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Decorating Home Tips for Walls That FlowHome tips for decorating your walls has lots to do with your wall height. For walls 9 1/2 feet or less you want to give the illusion of height. Tops of windows should be raised through window treatments placed above your actual window. This will establish the decorating height of your room. When your decorating height is set you will continue decorating your walls using this as your starting point and working across the room. This is the horizontal technique for wall decorating. Your eye is forced to travel upward then continue to travel across the room at the same level. From curtain rod to top of amoire to top of picture to top of bookshelf to top of the next item and so forth and so on. Although this is usually used for short walls to lenthen them and draw attention across and down,but it can be very effective for tall walls that seem overbearing. By setting the height and moving horizontally across the room it keeps the eye from roaming up to the ceiling and its foreboding presence. It shortens your wall and tightens up your decorating, keeping it cozy.
More tips for interior wall flow and balance For tall walls that you want to emphasize or architectural detail like crown moulding that you would to draw attention to you want to make your eye "wander" the room from detail to detail verses "travel" the room. The home tip for wall decorating that achieves this response is the roller coaster technique for wall decorating. The roller coaster technique utilizes your wall decorating to draw your eye up then down and back up and then down and continues across your wall in this fashion. This forces the eye to be more active vertically and will be drawn to your moulding, ceiling height, amoire display, plant shelf and any other decorating accent that craves attention high out of reach. Creative Use of Molding can add to roller coaster technique
Which ever home tip for wall flow that works best for your home will dictate the decorating placement of additional wall items. The horizontal technique compliments simplicity and symmetical placement of pictures and wall hangings. Lining up items evenly equally spaced keeps your wall accessories from overwhelming shorter walls or a smaller space. The roller coaster technique can handle larger groupings of pictures and asymetical placements, and allow for large displays on top of shelves, amoires, and bookcases. This decorating method compliments large rooms so can handle the business of more action.
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