The beauty of simplicity
Feb 03, 2006
SIMPLICITY is a highly-valued element in design and style. For example, when a room is fussily-decorated with all kinds of ornaments from naked porcelain, Greek wrestlers on the side table to little silver-framed pictures and floral wall patterns.
By Winifred Rukidi
SIMPLICITY is a highly-valued element in design and style. For example, when a room is fussily-decorated with all kinds of ornaments from naked porcelain, Greek wrestlers on the side table to little silver-framed pictures and floral wall patterns.
Other people also include heavy chandeliers, deep-coloured rugs, painted flower jugs and heavy wall hangings just to mention a few of the likely objects, the room becomes extremely busy that the eye fails to settle on anything. This turns off one’s mood and eventual resentfulness. Have you noticed how some extremely overdressed people enter a room and everyone goes quiet or looks away? This is because these people give off discomfort instead of welcome and comfort.
The same goes for home decoration. The design should be more of common sense. Balance the items you want to have in a room and be careful not to over-indulge in too many cultures. For example, it is tactless to have Oriental lamp shades unless you compliment them with some Chinese wall art on a red surface and probably a dash of a bamboo plant somewhere in a corner.
In the picture the outdoor is so simple, yet the many cushions (over-indulgence) are inviting and warm. The bushy background makes the room feel enclosed (note the rolled bamboo blind).
You can create your own outside room as an extension to a sitting room, dining room or any other room, provided there is a door to connect the rooms.
SIMPLICITY is a highly-valued element in design and style. For example, when a room is fussily-decorated with all kinds of ornaments from naked porcelain, Greek wrestlers on the side table to little silver-framed pictures and floral wall patterns.
Other people also include heavy chandeliers, deep-coloured rugs, painted flower jugs and heavy wall hangings just to mention a few of the likely objects, the room becomes extremely busy that the eye fails to settle on anything. This turns off one’s mood and eventual resentfulness. Have you noticed how some extremely overdressed people enter a room and everyone goes quiet or looks away? This is because these people give off discomfort instead of welcome and comfort.
The same goes for home decoration. The design should be more of common sense. Balance the items you want to have in a room and be careful not to over-indulge in too many cultures. For example, it is tactless to have Oriental lamp shades unless you compliment them with some Chinese wall art on a red surface and probably a dash of a bamboo plant somewhere in a corner.
In the picture the outdoor is so simple, yet the many cushions (over-indulgence) are inviting and warm. The bushy background makes the room feel enclosed (note the rolled bamboo blind).
You can create your own outside room as an extension to a sitting room, dining room or any other room, provided there is a door to connect the rooms.