Whether you return to it after a long day or are simply locked down inside like the rest of us, your space should be invigorating, and a source of comfort. Nitin Gagneja highlights some key factors which play a major role in determining how you feel at your home

Without us even realising, the interior design of our home can essentially invigorate and affect our emotions since we are influenced by our surroundings. Numerous variables contribute to how comfortable we feel at home, a space everyone should be able to count on to be at their comfortable best.

Our brains are fascinating things. Our surroundings can greatly impact our feelings — specific lights can intensify our good or negative feelings, certain shades can cause us to feel energised or lacklustre, elements in our designs can make us feel more secure or significantly hungrier, and even textures in our living space influence our feelings.

I’m sure you’ve heard people say they dislike modern designs because they ‘feel cold’ or ‘feel sterile’, while to others the simplicity and straight lines are engaging because it ‘feels coordinated’ or ‘feels clean’. On the other hand, the adoration for traditional designs often comes from it ‘feeling warm’ or ‘feels good and welcoming’. We, as of now, have a verbal articulation of feelings when we talk about design styles, and people’s inclinations often depend on how those designs make them feel.

Here are some factors that can affect your mood and your energy:

How Lighting Affects Your Mood and Productivity

We all realise that bad lighting can cause eye damage particularly since many of us have to study or work from home now, but what more effects can poor lighting have? Believe it or not, poor lighting has been found to contribute to depression and Vitamin D deficiencies, while appropriate lighting is known to improve the state of mind and energy levels. Some surveys additionally show that lighting can impact appetite. Significantly, lighting is known to impact circadian rhythms. This implies that lighting can add to your alertness and awareness in the mornings, and it can either tempt you to feel tired or keep you up the entire night. As you would expect, bright lights are best for mornings and daytime, while dim lights are good for evenings. The opposite of these can cause a confounded circadian rhythm, messing with your sleep cycle which would make it hard to find energy for the next day.

Organisation & Space

Arranging and planning the design of your space by organising the elements in a certain way influences and reflects your mind-space. And it will affect people who choose to visit your residence. Appropriate interior design can make your space welcoming and open, manifesting a positive atmosphere. Picking furniture which is proportionate to the space is essential. Want your area to feel larger than it is? Add a huge mirror on the wall.

Organising furniture and utilising space will encourage your mood. Making dead space can uphold negative energy, like orchestrating most of the furniture against the wall. A proficient distribution of the elements in your household will expand your spirits, and interior designing can help you with this.

Comfortable & Stylish Furniture

While you may pick the trendiest furniture for your home, contemplate comfortability. When purchasing furniture, you should never compromise on the comfort factor. Aesthetics can be engineered as per your taste.

For instance, if you have a comfortable couch you love but you think it won’t remain in style, take a shot at dressing it up with a couple of throw cushions and a cover.

Effects of Colour

Do you know colour tones exert incredible power in our lives? While impressions of tones are too subjective, some tone effects are known to be constant. While colours can influence how we feel and act, their impact is dependent upon the individual, social, and situational factors.

Shading is an amazing communication apparatus and can be utilised to flag activity, impact mood and even influence physiological responses. Certain tones have been related to increased blood pressure, increased metabolism and eyestrain. So how precisely do colours function?

Warm tones: Red, orange and yellow are close to one another on the spectrum and all are warm tones. Warm tones inspire emotions of happiness, idealism and energy. Do bear in mind that yellow, red and orange can likewise have an eye-catching impact as they are used to signal risk or make you take action (think stop signs, peril alerts and obstruction tape). Red can expand an individual’s hunger and is used in the logos of many fast-food brands.

Cool tones: Cool tones include green, blue, and purple. Cool tones are typically quieting and relieving but can also express sadness. Purple is often used to help flash innovativeness as it’s a combination of blue (quiet) and red (serious). On the off chance that a company needs to show well-being, excellence or security, they fuse these tones.

Incorporate Greenery

Plants are a shockingly simple approach to change the feel of a room. Adding more houseplants to your home has numerous benefits. They are budget cordial, mood-boosting and air purifying. It’s noteworthy how a little plant life can light up indoor space. Indoor plants can likewise tidy up your air quality and upgrade your psychological prosperity.

Not all can have a nursery, or even a window ledge to grow plants on, but everybody can have one indoors. Most of these plants don’t need a lot of maintenance, permitting you to develop your internal green thumb.

(The author is a visualiser and the founder of a 3D architectural company based in New Delhi.)