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We can tackle an end to war in another article; here lets talk about how to make your home harmonious.

All around the world people seek harmony.  Dictionaries define harmony as “the arrangement of diverse elements in a way that exudes calm, contentment, and peace.” We can tackle an end to war in another article; here lets talk about how to make your home harmonious.  The simple secret to a harmonious home is found in color. The wildest jazz soloists use the same word, color, to describe the traits of a song that allow them to improvise together harmoniously. Color, for jazz musicians refers to mood and tension—just as it does with home decor.

Step 1:

In your home the various rooms of the house connect in terms of mood or they don’t.  If they do, then your house projects a more harmonious, connected feel as you walk from room to room. The mood, or color, of one room follows us for a few seconds after we leave it and enter another. Selecting colors that move well from one room to another, then, is a way to help promote flowing rather than jarring transitions.

Step 2:

Traditional floor plans have doors and hallways connect rooms.  Open floor plans have rooms flow into one another without boundaries.  Professional decorators - successful ones anyway - use their eye to see how the rooms of a house connect, and they use color to pull the floor plan together into a whole.

Step 3:

As you select color consider the following:

•    Our perception of color is highly subjective.  Personal and psychological traits unique to us as individuals shade how we react to colors.  Some people are drawn to deep dramatic tones or lots of contrast, while others may prefer light hues or a monochromatic scheme.

•    Making color choice even more difficult is personal taste. Some people want a metal palm tree on their wall, others a singing fish.  As a result, one may be drawn to a color that others find uninteresting since each our personal preferences obviously impact our choices.  Our color sense changes as we experience new things, and frequently we are not even conscious of our color preference. Select paint chips in your color range and get input from people whose opinion you value.

•    Physical facts also come to play in selecting the color for your home.  The way the color looks will be different from the way it looks at home.  Remember also that all the sample chips together in the rack change the way any one color looks to your eye; looking at one individual color will have a different effect.

•    You should also keep in mind that a color you see in a friend’s home won’t necessarily look the same way on your walls. Natural light conditions in the two homes may be quite different.  The colors and textures in your home may be different enough to alter the feel of the color when it is on your walls. Even the height of your ceilings may alter the way a color appears to you once it is home

It all sounds difficult, but it is not. A lot of thought, paint chips of a variety of shades of your color theme and maybe even some trial patches on the wall (those one quart cans are perfect) can all help you chose the colors that will make your house the peaceful, harmonious space we all think of as Home.
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This article was written by A Davis, a contributing author for Metal-Wall-Art.com - a unique metal wall art store featuring contemporary wall art, wall art metal and abstract metal art.
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