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Elements of Design Use the five elements of design to create your successful interior style
Line: Line creates movement. Whether straight or curvy, horizontal or vertical, line directs the eye towards the focal point of the room. A line also establishes rhythm and creates a room’s mood. Straight lines tend to feel strong and masculine while curved lines are natural and feminine. Too many lines can make a room feel busy while too few can make a room feel uninteresting. Remember that all the room’s elements may contain line (the architecture: doors, windows, columns, arches and the flooring), as well as decorative items such as fabric, wallpaper, furniture and accessories.
Color: Color creates mood and a sense of harmony within a room. Color always exerts an emotional response from us and is one of the most important design principles. Studies show that the color red invites our appetite (great for a kitchen), while the color blue depresses the appetite. This would be important for creating a home that you would entertain in.
Texture: Like color is a powerful mood setter. Strong rough textures such an s distressed woods, hammered steel, iron and denim fabrics create a casual, warm and masculine room. Soft, sleek and shiny textures are elegant, cool and feminine. If a room lacks color we can balance the lack of color in the room by creating visual interest with a variety of textures.
Mass: Mass is simply, the amount of space or visual weight an object appears to have. For example, an upholstered sofa or grand piano has a large amount of visual weight or mass, as a glass dining table of relatively the same physical dimensions but it does not have as much visual weight. Mass is an important element that creates balance, and harmony.
Form: Form refers to the actual shape of an element or item in the room. (such as the shape of the room’s walls, the doorways, a vase or a sofa). For example, if the walls are tall and slender then the best choice for furniture will also be tall and slender. The form of the furniture should echo the form of the room’s architectural elements.
Excerpt from “Eclectic Decorating: Lifewise”

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