Ever felt like your home needs a happiness makeover?
Well, you're in for a treat!
The colours we choose to decorate our home can have a massive impact on the vibe our home emits but more importantly, our mood. And that is what we will be focusing on today, finding paint colours that can bring a happy vibe turning your home into a joy-filled retreat.
From sunshine yellows to vibrant pinks, we are on a mission to make your home as cheerful as your spirit.
Ready to discover the vast range of Tikkurila paint colours that can bring a positive and uplifting vibe to your living room?
The Benefits of Bringing Happy Paint Colours into Your Home
There is no shortage of reasons why you should explore tones that evoke positivity when selecting shades for a colour palette. To help illustrate what makes these shades so impactful to your interior let's explore the main benefits they can offer.
Happy Colours Enhance Your Mood
The first benefit that positive shades offer is that they can act as a mood booster. When implemented in a careful way these shades can trigger the release of endorphins contributing to a sense of happiness and well-being. This can be brilliant for those looking to unwind after a stressful, busy day. There is no quicker way to de-stress and unwind than having your home designed to project a cool, calming effect.
Increased Energy
Certain happy hues also have a bold ability to increase your energy levels helping promote imagination and productivity.
One of the best places to explore happy colours when you are looking to encourage hard work is your home office. This doesn't mean you have to go all-out and paint every surface with a bright yellow shade. You can try to bring it in as an accent colour though in a few ways such as colour-blocking an area of your wall, having a feature wall, or even just painting the trim.
Paint Colours That Bring a Happy Vibe
So, now that you have a good understanding of why you would want to decorate your home with happy paint colours it is time to explore the colour families that are most likely to bring this positive energy to your home.
Sunshine Yellows
One of the easiest ways to inject a dose of happiness into your home is with yellow, specifically the more vibrant shades of yellow that extrude a happy-go-lucky appeal.
To help get those creating juices flowing here are a few suggestions from our expansive collection of yellow shades.
Our first vibrant yellow is Banana J302. A delightfully refreshing shade of yellow that floods a room with happiness. While being a brighter example of yellow this shade brings a delicate edge that gives your home a soft touch. This shade of yellow is best used in an area where you are looking to feel energised or gets a cooler natural light.
Another yellow shade that is sure to bring those warm sun rays into your home is Lemonade H300. This is a far paler and slightly pastel example of yellow but by no means less effective at creating a positive space. Try to use this hue in spaces where you go to relax such as your living room or in a bedroom to improve rest.
Extruding a soft luminescence the aptly named Joy H303 is bound to create a feel-good vibe anywhere it is used. Like our previous colour shade of yellow is best suited to areas you go to chill out after a long day.
Warming Oranges
Radiating cosiness and warmth, orange is an ideal choice for anyone looking for a paint colour capable of boosting your mood. Let's explore a few our favourite orange shades worth considering in your next decorating project.
If you are looking for something fairly soft and gentle, but that still gives off a playful vibe, Doll H405 is for you. Sitting on the softer side of orange, this shade is perfect for opening up a space and giving it a spacious vibe. You can use this colour without hesitation quite liberally in spaces of all sizes, particularly smaller ones.
Along the same lines as Doll, we have Bast G405 another lighter orange shade that brings positive energy and encourages happy vibes. Again, this shade has the ability to make a huge impact on your mood.
Not all orange mood-enhancing shades are lighter, there are also deep hues which can encourage happiness. One of our favourite shades to do this is Harvest V406. Soaked in warming mid-tones of orange, Harvest is a richer example of orange that is more than capable of giving off positivity. Also, it is a brilliant shade for those looking to decorate a north-facing space. bringing a tough-to-rival warmth to your home.
Playful Green
Green has consistently been a favourite choice for both professional interior designers and DIY enthusiasts crafting their personal spaces, and for good reason.
This versatile hue effortlessly conveys the essence of nature and has soothing and restorative qualities capable of creating an environment that seamlessly blends the tranquillity of the outdoors with the comfort of indoor living. Green can improve your overall well-being, what a great quality for a paint colour, right?
Greens calming energy and refreshing presence give it an unrivalled ability to set people at ease, uplift spirits and evoke a sense of happiness.
But which greens should you decorate with? Here are a few of our favourites.+
Bursting with freshness and appeal, our first green is Aloe X381. This shade is one of the lighter and more vibrant colours in our collection. This shade would be perfect in a home office to encourage productivity and is all but guaranteed to put a spring in your step.
Next, we have Menthol J442, a unique green with soft blue undertones and a faint sage green edge. Well suited to bring a fun, playful appeal to your home. Menthol is a very versatile shade and will tie in effortlessly with a wide range of colour schemes.
Were the last two shades not quite bold enough for you? Let's take a look at Emerald L373, which is sure to get your attention. Being a far bolder green, this shade is perfect for a feature wall.
Vibrant Pinks
Pink walls have an inherently gentle and playful nature that undeniably promotes happiness within a space. There are many tones of pink which can work well and create a comforting and cheerful appeal in your home.
In the Tikkurila colour directory, we have a wide range of shades that can give your home a positive appeal. One of our favourite shades of pink to elevate your mood is Magnolia H320. This delightful pink hue has a soft muted appeal and is sure to create a sense of calmness. Traits that are associated with interiors that are soothing and help us relax.
Looking for a soft pink? Perhaps Milkshake Y411 is the answer to your problems. This shade is a gentle pastel pink which extrudes a sense of calm and reassurance. Qualities that are sure to improve your mood after a tough day.
Not all of our pink paint colours are soft and delicate, some outright demand attention and are capable of being the focal point of any room. Flamingo K319 is just such a shade. Exploding with vibrancy and energy, Flamingo makes a bold statement. A hue that is certainly reserved for those who want to be more adventurous with colour.
Exciting Reds
As a colour that extrudes passion and energy, red is an excellent choice for those looking for a shade to promote happiness. Red is another shade that depending on the tone can be quite a bold hue reserved for the more daring decorator. Let's walk through a few of our personal favourites to incorporate into your home to boost your mood.
First up, we have Tomato M316. Packed with energy and excitement, this vibrant red is capable of instantly invigorating any room. Tomato tends to provoke strong emotions that can create a contagious sense of joy.
Reef M319 is a slightly deeper option that evokes strong emotions and can create a reassuring and enthusiastic vibe in your home. The extra level of intensity this strong shade offers makes it a brilliant option for those looking to embrace happy hues in their home. This shade pairs incredibly well with light grey if you are looking to coordinate it in a colour scheme.
Choosing the Right Happy Paint Colour for Your Space
So, with all of these paint colours to choose how do you know which one would work best in a specific room?
Luckily, there are a few ways you can take the guesswork out of what the best shade is and create colour schemes like a professional interior designer. You can use these points below as a checklist for finding the perfect colour to bring happiness to your home.
Light Sources
The type of light that your room gets makes a huge difference to the vibe it gives off. Colours look quite different in natural or artificial light sources. You'll want to test colours out in both settings with sample paint pots to ensure the colour feels right in different light sources.
On types of light, you'll also want to consider the direction in which light enters your home. There is a big difference between north-facing and south-facing natural light. South-facing rooms tend to have more natural light making cooler paint colours more appropriate to balance out that stronger light. Conversely, north-facing rooms have a cooler natural light and can benefit more from warm shades such as orange, red, or yellow to bring a bit more liveliness to the space.
The Room You Are Decorating
As we have discussed extensively, paint colours are very capable of influencing how we feel in our home. Take a moment to carefully consider the emotions you want to evoke in a particular room. All of the colours that have been picked out in this guide are capable of bringing other emotions along with helping you feel happy.
For rooms where you would want to have a more relaxed vibe lean more on softer options such as pale pinks, delicate yellows or even gentle blues would work well too.
The more vibrant and bright hues are reserved for rooms where you want to increase energy or create a positive vibe in general. These colours are best used in a home office, or any other area that you want to feel ready to go.