Choosing the right color scheme for your bedroom – looking good vs. providing a good night’s sleep

Bedroom color choice is just a question of style, a matter that can be adhered accordingly to individual preferences… or is it?

A team of experts at Edinburgh Sleep Centre in Great Britain has conducted a thorough study on the subject. The research involved two thousand households and has led to quite surprising findings – unsuitable color theme of your bedroom can substantially shorten your sleep by 25%!

Research-based choice of a bedroom color theme

As far as science is concerned, blue has been proven most favorable. It can have a positive effect on our health, lowering blood pressure and pulse rate and therefore help obtaining a good night’s sleep. Blue surroundings usually mean approx. 7 hours 52 minutes of being soundly asleep. Following winners were:

1. bedrooms in yellow (7 hours 40 minutes),
2. green bedroom decor (7 hours 36 minutes),
3. silver bedroom design (7 hours 33 minutes).

It’s advised to best avoid brown, grey and - most of all – purple, which usually delivered no more than 5 hrs and 56 mins of sleep. You may ask - why is purple most favored by decorators as modern and highly elegant, but advised against by scientists? Purple’s quite effective in stimulating brain work, expanding imagination, addressing the subconscious and simultaneously making attaining a good night’s sleep more difficult. Most certainly sought out in workplace, but the opposite in bedroom.

The research also revealed some of more ‘spicy’ statistics – red, quite the contrary to popular belief, doesn’t benefit marriage life. Couples having their bedrooms in red décor were by one-third less eager to exercise in bedroom than others sleeping in rooms decorated in caramel.

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Bedroom decoration ideas

Have you made up your mind on following British scientists' guidelines or would you rather accept the challenge and set the record of world's longest sleep in a purple bedroom? Nevertheless, there's only good that come from choosing the right decorations. What surely will work perfect are scented candles, which will add up to glamour and romance in the air, as well as a furry carpet, making the room more comfy in order to create a friendly atmosphere. In single-colored bedroom basic white accents in decorative accessories are essential. On the other hand, you can make a fine move and re-decorate your single-color themed space with a colorful abstract painting - the result will be undoubtedly outstanding!

Bedroom is the interior that shall give just the right feeling of comfort to favor obtaining an increased amount of rest. Therefore, when choosing a color scheme for our room, it's relevant to pick one, delicate coloring that will sooth our senses. For us, that's a key to the perfect solution in re-doing your private space simply with a few statement decorative accessories: digital prints on canvas, hand-painted pictures or modern wall stickers.