Try A DIY Picture Frame Project To Bring The Dopamine Decor Trend Into Your Home

It's no secret that your environment plays a big role in your overall mental well-being and disposition. Maybe that's why dopamine decor is currently having a moment on social media. Its purpose is to make you feel good, brighten your mood, and add a boost of pep into your proverbial step. Following the trend can be as simple as spray painting a picture frame the colors of your choice. This DIY is a great way to repurpose any old picture frames you have lying around.

Adding elements of the TikTok-popular dopamine decor trend into your home will give you a natural dopamine hit every time you walk inside. The trend gives you permission to take risks you wouldn't ordinarily take with your design choices. It's about throwing caution to the wind and moving away from safe home decor colors, like whites, grays, and tans, and opting for joyous ones, like blues, pinks, greens, oranges, reds, and yellows. At its core, dopamine decor is about expressing yourself through the colors you pick, creating a sensory-rich environment. So, ensure that you choose colors you love and that match with the rest of your decorations. You don't necessarily need to go extremely bold and vibrant to try out this trick — just use shades that make you happy.

An affordable way to bring the dopamine decor trend into your home is to add a splash of your favorite colors to an ordinary picture frame. Frames are perfect for telling a story or evoking a great memory, making them the best place to start with this trend. You can either use some frames you already have or pick up a couple from the thrift store. Besides the frames, you'll also need paint in any colors that spark joy for you specifically. For isolating specific areas on your frame, acrylic paints work well, but for larger areas, general purpose spray paint works best. You can opt for one bright color or make it even more fun by creating a multi-colored frame with a range of different shades splattered throughout. You can also paint lines of white or black on top of the brighter tones to add dimension.

Once the frame is painted, if you feel like adding some extra oomph, consider including other embellishments like washi tape, stickers, stencils, or even twigs and dried flowers. Plus, a super cool way to bring your frames to life with dopamine feel-good colors is to use them to incorporate pop art in your home. Prints by pop art artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein make for the perfect dopamine decor art. After framing the art in your new DIY project, either hang it by itself on an empty wall or make it part of a full dopamine gallery wall.