Sustainable Design Solutions: How to Use Color to Improve Your Well-Being
Reading time: about 3 minutes | Topic: Color, Design Finishes, Living Psychology
1. The Home Refuge: The Psychology of Color in November
November encourages us to spend more time indoors, but the gray sky shouldn't permeate our homes. The most immediate and effective solution to combat this visual monotony lies in the psychology of color, a design tool that influences our emotional well-being.
Industry studies confirm that warm hues, such as red and orange, are closely associated with energy, optimism, and sociability. Choosing an eco-friendly SoldiDesign furnishing accessory in these shades isn't just an aesthetic choice, but also a benefit for your well-being. It's about injecting a positive, focused stimulus, essential for counteracting the seasonal drop in mood and light.
2. Colors and finishes: not just aesthetics, but emotion
In interior design, color and finish are not mere decorative accessories, but the primary tools for defining the perceptual quality and atmosphere of a space. Color is the immediate language of space, with a profound importance rooted in environmental psychology and emotional design. As early as the 1940s, Johannes Itten's theory (of the Bauhaus) defined color as a carrier of meaning, and modern designers like Donald A. Norman (in his book Emotional Design) confirm that color influences our mood. In a gray season, the targeted introduction of designer furnishings in warm hues stimulates attention and optimism, creating a positive emotional anchor within the space.
But color isn't the only factor. The finish of a material, the way it feels to the touch and interacts with light, completes the sensory experience and defines the welcoming atmosphere. Architecture and design study finishes to understand how they interact with the environment: a material can absorb light, creating a sense of intimacy and calm, or it can reflect it, helping to make the space feel larger and more dynamic. The intentional combination of a powerful color and an appropriate finish is what creates true visual comfort. For a designer, it's not just about beauty, but about a work aimed at improving the lives of those who inhabit the space.
3. Our Protagonists: Functionality and Chromatic Impact
There's no need to repaint, just strategically place an iconic, colorful piece that also serves a vital function for keeping your home organized.
Sculptural Focus: Egg
The iconic Ovetto is our epitome of functional and luminous design. Choosing the lacquered Red or Orange version takes advantage of its glossy oval shape to create an energetic focal point. Place it against a neutral wall in your study or kitchen, and it will instantly become a sculptural element that energizes the space with its powerful color.
Vertical Focus: Infinity
The Infinity Rossa shoe rack is a furnishing accessory that conquers the space with character and vitality.
Energetic Contrast : Its bold red doesn't just fill a space, it enhances it, becoming a focal point that captures the eye and conveys energy. Infinity breaks the mold of the "functional" accessory and establishes itself as an authentic design element, capable of enriching any space with personality and visual warmth.
Vertical Efficiency : Take advantage of height with its spiral design, optimizing space and transforming clutter into a modern and functional visual dynamic. 
Buc (Character Laundry Basket)
Bathrooms and laundry rooms are often dominated by white surfaces and cool materials, which can appear even more bland in autumn. Buc is the perfect opportunity to liven up these spaces with a touch of personality.
By choosing from various shades to match your interior, Buc creates a pleasant contrast with neutral walls and tiles, breaking up the visual monotony typical of these spaces. Its color becomes a subtle decorative accent that transforms the perception of the space: more welcoming and contemporary. Furthermore, the clean design and functional lid combine aesthetics and practicality in a single, stylish statement. 
4. Your Strategic Positioning
To maximize the impact of these pieces, we recommend three placement rules:
1. Play with Harmony or Contrast: If your space features neutral tones, a colorful accent will create a striking contrast and add character to the space. If you love color, choose shades that harmonize or "respond" to each other, such as shades from the same color family or with the same visual intensity. The result will always be coherent and pleasing, without ever falling into overkill.
2. Take advantage of artificial lighting : Place pieces with a glossy finish near warm light sources (spotlights, table lamps). The interaction between artificial light and finish is key to the perception of autumnal brightness.
3. Find the Right Balance: Whether you choose bold or more subtle colors, the key is to maintain visual order. Two or three well-distributed color elements throughout the room are enough to create rhythm and harmony, allowing each piece to maintain its own expressive space.
5. Conclusion: The Informed Choice
Choosing SoldiDesign is a doubly positive decision: you invest in your emotional well-being with invigorating colors and you purchase an eco-designed product Made in Italy, crafted from recycled materials. A gift for your home that combines ethics, function, and visual delight.
We believe that the best design is that which improves your life and your environment.
Quote from Gianluca Soldi:
Furnishing your home doesn't mean blindly following trends or other people's ideas, nor simply creating a beautiful image to display; rather, it means creating an environment that generates quality of life and a beauty capable of nourishing the soul .
I would like to quote Leon Battista Alberti, an illustrious Florentine architect and humanist of the 15th century.
"We will call Beauty a sort of concord and harmony of all the parts in relation to any element, such that nothing can be added or taken away or changed except for the worse."
Gianluca Soldi
Interior architect and designer
Are you ready to defeat the gray?