Many people know it’s possible to not provide enough of something. For instance, a meal without adequate seasoning can taste bland unless the natural ingredients are rich. Going out to your office job dressed in your pyjamas is probably going to raise a few eyebrows. A large room without decorations in it can lead to echoes, a cold atmosphere, and a stark aesthetic.
However, it’s also important to recognize that too much of something is not a good thing, either. Going to work with jewelry everywhere you can fit it, with no consideration for symmetry or making individual pieces stand out, might be a bad idea. Everyone knows you can add too much salt to a stew, and it’s impossible to remove it unless you increase the water or stock to match.
Just like this – a home can be overdesigned. These homes feel cluttered, tired, drab, and hard to think in. Anyone that has tried to work from home at a busy office desk will know this feeling. So – how can you avoid overdesigning your home with that in mind? In this post, we hope to explore that and more, together:
Keep The Furniture Suitable & Necessarily Sparse
It’s good to have slightly more furniture than you might need – for instance, slightly more seating places in your living room than you need can allow for guests, friends, and even a neighbor to join you where appropriate. Yet it’s also good to make sure the furniture is suitable to the decor, and if not going for a specific design aesthetic, to keep it simple. This allows the space to shine, and the furniture item to slow carefully in it, oriented properly, making the most of the room. With wood beds, and furniture items like it, you’ll see just how well integrated a furniture piece can be without ‘bulking up’ the room.
Keep Color Themes
Colors that work together and don’t clash are important, and you achieve that my keeping like or complimentary tones together, with ideally three different colors (a darker, a lighter and a neutral). For instance, a deeper navy, a pastel cyan, and an off-white can serve as a nice summer decoration scheme for a summer-based living room. This allows for comforting visual formatting, and colors that don’t impede the visual coherence of the space. Too much color can lead to contrast, which is known to make our brains visually process our environment more slowly. That’s hardly what you need when trying to relax.
A Little Free Space Helps
It’s good to have some free space in the home, as less is often more. A few empty cubbyholes in a large squared bookshelf, some space for candles on your mantlepiece instead of continual ornament placements, and storing your unused kitchen appliances, as nice as they are, can allow your surfaces to feel more open and inviting for cooking each day.
With this advice, you’re sure to avoid overdesigning your home in the healthiest possible manner going forward. You would be stunned at how much of a difference this can make.
