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Seeking Balance in Your Home Decor
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 http://interior-decor.blogspot.com/2...ome-decor.html ) |
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"Meat Plow" wrote in message ... On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 12:30:19 -0700, trav wrote: SNIP So how do we create a feeling of balance without matched pairs of everything? You can use: Spam? And when you are through with it, you fry it and have it on bread with mustard. (My personal favorite for Spam.) What an outstanding solution! Oh, not THAT Spam ............. never mind............ Steve |
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...For many years, decorators and home owners tried to create this
physical balance by having pairs of everything... So in my living room, I should have spots next to my chair for two beers and two bottles of Jack? And in my front yard, I should have two discarded toilets rather than one? |
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