Art 101
Mrs.
4-7-11
The effect of art in, on , and around houses related to sales. All around the world people are constantly buying new houses to live in. The choice isn’t always easy they don’t just go out for a joyful car ride and choose the first house they see. A lot of time and planning goes into buying a house. Some big factors of buying a house is cost, sq footage, land, and how it looks. Now days we have tv shows on how to improve the look on ones house to improve the resale value of the house. From here most of the features of the house are set in stone such as the square footage, and the main design of the house, as well as the land the house is on. So a decorator who has studied what the human eye catches and retains uses simple art take over to reconstruct the house to make it more appealing to a customer. First thing is to brighten up the house with a new color of paint which needs to be a wise choice to either match or make the furniture pop. Then some nice paintings will be hung on the wall with respect to the designers tastes. One thing that always is done would be the outside of the house in order to catch the eye of the customer. A small decorative garden is used and is put in patterns to express the emotion of the house to help the buyers eyes bounce around the bushes and flowers then back to the front door known as flowing rhythm, to make it feel of a more welcoming home. (aetv) Magazines fill the shelves with new ways to show off your living rooms with new types of art with sculpture, pottery, and paintings. Arrangements and styles have been given within these magazines to show how one can decorate their house as an artist would. Accommodations for all types and sizes of outdoor landscape is available to soot your budget and since of style. Landscapes complete the design of the house to give it sweeping views for the eye to catch, bright brilliant colors from the flowers set the tone for the piece of huge art work. Different types of sizes and types of rocks such as boulders give off a naturalistic feeling when looking at a landscape, and can usually be stacked in a descending order to achieve the naturalistic feeling. Water features are often used to enhance any landscape. Water is a beautiful feature that does not only stimulate the eyes but also produces a pleasing sound which calms most people. Some types of landscapes consist of Dramatic, Streamlined, Potomac, and Natural. Dramatic styling of a landscape would include a choice of softer colors of flowers, trees, bushes, etc…. along with structural designs like a fire place that follows the designs of the house. The placement of the foliage is meant to move people through it so it all cannot be seen at once, this makes the landscape more interesting and is paired with the illusion of discovery when gazing upon it. Streamlined landscape consists of large patios, walkways, and pools, preferably in a descending style. The stepping stone is cut with a straight edge in mind, along with patio and pool. Paintings are hung about the winding walkways can be complimented by Turkish tavern the patio is lined with some flagstone edges. The pool of choice to be finish off the streamline style would be a vanishing edge style. The vanishing edge of the pool is faced to the west for when the sun is setting the pool looks as if never ends at he vanishing point, using linear point perspective, and the sun as the focal point. Potomac style uses rustic stone to have a honey and cinnamon pop once the sunlight hits it just right. Warm hues are used to give a presence of Tuscany, timeless materials are used to give ionic forms that increase the potential of the imagination to go free. Moving on to the inside of the house, which is just as important as the outside of the house since that’s where you will be living during most of the duration of your stay. One of the most important parts of the inside of your home that is often overlooked is the lighting. Lighting just like a painting or any artwork is a huge part of how you view the art work. Without it you are bound to miss something. Complete lighting systems are very seldom built in to homes and if a remodel were in ones near future lighting should be put on the top of the list. As human beings we are drawn to the light, one is incapable of seeing color without light. So having extraordinary paintings on the wall or masterful craftsmanship on the furniture does you no good if you can’t see it. (homeanddesign) Once you have the problem of lighting fixed you can go onto picking and choosing the style of interior you want in your house. A very popular choice would be a modern style. To achieve the modern style the main goal is to have a very open environment, complimented by uninterrupted planes. Upon furnishing, keeping it light and contemporary is the main goal, to fill the space without dominating it. Walls created out of windows would provide lighting as well as an unobstructed view to the outdoors adding to the visual effect. Colors to be used for cabinets and other furnishings should be a dark and glossy to stand out against softer wall colors such as a matte egg shell. And to separate certain rooms from others visual anchors such as a wall painted brick red will help to animate the space. (4rticle) European elegance is another popular design incorporated into a house. The sight of the craftsmanship on all of the furnishings is the foundation of the European style. The small details is what it comes down to, This includes, moldings, trims , columns, and archways. Which are painted to match the table tops that it would be paired with within the room. Cabinetry filled with elegant dining wear and crystal should be viewed through glass doors. To wrap it all up a soft colored hardwood floor should be choosing to compliment the soft walls and not draw attention away from the crafted wood work on the trim and furniture. (homeanddesign) Classic colonel is used quite often on a house out on the farm. This style likes to incorporate the structure of the house. Leaving exposed beams, arches on the ceiling, and uncovered brick walls. Paired with simple yet elegant furnishings lets your eye focus on the lines of the house, which are meant to capture the eye when placed together on lighter colored walls. A smaller amount of paintings is used, to be replaced with several sculptings including but not limited to, pots, Jugs, small statutes, large statutes, plates, vases, pitchers, and mugs. Which are placed in, on, and on top of just about everything making it clear that it is for visual pleasure only, and not for using. (homeanddesign) For the home owner who likes to entertain others the Richmond Classic is going to be one of the top choices of style for their interior. This then will require making the feel of certain rooms more private and others publicly based. High ceilings will open up more public rooms but still have the deep crown moldings found in more private rooms so none of the rooms are singled out. Silk shiny drapes can be added to embrace the high ceilings and moldings. Small details such as stencil on stairwell can be contrasted by dark colored hallways to balance the high contrast stencil. Traditional furnishing is recommended, so soft hues of blues can be used as a contemporary back drop to the furnishings. This layered effect will give off the essence of staring at a painting when gazing upon the room. If one is lucky enough to have a central fire place it can be very well used as the focal point of the room using two marble statutes on each side and a marvelous painting on top setting off the crown molding, while being very well lit, to draw the eye to them after following the lines of the furniture carefully placed to used the lines for direction for the eyes to follow toward the fire place. Every room should all be related and tied together but yet be offset by something such as a bright color for a more lively room or using stainless steel to show the functionality of the room, making it easy to distinguish a gathering room from a private one. (hgtv) For those who want an art studio for their living quarters a natural expression is easily achieved with very simple design and plenty of art to show off. Very light colored walls with not much hung on them partnered with a light color bland floor will let you focus on the pieces of art work on display, preferably pieces from the owner of the house to help express their artistic views. Certain artistic displays can be used on the walls, such as cubes made by the artist hung in a 3 by 3 pattern. Small tables throughout the house to put pieces of high value to the owner to show off the talents of the artist. (homeanddesign)
After looking through a few homes and land, and watching the housing appropriate shows such as , property virgins, and flip this house. They all touched on these bases that I have shared with you and how the importance of how the eye captures all of this and takes it in, which will influence the buyer of the house to spend more money on a house with the same square footage and amenities. Flip this house works with a house that they buy clean it up by putting new landscaping in the front to draw the buying in from what is a work of art from the road. And then adds some tasteful furniture and art work to spruce up the interior just as mentioned above in fashion of making the buyer think he will be living within such a beautiful sight. They also paint the walls to make do with what they have to make certain rooms pop and others contrast with the lighting. Property virgins is based on first time buyers to the market and showing them that they too can have a house as seen in the expensive magazines by just paying attention to the model specifics which can easily molded into the piece of artwork they were wanting to buy in the first place for a far smaller price.
After comparing several houses on century 21 I found two comparable houses with equal amount of land and one have 7,000 square feet and the other 6,000 square feet. Both have 7 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms and a pool and equal amenities. The only major differences between the two houses are the style of design. The 6,000 square foot house has exposed rafters and arches. High ceiling to create space textured walls to help accent the large paintings on the wall. An open fire place that was sculpted from marble is the main center piece of the living room giving a functional and stylish look to the room. Several lights are hung throughout the entire how to help show off the beauty of all the effort it took to make the house the way it was. The furniture is mainly wooden based to match the exposed beams as well as the hardwood floor in parts of the house. The outside of the house comes complete with a front landscape. The landscape has been professionally planted to use the tops of the bushes to create horizontal lines pointing towards the front door. This is indeed the focal point of this beautiful house. The back yard comes complete with an amazing plethora of trees acting as the best looking fence one will ever see. The center piece of the back yard is the pool which is complete with some small overflowing vases given a small touch of liquid art, that brings life, serenity, and nature into any environment. This house brings a price tag of 1.8 million dollars on today’s estate market. On the other hand the 7,000 square foot house is only 1.2 million which features no exposed beams within the house. And the walls are just plainly painted with no contemporary art on display to give life to the room. Rooms are filled with wood for walls and ceilings which gives an old dirty feeling. Wood is not meant to overly used above eye level as it is has too inconsistent of a pattern which distracts the eye away from what is it is meant to follow. And the back yard is trees placed here and there without purpose, but just to have them. This house does however follow the rule of being well lit. It has a massive living room with really high ceilings and glass wall that let out side light in allowing the room to be very well lit and so the view can be aware of all the space that the room has to offer. This house being bigger than the other is just as catching to the eye as the other therefore it on the market for 600,000 dollars less than that of a house with a 1000 square feet smaller and has been beautifully decorated. (century21)
In conclusion upon either buying a house or renovating a house for yourself or selling, seeking help from a person with a perspective on how the eye works and our brain receives the image ( An Artist ) , has to one of the most important steps in achieving your goal of a new living quarters. Having a house that is more appealing to the over just how big it is will increase your return on investment as well turn over time when it is time to sell your house. An artist of the inside of the house is known as interior decorator and will have the knowledge of several different styles and will help you find the one that suites you. A landscaper can build any type of gardening structure that your mind desires. And several realtor agencies are out there to assist you with finding an already existing house of your dreams. With the use of one of these and a little time and patience you too can have your castle upon a hill.

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