How to create your own theme? How to know your liking & learning to live with it?
Clinching a theme can be very tricky, confusing rather. There can be many ideas flooding down into your brain or you may also go blank at some point of time. Many people loathe at the fact of thinking about their likings. Many do not know what they like or what amuses them the most, and therefore hire Home decorators, conduct surveys, consult people for their confused satisfaction. There is no specific rocket science to get to conclusions of what you like. Different psychologies, different likings. Few are calm, few are passionate, few are bright and crazy and could experiment wild — thereby giving nightmares to others. But yes, change is GOOD! Mistakes create wonders sometimes and it totally depends on how you are willing to accept them. The colour yellow may appear quite bold, warm, sassy, jazzy etc… and to a few it may be wild, breathtaking, a big no-no.
Some like collecting coins, stamps… sounds quite cliché, but a few prefer collecting plastic bags of different patterns, colors, textures or specific brands or nature postcards. In the end you would be living with it happily — which might bother others though. But that’s okay! It could be anything tangible or intangible, it could be visions of dreams which can be scripted!
To have a room of your own likings and preferences, draw, collect images of things that inspire you, keep articles, click pictures. Maintain a folder or a box to dump your collection and when you think you are quite handful with your satisfied perks, start segregating images or articles speaking out the same story.
Did we just speak of nature postcards???
This might interest you — leaves sound so typical but they are there in millions of varieties, changing from season to season, giving contrasts in palette. Autumn/Winter has maple leaves carrying exuberant warm palettes ranging from rust, mustard, peach, maroons, browns, oranges… whereas Spring/Summer has a cool palette: fresh budding lime greens to dark greens.
By this time you are completely in the stage of perceiving and visualizing 50% of your work. Considering the interiors of your homes, you would like to play accordingly to set all the coordinates to create the story and harmony and bring out that balance.
(Hint: it’s better to have light tones over walls so that the contrasting hue is really picked)
Apart from all the rust and yellows… you will have that sudden thought of adding a new color — maybe magenta or teal or cobalt…. GO FOR IT! FULFILL THE URGE THAT KEPT YOU STRIKING!
If you are at least 50% sure to go with it, create an “accent chair” or the “highlighting chair” to be more precise against that mustard wall — or throw a cushion, or place a carpet! Keep up that delightful passion of experimenting raging in you and play with it. If it’s a mistake, you will create a new story out of it. You will learn… if not, it’s a beautifully placed blunder… CHEERS!
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Article By: Arshiya Jabeen
Interior Design Consultant at Darpan Furnishings