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After months of search you finally find the home of your dream. The next step is therefore to write an offer. But it is not as easy as it sounds. Your offer is the first step toward negotiating a sales contract with the seller. Since this is just the beginning of negotiations, you should put yourself in the seller’s shoes and imagine his or her reaction to everything you include. Your goal is to get what you want, and imagining the seller’s reactions will help you attain that goal.Writing an offer is much more complicated than simply coming up with a price. Both the buyer and the seller want to build in protections and contingencies to protect their investment and limit their risk. In an offer, you include not only the price you are willing to pay, but other details of the purchase as well. This includes how you intend
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown fam
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Sound familiar? You’re not alone. It’s what I fondly call Designous Paralysis. Fortunately, there’s a cure.
Designing a room is much easier than you think once you understand the process. And that’s all it is — a creative process that even self-proclaimed non-creatives can execute with brilliant results.
You start the same way you would with a blank sheet of paper or canvas, because that is essentially what your home is — a blank canvas. The first step is to get in touch with your self.
1. Get in touch with your inner creative eye. Start paying attention to your surroundings. Become aware of what you see that visually stimulates you — textures, colors, light. Don’t limit your surroundings to the four walls around you. Study the clothes in your closet. Look outdoors. Notice what you like about other people’s style. Take note of what pages you pause on when thumbing through a magazine and take a moment to think about what caught your attention.
Also take note of what you don’t like. It’s just as important to understand what turns us off. Over time you’ll become more and more in tune with your environment and develop distinct opinions about color and texture.
2. Meet your color muse. Once you begin forming opinions, start looking for “inspiration” for your home. Inspiration can be found anywhere. It can be a photograph in a magazine, an Hermes scarf, a piece of furniture or art you already own, an autumn landscape, the color of your children’s eyes.
Don’t rush the process of finding your muse and don’t go looking for it. Let it find you. It will be something that “speaks” to you. You’ll be naturally drawn to it. More often than not, your inspiration will already have a color scheme that is the building block for your room.
Let’s use an Hermes scarf as an example. Hermes scarves are a rainbow of rich, luxurious colors — majestic blues, opulent golds, regal reds, deep purples and warm browns. As you take a closer look at the colors you’ll see groups and progressions of colors. The golds and browns share analogous (similar) qualities. Reds and blues are primary colors that, when combined, create purple.
Organizing a seemingly complex combination of colors gives you a color palette. In this case, brown, gold, red and blue. While at first you might not think these colors can harmoniously coexist, by backing into the palette through an inspiration piece you now know that they can work together. And better yet, your inspiration piece shows you how they work together.
3. Take inventory. Take inventory of the furniture you will use in your room, including pieces you will keep, relocate from another part of your home, or purchase. Will existing furniture and fixtures look exactly as they are or will you alter their appearance with new coverings, paint, lampshades and the like?
Take stock of your room and decide what you want your primary focal point to be. Is it a fireplace? The view outside your French doors? Your grandmother’s antique dining room table? Your platform bed? Your 12-foot ceilings with hand-carved moldings? The dramatic staircase in your foyer?
Is there anything in your room you want to downplay or draw attention away from? Most rooms will have detractors, such as an uninspiring view, poor lighting, a piece of furniture or flooring you cannot replace right now, outdated appliances, a small or oddly-shaped space. You get the idea.
4. Combine form and function. Finally the time has arrived where you begin applying your inspiration to your room, keeping in mind the demands of the room — room flow, lighting, assets and detractions.
But first let’s recap. You’ve taken the time to understand the colors and textures you’re drawn to — bright and bold, warm and soothing, rich and sophisticated, sleek and sophisticated, exotic — whatever works for you. You have a color palette, courtesy of your inspiration piece. You’ve assessed the demands of your room.
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown fami
The beginning of a new year, like the beginning of anything, brings with it thoughts of change, rejuvenation, new life, and resolutions about how to accomplish these changes. Life offers possibilities of a fresh start for our relationships. But we don't always carry through on our resolutions.There's a great difference between wanting to change and actually doing it. It's one thing to know how we want to be, quite another to be that person. An example most of us can relate to is the way we react to stress and conflict. In spite of our intentions to do otherwise, we often react to conflict in the same habitual ways. How many times have you walked away from a conflict saying: "I can't believe it. I did it again. That's not how I wanted to handle that!"? These habits seem hard-wired.Can we change our patte
Also take note of what you don’t like. It’s just as important to understand what turns us off. Over time you’ll become more and more in tune with your environment and develop distinct opinions about color and texture.
2. Meet your color muse. Once you begin forming opinions, start looking for “inspiration” for your home. Inspiration can be found anywhere. It can be a photograph in a magazine, an Hermes scarf, a piece of furniture or art you already own, an autumn landscape, the color of your children’s eyes.
Don’t rush the process of finding your muse and don’t go looking for it. Let it find you. It will be something that “speaks” to you. You’ll be naturally drawn to it. More often than not, your inspiration will already have a color scheme that is the building block for your room.
Let’s use an Hermes scarf as an example. Hermes scarves are a rainbow of rich, luxurious colors — majestic blues, opulent golds, regal reds, deep purples and warm browns. As you take a closer look at the colors you’ll see groups and progressions of colors. The golds and browns share analogous (similar) qualities. Reds and blues are primary colors that, when combined, create purple.
Organizing a seemingly complex combination of colors gives you a color palette. In this case, brown, gold, red and blue. While at first you might not think these colors can harmoniously coexist, by backing into the palette through an inspiration piece you now know that they can work together. And better yet, your inspiration piece shows you how they work together.
3. Take inventory. Take inventory of the furniture you will use in your room, including pieces you will keep, relocate from another part of your home, or purchase. Will existing furniture and fixtures look exactly as they are or will you alter their appearance with new coverings, paint, lampshades and the like?
Take stock of your room and decide what you want your primary focal point to be. Is it a fireplace? The view outside your French doors? Your grandmother’s antique dining room table? Your platform bed? Your 12-foot ceilings with hand-carved moldings? The dramatic staircase in your foyer?
Is there anything in your room you want to downplay or draw attention away from? Most rooms will have detractors, such as an uninspiring view, poor lighting, a piece of furniture or flooring you cannot replace right now, outdated appliances, a small or oddly-shaped space. You get the idea.
4. Combine form and function. Finally the time has arrived where you begin applying your inspiration to your room, keeping in mind the demands of the room — room flow, lighting, assets and detractions.
But first let’s recap. You’ve taken the time to understand the colors and textures you’re drawn to — bright and bold, warm and soothing, rich and sophisticated, sleek and sophisticated, exotic — whatever works for you. You have a color palette, courtesy of your inspiration piece. You’ve assessed the demands of your room.
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown fam
Can we always have good days? This is a question that most of us have at least pondered once in our lifetime... even if it is done subconsciously.The following is my opinion on this question. It is not definitive though . Just something for pondering.So...Can we always have good days? No, we can't.However, our 'sense of self' certainly wishes so. Our sense of self is like an additional layer of wants and dislikes that overlays on 'what is'. It is our personal reaction to the actuality of any situation.Let's take a look at astrology for an explanation to why it is impossible to have good times all the time.... In astrology, there are compatible as well as incompatible combinations. For instance Sextile placements is a compatible combination. Such aspect can be positive, optimistic, constructive and t
Organizing a seemingly complex combination of colors gives you a color palette. In this case, brown, gold, red and blue. While at first you might not think these colors can harmoniously coexist, by backing into the palette through an inspiration piece you now know that they can work together. And better yet, your inspiration piece shows you how they work together.
3. Take inventory. Take inventory of the furniture you will use in your room, including pieces you will keep, relocate from another part of your home, or purchase. Will existing furniture and fixtures look exactly as they are or will you alter their appearance with new coverings, paint, lampshades and the like?
Take stock of your room and decide what you want your primary focal point to be. Is it a fireplace? The view outside your French doors? Your grandmother’s antique dining room table? Your platform bed? Your 12-foot ceilings with hand-carved moldings? The dramatic staircase in your foyer?
Is there anything in your room you want to downplay or draw attention away from? Most rooms will have detractors, such as an uninspiring view, poor lighting, a piece of furniture or flooring you cannot replace right now, outdated appliances, a small or oddly-shaped space. You get the idea.
4. Combine form and function. Finally the time has arrived where you begin applying your inspiration to your room, keeping in mind the demands of the room — room flow, lighting, assets and detractions.
But first let’s recap. You’ve taken the time to understand the colors and textures you’re drawn to — bright and bold, warm and soothing, rich and sophisticated, sleek and sophisticated, exotic — whatever works for you. You have a color palette, courtesy of your inspiration piece. You’ve assessed the demands of your room.
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown fam
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Take stock of your room and decide what you want your primary focal point to be. Is it a fireplace? The view outside your French doors? Your grandmother’s antique dining room table? Your platform bed? Your 12-foot ceilings with hand-carved moldings? The dramatic staircase in your foyer?
Is there anything in your room you want to downplay or draw attention away from? Most rooms will have detractors, such as an uninspiring view, poor lighting, a piece of furniture or flooring you cannot replace right now, outdated appliances, a small or oddly-shaped space. You get the idea.
4. Combine form and function. Finally the time has arrived where you begin applying your inspiration to your room, keeping in mind the demands of the room — room flow, lighting, assets and detractions.
But first let’s recap. You’ve taken the time to understand the colors and textures you’re drawn to — bright and bold, warm and soothing, rich and sophisticated, sleek and sophisticated, exotic — whatever works for you. You have a color palette, courtesy of your inspiration piece. You’ve assessed the demands of your room.
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown fam
Want to get hooked up on a BIG Costa Rica Marlin?I am Captain Mark Corn of Southern Costa Rica Sport Fishing, located in Puerto Jiminez Costa Rica and Blue and Black Marlin fishing is our specialty and is also the species we target most of the time. There are a variety of reasons why most of our Costa Rica fishing trips are for marlin. Yes they can grow to tremendous sizes which is a major attraction by itself but sharks are big too and we usually won't target them. Our customers that fly down for exotic fishing vacations in Costa Rica seem to prefer marlin fishing too so that is one of the reasons so many of our trips target marlin. But for the crew and myself marlin fishing is our specialty because the marlin species, either Black or Blue is Costa Rica's ultimate fish and it's the world's ultimate sportfish too
Now let’s apply your color choices to your design needs keeping in mind that dramatic contrast or bold statements will create focal points, pulling the eye towards elements you want to stand out while diverting attention from your room’s less desirable assets.
Let’s say, for example, you want to showcase your living room’s natural stone fireplace and camouflage the poor condition of your hardwood floors. A dramatic color on the wall with your fireplace, such as a deep red, will create contrast and make it the focal point of the room.
The remaining walls may be painted a rich gold that can serve as a neutral. Since the red wall creates visual dominance, a substantial piece of furniture on the facing wall will balance the room. A red sofa would create color balance, as well.
A neutral area carpet in the gold or brown family will down play your floor. The balance of the room can then be accessorized with colors from your Hermes color palette. A variety of rich textures will add to the opulent feeling — silk patterned pillows, velvet accent furniture, an elegantly framed picture — and create a finished look in your room. You could even use your Hermes scarf in the room as a pillow, piece of framed artwork or element you drape over a lampshade.
Voila! You now have sophistication that wasn’t difficult to create and is a true expression of you.
Our example here created high drama, but keep in mind that you don’t have to make a strong statement to create visual interest. You can just as easily paint the entire room in a gold or brown that is darker or lighter than the fireplace and then use your rich jewel tones for color accents. The result is quietly sophisticated.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Not so difficult when you break down the process is it? Remember that designing your room, like building a clothing wardrobe, is not a perfect process. Your first attempt at any room will probably not be your end result.
Trial and error is a big part of the process. The creative process will keep Designous Paralysis at bay by giving you structure to rely on when something isn’t quite working. It allows you to take a few steps back, think about your choices, why they aren’t working, and gives you the opportunity to fine-tune your selections. It’s an exacting process for the inexact art of home d?cor.
In the end, your efforts will pay off. You’ll have a home that you are personally connected to. Ultimately, it’s what makes your house your home.
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