How To Build Your Dopamine Decor Palace

This week’s Soft Stack is all about turning your home into a dopamine décor palace. From hamburger lamps to checkered rugs, I’m leaning into the candy-coloured chaos with zero excuses, just unapologetic, unserious fun.

🎨 White Stage, Colour Props:

This is just my approach, but I like a blank set scattered with colourful “props.” The white backdrop lets my ceramic vases, hamburger lamps, and rainbow book stacks do the talking.

🐠 Random is A Love Language:

The weirder the better: hamburger lamps, ceramic snails, a framed menu from a closed-down diner. Main rule: if it makes zero sense but makes you smile, it belongs in the furnishings.

🏁 Check M8:

Checkers used to make me scream “ick,” but now I want them everywhere: rugs, side tables, cushions, the lot. The clashier, the cuter.

💇‍♀️ Rotation Nation:

Okay, not so much a dopamine decor specific hack but once a month, reshuffle your objects like you’re curating a pop-up exhibition. Keeps things fresh without buying a new couch every time you get bored. (The latter has been my previous approach and it didn’t end well).

🏮 I Love Lamp:

The more impractical the better. Mushroom lamps, dolphin lamps, lamps shaped like food. Your electricity bill won’t thank you, but your serotonin will.

💭 Final Thought:

Dopamine décor is vain, vapid, and useless. Beyond my quick Google, there’s really no deep why here. But as Quentin Tarantino once said, “because it’s so much fun, Jan!”, so in full Tarantino mode, I’m leaning in with no excuse beyond wanting fun, tumbling into a candy-coloured abyss and not looking back (at least until the next trend comes along to steal my attention).