Make Home Decorating a Totally
‘Multi Sensory’ Experience - Using Your
‘Physical’ and ‘Intuitive’
Senses
By Kathy Baker
Home Decorating is not only about designing and arranging
your home - it’s also about inspiring your mind, creativity and 'physical' experience
of your surroundings. And beyond that, it’s
also about nurturing your ‘inner’ self, your soul and involving your ‘intuitive’ capabilities.
Designing and decorating your Home can be a totally wonderful experience using and
stimulating your 5 ‘physical’ senses – the sense of sight (pleasing to the eye), touch
(tactile experience), sound (to
soothe and/or awaken your soul), scent
(sets a mood and recalls or creates great memories), and taste (to excite the taste buds).
In addition, as our consciousness has shifted over recent years beyond just our
5 physical senses to a ‘multi sensory’ approach
incorporating our ‘intuitive’ and
spiritual sensitivities and gifts, you can bring those into full play in your
decorating.
Home Decorating is all about waking
up, arousing and enlivening your senses. It’s all about invigorating and liberating
your creativity, the expression of the essential you. The things that you respond to ‘intuitively’ and resonate with from your special and unique soul –
your likes, preferences for color, texture, style, other favorite things you
gravitate towards, and even your quirks.
So, let’s
take each of the 5 ‘physical’ senses in turn, and integrate a liberal dose of
the ‘intuitive’ senses also with each -
Sight -
The sense of sight comes alive in the interiors of your Home - from the visual
experience that beckons as soon as you approach and open the front door and
walk inside. Your Home Decorating experience
should represent, celebrate and magnify your values and what is important to
you.
When people enter
your Home they should get an immediate sense of who you are, your energy, and
your personality by the sight, ‘feel’ and ambience of your home, or the particular
room they’ve just entered. So, display
‘you’ and the things you love liberally. Show people the beautiful story of the life lived in your
home.
With our increased
emphasis on seamless transitions between indoor and outdoor areas, you can
creatively bring the outside in with your Home Decorating.
A dining room
that overlooks a lovely lush garden or outdoor room space can be painted in a vibrant
teal green or pale apple green to represent and accentuate the surrounding
garden colors.
Pick an
accent color from the garden that takes your fancy or you’re intuitively drawn
to - yellow, peach, pink, red, crimson, blue, purple or lavender - and reflect that
and carry it into your accessories.
Add a large mirror on one wall to reflect the interior and exterior
surroundings, and magnify the abundance of a room dedicated to eating,
companionship and sharing.
A family room can be painted a barely pale touch of yellow through to a brighter
sunny yellow to represent and reflect the sunshine streaming in, ensuring that
it’s always a welcoming and happy room to which everyone gravitates and loves spending
time relaxing. Or take it up a notch and
try a warm butterscotch or apricot - superb!
Touch -
The softness and smoothness of silk cushions, contrasted with the texture of robust
weave cushions, or a woven throw rug with fringe on your favorite velvety-soft
sofa is a very pleasurable ‘tactile’ experience.
Sound -
The sound of your Home reflects it’s character and every day familiarity
and comfort - it’s own little micro world.
The sounds of regular visiting birds chirping, squawking, screeching, tumbling,
pecking into the soil and mulch for their tasty meal, dogs barking in the
distance, children playing, the occasional faint sound of a neighbor or
passerby. These are the sounds of your Home environment...
I love to listen to the mesmerizing, enchanting and soothing sound of trickling
water from the water fountain in my pond.
And the sound of wind chimes reflecting and working in concert with the
prevailing breeze or responding to wind changes as if to an orchestra
conductor’s dramatic crescendo...
Favorite music as a backdrop can either relax or enliven, depending on your
choice of style. Desiring to listen to
music can be the sign of an awakening soul.
Open up your
window space and welcome the outside surrounds into your home …
Scent -
The aroma in your home can really set the mood.
Nothing is more memorable than a favorite scent. Fresh flowers, scented candles, burning
essential oils are all very evocative and effective, and nothing more enticing than
the heavenly wafting aroma of freshly
baking bread, or vanilla or cinnamon flavored cake baking in the oven, or
coffee brewing.
A simple bowl
of lemons, or oranges, with their citrus-y scent is not only cleansing, but also
a wonderful colorful and natural centerpiece on the kitchen bench.
Taste -
The sense of taste is something you can incorporate into your Home any
time, whatever the occasion or season to create a welcoming and comforting
atmosphere.
Depending on the season, use local produce as visual attractors and taste
tempters - Display a bowl of apples, oranges, pears, lemons, bananas, cherries,
mandarins, cumquats, or tangerines nearby within easy reach, or as a centerpiece
on a kitchen bench.
Special people
you invite, and who come to visit, will feel pleasurably, warmly and abundantly
welcomed into your Home.
Sit down, talk, peel and segment an orange or mandarin, slice up an apple or
pear to share – it’s a feast for the taste senses.
A plate of
crisp green apples just waiting to be crunched or red juicy, flavorsome tomatoes
ever ready to be freshly sliced for quick and juicy devouring, or ripe strawberries,
cherries or grapes to enjoy.
As an appetizer for a lunch or a dinner, a specially positioned simple bowl of
plump juicy spicy olives stuffed with red peppers or sun-dried tomatoes is
great for picking at, and does magic for stimulating and tempting the taste
buds and culinary senses.
There’s nothing
more nurturing than getting together over food for great conversation,
laughter, feeding and sharing with the people you love. Hey, let’s Party!
Create a great ‘Atmosphere’ – Lighting is a fabulous mood creator.
Create a focus with a lamp in a corner, or particular spot for accent. Light scented candles, light up your fireplace
for an incredible effect and surround your room with further candles. WOW, what
an atmosphere you'll create...
Listen to music you love, use soaps that are creamy, luxurious, lathery and
smell great.
Go for the ‘multi sensory’ approach
and enjoy! It’s all about creating great
atmosphere and enjoying the marvelous abundance and joy that life has to offer.
Kathy Baker is a
Success Coach, with a great ‘Passion’ for Home Decorating and creating
beautiful energetic spaces.
She is also a Writer, Law of Attraction Practitioner, Marketer (Intuitive
Marketing with Integrity), and Information Product Marketer/Internet Marketer.
She works with success and freedom seeking individuals and entrepreneurs in
helping them find ways to live the life of their 'wildest' dreams ...
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