Decorating Ones Home

Decorating One's Home || Essay

Good decoration reflects the personality of the people who live in the home. It should, first of all, be distinctive, just as each person is distinct. A home should have unity not only within each room but also throughout the house. Rooms should, to some degree, harmonies with each other. The color and styling of each room, particularly, should fit into the color and styling of the rooms which run out of it.

 

Attractive home furnishings set the stage for pleasant living. If they are an expression of yourself, you will have a feeling of satisfaction every time you enter your home, and friends will share your enjoyment.

However, furnishings and surroundings expressive of just the right note of restfulness, gay informality, or elegant simplicity are not often assembled by accident. Even enthusiasm alone is not enough. For most home decorators, it takes poring over plans, trying color schemes, finding ingenious ways to make the best of what you have, and shopping around to search out just the right purchases at prices you can afford to pay. But there is keen pleasure in striving for the perfect result, and great satisfaction in achieving it.

A successful house and successful rooms will depend upon the proper relationship of each element in it to the others and to the whole. Therefore, in selecting each piece, it is important to consider the background, the usage, the draperies, the floor covering, the upholstering materials, the woods used, shapes, color scheme, and the 'feeling' you prefer for the room.

 

Work and plan to enjoy life in your house. Limit the expenditures of time, effort and money to the extent of your abilities, so that just running the house doesn't dominate your life. Elegance and delicate things may be a drain you can afford only in a limited way. If you can't afford outside help, select a house and furnishings that require less care. Plan your activities so that tumult and upset are limited to a few rooms - an activity room or a bedroom, or a corner of the dining room.

You will get more pleasure out of a house if you have a hobby connected with it- collecting glass or antiques, gardening or indoor flower growing, ceramics, art, cooking, decorating, flower arrangement etc. And you will get more satisfaction and a great deal of help from studying household activities.

 

You can select a pleasing combination of colours from a wallpaper, a fabric, an oriental mug, a flower or scene, or even a picture in a magazine. If you don't already have the furniture or mugs, it is a good idea to make up a colour scheme in this way. Let one colour predominate. Limit a colour scheme to two or three colours, with white or gray tones.

 

These points will help you:

·       Always choose colors that please you personally- subtle, calm colors if you prefer a restful atmosphere, and intense colors if you like liveliness and cheer.

·       Don't be afraid of color. Experimenting on paper will give you confidence. But remember: larger batches of color are more intense. Try out various color combinations, then live with them - look at them frequently before you start buying.

·       Colors should harmonies with the furniture, draperies and carpets.