Color And Flow Give A Room Mood And Energy
The ancient Chinese art of interior decorating known as Feng Shui is a complex system based on mathematical formulas that takes a long time to learn. However, some of its basic principles can be adapted for any home decorating style or method to give a room a positive mood and energy. These two ideas are color and flow.
Colors can have strong effects on people and these effects can even differ from person to person. What’s more, different shades of colors can have radically different effects on people’s moods. For example, think of the area rugs in a living room or family room. Imagine first that room has formal silk oriental rugs in red and black. Then think of the room with polypropylene rugs in bright colors. What kinds of emotional impressions do you get from each scene? These are examples of how color, and in this case form as well, influence people’s moods.
Living room in soft color
Common concepts about colors say that dark colors are depressing; light colors uplifting and extreme colors aggravating. But what about people who find dark colors restful, while light colors annoy them and extreme colors exhilarate them? The best way to determine how certain colors affect you is merely to pay attention to how various colors make you feel, such as in people’s homes or workplaces. Make note of how you feel as you encounter these colors and their shades, especially if you have a particularly strong response to one.
Colors also affect how people relate to one another, so always pay close attention to how people interact in a room. For example, if people always seem to get into arguments in the dining room, take a closer look at the colors in that room. Studies have shown that bright or extreme colors can irritate people’s eyes and raise their metabolism, making them more aggressive. Color isn’t the only thing that influences personal interactions, but paying attention may point out its subtle influence.
Colorful cozy living room
Meanwhile, flow is one of the most basic concepts of Feng Shui, since the art’s ultimate goal is to maximize the flow of positive life force (“chi”) in a room. Few people are so sensitive to chi that they can detect a space’s essential energy. However, with a little practice many home decorators can improve a feeling of flow by noticing the way people and objects move through a space.
A room’s flow is in its essence. This means there should be easy access for people as they move around the room as well as enter and exit it. This kind of flow is a mixture of organization and design that focuses on removing blockages and allowing easy movement through every area. To find a room’s flow, walk into it and stop. Try to sense the tiny currents of air that run through every space. As you become more sensitive to the room’s subtleties, you should be able to sense greater and lesser air currents moving around the space, which will translate into areas of greater or lesser flow.
Finally, don’t be afraid to experiment with these basic principles of Feng Shui, and to be wrong sometimes. We always learn more from our mistakes than from our success. Feng Shui itself was originally based on trial and error, so it’s all right to make mistakes. Try to simply live with the space for a while, and after time, you’ll feel more confident in making changes that will correct your errors and enhance the living space. That after all, is the ultimate goal in Feng Shui.
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