Tips on How to Use Scale and Proporation to Decorate a Room
ByBrenda Bentley Pruitt
Learning how to use scale and proportion to decorate a room properly is vital. Scale and proportion may be the thing that is making your room look unbalanced, dull and muddled. The first thing I do on a new project is rearrange furniture and accessories in order to tell me what is lacking. Usually all those things the client thought they needed were cut down to about half. That is one of my big WINKS! Yes, yes…….. I know I lose money on projects this way but, I get more satisfaction on proving the scale and proportion theory.
If everything is too similar by ratio and by scale, the eye doesn’t have an interesting path to follow as it travels around the room.
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