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Magazine Decorating
By Joey Pebble When you flip through the pages of your favorite home and garden magazine you will be treated to a delightful array of images depicting beautiful, creative, and inspiringly decorated homes. These pictures depict environments which have been expertly balanced, planned, coordinated, and executed. Rather than feeling envious about the beauty and perfection of the homes you see, you should actually be learning from these images. Within the pages of those magazines are contained the fruit of a thousand hours of artistic labor. Each picture contains a thousand details, as well as a thousand lessons for how to recreate those effects in your own environment. Color sense is one of the best things that you can learn from decorating publications. Each picture they show of a beautifully coordinated room is like a template, showing you exactly how to blend various colors together to create a particular effect. On the very shallow end of things, they have done all of the work, and all you really have to do is copy the colors and proportions found in any of those pictures to achieve the same perfect effect yourself. Looking deeper however you can actually start to learn the basic underlying principles that the decorators used to create those effects in those spaces. By paying attention to pattern, contrast, and tone you can break apart the fundamental tools in the decorator's tool box. Another interesting decorating aspect that these magazines can teach you is about style. Style in this case refers to the specific design of the furnishings in the space. This design is often based on a certain period of time and space, such as the English Victorian period, and will feature items which are crafted to replicate the popular designs of that day. One way to bring the experience of the magazine into your home is to clip pictures of the various features that you like and arrange them on a cardboard or poster board backing. Try mixing and matching colors, and patterns, and seeing the kind of effect that these combinations have on one another. You can then take these clippings to various points in your actual home, and see how the different colors look in the physical space. This can later lead to creating boards painted with sample cans of color from the hardware store, which will then let you really get an idea of how those colors will look within a given room. Magazines are more than just booklets filled with pretty pictures; they are actually useful learning aids that can help to teach you about the fundamental aspects of decorating a space. Rather than being envious of the beauty that you see, you should strive to learn from the artistic designs of the decorators, so that you can bring those lessons into your own life. Joey Pebble is an artist and design philosopher, who also runs a store where you can find a unique line up of natural stone home decor products. This line includes original Joey Pebble designs, as well as a variety of gemstone, marble, alabaster, and slate products from around the world.
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