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Using Design Psychology to Decorate Your Home
Design Psychology? Design Psychology exceeds "traditional" interior design practice by considering the effects of design elements on our five senses, as well as our emotions. Rather than decorating to impress or to follow a certain style, you can choose specific lighting, color, patterns, and other design elements to support your happiness and well-being. Design Psychology includes an understanding of both physiological and psychological effects of design elements. For instance, our pituitary gland releases tranquilizing hormones when we view sky blue. Knowledge of physiological effects of color can be applied to home decorating to make sure a room uplifts, calms, or energizes. Our physiological reaction to aspects of design leads to our psychological response. We all know that a trickling waterfall not only looks pretty, it relaxes those around us. But do you know that certain textures make you feel irritable, while others comfort? Or that undulating patterns uplift the spirit, while geometric patterns cause anxiety? With an understanding of design psychology you can choose elements of vision, hearing, touch, smell, and even taste, which bolster positive feelings and contribute to happy living. How Do You Get Your Home Decorated and Furnished Correctly the First Time? Using design details chosen to encourage joyful living is easy. First, learn about lighting -- the most important factor in residential design. Next, use colors appropriate to the natural setting, lighting, and desired emotional response. Then think about reactions to patterns already in the space and add harmonious patterns based on nature -- patterns proven to make people happy. Other design details in your home also come into play -- sounds, accessories, furnishings and arrangements for comfort. Once you understand the science of Design Psychology, you can follow your own inspiration and creatively employ design elements. Just as master artists study the physical body and anatomy, your background knowledge in Design Psychology prepares you with an underlying theory. The practice or application of design details in Design Psychology is the ART of Residential Design.
MORE RESOURCES: Interior Decorators, interior redesigners, real estate stagers, window treatment professionals and beginning entrepreneurs will descend upon the mountains in Phoenix, Arizona for the The Society of Decorating Professionals (The SDP) annual conference, August 6-8. Eco-friendly design, high contrast color and texture combinations, understated "whispering" luxury, and purest whites to the softest ivories -- these were four of the top 10 interior design trends predicted for 2008 by popular decorating site thedecoratingdiva.com. These lazy hazy days of summer will soon be over and college students will head back to campus. As students and parents prepare to head down college lane, Lowe's offers essentials for students living in dorms and apartments as well as commuters living at home. National retailer of designer fabrics and furnishings celebrates 60th Anniversary with a home makeover sweepstakes. MSI and Ronald McDonald House at Phoenix Children's Hospital Working together to provide a loving, safe environment for the families of sick children. PORT ST. JOE, Fla. & BIRMINGHAM, Ala.----MyHomeIdeas.com, a new home and garden portal from SPC Digital, the digital arm of Time Inc.'s lifestyle subsidiary Southern Progress Corporation, will give away a luxurious Idea House in a sweepstakes that will run from August 1 to September 30, 2008. DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Office Refurbishment Services - Portfolio Analysis" report to their offering. Vietnamese police have arrested five men who allegedly kidnapped an Australian businessman over a financial disagreement and then freed him a day and a half later after receiving a ransom payment from his family, a police official said Thursday. LOS ANGELES----Fox Reality Channel, the only all-reality, all-the-time cable and satellite network, has locked in the cast of the new original series, "Gimme My Reality Show!" announced Bob Boden, Senior Vice-President Programming, Production & Development, Fox Reality Channel. The number one interior decoration directory has gone independent and it's new name is The House Directory. |
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