Interior Decorating  and Home Staging Secret #1: Colour Rhythm

Rhythm is considered to be an important interior decorating design principle. Rhythm is seen and heard everywhere. We can hear rhythm in the steady drip of a faucet or it can be seen such as the lines in the sidewalk. It can also be seen in our rooms through repetition. Rhythm  in this situation helps leads the eye through a room.

Repetitive rhythm can be achieved by repeating the element of design known as colour and is thus known as colour rhythm.  

For example, in the the room above, the darker blue in the wall art is also found in the darker blue pillow by the head of the bed and also in the folded blanket at the end of the bed. Your eyes move from the wall art to the pillow and then to the blanket creating a triangle. When three of more items in the same shade of colour are sprinkled around the room, they create a colour rhythm that is appealing to the eyes and is translated as beautiful to the brain. The master bedroom style may be Mid Century Modern but the colour scheme and rhythm is blue.