7 Ways to Boost Work performance at Home
You can use neuroscience to develop spaces where you work to your full potential and, more probably, achieve the goals you set yourself (including those New Year Resolutions you may have set a while...
Well Wood do you know? We all need Wood
Salvador, after completing a literature review, reports that “A literary review based study revealed wooden materials in interiors and objects to have a positive psychological influence in humans, with a pacifying and relaxing effect.” Salvador. 2019. “Human...
Not the Same Old Oval Office
Most offices, even if they’re used by well-known people are unseen by most of us. Titans of industry and even many public officials spend their “office hours” working in places that only their professional...
What’s the most important design element in working from home?
Mental and physical work can take multiple forms. Mental work is doing the book keeping for your business or some other “knowledge-“ type work or maybe even thinking creatively to solve some sort of...
Want to think Creatively? 9 of the Best Quick Solutions
Research on spaces where people are more likely to think creatively is clear, these spaces share certain attributes. Home offices where people excel at creative thinking: Feature all sorts of different shades of green.Many...
Are you a Messy Bunny?
Visual clutter makes us very, very tense. It degrades both our mood and our mental performance and our ability to learn—it may even contribute to us eating in less healthy ways. If you have...
Ventilate!
Natural light has an almost magical effect on how we think and behave. Whenever you can incorporate it into your home, without glare, the psychological payoffs are worth the effort involved. In your house...
‘Tis the Season for Cosy
The space in this photograph is a fine place to spend some time. Nothing says “cosy winter afternoon” faster than a fireplace fire. Staring into those flames is, what’s known in the psych biz,...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall…
Seeing oneself in a mirror makes it more likely we’ll follow the rules that our society has set for us, so they’re good options for places such as entry areas where properly stowing boots...
Secret to eye contact
We tend to talk to people we can make eye contact with—and people raised in the West are generally very, very positive about eye contact. Arranging seats in a sitting room so that all...
Colour psychology applied in the home of TV’s Doc Martin
For many of us, there’s no better way to spend time with the television than watching Doc Martin. Martin and Louisa and James Henry live in a murky world of tired, grayed out colours,...
Stress levels reduced by lighter wood colours
Lighter coloured stains on wood may be better options than darker ones. Burnard and Kutnar tie an oak finish to lower stress levels in workplaces, but found that a walnut one didn’t have the...
Seating to stimulate conversation
We can sit in all sorts of angles to each other, from nose-to-noise to ear-to-ear. Fiorillo and associates determined that “Experiments in which participants were asked to talk to each other while sitting at...
Pantone Colour of the Year 2020 – Classic Blue
In 2020, Classic Blue was named colour of the year by Pantone Color Institute, a leading source of colour expertise, the Pantone Color Institute provides colour insights and solutions and announces a different colour every...
Create harmony in your home with colour
Using some colours together creates more harmonious or pleasing combinations than others.Among combinations that are more desirable are:The same or similar huesThe same or similar saturation levelsEach relatively light or differ only in lightnessLess...
Favourite Colours
Around the world, when people are asked what their favourite colour is they are more likely to say it is blue than any other colour. The colour that people are most likely to say...
Make a Space Seem to be at a Particular Temperature
Warm colours and cool colours are actually appropriately named, surprisingly enough. When we’re in a space where warm colours predominate, we feel a little warmer than the actual temperature, when we’re in a space...
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