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How
To De-stress
Your Home
Everybody needs their own special place to relax. For many, they choose a place
that is outdoors. Where do we go when we want to relax inside of our home?
Consider decorating
one aspect of your home, meant only to encourage and promote
relaxation. One of the best ways to do this is to bring the
outdoors in. What better way than to bring in natural, raw
elements, inspired by nature?
Design a Relaxing Room
Design one room
in your home that complements the outside of your house.
The design will flow more gracefully along with the outside
and the overall appearance of your home will be far more
harmonious and appealing.
Homes that are
enjoyed, primarily, in the summer months, often feature "solariums." These
are truly beautiful rooms, filled with plants and flowers,
and natural wood furniture that look light and airy. Wicker
furniture has been enjoyed for centuries and is still very
popular, today, along with cushion fabrics that have wide,
bold displays of floral patterns.
To earmark this
one room as your relaxation room, think about using all of
the natural
colors and hues from the great outdoors.
Begin in the Garden
Start by deciding
on a garden color to be dominant in your room design. A good
suggestion would be to start with the natural hues of pink,
salmon and similar pale colors. You can also swing for the
deeper and bolder colors of bright yellows, reds and oranges.
For
best effect, add tones of green. This will be a major part
of your interior palette; you just need to decide where
and how much of the green will be used. Your walls and
floors will be used as the background for everything else
you will design in your relaxation room. As you decide on
the feeling or mood of the room, think about these two large
areas to begin with. Your objective is to bring indoors the
feeling of an outdoor garden, so think about materials to
be found in nature.
Wood should immediately
come to mind and, if you already have hardwood floors under
your carpeting, let that be part of the design of your room.
The money you might spend on wall-to-wall carpeting can be
best used in another area of your home.
Next take a look
at the walls. Natural green will be the background color
for your indoor “garden,” so follow this same design and
use a soft pale green as your wall color. Choose a neutral
color of green and this way, a tone of almost every other
color will work with it nicely. Keep your ceiling a soft
white or ivory and then add white crown molding and baseboard
molding to frame your walls.
You will now have
a soft glow from your beautifully finished wood floor and
the neutral, soft green walls. You are now ready to choose
your furniture and fabrics. This is the fun part!
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