Spa COLOR

On our list of topics in Spa Fresh Magazine this month, one of the topics is Color Trends, particularly the trends of color used in Spas or any Spa environment.  With this in mind, I went to a local spa that I have went to for services for several years and realized that they slowly painted every square inch of the spa, brown.  Not really a gray-brown but more of a yellow-brown.  But they didn't stop with the walls.  Paintings, the bathroom, tables, chairs, flooring...even the wall decoration are the same type of brown. 

Now don't get me wrong...love brown (as you can see by the Body Systems theme colors) but I noticed the overuse of brown when I saw the brown chair sitting against the brown wall decorated with a brown piece of art. 

Remember Mom saying that too much of anything isn't healthy.  Wow was she right!

They did leave one massage room blue.  Why?  Don't know.  I do know that if I do get a massage in the blue room I finally feel relaxed.  Sort of like finding an oasis in a brown desert. 

Brown isn't the most relaxing color so it baffles me that this spa owner has decided to Brown-Out the Spa.  There isn't even a Creme or Ivory to break it up.  Makes the client feel at odds with the environment. 

There are some wonderful spas out there that have taken the 1-color approach but they did it right.  One color in various tones, and textures creates a wonderful mood if done in a base color that is relaxing to begin with such as blue, aqua, white or purple. 

So remember, when designing a spa environment think of natural textures, and colors.  You can do one color but think of the various forms or variations of that one color to create visual variations.