Seeking Balance in Your Home Decor
In our homes, as in other parts of our lives, we are happier when we
live with balance and harmony. Just like the rest of our lives,
balance in the rooms of our homes is sometimes hard to create.

For many years, decorators and home owners tried to create this
physical balance by having pairs of everything: 2 matching end tables,
a matched pair of wing chairs, even sets of twin beds in the master
bedroom. This certainly created a balanced room. It also created rooms
that were sterile, formal and visually boring. In a formal setting or
a Federal or Georgian home, this is still the way things should be to
look 'right.' Our ancestors valued this perfect balance so highly that
they created false doors in hallways so that both sides matched or
doors that looked like windows so that the right and left sides of the
back of a house matched perfectly. This can still be seen if you go to
visit some of our historic homes. A notable example is the Hammond-
Harwood House in Annapolis, Md. We, however, tend to prefer a more
relaxed approach to our homes.

So how do we create a feeling of balance without matched pairs of
everything? You can use:
Color
Dark colors have more 'weight' than light colors. (continued at
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