Decorating is important. The environment you live in affects who you are and how you think. If you live in a cluttered, unattractive, mess of a home, your mind will tend to be disorderly and unpredictable. However by creating spaces that are beautiful, and which inspire you each day, you can foster positive qualities in yourself subconsciously.Even if you’re lazy, there are a few very simple things you can do to vastly improve the look and feel of your home. None of these requires making drastic changes. Mostly you will be sitting and relaxing in various rooms, trying to feel how the nature of the space affects you, and trying to imagine ways to make it more beautiful to you personally.
The first trick is to find one piece of furniture that has a pattern that you really enjoy. The easiest piece to choose is a rug, but it can be a table, a sofa, or anything which is attractive and appeals to your personal tastes, and which has a variety of colors mixed in.
Then you take the various colors found in the pattern, and you fill the room with items that match those shades. You don’t have to go out on a shopping spree. Just bear those colors in mind when making purchases. The trick is that if the pattern is attractive, then it means the colors match. Therefore you can use this as a guide for the entire house. Its no thought color matching.
The simplest way to keep your home looking beautiful is to keep it organized. Clutter is by its very nature unattractive. Just maintaining a tidy atmosphere can go a long way towards helping to improve the nature of a space.
The lazy way to keep a room organized is to keep things simple. The fewer possessions you own, the less mess you have to deal with. What possessions you do own should be largely stored away in boxes, under the bed or in a closet. This allows the living space to remain clutter free, and easy to maintain.
It is better to have a simple, neat, tidy home, which is empty and devoid of character, than it is to have a messy disorganized and chaotic home, which is the result of decay and neglect.
Another trick is to use size to your advantage. It is much easier to select a few large pieces, than it is to pick and choose dozens of smaller pieces. There are certain necessities in the home. Aside from those, you can get away with having just a few focal point pieces that will give each room character. Size is of course relative, and any piece should be chosen to match the existing space comfortably, and not to overwhelm it.
After that, simple touches will go the furthest. You don’t have to worry about hunting elaborate works of art, inspiring sculptures, or exotic designs. A simple vase with a bouquet of fresh flowers can do wonders for the atmosphere of an entire room.
Simple, organic, beautiful, those are the qualities that will help you achieve an attractive home with the least amount of effort possible. Just keep things organized, and decorate with a few focal points and simple touches.
This article was written by Jim Slate on behalf of PebbleZ’s line of natural stone tables. These tables are hand crafted in the United States from real pieces of mountain born slate, limestone, marble, onyx, and travertine.




