Being a Libra, balance is very important to me. Too heavy furniture at one end of the room.... everything on one wall.... a heavy color at one end of the room.... these can throw a room off. If you have a room that should look good but for some reason something strikes you as being a little off... step back and see how everything balances.
One of my favorite Home Stagers in Hawaii, Janet Jones, has written an excellent post about Color Balance. She shows us with her Before and After photos and then explains how easy it was to put the balance back in the room.
Please head to Janet's post.
If you walk into any room or see a room in a photograph or magazine and it just doesn't feel right then generally something is out of balance. We feel comfortable in spaces that are balanced and we tend not to linger in ones that are not.
Balance encompasses many design elements, including furniture placement, scale, color and texture. Today I am just going to address color balance.
I find color balance so important because you can often overcome some other minor "out of balance" issues if you get the color balance correct. And it's really pretty simple.
The photograph of the room on the right is a master bedroom in a small condo. The room looks pretty good, but it's not going to make the cover of Architectural Digest. And, more importantly, it doesn't make me want to dive into that bed and stay for a while. Do you know why?
If you actually look at the photo for a few moments you may start to notice that the bed reminds you of a large marshmallow sort of adrift in the room. That's because the color is out of balance. The wall of espresso-colored cabinets dominates the room and their color "weight" is all on one side.
So how do you balance the color and anchor the marshmallow? I simply added a throw to the foot of the bed that is the same dark color as the built-ins and changed the accent pillows to also pick up this darker color. Voilà. Color Balance. Now your eye "walks" up the foot of the bed and the bed seems unified with the built ins. Wouldn't you would want to linger in this room a bit longer now, have breakfast in bed--maybe even make an offer on this property?
There are a myriad of little details like this that professional stagers and redesigners consider when either preparing your home for sale or redesigning a room. Whether it's to create a home that buyers fall in love with or redesigning your master bedroom so that you never want to leave it, call a professional in your area today.
Good evening, Kathy. Color balancing is so essential for a room to look good. Great before and after shots...