Mentally Decorating Your Home

Home decorating and organization is a kind of art form in which you take the beauty in your soul, and express it in the environment around you. As such, a successful decorating strategy will always begin with a mental plan, a personal vision for the space, which will give you the framework for the various details and choices you will make. Having this inner notion of how the space should turn out eventually, will guide you as you get into the nitty-gritty process of developing your home.

One thing that you should have straight in your mind is the function of various rooms throughout the house. It is relatively easy to determine the function of spaces such as the kitchen or bathroom, until you start to consider the specific details of life in that space. The kitchen is for cooking, but is it a place of personal creation, set up specifically for a single chef, or is it instead a place of communal cooking, where family and friends come together to collaborate on the creation of edible delicacies? The same goes for any room in the house, where obvious function can be obscured by specific desires. You will have to make decisions about how you want to use these spaces before you can develop a full decorating scheme.

Once you have an idea of function, you will probably want to find a theme for the home. This is nothing as obvious as having a circus party theme, or a star wars theme, glaringly gaudy throughout the space. Whatever you choose should instead be very subtle and restrained, just a vague idea that ties the home together. This can be a particular pattern, whose colors inspire the various tones used in the home. Or it can be a historical style, which will influence the various furnishings that you choose, and will provide a common framework for even the most disparate spaces.





One thing that should be clear is that the mental heuristics which you develop for your home should not be set in stone. They are not a map, but merely guidelines, giving you a common thought that will help to tie spaces together. This should serve not to constrain you, but should instead be like a crutch, which lets you lean on the plan, even while your mind is racing into new and wonderful decorating inspirations.

This article written by Joey Pebble, one of the decorating philosophers who is responsible for helping to develop http://PebbleZ.com ’s line of unique stone home decor products. PebbleZ is now home to the world’s largest collection of unique natural stone gifts and home accessories.

Mentally Decorating Your Home
By Joey Pebble