The Science Behind Decorating

17 Aug 2022
By Deshal Shah

Design is more than a mere tool to have a beautiful house. It shapes your life and can also strengthen your relationships. It adds life to otherwise monotonous and mundane life. It makes you look forward to a new day and have an optimistic approach. It has a significant impact on our day-to-day life.

Designing your home décor is a very self-reflecting and challenging process. There are many elements that go into creating an experience of the space. Mainly, it is the physical and material qualities that contribute to its experiential qualities. We relate to the space through different ways, such as

Collage That Captures Different Senses

· The senses

Engaging all the senses in our home is the most obvious way of engaging with the space. The colors, patterns and lighting have an appeal to the eyes; candles and flowers for the smell; music and conversation appeals to the ears; food and beverages make it up for the taste; and the textures and space planning engages the sense of touch. A comfortable home décor has these elements that appeals and soothes all the senses. So, one of the primary reasons of decorating our homes is the sensory engagement.

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· Memory or imagination

Time is a tricky design element. Many a times, we want to freeze the space in a moment or predict it to be a certain way. Vintage environments with antiques which has its own deep-seated stories and memories has a beauty of its own. On the other hand, designing a new life in a certain way with its futuristic and modern applications can give you a sense of luxury. Ranging from the past to the future, there are many muses which contribute to making the home décor in a certain fashion.

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· Emotions or expectation

There are different mental approaches which leads us to decorating the spaces we inhabit. Décor doesn’t exist in vacuum, each piece of it carries a mental note. Many of us have memories that we will adore and cherish for our entire lifetime. Recreating those can make us arrange things in a very unique way. The souvenirs, the gifts and the photographs have emotions attached to it. Au contraire, there are many things that we expect from ourselves and try to reflect at it through our spaces. This ensures that after a certain change in life, the home would still be functional. Thus, one of the reasons of home décor is emotions or expectations

More than often, it is a combination of the above-mentioned approaches through which we relate to a given space.

Often, the world turns out to be chaotic and filled with relentless anxiety, and home can be a safe haven that keeps these confusions at bay. The design and execution of home décor, gives you a sense of belonging within the space. As a consequence, home décor plays an important part in making a nurturing home.