I have a dream!

Had to visit the doctor a couple of days ago and almost went numb with boredom just starring at those bleak beige hospital walls while waiting to be attended to.

Since i was old enough to appreciate colour, i don’t recall hospital walls being anything but beige – white, cream or anything you want to call it. Except for a handful who decided to change the look when it comes to our pint-sized friends, the rest are pretty much the same..Guess they must have thought like this, …’unhmm…lets do some more colour for these little folks so they don’t bore easy. Wherever did they get the idea that those walls don’t bore us either? Whose idea was this colour code anyway? Want to know what, I’ve had my fair share of hospital visits and I can clearly state that they are hardly anyplace anyone can ever be inspired in. I’m serious! those walls bore me stiff ‘cos they are so uninteresting. Period! lol

Well, from my understanding of what hospitals are about, i know that they are places that sick people go to to get better. I know you are saying..’what is she talkin’ about?!&%#blah, blah, blah’, but the truth is, if they were all entered in a challenge or something and were requested to make sick people better without jabbing ‘em or pumping ‘em full of their usual cocktail of drugs- different sizes, colours n stuff. Thinking about it now, i think it’s really funny that the tablets, capsules, caplets and syrup get to be a whole lot more interesting and colourful than the walls.

Anyway, back to the challenge, i think it would go on for days or months without end until someone comes to their rescue, that would be Voltron !ha!ha!

My point is this, with interior design making a lot of impact these days and everyone being blown away by the craze to design, redesign, and to re-redesign, i suggest we take a closer look at the present hospital colour codes; give ‘em bleak walls a colour-lift and body job as long as they ‘re not sworn to some funny sort of oath like ‘colour-bacy’ uhmmff…The truth is just that the sight of those beige walls just scream boring! boring! boring!They kind of sadden people and make them feel a lot worse than when they arrived.

I have a dream!…of hospital spaces showing off their orange, blue, pink,brown,yellow mocha walls or whatever colour. I’m not saying we should walk into hospitals and feel like we have just bumped into the set of Alice in Wonderland but that you get that ‘wow’ feeling as soon as you enter any hospital/clinic and feel better already….without the cocktail!

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