Framing
Your d�cor should exude your persona. Want it to appear spacious? Eliminate shadows with diffused, ambient lighting. Avoid ceiling lights which make the ceiling appear low. Your ceiling should always wear the lightest color in the room. Then the pastel shades on your wall would help create that feeling of largeness. Limit the use of patterns to accent pieces � the discerning eye should not stop as it travels across the room. And if you want a cozy pad, do just the opposite � use strong colors and heavy, soft textures. Draw attention to that precious grandfather clock with carefully directed light. And if you must, make up your bathroom � in exquisite black � and eliminate that permanently booked suite at New York�s Windsor Hotel � � la Andrew Carnegie!Today artificial plants are widely used as home decor items for their exceptional features as compared to that of the live plants and flowers. They have achieved a huge popularity because of their little maintenance, long life and real look. They don�t require any kind of watering, removal of dull leaves, adding of fertilizers, exposure to sunlight etc. to make look them fresh and beautiful. So if you are on tour or picnic you don�t need to worry about your plants and when you return they will be as fresh as they were you when left the home.After the frame is set, and the composition and concept complete, a painter decides on a palette with which to colour his or her painting. A good palette is usually minimal, featuring perhaps three colours that are then used and mixed to create an artwork with a dominant colour scheme, and therefore a strong character.In a more general way, the rule of golden thirds leads away from static, unimaginative, and rigid symmetry by forcing the artist - or decorator - away from the very middle part of the composition.Oh, and remember to have fun, be creative, and feel free to break some rules after you learn them!Depending upon the creativity artificial plants or flowers are something more to use, rather than keeping them only in vase. You can place them on the wall with some support. Also they can be hanged on the handrail of the staircases, bookshelves and windows. They are available in plenty of remarkable designs and colors and hence easily mix ups with your home decor theme.In order to apply this concept to home decorating, visualize all the planes (floor, walls, ceiling) of a room, and use your imagination to "draw" the golden thirds across them. Then, try to concentrate your decorations along these lines. For example, establish a line one-third of the way down your living room wall, and use it as guide as to how high to hang a set of paintings or other wall hangings; or, "draw" a line two-thirds of the way across your kitchen floor and place your kitchen table overtop of it. Usually, you'll want to use one or two big elements, such as furniture, in combination with golden thirds so as to utilize the lines without making them obvious.Use home decorating tips to your advantage!PaletteIn a home, think of each room as a distinct painting, and the boundaries of each room as its frame. When decorating, keep these frames in mind, and decorate within - as opposed to through - them. In other words, keep the elements of one room's d�cor clearly within that room. You may establish a theme for the entire house, or for one floor, or for one multi-room space, but do not blend rooms into each other. Keep each room clearly defined; keep each painting inside its frame. Make it clear where the kitchen ends, and where the living room begins.Although home decoration is a different art than painting, both are, indeed, still arts. Therefore, the methods, techniques and theories that have been perfected throughout history in painting can be quite easily adapted to fit decorating. As American music composer Lukas Foss said: "Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist." So, even when no one notices that your beautiful new dining room is based on "a van Gogh", they won't miss that it's still beautiful - and that's all that matters.
Oh, and remember to have fun, be creative, and feel free to break some rules after you learn them!
Author: Karen Rhodes
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