Make Home Decorating a
Totally Multi Sensory Experience
Using Your Five Physical Senses …
and More …
It’s designing and decorating your Home using and stimulating your five ‘physical’ senses – the sense of sight (pleasing to the eye), touch (tactile), smell (sets a mood and recalls or creates memories), sound (to soothe and/or awaken the soul) and taste (to excite the taste buds).
It’s about waking up, arousing and enlivening your senses. It’s about invigorating and liberating your creativity, the expression of you - the things that you respond to from your soul – your likes and preferences for color, texture, and the other things …
Sight - The sense of sight is visible through the interiors in your Home. Your Home should magnify and celebrate what is important to you and show your values.
When people walk into your Home they should know exactly who you are, and what your priorities are, by the sight and ‘feel’ and ambience of your home, or the particular room they’ve just entered.
A Family room that overlooks a lovely lush garden can be painted in a combination of a delicate pale apple green and sunny pale yellow to represent and accentuate the surrounding garden colors and the sunshine streaming in – ensuring that it’s always a cheery and welcoming room that everyone loves to spend time and relax in.
Touch - The softness and smoothness of silk cushions, contrasted with the texture of a robust textured cushion, or a woven throw rug on your favorite velvety-soft sofa is a very pleasurable ‘tactile’ experience.
Smell - Nothing is more memorable than a favorite scent. The aroma in your home can really set the mood. Fresh flowers, scented candles, burning essential oils are all very effective, and nothing more enticing and heavenly than the smell of freshly baking bread, or a vanilla flavored baking cake in the oven, or coffee brewing ...
A simple bowl of lemons, or oranges, with their citrus-y scent is not only cleansing and enticing, but a wonderful colorful and natural centerpiece on the kitchen bench.
Sound - The sound of your Home reflects it’s every day life – the sound of visiting birds chirping, squawking, tumbling, pecking into the soil and mulch for their next tasty meal, dogs barking, 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 soothing sound of trickling water from a water feature and fountain, or to 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 the style of music. Desiring the activity of listening to music can be the sign of an awakening soul.
Open up your window space and welcome the outside surrounds in to your home …
Taste - The sense of taste is the festive and party sense. Depending on the season, keep a bowl of cherries, mandarines, oranges, cumquats, tangerines, or pears nearby within easy reach, or as a centerpiece on a kitchen bench – people who visit will feel warmly and abundantly invited and welcomed. Sit down, talk, peel a mandarine – it’s a smorgasbord for the senses.
A plate of crisp green apples ever ready to crunch or red juicy, flavorsome tomatoes ready to be freshly sliced up tempts the taste buds.
As an appetizer for a lunch or a dinner, a simple bowl of plump juicy olives stuffed with red peppers or sun-dried tomatoes does magic for stimulating the taste buds/culinary senses.
There’s nothing more nurturing than meeting over food for great conversation and feeding and sharing food with the people you love.
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