Inviting Home https://www.invitinghome.com/ make your home an inviting home Wed, 11 Sep 2019 20:07:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://www.invitinghome.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ss2gr-100x100.jpg Inviting Home https://www.invitinghome.com/ 32 32 167952196 Open Up Your Room with Horizontal Mirrors https://www.invitinghome.com/open-up-your-room-with-horizontal-mirrors/ https://www.invitinghome.com/open-up-your-room-with-horizontal-mirrors/#comments Wed, 11 Sep 2019 18:39:28 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65795 The inclusion of mirrors in home decor has expanded dramatically from the traditional uses in bathrooms and as over-mantle mirrors. To be sure, these are still perfect locations for horizontal mirrors, but the sky’s the limit when it comes to using these decorative yet functional pieces to reflect your home’s beauty and style. You’ll often [...]

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The inclusion of mirrors in home decor has expanded dramatically from the traditional uses in bathrooms and as over-mantle mirrors. To be sure, these are still perfect locations for horizontal mirrors, but the sky’s the limit when it comes to using these decorative yet functional pieces to reflect your home’s beauty and style.

You’ll often find overmantle mirrors serving to anchor the decor of a living or family room since the sheer size of these horizontal mirrors makes a dramatic impact. Add to this the mirror’s decorative frame, and it’s no wonder that a horizontal mirror becomes the perfect artistic focal point over a fireplace. While many homeowners choose to grace the wall above their fireplace with the elegance of a large mirror, there are a wealth of other excellent uses for these pieces, as well.

In fact, you can use horizontal mirrors in just about any space where you have wall space and want to add light and a sense of open space. Since mirrors have a naturally reflective surface, you’ll find that they double the amount of light in the area where they hang, and they also transform a solid wall into the illusion of open space. Positioning horizontal mirrors opposite windows with scenic views, for example, serves to bring the feeling of the outdoors inside and makes the room look as if there are two openings to the out-of-doors.

You’ll also find that the reflective quality of horizontal mirrors can be put to good use in other ways. For example, if you have a horizontal mirror above a buffet or a dresser, the backside of anything placed in front of the mirror is readily visible. Picture a sparkling cut-crystal vase of flowers, or perhaps a beautiful piece of Native American pottery; how much more interesting are these objects when you can see them from all angles?

Horizontal and overmantle mirrors can be strategically placed to help to improve the lighting in interior spaces, as well. From a simple candle to a more ornate table or floor lamps, a source of light placed in front of a mirror is doubled, effectively bringing more light into an otherwise dark area.

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Transforming Entryway with Entrance Pediments https://www.invitinghome.com/transforming-entryway-with-entrance-pediments/ https://www.invitinghome.com/transforming-entryway-with-entrance-pediments/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 16:08:50 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65568 Your home may not be the Parthenon or another Ancient Greek temple, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t benefit from the classic look of entrance pediments. Easy to add to your home’s exterior, a pediment can make a huge impact on the overall look and welcoming feel of your home’s entryway. Entrance pediments have [...]

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Your home may not be the Parthenon or another Ancient Greek temple, but that doesn’t mean that it can’t benefit from the classic look of entrance pediments. Easy to add to your home’s exterior, a pediment can make a huge impact on the overall look and welcoming feel of your home’s entryway.

Entrance pediments have roots that date back many centuries to the times of the Ancient Greeks, who used these triangular architectural adornments at the top of structures, often above an entryway. These decorations have stood the test of time because you’ll find them nesting under gables and atop doorways and windows on all sorts of modern homes. While the Ancient Greek architects placed pediments atop columns, today’s entrance pediments are generally attached directly to an exterior wall surface or placed above plasters.

Since your front entryway is the first impression guests and visitors will form of your home, it makes good sense to give some thought to how you can create a welcoming feeling while expressing your sense of style. Adding an entrance pediment could hardly be simpler, and you’ll be happy to know that there are all sorts of styles and sizes of pediments from which you can choose. If elegant simplicity is your decorating style, then a streamlined pediment with minimal ornamentation provides just the right subtle emphasis to draw the eye to your welcoming front door. For more of a statement, entrance pediments with shapes at the peak or with decorative cutouts provide artistic interest and additional emphasis for your home’s entrance. Additionally, your entrance pediments can be supported by pilasters on the right and left of your entryway. You can paint your pediment in the same color as the exterior wall for just a hint of depth and interest, or you can choose to go bolder and use a contrasting trim color so that the pediment stands out.

Traditionally, you’ll find pediments used symmetrically when these decorative devices are applied in multiples. The Ancient Greeks valued clean lines and symmetry, so pediments were always used in a balanced fashion. In contemporary times, how entrance pediments are used has expanded, so it’s not unusual to see them offset to add additional visual interest to a home’s exterior. Whichever type of application you choose for your home, you’ll be impressed by how easily an entrance pediment can make a huge difference.

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Bedroom Lighting https://www.invitinghome.com/bedroom-lighting/ https://www.invitinghome.com/bedroom-lighting/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:51:09 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65559 Types of Bedroom Lighting Bedroom lighting requires the type of flexibility that is energizing in the morning and calming at night, with task lighting for reading or around the mirror. Recessed down lights mounted on the tray ceiling right above the bed, supplement a pair of table lamps for bedside reading, and indirect lighting on [...]

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Types of Bedroom Lighting

Bedroom lighting requires the type of flexibility that is energizing in the morning and calming at night, with task lighting for reading or around the mirror. Recessed down lights mounted on the tray ceiling right above the bed, supplement a pair of table lamps for bedside reading, and indirect lighting on the ceiling provides mood lighting. Many bedrooms and bedroom closets do not have any ceiling fixtures and must rely on lamps alone. One outlet is usually connected to the switch. So someone entering the room can immediately turn on a light. If this is the case in your bedroom, position enough lamps to light the room evenly.

Bedrooms need comfortable general lighting with appropriate task lights for reading, grooming, deskwork, and other activities. Direct lighting is also helpful in the bedroom when placed over chest of drawers, in closets, close to seating, and over beds. Dim circulation lighting for safety at night is a basic requirement. Accent lighting can be effectively used to focus on a painting or wall unit.

Natural light in the bedroom is always best, of course, but not all homes are blessed with sufficient sunlight. You can make artificial light in the bedroom dramatic and seductive but functional at the same time. Whether in their early twenties or late seventies, all buyers like a little atmosphere in the bedroom.

General Lighting

General lighting is somewhat less important in the bedroom than in other areas of the home. The most important rule is to make sure that whatever lighting fixture you have is clean, bright, and attractive. General lighting can be provided by chandeliers, flush-mount ceiling lights or recessed lighting.

Task Lighting

Reading or applying makeup requires specific lighting. There is a wide range of lighting options, including sconces (fixtures like swing-arm sconce can be placed at the head of the bed creating a beautiful bedroom wall decor, and can be adjusted for reading) or table lamps. If you buy lamps to market your bedroom, consider selecting only those fixtures that you can take with you when you sell your home. If you want a more permanent look, consider a wall-mounted track light. When installed with a dimmer, these lights can be tremendously versatile.

Accent Lighting

Mood or accent lighting can highlight objects in your bedroom and set the right tone. Create a dramatic effect by placing portable can lights on the floor behind furniture – like bureaus or the headboard on your bed. Lights placed behind large floor plants will also create an interesting atmosphere. This will, of course, only work if you are showing your home during the evening or the dark corners in one or more of your bedrooms. Make sure all cords are carefully hidden.

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Creating a Unique Home Decor https://www.invitinghome.com/creating-a-unique-home-decor/ https://www.invitinghome.com/creating-a-unique-home-decor/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 15:15:31 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65545 When you are in a room that is filled with love, no matter what function it serves, you are uplifted by the harmony and spirit of place. By surrounding yourself with things you love, you will create a home decor for endless pleasure and felling of well-been A room is like clothing. It has to [...]

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When you are in a room that is filled with love, no matter what function it serves, you are uplifted by the harmony and spirit of place. By surrounding yourself with things you love, you will create a home decor for endless pleasure and felling of well-been

A room is like clothing. It has to keep us warm and comfortable, but also how we use it says a lot about ourselves. Your home decor has to be comfortable and practical, but there has to be room for style as well. There is a fine line that makes the difference between an impersonal but high in style hotel room and a warm and welcoming stylish room of your own.

When we choose our clothes, we tend to use bits and pieces from several different fashion looks to suit our moods and express our individual preferences, and we do the same thing in our home decor with furniture, architectural elements, lighting fixtures, accessories, and color. Decorating style is not just a question of the overall look; it also depends on the quality of the home furnishings used in the room.

Successfully creating a sophisticated and harmonious home means finding the right balance between style and function, and between fashion and comfort. Decorating, like cooking, should open up the senses.

Let your room decor radiate your love of living. Regardless of the number of rooms, you want to experience the warmth and intimacy of your love in every room of your home, right down to the laundry room. Some of the greatest refinement in your home decor may be in your bedroom closet where the lines are lacquered smooth and the edges rounded and sensual, although no one ever spends time there but you. Room decor should begin with you and your family. You build from there, room by room, space by space, bringing refinement and harmony.

When you are in a room that is filled with love, no matter what function it serves, you are uplifted by the harmony and spirit of place. By surrounding yourself with things you love, you will create a home decor for endless pleasure and felling of well-been. Always remember that interesting people create interesting rooms. By expressing ourselves, we can break through the limitations imposed by place and circumstance. It is the expression of well-lived lives that creates beautiful spirit and charm in a home. Home decor style really comes down to what makes you feel good. Contour your home decor around yourself. Luxury and elegance can always be understated.

You can create your own reality. You can have a romantic country home even if you live in a noisy urban area. Your feelings about life, the places you’ve traveled to, and your favorite things, all give your home decor a personal signature. Inside the rooms were you live you are free to express yourself in unique ways. Let your dreams and fantasies about how you want your home to look and feel create the decor solution. Feel free to create at least one room in your home that is different from the others.

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Bedroom Closet https://www.invitinghome.com/bedroom-closet/ https://www.invitinghome.com/bedroom-closet/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:57:10 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65540 “Think of your bedroom closet as a secret treasure chest.” Remember, closets are small rooms, just as important as the rooms that are seen by guests. In Zen consciousness, small spaces are equal in significance to big spaces. What is seen and unseen are one. You experience your bedroom closet and storage every day, so [...]

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“Think of your bedroom closet as a secret treasure chest.”

Remember, closets are small rooms, just as important as the rooms that are seen by guests.

In Zen consciousness, small spaces are equal in significance to big spaces. What is seen and unseen are one. You experience your bedroom closet and storage every day, so why not put some flair into these areas? Bedroom closet need not be boring or unremarkable. Think of your bedroom closet as a secret treasure chest.

A considerable amount of closet space is one of the bedroom basics. The challenge is always to make your bedroom as beautiful as you can make it, and not have your storage needs impinge on the life-force and harmony of your master bedroom design.

Each individual has a different tolerance level for disorder, and the better your relationship with your bedroom closet and storage, the cozier your bedroom will feel. You can pretend that you are a boat builder and learn to utilize every nook and cranny of the space.

Private Haven in the Bedroom Closet

Bedrooms can become more heavenly when you maximize the use of your closet space, allowing for more “lightness of being”. Better to store as many clothes as possible in your closet than to have an extra chest of drawers taking up space and weighing down a room. If you have a shortage of built-in drawers in your bedroom closet, consider using hat boxes stacked in the closet to hold stockings, socks, and underwear.

Take advantage of the ceiling height and consider having two rows of hanging clothes, one on top of the other. You will probably need a pole notched to hook the hangers purchased at a house-wares store to retrieve the clothes hanging from the higher rod, but this minor inconvenience is well worth the extra space. Keep an attractive solid wooden footstool in every closet to reach the higher shelves, otherwise, you will risk bringing the entire contents down on your head when you only want to retrieve a sweater. If you keep your hanging items on one side of your closet, you can use the opposite wall for shelves and a series of drawers with a recessed space to grip them so there’s no need for protruding hardware.

You can turn your average-sized bedroom closet into a private haven. To achieve this feeling, you can install a mirror down one whole side and along a ledge. Mirrors always give an illusion of more space. By graduating the built-in drawers to allow the drawers you encounter as you first enter to be narrower than the drawers further in, they are not as bulky in the space. You can have a carpenter to build the units, but you can purchase them ready-made in different depths. You can install adjustable Lucite shelves inside each cubby so you will see more of what’s on the high shelves as well as to create a more open feeling.

While you may find shoe boxes ideal for other storage, it is more convenient to keep shoes in clear plastic boxes stacked in the closet so you can find them easily as you get dressed. Organize them by color so you don’t waste time searching for the appropriate pair. Men usually prefer simple open shelves for shoes. Shelves that project from the wall at a downward angle are too fussy.

If you have inadequate closet space, create your own. Some people use portable racks on wheels bought inexpensively at hardware stores. You can buy separate standing storage units, great for a kitchen or in a sitting room, to store a television or stereo. The practical everyday stuff of life in this small room makes it no longer just a storage closet, but also a warm and happy space.

Cleaning The Closet

How often have you wished you had more closet space in your bedroom? If you feel you are at the end of your rope with clutter, don’t jump to the conclusion that the only answer is additional space. Start by maximizing what you already have by weeding out any clothing and accessories you no longer need and donating them to your local Salvation Army or church. An uncluttered closet looks larger, and donated clothes provide welcome tax deductions. Have the courage to reorganize your bedroom closet from scratch. so it will be more accessible and suitable for your lifestyle and interests, increasing the pleasantness of your time at home.

When you clean out your bedroom closet before you rush to put everything back in a more orderly fashion, contemplate the newly emptied space. Don’t be discouraged by crumbling plaster, dirt, or sad beige walls. Until you confront chaos and what lies beyond, you won’t be able to ruthlessly edit what you store, and you will never have enough storage space. You will feel very liberated after confronting the closet in your bedroom.

After you clear the closet paint the walls brilliant white. Once the paint is dry, only the clothes that are worn or used at the current time should go in. To avoid throwing random items on the upper shelves, place as much as you can in a colorful hatbox. You will breathe more freely knowing the bedroom closet has gone on an effective diet.

Making The Most Out of the Bedroom Closet

Split-Level Closet Storage

Once your closet has been cleaned out, try grouping all long items of clothing-dresses, coats, and suits – on one side and all shirts and skirts on the other side. Beneath the shorter clothes, you may suddenly find enough space for a bureau or chest that was formerly sitting in the bedroom. This will give you added space in the bedroom. If you choose not to do this, use up the empty space by placing a second closet rod at a lower level. This will enable you to hang twice as many shirts, skirts, etc. There is a product called “trapeze bar” serves the same purpose but does not require wall installation. It attaches to the closet bar that is already in your closet and hangs down like a trapeze about a yard lower. you can take it with you if you move, and demonstrates creative ways to stretch limited closet space. Purchasing stackable wire bins for storing smaller objects is an alternative to moving a dresser into the closet, and it will increase the utility of the space. You should invest in these only.

What happens if you feel that your closet is being used as efficiently as possible but you still do not have enough bedroom storage space? Fear not. There are storage areas in your bedroom just waiting to be discovered.

Corner Closets

For every corner of the bedroom, you have another potential closet. By building an enclosure with a door in a corner, thereby forming a triangular storage area, you can convert unused space into an ideal place for shelves that hold linens or other stackable items. You can easily put up shelves along unused walls in your closet by installing the vinyl-coated wire systems available at many home-improvement stores. The beauty of the shelves is that you can take them with you when you sell the property.

Dressing Area in the Closet

If you have an especially large walk-in closet, you may be able to convert part of it into a small dressing area for putting on makeup and finishing touches. You might even have room for a small dressing table. Place a mirror above the area you have chosen and install some shelves alongside. By getting the most out of your closet, you can suggest how useful your bedroom truly is.

Bedroom Closet Doors

Take a good look at your closet doors and think of ways to upgrade them. This might simply mean replacing an old knob with one made of brass or porcelain. the most important element of a door-knob is how it feels in your hand. solid brass oval door-knob is one of the best designs for the bedroom because its shape is sensuous and inviting to grip and turn. There is a lot of appreciation for solid brass hardware. Knobs that look like rocks and cut-glass knobs are fussy and out of place. Even though twisted steel hardware and other more complicated designs abound, consider your house’s hardware as architecture and make it as classic as possible.

The most popular and very easy closet doors upgrade is with panel moldings. By creating a door panel you will add elegance and depth, giving your doors a substantial presence. You should be able to do this project yourself using lightweight shock-resilient panel molding. The installation of this molding is quick and easy and does not require nails.

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Mood Creating Aspects of Lighting

Skillful application of lighting can, more than any other element in the architectural environment, affect the experience of the viewer. Light is an element of design which should be used not only for visual comfort but also to achieve predetermined emotional responses from the lighted environment.Mood lighting is a useful tool to achieve the right level of visual comfort.

Through the use of lighting patterns of varying levels of illumination, and of color in the light source and the illuminated object, it is possible to produce certain moods such as solemnity, restfulness, gaiety, activity, warmth, and coolness. The lamps themselves can be used to dramatize elements of interior design-line, form, color, pattern, and texture.

Higher levels of lighting generally produce cheerful effects and stimulate people to alertness and activity, whereas lower levels tend to create an atmosphere of relaxation, intimacy, and restfulness.

Lighting also can be “soft” or “hard.” Soft lighting is diffused light that minimizes harsh shadows and provides a more relaxing and less visually compelling atmosphere. Too much diffused lighting lacks in interest and can make a room dull looking. Careful use of “hard” or direct lighting can provide highlights and shadows, model form, and emphasize texture. Usually, direct lighting is not used as a primary source of illumination, but rather as a supplement. The shine of metal, reflections of crystal, rich texture of other materials, create a sense of aliveness in an environment.

Creating an Atmosphere

Colored lighting can enhance an atmosphere. Certainly color lights are heavily used in stage sets to create moods. In a home, however, they should be applied with much restraint, and be much less intense or saturated. When overdone, colored lights destroy the appearance of materials and people’s coloring. A case in point: rosy-tinted lamps can flatter, but red lights wash out the redness of lips and cheeks and undo the flattering effect, as can be noted in some nightclubs.

To design a more solemn atmosphere, try using subdued patterns of light but do emphasize dramatic points in the room to avoid a monotonous effect. Use color sparingly.

To achieve a restful effect, use low brightness patterns, no visible light sources, subdued color, dark upper ceiling, low wall brightness. By way of contrast, to develop a sense of alertness and activity, employ high levels of illumination with lighting focused over specific tasks or areas.

For imparting a sense of warmth, use colors at the red end of the spectrum: pink, orange, amber, yellow. And for coolness, use colors at the cool end such as violet, blue, and green. Be aware that blue, blue-green and green detract from the human complexion and, when used indiscriminately, produce ghastly effects.

For a mood of gaiety, utilize higher levels of illumination, perhaps with kinetic lighting elements. Positioning lighting fixtures so that rhythms are created by light and shadow, reflections and diffusions, can impart an active dynamic effect to the atmosphere.

One cannot, when dealing with light and thinking about the mood effects of light, discount its relationship to color. Light and color are basic human needs. Both are necessary for sound mental health. Deprivation can be harmful.

Producing a Mood with Lighting

Light also is life-giving basic energy for any organic existence. And it affects the rhythmic processes of life; our biological clocks. Man has evolved to perform under eight hours of daylight and sixteen hours of incidental light and near-darkness.

So the room to which we retire, be it a bedroom or living room, should have built into the lamp designs lights that emit low levels of illumination. This produces a quiet mood. One extreme experience comes to mind. After leaving the clattering, noisy subway and passing through a doorway that leads directly from the subway to Rockefeller Center, one enters a black marble area where there is dim lighting.

The immediate effect is startling because people tend to suddenly lower their voices to a whisper after competing at shouting levels a moment before. This effect was designed into the environment through the mood created by light and color that induces a hushed, quiet atmosphere.

By way of contrast, to develop a celebrating mood, or a sunny, joyous mood, the sparkle of reflections from objects and bright lights helps to make light of an environment. On the other hand, for a romantic environment, one would employ low levels of lights, tinted on the warm side so that light flatters as it modulates our face and form, much like the feeling one gets when entering a candle lighted room.

The positioning of lights affects the modeling of forms. Side lighting intensifies modeling; front lighting flattens it. Light affects not only the surface and structure but the ambiance.

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The first place we think of placing a mirror is over the fireplace. In the late 18th century the invention of over-mantel mirrors launched a significant trend in the decoration of private mansions in Europe. Fireplace mantels were lowered and large horizontal mirrors, often in elaborate gold frames, were mounted above them. The facts are confirmed to us by the large mirrors over fireplace mantels at the end of the 17th century, but over-mantel mirrors became especially widespread during the Regency period.

Mirrors framed by gilded wood, richly carved in elaborate designs were placed above fireplace mantels. Candelabras and wall sconces often mounted on mirrored plates that refracted and multiplied light, decorative mirrors, and fireplace mantels. Overmantel mirrors became not just a fashionable trend but a testimony of good taste and luxury living.

Large horizontal mirrors placed over fireplace mantel became the most delicate invention, providing the most beautiful decorative effects in interior architecture. Mirrors top the list of “must-have” luxury home furnishings. Over-mantel mirrors were considered extraordinary embellishments and valued not solely for there size but mostly for there precious elaborately sculpted wooden gilded frames.

The mirror craze showed no sign of faltering. Instead, it grew as the century advanced. An architectural treatise written in the 18th century devotes more than ten pages to the indispensable rules governing the installation of the large mirrors. Color, purity, and regularity of over-mantel mirrors had to be checked while mirrors are being assembled, for “it would be ridiculous if a nymph who wanted to consult the charms of her beauty should meet, instead of a regular figure, a face that is squashed and crooked.” Such infatuation with overmantel mirrors incited an opinion that a home can not be pleasant without a fireplace mantel with a mirror over it.

The real estate listings in eightieth-century newspapers and magazines always mentioned over-mantel mirrors as an added attraction. The provinces were not yet familiar with the refinement of luxury that was the delight of large European cities, so advertisements were especially insistent. Within a few decades, the provinces followed the lead.

European aristocrats who frequently visited Versailles and other palaces had undoubtedly brought similar overmantel mirrors into their own surroundings. Ceremonial halls, great rooms, and bedrooms were almost always decorated with mirrors above the fireplace and between the windows.

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Psychological and Physiological Effects of Colors https://www.invitinghome.com/psychological-and-physiological-effects-of-colors/ https://www.invitinghome.com/psychological-and-physiological-effects-of-colors/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2019 02:00:35 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=65449 Understanding Color The great 19th-century writer and critic John Ruskin said, “Color is the most sacred element in all visual things.” Designers agree that color is the most vital and expressive of the elements of design. Of all the forms of non-verbal communication, color is the most instantaneous method of revealing messages and meanings. Color [...]

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Understanding Color

The great 19th-century writer and critic John Ruskin said, “Color is the most sacred element in all visual things.” Designers agree that color is the most vital and expressive of the elements of design.

Of all the forms of non-verbal communication, color is the most instantaneous method of revealing messages and meanings. Color stimulates and works synergistically with all of the senses, symbolizes abstract concepts and thoughts, express fantasy or wish fulfillment, recalls another time or place and produces an aesthetic or emotional response.

Feelings and Reactions to Color

Emotional reactions associated with color are spontaneous. The response, often due to the perception of color rather than to the color itself, may be positive or negative. The following section discusses typical feelings and reactions that may be created by colors; however, remember that clients may react differently to the same color.

Effects of Colors

Color creates powerful psychological and physiological (or physical) effects. Psychological effects are sensed in mind; physiological effects actually cause a change in the body. It is important to note that people may react differently to the same color, based on their previous experiences or learned behavior. Research studies have shown that:

  • Color affects an individual’s moods or feelings regarding a space. Light and cool colors seem to expand space: dark and warm colors seem to enclose space.
  • Color affects the eye’s perception of weight and size. Dark and bright colors seem heavier than light and cool colors. However, it is interesting that the opposite effect is true in fashion design. Dark colors tend to slim the figure, whereas light colors are usually thought to make one look heavier.
  • Color affects a person’s perception of temperature. Studies have indicated that body temperature actually fluctuates in response to various colors. For example, red, orange, and yellow can raise one’s temperature; cool colors have the opposite reaction.
  • Color can cause feelings of boredom and calmness, or stimulation and liveliness. Colors may cause the nervous system to become agitated, and the body reacts in negative ways to this stimulus.
  • Colors can affect one’s reaction to sounds, taste, odors, and time perception.
  • Colors can improve the rate of recovery of sick patients

COLOR RED – Exuberant and Versatile

Warm Group – Primary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: Courage, passion, love, excitement, danger, martyrdom, anger, fife, strength.

Application of red color is conspicuous wherever it appears, and because it is lively and stimulating, it should be used with care. Red mixes well, and most rooms are enhanced by a touch of one of its tones. A variety of popular colors are derived from red when it is lightened, darkened, brightened, or dulled. For example, when red is darkened and muted, it becomes maroon, and when it is lightened, it becomes pink. Pink, a delicate and flattering color, is often enhanced by a stronger contrasting color and blends exceptionally well with grays, browns, greens, blues, and purples.

Red has the most power, heat, and activity of all colors. It has the energy and aggression of a chagrining bull. Red comes forward to greet you. In interior decorating use red as punctuation, an occasional exclamation point, but never as dominant color in a room. For example, in interior decorating use red for pillows, napkins, or fabric trim. If you love red use it in your wardrobe rather than in your rooms – red coats, suits, dresses, scarves, rain slickers, shoos, and mittens. If you like red, you will find ways to use it, whether for the engraving on your stationery or the interior of your car.

Keep in mind the appropriateness of color for your purpose. If you have a room with no view, red curtains draw your eye back into the room. Too much red in a room can have the obtrusive effect of a police siren. But touches of red can ad a cheer and energy that only red can achieve. Every room should have some touches of red – perhaps a red candles, paintings, red leather books, a bowl of red apples, a red picture frame or red tulips, Chinese screen with red accents. The accent of red is hot, alive, and stimulating.

COLOR PINK – Feminine and Flattering

As a background, whisper-pale warm pink can add a flattering glow yet remain a space-enhancing neutral.

Deep shades of coral or rose can embody a tropical atmosphere or turn formal against vivid gilt and dark wood details. Clear, blued hot pinks and fuchsia might invigorate a more modern setting, relieved with plenty of white. Pink color extrudes a relaxed charm that easily blends with other colors and harmonizes various patterns and textures.

Like red, pink color is enhanced by juxtapositions with complimentary greens, as demonstrated by vibrant leafy rose chintzes. Paired with blue, a pink may seem sweeter, as the overall effect is cooled down.

YELLOW – Luminous and Lighthearted

Warm Group – Primary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: Cowardice, deceit, sunlight, optimism, warmth, enlightenment, and communication

High-noon yellows are the most revealing and demanding and merit careful attention. Gray-yellows of early dawn are foils for more fragile colors-pinks, blues, and pale greens. Warm afternoon yellow is a foil for rich, warm woods. The burnished yellows of brass give a cast of copper gilt and bring to a room. Gold provides an elegant and luxurious touch, especially for accent or accessories. All yellows are reflective, take on tones of other colors, and add flattering highlights.

Yellow is sunshine. It is a happy, cheerful color. Unlike red, it is appropriate in large quantities in the interior decorating. Yellow is a welcoming hue, ideal for an entrance hall because it brings sunshine into the house where there are few windows. In a north room, yellow gives the illusion of direct sunlight. Yellow has a compassionate, energizing effect, warming the heart, opening the senses.

Many people associate yellow with gold. Use gold only for gold-leaf picture frames, brass objects, and jewelry. Lemon peel yellow with white trim and a more subtle yellow ceiling, however, can be a heavenly beginning for the decoration of a beautiful room. But not everybody shares a love for yellow.

It’s essential continuously to be in touch with how each color relates to your personality as well as your body chemistry.

Don’t let anyone talk you into living with a color that doesn’t make you feel comfortable.

COLOR ORANGE – Earthy and Energetic

Warm Group – Secondary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: Cheerfulness, stimulation, sunset, excitement. When lightened and muted, the peach tone may appear cool or refreshing.

Between red and yellow runs a useful range of warm orange tones, from blazing bright hues to sweet melon and peach tints to darker autumnal shades and rugged terra cottas. Like red, orange color has stimulating properties but is not as demanding.

Peach tones enhance human skin tones. Peach also serves as a cross between a warm and cool color, partly due to the association with the fruit.

COLOR ORANGE – Earthy and Energetic
Warm Group – Secondary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: cheerfulness, stimulation, sunset, excitement. When lightened and muted, the peach tone may appear cool or refreshing.

Between red and yellow runs a useful range of warm orange tones, from blazing bright hues to sweet melon and peach tints to darker autumnal shades and rugged terra cottas. Like red, orange color has stimulating properties but is not as demanding.

Peach tones enhance human skin tones. Peach also serves as a cross between a warm and cool color, partly due to the association with the fruit.

COLOR GREEN – Natural and Revitalizing

Cool Group – Secondary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: Nature, serenity, hope, envy, safety, peace, passivity, security

Fresh and friendly, green is nature’s color and is a good mixer, especially yellow-green and spruce or forest green. White brings out green’s best qualities. When grayed, warmed, or cooled, green makes an excellent background. When lightened, it is retiring and restful. Green is particularly pleasing in food areas. Deep dark green is a favorite color for floor coverings.

Consider green a spiritual primary. It is essential to have something green in every space, even if only a potted ivy plant. Rooms yearn for green because it is a color of spring, freshness, new birth, renewal, and youth.

VIOLET – Regal and Individual

Warm Group – Primary Color

Psychological and Physiological Associations: Royalty, nobility, snobbery, power, drama, opulence, mystery, worship, dignity.

Naturally, a dark value, violet is a blend of blue and red. When pink is added, it becomes warm, and a touch of blue makes it cool. It combines well with both pink and a blue. A light value of violet produces lavender.

Other violet hues are plum, eggplant, and lilac. Often violet is used in small amounts as accents. It can be very dramatic or even disturbing when used on a large surface.

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Wall decor in your home should begin with you and your family and the ninety-five percent of your time spent without visitors. You build from there, wall by wall, room by room, bringing refinement and harmony through your use of architectural products.

The goal in architecture and interior design is to achieve a structure where the exterior and interior echo each other. Interior architecture should be at best a continuation of the exterior. When this marriage occurs, the integrity of the house will shine through.

Today, most private houses have a less rigid line drawn between public and private rooms. They are integrated into a seamless whole, reflecting the inhabitants throughout. You may live in an apartment with as few as one or two rooms, so the distinction between public and private space doesn’t exist. Regardless of the number of your rooms, you want your guests to experience the warmth and intimacy of your love in every space, right down to the laundry room. When you are in a space that houses love, no matter what function it serves, you are uplifted by the harmony and spirit of place.

Architectural wall decor, the blend of science and art, is needed even in the spaces no one sees but you. You don’t want to give your guests better treatment than you give yourself. Some of the greatest refinement in your house may be in your bedroom closet where the lines are lacquered smooth and the edges rounded and sensual, although no one ever spends time there but you.

Wall decor in your home should begin with you and your family and the ninety-five percent of your time spent without visitors. You build from there, wall by wall, room by room, bringing refinement and harmony through your use of architectural products.

To relieve the flatness of the wall, you can install a traditional chair-rail. The appropriate height depends on the room size and height of the ceiling, but on average, it should range thirty to forty inches from the floor. At this level, a molding is comforting and satisfying to the eye.

To serve its practical function of preventing the back of a chair from damaging a wall, it should never be higher than the chair. The traditional architecture includes a chair-rail in most rooms, with elaborate paneling installed beneath the molding to the baseboard. If you decide you want a chair-rail, select one that is compatible with the cornice molding in projection and design. Rather than purchasing expensive wood paneling, consider painting the chair-rail and space below it white and the space above the chair rail a tint to break the monotony. If you love striped wallpaper, the most elegant place to hang it is in the space above the chair rail in a room.

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Hours that Count https://www.invitinghome.com/hours-that-count-clocks/ https://www.invitinghome.com/hours-that-count-clocks/#respond Tue, 03 Sep 2019 22:10:46 +0000 https://www.invitinghome.com/?p=64952 Blink and it’s over… That’s how people often feel about their lives. In today’s fast world, many of us find keeping the pace harder than ever. This is probably one of the reasons why beautiful clocks are making a comeback as an important design element among collectors and laymen alike. Clocks have an enduring place [...]

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Blink and it’s over… That’s how people often feel about their lives. In today’s fast world, many of us find keeping the pace harder than ever. This is probably one of the reasons why beautiful clocks are making a comeback as an important design element among collectors and laymen alike.

Clocks have an enduring place in society. Humans have been inventing ways to measure time since the beginning of time. From the eclectic clocks that haunt the spaces in Grand Central Station to Big Ben of London, they are the measure by which we pace our lives. Now that same mystical and awe-inspiring experience of laying eyes on a landmark clock can be experienced every day when you add clocks and hourglasses to your home or office decor.

Putting a clock on display makes a statement. In a world full of electronic gadgets, classical favorites have been replaced with the latest fads. If you feel like time is slipping away, fear not, there are tons of fun clocks to help you get a grip on the days as they pass.

One of most masterful clock versions is the eye of the time clock. This design has dimension. Made of durable finishes such as antique brass or nickel, and featuring a concave, bulbous face, this style distinguishes itself in any room. A break from the traditional wall clock, this style is hooked onto a stand where it is securely placed with an every-so-slight swing. The style is fashioned after pocket watches, which were a staple in Victorian times. Made notable by the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, this icon can invite fun and fantasy into your life!

Stately and refined, the captain’s clock makes a strong impression. This look features a classic round-faced design and large dials. Talk about a truly timeless style. The disc-shaped clock is affixed inside a sturdy mahogany base which creates an eligible design for a wall clock or a mantel piece.

There aren’t enough grains of sand on all the beaches in the world to count how lovely sand clocks (also known as hourglasses) can look. Hourglasses are an elegant way to count down the time. Consider them a stopwatch of yester yore. They can be very useful for timing limits on board games or parlor games. The lost art of counting the moments with hourglasses is truly making a comeback as people fall in love once more with the charm of these gorgeous specimens. There is no better way to remind yourself that every second counts, than by watching each grain of sand slip through a gorgeously fluted hourglass.

The saying may go, Time is Money – but a beautiful clock is a priceless addition to your life!

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