Faith, Marriage, Motherhood, Homeschooling, Essential oils, Herbs, and Holistic Living
Faith, Marriage, Motherhood, Homeschooling, Essential oils, Herbs, and Holistic Living
Updated...4/3/2017 Before we added on to our home this room was the master bedroom. It had red walls, and I had intended to keep them. I thought that maybe the red would stimulate thinking. Although we grown-up's loved the look, I began to wonder after awhile if the deep primary red was doing my kiddo's favors. The room was cozy, but none of us really enjoyed doing school in there for long, it felt very stuffy and we tended to carry our work to other rooms. I also noticed the kids seemed to get rowdier when in there. Sure enough, after reading around half a dozen articles about the best colors to enhance learning (like this, and this) I realized my suspicions were correct. Red may be far too stimulating for the kids, particularly the older ones, and especially for my ADD eldest. So last weekend while my husband perused the aisles at Lowes, I continued researching the best colors to enhance learning. One of the websites I found said that blue enhances thinking for math and science. It went on to say that green enhances concentration for history, study in general, and a bunch of other stuff that I cannot remember any more :-P (obviously I wasn't surrounded in green, lol)! So, after much deliberation and a visit with my Aunt Pam (who happened to be visiting) I finally landed on a compromise of the two colors and chose a lighter blue/green (also known as teal)! :-D Best of all, I was able to create the colors with paints I already had on hand! I believe I made a good choice changing things. As I was painting my daughter walked into the room and her choice of words describing the new color confirmed everything. "Wow! It's so much quieter in here!" Although white isn't recommended by one of the articles I read I did chose to leave the back wall and window wall white. They are mostly covered with maps and the like, and I wanted the white to "bounce" light all around. It worked too, it's so much brighter in there now! Although I loved the red, all the extra light is very much so worth the trade off. One of the issues we have always had in our homeschool is not having the space for enough desks for everyone. This led to one issue after another over the years! We have had the new school room space for several months, and I finally asked John if he could build some custom, built in tables. One thing we have noticed so far is how much more spacious the room seems! Further research revealed that orange is another great color for concentration. So I chose a pale orange for the desk tops. Later I learned a bolder orange would have been better, so I am adding bolder orange color pops throughout the room! I love orange! I used the Color Wheel Calculator to help me hone in on the perfect shades! And of course pinterest, lol! So far we are loving the changes!
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Haley Scallon
11/17/2017 07:58:25 pm
Thanks for the fun ideas! I remember seeing when you 1st published some pix and I thought it looked beautiful! I came back as I'm finally setting up a dedicated schoolroom and needed some good ideas! Thanks for writing it all out!
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Shayla
11/18/2017 03:35:31 am
I'm so glad you found some ideas here, Haley! Thank you for letting me know!
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