By Jane Meredith Adams, Natural Solutions magazine

The office didn’t have a color scheme per se. The walls and carpet featured a shade of dirty beige known as “I-have-no-hope,” the metal staircase was painted “dead-body” gray, and the dropped ceiling was done in “dingy-Styrofoam-flecked-with-debris” white. When I toiled in this grim warren after college, I didn’t know anything about the effect of color on mood. And while dirty beige probably can’t be held completely accountable for the mass depression that permeated the office, lately I’ve started to wonder: Was it a coincidence that while working in these dank, colorless surroundings my boss and his wife split up, three employees made a habit of drinking beer mid-afternoon at their desks, and I took to wearing a shapeless brown corduroy jumper?

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