| Home decorating has kind of a bad rap. Even though | | | | where they are standing, how the light is falling on a |
| it is a very artistic endeavor, one which combines all | | | | given day, or even the energy of the people around |
| of the senses to create a work of living beauty, it is | | | | them. |
| still considered inferior when compared with pursuits | | | | Just think about the pictures in those magazines. |
| such as painting or music. | | | | They are all taken from a single angle. Would that |
| One reason for this may be the basic nature of | | | | beautiful room look quite as good if the photographer |
| decorating. Every space has a style, even if that | | | | had been standing somewhere else? |
| style is just unintentional chaos. However the | | | | Further, since decorating is a living art, spaces are |
| difference between a well planned and put together | | | | constantly changing based on the way people live |
| environment and a chaotic jumble is enumerable. | | | | and interact in a space. Dirt may be tracked in, chaos |
| Further, decorating is about more than just the outer | | | | may ensue, and objects will be moved. All of this |
| appearance of a place. It is also about the feeling, | | | | makes the decorators efforts a fleeting prize. |
| the ineffable ambiance of a room, and how that | | | | However in a way this also makes those efforts all |
| affects the people within it. Different styles of | | | | the more beautiful, because they are only temporary. |
| decorating can lead people to act, feel, and behave in | | | | It is like the great sand portraits done by the |
| different ways, and something as simple as the color | | | | Buddhist monks, who spend hours delicately arranging |
| of the walls can change the course of a person's life. | | | | every bead in an elaborate tapestry, only to blow it |
| Because of this the decorative arts are actually quite | | | | all away into the winds when they are finished. The |
| powerful, determining where the scenes in your life | | | | beauty is in that the art only lasted for a short time, |
| take place. Just imagine a movie. The setting | | | | and so had to be enjoyed all the more while it was |
| determines the action, and it is quite easy to tell in | | | | still there. |
| most movies where the bad guy lives, or when two | | | | Decorating is an art that involves not only visual |
| people enter a romantic room. The subtle details of a | | | | elements, but also texture, aroma, and even the |
| scene will often set the stage for how interactions | | | | ineffable feeling of ambiance. As such it is actually |
| will take place. | | | | quite a complex undertaking. It is also a powerful skill |
| Another problem with home decorating is that it is | | | | which allows you to control the energy of |
| transient. All art has the problem of opinion, where | | | | interactions within a space, coloring the thoughts and |
| some people will think that the work is beautiful while | | | | perceptions of the people, and how they behave |
| others will disagree. In decorating not only do you | | | | when relating to one another. For these reasons the |
| have opinion subjecting the decorator to the whims | | | | decorative arts are actually one of the most |
| of an individual, but this opinion can change based on | | | | important and potent disciplines in the creative world. |