy reds for rooms, rather than bright red colors. 

8) Black

Meaning: Black represents sophistication, power, elegance, and modernity.

Suggested Rooms: Use black as an accessory color. Some home decor experts suggest that every room contain touches of black to ground the color scheme and give the room depth.

9) Yellow

Meaning: Yellow connects with happiness, liveness, uplifting, stimulating, welcoming. Pale yellow is found the second best color for sleep.

Suggested Rooms: Consider using yellow in your kitchen, dining room, or living room.  Use earthy and pale yellow. 

10) White/Off-white

Meaning: This color gives feelings of clarity, innocence, cleanliness, spirituality, purity, hope and openness.

Suggested Rooms: Paint your bathroom or sun room white. 

11) Pink/Peach

Meaning: Pink/peach symbolizes love and romance.

Suggested Rooms: Use pink in your bedroom.