A Place for the Eye to Rest

One of the tenants of design theory is that in every room, there needs to be a place where the eye ‘rests’. In other words, a place where there is not too much pattern, too much color, too many ‘things’. People who enter such a room feel comforted, experience a sense of space, light, and balance.

This blog site not only supports that design theory, it applies it to our larger environment. There needs to be a place where peace comes through order, where there is only a tolerable amount of movement or chaos, where color is purposeful and controlled. The viewer is soothed, the mind can contemplate, consider, create, and in a short a place for the eye to rest.

In design, this resting place in a room is often achieved through a calm back drop, a sofa, a pillow or a rug. This is achieved through the use of white, another calming color, or a soothing solid. Removal of clutter or an abundance of accumulated but unrelated and poorly arranged accessories can also have a calming effect. Placement of large or loved objects may be all that is needed after removal of clutter to create a place where the eye can rest, and the observer feels free and comforted, welcomed and supported.

The object of this blog is to help the reader to create that resting place: visually, functionally, and spiritually. Simplifying a chaotic world can go a long way toward soothing the soul, calming the thought process, and resting the eye!

Karen

Additional reading:

Five Ways to Embrace Quiet (a blog spot)by Rachel Anne Ridge

“The Nesting Place” (book or e-download) by Myguillyn Smith

How to Quiet Your Space, One Room at a Time, (article) by Laura Whittman at orgjunkie.com

“spark joy” (book) by Marie Kondo