3 Ways to Improve Room Flow

"Room flow" can be a mysterious term. Many homeowners think of room flow as a highly ambiguous term with no real merit or visual proof. However, we believe that room flow is very real and very important. Proper room flow means that visitors standing in one room can look into another room without being jarred by a change in the look or feel in the style. It is always nice to have rooms that feel like a well-orchestrated plan.

Interested? Here are 3 ways to improve room flow in your house:

Synchronized Foundational Element

The coloring of your walls makes the most difference in how rooms feel and how a house works as a whole.  These are the essentials that need to flow before moving onto more intricate details.

 The best way to improve flow from room to room is with color variations.  This is a simple task which also saves on excess paint, but must be completed carefully. Color and paint variation is taking one base color from your home and mixing it with lighter colors for other rooms. We recommend using a dark base color and mixing it with white to add different shades from room to room. Ideally, using the primary color in the hallway and using different levels of variation between rooms creates wonderful flow when looking into rooms from a hallway.

Flooring for Flow

Your floors are the backdrop of your home. What you really want when exploring your flooring options is to have the same flooring throughout common areas in your home.  For instance, having the same flooring in the living spaces creates the proper backdrop for those areas and improves the overall flow of your home.

Well Placed Furniture and Accessories

Well placed furniture and accessories can also add to the flow of your house. The biggest tip for the placement of these items is to commit to either symmetrical or asymmetrical forms of balance for each room. While it doesn’t really matter which rooms have which, each room should be committed to one of these forms of balance.  Having an imbalanced room can disrupt the flow of the house and can create a jarring visual experience that can certainly be avoided.

Proper room flow is something that some homeowners may not take very seriously.  Once they see a home with an owner that considered room flow, however, they are bound to see and feel the difference.

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