A rowboat sits alone on a placid pink lake.
A rowboat sits alone on a placid pink lake.

Pink is essentially a light red and is usually associated with love and romance. But believe it or not, researchers of color psychology have found that the colour can also have a calming effect on you.

In India, pink is a happy and hopeful colour, associated with Ganesha who has a pink elephant head. Pink gulal is tossed during the closing celebrations of his birth, also known as Ganesh Chaturthi. So if you would like a calm and comforting retreat in your home, why not paint it pink?