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• #Focalpoint in windows#

The focal point in a room is the star! It is the most important thing in the room. They all have an important part in the play but they support the leading lady… the star! All eyes are on the star! And there are supporting actors. Our eyes cannot find a place to start to enter the room’s design! Too many things in the room are competing for our eyes’ attention. When we do not have a clear focal point in a room and no one thing in the room has dominance then a room looks confusing. This is such an important question to answer! Remember dominance creates a focal point. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS NO CLEAR FOCAL POINT IN A ROOM? And giving them a starting place to enter into a room’s design goes a long way for them to make sense of a room and deem it pleasing. Our eyes and minds love order and things that make sense to them. If our eyes can’t find a starting point then they get confused as they look around the room. The first thing anyone sees when they come into our living room is the mantel/fireplace. These are all easy to find focal points because they are so attention-grabbing they have dominance over everything else in a room. large art or something large on the wall.

#Focalpoint in windows#

an outside view through windows or doorsĪ focal point is a thing in a room that has dominance over everything else in a room! EXAMPLES OF A FOCAL POINT.something so interesting to look at, or.is the first thing you see when you enter a room, or.the thing in a room that has the most visual weight, or.It is usually the item that grabs your attention the minute you walk into a room. So how do you know the winner/star/focal point of a room? So to keep all the decor from battling it out for attention you want to pick something in your room that is dominant. Without a focal point, all the decor in a room competes for dominance. You don’t want to have a wrestling match between all the furnishing and accent decor in your room. The winning wrestler shows dominance over the other losing wrestler. The object of a wrestling match is for two people to wrestle and for one person to be dominant over the other and win! So you can see that this thing called dominance is very important to home decorators! AN EXAMPLE OF DOMINANCE And we want to have attractive, beautiful rooms in our home.

And when we can make sense of a room we perceive it as attractive. And a focal point helps us enter into the room’s design and have a place to start making sense of a room.ĭominance creates a focal point, a focal point creates an entry place into the design of a room, and entering into the design of a room helps us to make sense of the room.

It’s all about dominance! WHAT IS DOMINANCE AND HOW DOES IT RELATE TO A FOCAL POINTĭominance in design is very important! And it helps create a focal point in a room. When someone enters our living room, the first thing they see is our mantel and fireplace.īecause large architectural pieces in a room are often the room’s focal point it was easy to know that the mantel is the focal point of this room. When we come into a room a focal point is the most eye-catching item in the room! It’s usually what we see first like a bed or a dining room table with a beautiful centerpiece on it or a mantel. Every room should have a focal point so let’s first chat about what a focal point is.Ī focal point, like I said before, is the star of your room.