No More Drab ❌ Dopamine Decor Only 😎🍹🧊
RIP all neutrals ⚰️ hello patterns! hi wallpaper!! oh heyyy COLOR!!! 🎨🌈 PLUS boring drinks are out: 3 easy mocktail recipes to cool off your day 🧊🫧
🪦 Here Lies All Beige Neutrals
Your museum white walls are making the kids sad, or at least that’s the scuttlebutt at the water bottle refilling stations these days.
Our Ins this year include dopamine decor, and we hope it stays on our Ins list forever because the ✨vibes are immaculate!✨ Dopamine decor celebrates individuality, pattern and bright color, whereas the last few years we’ve seen a rise in neutrals..on neutrals…on more neutrals…our eyes have had a break and now they’re ready to be wow-ed. 🤩
🚪 Welcome Patterns, Wallpaper and Color
Where there used to be all eggshell walls, people are painting and adding wallpaper and texture and cute accessories–but it doesn’t look messy or overwhelming! Colorful decor offers something for everyone because it’s based on what you like.
So…you may be wondering how to get into dopamine decor?? First off–you’ll need a home budget because if you don’t have one it’s a scary rabbit hole (whether you’re a business or a person). After you’ve established that you can move on to finding the cutest things.. Like custom bar areas 🍸 or reflective disco decor 🪩; maybe you look for custom decals for your office walls!
Think niche-Etsy, think your weirdest, most-you Instagram ads; think one-of-a-kind. You’re looking for something that you like..and you’re buying it–without asking anyone else if they like it (exceptions for those who also live in the space)! When you’re decorating for you, you’re less likely to have the same apothecary table as the friend down the street. Remember: when you’re looking for niche things not everywhere and not everything will make the cut–but that’s okay. This is where it’s important to be picky!
If you make dopamine decor: utilize the hashtag when you post, make videos based on your silliest and most fun ideas, and most importantly show people with your product and using your.
That’s All Cool..But How Does it Affect My BuSiNesS?
Now…what does this trend mean for..well, everything else?? It means that things are about to get bright, patterned and custom! The Barbie Movie is a great example–things are getting more themed and campy as 2023 goes on. People are going to be looking for brighter colors, more pattern and texture, and even unique items, or insider scoops like this tour of the Barbie Dreamhouse Set. People are looking for uniqueness–but also transparency and quality. They want to know what you love, and why you love it, so they can maybe love it too!
Keep reading after our essential artists and mocktails for starter Dopamine Decor tips and how to incorporate dopamine decor into your brand and make your brand more…well, more your brand. ✨
An Essential List of Artists, Craftspeople and Designers To Follow (remember to look for your artists on whatever social media platform you use most and bookmark their websites so you can keep up with their work):
🎨 Victoria Rose Park [abstract paintings]
📸 claudiatimori [portraiture and other gorgeous photography]
🪴 Carmen Veltman of Studio Meloen [ceramics and prints]
🛋 Tay BeepBoop [DIY Dopamine Decor]
🧵 Nneka Jones [gorgeous sewn portraits]
🎨 Julie Catherine Hilboldt [still life and portraiture painting]
✏️ Aubii of Autumnal Wood [fun, retro illustrations]
🛋 Dani Klarić [unique interiors]
🖋 Diana Bama [gorgeous portrait and abstract tattoos]
🎨 Bianca DePaoli [abstract paintings]
📚 Super Wrong Magazine [thoughtfully curated art magazine]
🎨 Celine W [landscapes and other paintings]
🧵 Sienna Martz [thrifted textile art]
🍹3 Hot Girl Mocktail Recipes to cool down🍹
Mocktails used to be for teens at parties on TV, but they’re getting an adult makeover in 2023. A way to take your day up a notch without alcohol. A rise in sobriety or “California Sober” people have drastically upped the mocktail game. So here are a few of our favorites, but be sure to head over to our favorite visual search engine (TikTok) and check out the abundance of mocktail recipes (some even have amazing health benefits!). Here are a few easy mocktails for you to try on the hottest, laziest of days:
🍋 Basic B1tch-ade: 1 small lime + topo chico (or mineral water)
When you’re wanting to feel more hydrated try a little lime in your mineral (or flat) water. A limeade without the sugar!
🍒 Cherry Bomb: 1 small lime + topo chico + tart cherry juice + splash of lemon
Not only is tart cherry juice amazing for the body–it adds a little sweetness! Add it in to elevate your next hydrating mocktail on the rocks.
🍊 The Pool Void: orange juice + lemon juice + ginger ale/beer + mint leaves
Orange and lemon provide immune boosting qualities among many other things (like hellllooooo hydration and vitamin C boosts 🤩). Try adding in a bit of fresh ginger too, it can help reduce inflammation throughout your entire body.
Try these with a fresh salad or at a cookout and let us know how you like it! Which mocktails are you loving right now or are you still doing a classic cocktail?? 🍹
Veda-Vita-Dopamine: paid subscriber tips below on how to have a dopamine infused space and ways you can utilize dopamine decor for your brand!
Having decor that’s dopamine oriented in your space can be so encouraging, not only at home but in a studio, agency, brand experience or even your background on Zoom! Now–if you were sucked into the bland, beige trends of years past, don’t worry—we have a few tips to stay calm while updating your space…
🧰 USE RENTER FRIENDLY DECOR
Even if you’re not renting, using these temporary solutions can allow you to test your idea in a more flexible way–that way if you change your mind, your theme it’s no worries, man. 😎
🔎 DO YOUR RESEARCH
Use TikTok and YouTube to learn the best ways to accomplish what you want to create; Instagram to find the best unique items; and Threads to ask people where they’re shopping in your town! Look at accounts that can provide you inspiration so that you don’t have a blank slate! If it makes it easier you can even put together a pinterest board or physical board to see all your ideas together! 🦺
💵 STAY ON BUDGET
If you can’t stay on budget consider saving your money. If you just can’t wait DIY something in the meantime, with a small percentage of your budget! 💸
🏁 START SMALL
Your Desk: cute accessories, useful tools and organization hacks that will make you drool 🤤
Your Bookshelf: update your bookshelf with books you love and lil things that make you happy ✨🪩
Now you can officially go hard in the dopamine decor and create a space you’re truly happy in–and that you can happily create in. It’ll make a huge difference in your productivity and your motivation, and your mood when you’re home!
How can your brand utilize dopamine decor?
First off, ask yourself if dopamine decor is authentic to who your brand is–if it’s not and you want it to be consider reviewing your brand goals/guidelines/values and working with a brand expert so it aligns with where the brand is going. If it is authentic to your brand or you create dopamine decor start with these ideas:
⚒️ If you create things that make people happy: create your dream dopamine decor..odds are it will also be someone else’s dream dopamine decor!
🧱 If you host people in a space that will make people smile: Look at local stores, artist websites/shops/school shows, and DIY hacks so that you can create the coolest curation of pieces possible.
📸 If you’re mostly seen on Zoom but want the coolest background: You don’t need a lot, since the entire room won’t be seen. Be picky and choose the BEST dopamine decor for you–but make sure nothing looks too funky behind you on camera before your first call (you know the drill)!
🎨 If you’re a brand center around your brand colors: If you have fun brand colors, consider looking at how you’re using those in your space. Find some shelf decor, or plants, or other things that can give that color and dopamine feel without taking away from your meetings by buying things in your brand color scheme.
🖥 If you’re designing your website: Consider a website update if it’s been a couple years. You can incorporate fun things depending on your brand. If you’re a bank maybe that’s some fun colors, and if you’re an artist maybe that’s a custom cursor (remember those–let’s bring those back ✨).