Paint Colour considerations for

Hospitals
An hospital being an institutional environment also requires it to be a home for the
patients. Is important psychologically for these patients to be at home during their
treatments period hence a warmer and cool colour is advisable.

Colours ca be used to evoke emotions or moods.

-For patient rooms, Use soft natural tones and calm colours. Wood laminate, blue and
generally any colour that reduces the stress of being away from home and remove the
feeling of not being in the bedroom.

-For the office spaces for doctors, nurses and other employees, ambience of an office
setting must be created, colour such as off-white that reflects a serious and institutional
environment is not out of place.

Strong colour with brightly lit room is recommended except for the resting rooms if
available due to long hours of shift.

-For the operating rooms, the patient and the doctors will have to be considered. The
patient needs to feel relaxed, so red and and bright white is avoided while the doctors
concentrate on red blood during operation. So any other red in the theater is a distraction,
hence blue and green colour is mostly used.

-For children’s rooms, Children are always at home with bright colours, they elicit
excitements for children , this can raise the mood and also helps in healing process.
Juxtaposing of different hues can make such place very interesting for children except
for a jaundice patient where yellow should be avoided.

In a nutshell the use of colour psychology can help enhance the function of a space or
room.
So natural colours like blue, green, or brown are seen as calming and will signal the
designation of a room. While loud and flashy colours with lots of lights goes more for
institutional buildings which can affect patients with mental conditions.