How to Decorate Home: Finding Meaning in Spaces
Home, like memory, not only constitutes the self but also provides its matrix. Home dressing is a stringing together of pieces which create holes: light pieces, colour pieces, even texture-pieces – that is identity pieces. Every room turns into a call to stay, to think and to recall. The following are tasteful measures that give your living space meaning and aesthetics.
Begin with What You Love
I believe a home’s core is the things that you decide to fill your house with. Start by choosing the items that to you in some way are dear and important. These could be family items, a painting that touches you, or even a simple vase. It should be a place where you feel like you are getting out of your own skin a little bit, but I guess the goal is to make it feel natural.
Use Light to Shape Mood
Illumination is not only an element of a room; it is the mood of a space. Natural light makes the ends of space relaxed to an extent that it seems to inhale. During the evenings, cooler and softer light could make a room seem more personal. Select lamps and bulbs where you select words to tell a story.
Photo Magnets: Memory on Display
Unbelievable as it may sound, often it is those details that make or make a whole thing. Something like a photo magnet is rather elementary and at the same time extremely close to the individual. They give parts of time – snapshots – into your daily existence. By putting these photo magnets on the refrigerator, the architecture of memory is created. You transform your home into a gallery of memories without any attempts towards doing so.
Colour as Expression
Colour is a language. The shades you wish to cover your house will dictate of your mood, of your tastes, of your history. Subtle and sombre colours, with no too bright contrasts, give the impression of the vastness of the space. Intensity, emotion and energy comes from bold shades. Each wall is painted a picture, each space a part of the story telling of your interior.
Combine Texture and Material
Texture makes a room look more real and more authentic. An expensive throw over a coarse wooden chair, a handmade rug under a glass coffee table opposites attract the senses. Similarly, placing contrasting materials, like glass, fabric, and wood all together provide a room with a depth. But it is not just about appearance, it is about texture as well.
Create Spaces for Reflection
A home should provide zones which a person can retire to. They may be a book corner near a window, a cosy corner with lots of cushions, these are havens. Here, time slows. Here you are encouraged to think, to learn, or to do nothing at all. These spaces are the periods, commas or colons in your home’s narrative.
Blend the Old with the New
To decorate is to build up: to add layer upon layer. One should combine retro with contemporary, antique with new. Prepossessing a worn-out chair pushes down the corridor of time, right across a contemporary minimalist table. That is where a home develops its personality, where the old resonates in unison with today.
Art as Personal History
The things which can be produced by an artist are not mere embellishments; they are the artist’s story. Select the piece of art that has a connective tissue with your own history, or at least some curiosity. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you must buy grotesque paintings – any picture that you enjoy – photographs, drawings, or prints that can evoke the emotions you want. Art makes a space unique and gives it purpose.
Incorporate Nature
The introduction of nature into a home establishes that home into a certain larger sphere. Such things as a floral pot near the door or on a table in the dining room, or even a small tree in an apartment can change the atmosphere of a room. These natural elements put into consideration growth, renewal and the world outside the building.
Use Mirrors to Expand Space
They bounce off light making a crowded area look big when it really isn’t. They also state moments of reflection literally and metaphorically by suspending players from their schools. In particular, this piece of furniture can help to diversify the appearance of a small room, using a mirror, you can expand the space visually. It therefore means that the consideration of mirrors should be done in its usefulness as well as in an artwork.
Declutter for Simplicity
It is possible to have a strength in plainness, or at least consequentiality. When furniture accumulations are toned down, the staying items get some air. Minimalism is not about removing all identity from your house: it is about creating the space you truly want for the stuff you really value. A clean, whose walls are painted with clarity, is beneficial because it provides a sight for the soul, the eyes as well as the mind.
Create Layers of Memory
A home grows with you just like a story does. Keep it flexible. Allow it to change as you do. Your home must be a story, a living story of events that occurred in sequence and memories painted over memories, paint over paint at every turn. Do not be afraid to change your space as frequently as you change your mind and interests.
Final Thoughts
Therefore, decorating is not all about achieving elegance but making your house look as natural as possible. If a story should sweep a person off his feet then a home should do the same, it should make a person recall who he is and where he has come from. Relating light, texture colour and memory; you become intimately acquainted with every inch of your space.
Achyut Acharya is a part-time blogger who writes articles for Frequently. His work covers a range of home style topics including: investments, DIY and life hacks ranging from the chic to shabby and rustic. Achyut writes ideas in the form of articles, when not writing for readers he can be found enhancing life. He is approachable for collaborations or feedback on his work.
