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Three Great Concepts for Remodeling a Master Bedroom


Since it?s one of the places people spend the most time, one of the most satisfying home makeovers is the main bedroom. Here are three ideas for creating a dynamic new main bedroom space:

Creating Dynamic Window Coverings Without Breaking the Budget


When creating dynamic window coverings, it?s important to choose carefully, because your window coverings will become the focal points of a well-decorated room. But choosing the right window treatments, at the right price, takes some thought about not only the look you're hoping to achieve, but also about the nature of the space itself.

Design Psychology: Beds and Emotional Well-Being


The bed represents the beginning and ending of life. In the past, people were conceived, born, and died in the same bed. You spend more time in your bed than on any other piece of furniture. Design Psychology offers new bedroom makeover ideas concerning your bed for supporting your emotional well-being.

Dining Rooms: Designing for Your Emotional Well-Being


I read an interior design book last night. Since I can't recommend it to you, I won't reveal the name. What I saw was a group of photographs asking the reader to choose her favorite dining room. After studying the rooms carefully, I decided that not one room presented good design for eating and conversing!

Seven Interior Design Psychology Ideas for Dining Pleasure


A separate dining room adds glamour, elegance, and excitement to a shared meal. Celebratory, sociable space, apart from the confusion of the kitchen, makes every dinner more meaningful.

Window Dressing from the Outside Looking In


Window coverings are important to the overall look and feel of a room, of course, but when designing window treatments, don't forget to take into consideration what your overall design will look like from the outside of your home.

Three Types of Lighting for Room Remodeling


When remodeling a room, choosing the correct lighting is one of the most important considerations. Proper lighting sets the atmosphere of the room, creates a particular mood, or provides accent to an architectural style. Lighting also accentuates the good aspects of a room or disguises a room?s shortcomings.

Home Remodeling: Colors and Temperature Perception


Colors contain underlying psychological meanings and evoke particular feelings when we see them. All of us have preconceived notions, learned from childhood memories and family customs concerning colors.

Choosing Color Schemes: Colors and Physiological Response


Because colors have tremendous emotional impact, understanding how color affects human beings can help you create a harmonious, joyful home. But studies have also shown that color elicits physiological responses, as well. For instance, the color red stimulates the body by raising the breathing rate, blood pressure, and heart rate, while light blue and dark green have the opposite effect.

Color Help: Color Theory and Design Psychology


Color theory is an entire science unto itself, and to get a full picture of how it all works, I'd suggest picking up a few art books. In this article, however, we're going to take a brief look at the essentials of color theory, in light of the concepts of Design Psychology. we'll first list a term, and then offer a short summary of how the term relates to Design Psychology.

Color Help: Choosing Color Combinations


Choosing a color scheme can be a nerve-wracking business. For instance, I anguished over the colors to paint the exterior of my Victorian house, I ordered every book on old house painting that I could find, and I discovered that they all contradicted each other on the basic ?rules.?

Color Help: Color Imagery for Happy Homes


Color researchers have estimated that up to 70% of our subconscious reactions to people and environments are based solely on our reactions to color. With that in mind, it?s important that you give special attention to the effects you want to create when choosing the color schemes for the interior spaces in your home.

An Interview with Design Psychology Expert Jeanette Fisher


Interview with Jeanette Fisher by Gary Anderson, of www.abciowa.com

The Secret to Your Home?s Interior Design


The secret to your home?s interior design is Love.

Creating Your Joyful Home: Dawning of Your Emotions


"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light."

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