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Do You Want To Create The Home of Your 'Wildest' Dreams?
By Kathy Baker
Just imagine a beautiful, restful and rejuvenating Home that you
just love being in ... One that you’re really ‘passionate’ about ... A
Home that reflects who you are, enriches your soul, and of those around
you, and anyone who comes to visit.
A Home that also uplifts you as you feel your way through the Home
Decorating process and the energy that you’re creating ...
The aim here at ‘Passionate For Life’- Home - is to give you lots
of Home Decorating ideas and tips to inspire you, to help you take a
first step, or a few further steps forward, or help you take a fresh
look, add a zesty new spark, or take a completely new direction.
The focus is all about helping you develop your 'eye', your Home
Decorating 'sense', or to help you develop it further, or even help you
reinvent your approach, if that's what you're looking for.
So, come on a journey with me and I'll show you how to create the 'Home
of Your ‘Wildest’ Dreams'.
Here's a ‘How To’ Checklist to help you get started on your Home
Decorating journey -
The aim is to develop your own style, your eye, your taste ... If you
don't think you’re clear just quite yet, or feel you haven’t developed
your own style, start by going about learning and looking around you ...
1. Look through home decorating magazines and books and see what
inspires you, the things you respond to, and resonate with you. Collect
ideas you like about color combinations, furniture and fabrics.
2. Go to the color swatch display area of your paint store or
hardware store and look through colors and color ranges, and note
what you gravitate towards and what pleases you the most.
3. What colors do you love?
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If you love pastel tones, then mix and match their
delicate palette hues in overlays of their wonderful soothing,
relaxing, merging colors.
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If you love earthy colors, surround yourself with
the earth tones and textures of nature, the autumnal colors, the
greens, olives, burnished browns, burnt gold, oranges and sunny
yellows.
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If you’re adventurous, use bold colors and
accessories – in reds, dark blues, greens, purples, browns and
blacks. Try the wonderful decorator color aubergine.
4. Think of textures you love – grainy, coarse,
robust, or smooth and velvety. Take note of these things about your
preferences.
5. Note what clothes you wear – they can be inspiration to your
Home Decorating. Your favorite clothes or accessories can be anchors or
features for your home decorating themes.
6. What are you ‘Passionate’ about? Home Decorating can be a
story of how your ‘passions’ transform your Home …
Surround yourself with the beautiful things you love. Honor your
Home by decorating it as a way to express who YOU are from your inner
core.
7. Your Collectibles can play a featuring role in your Home
Decorating, with great style and panache. It may be artifacts and
collectibles from your travels, seashells and coral you’ve collected, or
whatever takes your fancy ...
8. Your hobby or hobbies – do your hobbies lend themselves to
being expressed in your Home Decorating? As central talking pieces, or
blended into the environment. Whether you love art, music, sports, movie
memorabilia, cartoons, comic books, pets, and other things ...
9. Go and visit Home Decorating stores - even if you can't afford
to shop at the best stores, go there to see what it's all about. Don't
slavishly follow everything, but develop your sense of what looks good,
and most importantly, what you like.
10. Are there any Home Decorating styles that you like, or that
you tend to gravitate towards that can give you a general direction?
Perhaps it’s Contemporary or Modern, or Country or Rustic, or perhaps
Classical or Traditional, or Tuscan or Mediterranean, Mexican, or Asian,
or a combination of a number of styles? Which do you or would you feel
most comfortable with every day?
Now, I’m certainly not advocating that you slavishly follow a particular
style. Remember, the focus here is helping you develop your own
individual style and your intuitive knowingness and confidence about
what is YOU and what is right for YOU. This is about you and only you.
The focus here is on the importance of developing your own style – one
that really expresses who you are.
Now that may be based on one, or more, or a combination of the styles,
that is your choice. The most important thing is that it is YOU and
expresses who you are and your loves, ‘passions’, and creative
expression!
If you would like to go with one of the styles then do so. It’s your
choice. Research it. Plan it out. It’s what inspires you to move forward
that’s important here.
11. Avoid following the latest 'hottest' trends or fads – It’s
best to steer clear of predictions about what’s 'hot' or the next 'big
trend', unless you’re OK with finding yourself in the position of having
to change your home decorating every year or two, or as often as you
change your wardrobe.
Most importantly, the more your Home Decorating reflects who you are and
the things you love, the longer you will be happy with it for an
extended period of time, and the longer it will last and you'll get
greater mileage out of it and truly enjoy it.
Remember that the more understated and elegant the interior, the longer
it will last and stand the test of time.
Happy ‘Passionate’ Home Decorating!
Kathy Baker is a Success Coach, with a great ‘Passion’
for Home Decorating and creating beautiful energetic spaces.
She is also a Writer, Law of Attraction Practitioner, Marketer
(Intuitive Marketing with Integrity), and Information Product
Marketer/Internet Marketer.
She works with success and freedom seeking individuals and entrepreneurs
in helping them find ways to live the life of their 'wildest' dreams ...
www.home-decorating-ideas-for-you.com
www.allinteractivesolutions.com
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