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The Best Calming Paint Colors for a Relaxing Home

Interior Color plays a huge role in setting the mood of your room. And if you're looking for a fun DIY project to tackle, what better way to spruce up your space than with calming paint colors to create a relaxing home base? Whether you're adding Feng Shui into your interior or deciding on ways to revamp a bedroom, we've got you covered. Redfin reached out to us and other experts from Tampa, FL, all the way to Toronto, ON, for our advice on choosing the best calming paint colors for your home. From soothing blues and greens to warm browns and beiges, check out what we had to say for the best hues to help you achieve a serene home.

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20 Transformative Tips to Make Your Home Feel More Elegant

7. Source and install artwork correctly

An easy, and not necessarily expensive, way to bring elegance to your home is with wall art. The wall art itself doesn’t need to be expensive to bring luxury and sophistication to your space, what speaks of elegance is proportion and placement.

“Hanging artwork at eye level is key,” reveals design firm Firehouse Design. “You want your eye to move easily from piece to piece around the room. Proportion is also pleasing to the eye. Hanging a tiny painting on an extremely large wall will leave you feeling uneasy. Adding a large frame and matte around the small painting will expand its size, creating an appropriately proportioned piece for your large wall. The art itself doesn’t create the luxury, the proportion and placement does.”

'Your home reflects your life': reporter seeks calm, creativity through feng shui

By ANITA FRITZ

It was time to harmonize with my environment.

I’m by no means a messy person, but as I had moved from apartment to apartment over the past four years, I knew something wasn’t right. Something was missing. I wanted to feel more at home, more at peace.

I turned to feng shui.

We’ve all heard the words. We all have our preconceived notions about what it is and whether it’s “for real.” Some dismiss it as just another whacky fad, while others are curious, like me, but have never really taken the time to learn about it. Feng shui is the ancient art of arrangement. It is a Chinese philosophical system of harmonizing everyone with their surrounding environment. It literally means “wind-water” in English. Feng shui is supposed to create a powerful connection between a person’s inner and outer worlds, and when practiced correctly, invites calm, clarity, connection, creativity, balance, abundance, and all sorts of good into one’s life.

Enter Jen Heilman, a home design expert and feng shui practitioner from Shelburne Falls, who believes that when someone uses feng shui to balance their life, money will flow, love will grow and life will get easier. Heilman, 44, teaches feng shui online from her home in Shelburne Falls.

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