Peek Your Inner World Through the Color Shades of Your Home(up)

Preface: According to studies by psychologists, people with different personalities have different preferences of color. So it can be seen from the choice of his or her home shades, as well as his personality, hobbies, temperament, habits and taste. This issue, let us work together and focus on eight character crowd, and fit a group, thus find a home color that matches with your personality specially.

Shades of White

People who choose white for their surroundings likely believe that "pure as the driven snow" is more than a cliche. Using shades of white is a clue to a personality that finds comfort in simplicity and sees the world through a youthful, innocent lens.

Shades of Red

For centuries, red has meant passion. People who are partial to shades of red, from apple and rose red to tomato and fire engine, generally are optimistic, outgoing and, well, passionate about life.


Shades of Yellow

It's a cliche that yellow is sunny, and those who pick shades of this color for their decor tend to be sunny, too. But they go a lot deeper than that: People who love yellow also tend to be intellectual and adventurous and place a high value on freedom.


Shades of Orange

A space filled with shades of orange exudes vitality and cheer. The people who decorate rooms with orange hues tend to be outgoing, social and easy to be with, even if they do like to be the center of attention.

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How to Furnish a Beautiful Hallway?

Hallway is an area at the door entrance, which is not designed to produce convenience to the guests to take off clothing as well as change shoes and hang hats, more importantly, it is the first scenery people seen before entered the room, though it is small in size, but play an extremely important role to the style of the whole room. And the most effective way to beautify the hallway is to decorate it with furniture and home decorations. 

At first, the design of the vestibule should be based on the room type and home decorating style, it could be made into arc-shaped, strip shaped as well as rectangular shape, and material scope can contained wood, glass, stainless steel, stone and so on. 

Generally the hallway made of stainless steel and glass materials are more closely tied to the simple modern style home furnishings, while hallways made of stone material and wooden boards will more suited to countryside style home furnishings.

As regard to home furnishings and home decoration, small tables are very suitable to place in a hallway, whose desktop is not need wide, and can stand lean to the wall, above which, to hang a mirror or a selected painting, plus matched with a pair of decorative wall lamps, the effect is be quite good. 

If the hallway area is large enough, an arc-shaped wall table will be a good choice, which will even bring your home more luxurious temperament. If you pay more attention to the practical function of the hallway, the simplest way is to display a group of vertical clothes hangers, and there are many novel design clothes hangers are takes up much less space, but also can provide some storage space for things, with them you can store each pieces of things at the door entrance and incorporate them altogether; another choice is to place a big size oblique triangle or converted trapezoidal shaped cabinet in it, which can store a lot of things and at the same time seemed small and exquisite.

 As respect to home decorations, you can use fabric furnishings, lighting and green plants to decorate. You can place an exotic printed cloth or an antique desk flag on the wall or tabletop.

Lightings as small spotlights, tube-shaped lights, strip lights, wall lamps, neon lights and other items of lightings can irradiate the hallway very bright, at the same time make the environmental space looked more elegant. If the vestibule size is not much large, you should notice not use too much lightings in it, and two or three pieces is appropriate. 

 Make use of the wall face and countertop behind the door, put several potted foliage plants, for example, chrysanthemums, primrose, etc., which can bring the hallway a bit of vitality, but should noticed that the placed plants should not hinder sights of guests as well as not impede the access.

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Best Lucky Home Color for 12 Constellations in 2009 (II) -- Capricorn, Gemin & Aquarius

Lucky Color for Capricorn in 2009 --- Red / Purple


As alienated and indifferent as Capricorn, who favorite with emphasizing on logic and reasonable, in particular, their contentious and argumentative disposition always make others prohibitive. However, its down-to-earth way of working to somewhat save some respects and acceptance for him.

Therefore, as the color energy of red which stands for working with feet always on the ground, as well as the color energy of purple stands for good at thinking and learning, become the color energy of Capricorn.

Bring more red with could help Capricorn to walk out from their own world, and with courage to face challenges of outside world, as well as strengthening and building their body energy, it appears that there are really a great deal of benefits!

Brief Summary:
In traditional Chinese culture red is considered as an auspicious and festive color, when we had experienced through 2008 laugh or cry, especially at this time the shadow of the international financial tsunami is still lingering around, we may really need some red to encourage everyone's mood.

In the color psychology theory suggests, red is stands for warm, upward trend, but at the same time it could make people excited, stirred, nervous and impulsive easily, and it is also a color that can caused visual fatigue easily, so it is not a color that suitable using with a large size area at home, only applied it as a embellishment in your home decoration.

Lucky color for Gemini in 2009 --- Blue / Pink

As be extremely gifted as Gemini is a baby born with great curiosity, who can learned new knowledge quickly through his sensitive ability of respond, as well as transferring the information out, especially good at gossip chatting of words.

Also just for this reason, Gemini persons are good at expressing their favors, but not exposed their emotions…Therefore, as pink stands for inner love, and blue is stands for assist to express inside true ideas, become the color energy of Gemini. Looking at self-inner world of stably, and not to flaunt too much so one can not make sure his true purpose, is the task for Gemini endowed by colors.

Lucky Color for Aquarius in 2009 --- Blue / Blue-Green

The energy color for Aquarius is a wonderful combination which mixed with blue, green, and yellow. How do you to check the energy of your water bottle? See if you are familiar with the operation of the Internet, learn all kinds of new high-tech knowledge, as well as the ability to play self-originality ...through this way you can aware that whether you have obtained the energy of Aquarius….

So try to use more blue-green color in your home decorating and home furnishings to help yourself, so you will able to demonstrate in the new era, and no longer to fear of expressing the value view of yourself in public, and you will become more satisfied with yourself.

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Perspective Freehand Style of Home Design in Japan I -- Preface

Japan is a modern country as well as a traditional country, it is a major industrial country that ranks the No. 2 economy great power in the world, it has created a economy miracle with a very high degree of modernization in a small land whose area is as small as one of provinces in China.

Skyscrapers and modern fashion designs in Tokyo's all make you dazzling, those high-tech products also very well-developed, while their eating, living, and daily use articles still remained very traditional, especially in Kyoto, there are very few high-rise buildings, most of buildings there are traditional low-rise residential, and inside living space there are tatamis, people used to sitting and sleeping on the floor, which is kind of very traditional way of life.

Rooms in Japan are mostly constituted with logs, white walls, papers and wood lattice sliding doors, which reflects a collateral system of tradition and modern, with the passage of time, the modern become integrated well with traditions, and Oriental aesthetics features will usually be added in modern designs.

Nordic think design is an integral part of their lives, Americans keep it as a money-making tool, while Japanese believe that design is a means of national survival.

After the war Japan was occupied by U.S. troops, on whose land they have to build barracks, homes, offices and various service facilities for themselves. As the U.S. military could not suited the Japanese way of life, they build American-style homes and furnishings according to American patterns and practices, and check and accept them according to American standards too, so the level of design skill in Japan raised rapidly and has attained to a top grade in the world.

At the beginning of the 60s, Japan began to establish specialties of interior design and furniture design. With professional design teams, they also set specialized subjects of interior design and furniture design in their higher education system.

During times of post-war, Japan put a high premium on both technical quality and talent development, which has built a solid foundation for its rapid development in future.

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Something You Should Know for Building a Perfect Home Feng Shui

There are something you must not do if you are going to decorate your house, unless you'd like to meet bad fortunes in near future ...  
 

First. Do not Keeping Too Many Mirrors in Your Home

In the Feng Shui theory mirror is one kind of lunar and negative articles and it is easy to recruit bad fortunes, if there are too many mirrors in the home they will cause too much money consumption to the husband and wife, that is means that the couple are crazy shoppers, they always buy impulsively a lot of things that needless, and the result is their expenditures will exceed their income, long after the home’s economy will turn to worse and worse increasingly.

Second: Check the Doors and Door Posts in your Home and see Whether there are Breaking or Bending Remarks on

Door posts are the four face pillars of the door, and door face is just the door itself, if there are some marks of bending or even breaking, that is indicates that the God of Wealth could not come in, while the God of poverty entered.

Third: Throw Away Broken Pots or Stoves in Your Home

Some people are too lazy to throw away their broken pots or stoves, but as to the Feng Shui theory, which will make you never to stand up and regain success, also the God of Wealth will never meet you.

Fourth: Do Not Put Ceramic Tiles on the Walls in Your Bedroom

Now there are many people who have gained money, and occurred with fantasy ideas that to settle their houses on a river, they thought it is romantic and idyllic enough, they will never consider that in the Feng Shui theory, a river or other types of flowing water coming through the residence should be prohibited absolutely, which will make people living in the house losing a great number of money they own.

Fifth. Whether the Bed in Your Bedroom is Against the Wall on Three Sides?

Tiles in home decoration are generally be used in the toilet and in the kitchen, but there are someone who also had inclined to use them in the bedroom, so do not, because tiles will fall off, it correspondingly implies bad wealth fortunes of your family.

Sixth: Plan to Settle Your House on a Beautiful River?

For space saving sake, some families will settle their beds against the wall on three sides, but such a furnishing will give the person who sleeping in the bed a feeling of confined, furthermore, the bedroom is the place that stands for wealth sub-position, as the wealth position has been imprisoned, of course money will not come in.

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Decorating with Color Yellow, Create a Bright and Romantic Home

There are many meanings for the color yellow, the most obvious ones being bright, warm and radiant.



Benbow series home furniture designed by Ruthlivingston, which adopts soft yellow tones and themed with light yellow that warm and bland, bringing soft feelings full in room, so bright and romantic mood suffuses around.

Cool rigid furniture with calm appearance, contrasts to the yellow background, thus to outstand your elegant tastes, so that the home decorating to achieve the most perfect comfort environment.

Soft yellow design of home furnishings and home decorating could bring you soft and gentle feelings, when faced to the sea, you could obtain an equable heart.


The whole home design style is gentle, warm and cozy

Comfortable sofa, decorating paintings on the wall, also flower arrangement all forwards you quite, relax and warm feelings.



The style of washstand design is so simple and smooth…

Use yellow more than we know it, cream is yellow, it is yellow tinted with white. Cream is an extremely popular color as it is warm but not overpowering, it is more coordinated and more gentle than stark white and we use it in every room and a lot outside the house too.

The color of porcelain bathroom tiles also is adopted with soft yellow, thus according with the whole design style of with the home decorating.


Comfortable interior design with elegant tastes, all make the home furnishing and home decorating attained to the most perfect level for coziness.

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