3 Positive Impacts Of Art In Your Home Office | Art For Offices
Getting used to the new normal - can art for offices help?
In the midst of Covid-19, the working world is rapidly adapting to homes being used as offices in order to retain jobs and keep businesses afloat. We are all being forced to re-assess the value and validity of staff working from home. Having more employees than normal working remotely could become a genuine, long-term prospect for many companies. For people who have been working like this for a long time – freelancers, consultants, and the self-employed – the adjustment from using a home office occasionally to every day should be straightforward. People who have never worked from home before might not find this abrupt change so easy. If you’re lucky enough to have a spare bedroom to convert into an office, or an area of a hallway or landing that would provide a working area, then that’s great. Many will have to set up a temporary daytime work area in a kitchen or sitting room. Whatever your situation, you might be thinking about how to improve the look and feel of your home working scenario. At Artienda, we suggest using contemporary art and well chosen picture framing to create a better environment and unlock latent potential from your interior design. Read on for 3 very positive impacts that great looking artwork can have on a home office.
1. The Impact of Contemporary Art On Creativity | Art For Offices
The average person has roughly 60,000 thoughts per day and 90% of them are exactly the same day in, day out! Pondering something beautiful that is impossible to recreate provokes feelings and thoughts that are outside our typical mental patterns. By installing art for offices that is beautiful, engaging, and even challenging, into a work area at home, the user of the office space is likely to be subliminally encouraged to think about things differently. If a piece of art indirectly ushers in a new way of tackling an existing problem, then what a brilliant achievement that is. The new outcome wouldn’t have happened otherwise.
James Warwick’s fine art photography wildlife collection above is bursting with colour and would give a massive lift to a home work space. You could use uniform picture framing that is complementary to your interior design - e.g. reflective silver or white - or buy them in different sizes with varying frames to create a really cool montage. Check out more of James’ work here: Visit James Warwick’s Fine Art Photography Artist Page
2. Can Art For Offices Increase Positivity?
When all the endorphins released by a Joe Wicks TV workout have subsided, how can you keep those good vibes pumping for the rest of the day? Maintaining upbeat positivity when faced with a full day of work and zero face-to-face human contact is never easy. This is where contemporary art, colour, and art for offices can play a part. For a home office, we recommend vibrant colours as opposed to black and white images or monochrome artwork. Certain colours evoke positive emotions. Yellows and oranges for example are proven to release feelings of happiness, excitement, and enthusiasm. Look for artwork and contemporary art that embraces bursts of bright colour to help you maintain mental energy and positivity. The difference in productivity between a person who is positive and the same person on a negative day is huge. Bright, well-executed artwork with stylish picture framing can definitely help bridge the gap.
*NB. You can find out more about the emotional effects of colours here: Art Therapy Blog Article
A splash of colour in the contemporary art brings interest to this neutral interior.
This office looks lovely but would be SO much better with more colourful contemporary art.
3. For Your Eyes Only (not anymore!)
Working from home these days doesn’t mean you can slip on a set of lounge pants and a t-shirt at 1 minute before 9am and then beaver away at your desk all day in the immense comfort of a treasured set of mufti. Whether it’s Zoom, WhatsApp, or Skype, most work calls are now facilitated by video-conferencing so you have to look smart, at least from the waist up! Clients and colleagues all receive a video snapshot into the décor that provides the backdrop to your non-working life. Wow, the pressure! Rather than a blank white wall or a set of messy book shelves with a vase of dried flowers (favoured by many journalists at the moment it seems), why not put up an interesting piece of contemporary art with quality picture framing behind you and make your Zoom square stand out from the rest? We’re saying this slightly tongue-in-cheek! However, if a new business call is happening and you want the prospective client to be impressed, why not make your video backdrop as interesting and appealing as possible?
Use contemporary art to create an engaging backdrop for video calls
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When creating a daytime work area in a space usually used for something else, choose a section of your home that has good natural light. Make it even more inviting by introducing houseplants. Biophilic design shouldn’t be limited to office buildings. The theory behind it and massive benefits can be employed in a home office environment as well.
Houseplants can bring colour and vibrancy to a home office
Closing Comments | Art News | Art For Offices | Picture Framing
Dressing the walls of your home office or work area with artwork that you love gives both your creativity and positivity a big kiss on the lips. It also makes your clients and colleagues think more about you and what you’re saying. If you need help finding inspiring art for your home office that is framed really well, get in touch with us at Artienda for a chat about the kind of thing that might suit. We work with a fantastic list of talented artists who all create beautiful artwork in loads of different styles, formats, and genres. If you’d appreciate an informal conversation, let us know. We can even do a Zoom call! :-)
