Inspiration/Tips Thread

[watercolorwish]

When designing, what gives you inspiration? Or do you know any helpful strategies? Post them here!

 

[Laila]

I use a reference! For example, Genji asked for a haunted house and I googled haunted house for ideas and the outcome of the house is brilliant

 

[watercolorwish]

I do that too! Its so much easier than making it off the top of your head

 

[Takuya]

I love designing houses

I have SUCH a beautiful house in ACNL and hope I can reconstruct it in ACHHD soon.

I just have some few tips, that could maybe be helpful.

I love placing stuff on tables, if you put them all on the floor, then the room looks too full somehow.

Also, I'd never put too much items or colors in your house, then it looks full again.

You should get fantastic results by choosing 2-3 colors and 2-3 "themes".

In the latest house, I had to design, she was asking for a quit place, so I put some green flowers, then I chose a balcony like theme and put some tables and stools into the room and I found, some coffee would be placed well too.

The room looks amazing after mixing up some things that fit, especialy when you follow the feng-shui rules!

 

[Voluptua Sneezelips]

Visual triangles are a good strategy. The idea is that if you have 3 things in a similar or the same colour or 3 items that look similar placed at 3 points in a room, it causes the eye to travel between them and creates a kind of balance. It doesn't have to be a perfect, even triangle, either. It's typically pretty subtle. As an example, if you put 3 plants in a room, put one by the front door, one on a side wall and another along the back wall somewhere. Or if you have, say, a room that's mostly green but include a lotus lamp, a hibiscus and a a pink cushion on a green chair and place them at different points in the room, the viewer's eye will pick out these hints of pink. Or birds on the ceiling - a group of 3 together, or 3 spaced around the ceiling, or 3 clusters of 3 all work well.

 

[Takuya]

Visual triangles are a good strategy. The idea is that if you have 3 things in a similar or the same colour or 3 items that look similar placed at 3 points in a room, it causes the eye to travel between them and creates a kind of balance. It doesn't have to be a perfect, even triangle, either. It's typically pretty subtle. As an example, if you put 3 plants in a room, put one by the front door, one on a side wall and another along the back wall somewhere. Or if you have, say, a room that's mostly green but include a lotus lamp, a hibiscus and a a pink cushion on a green chair and place them at different points in the room, the viewer's eye will pick out these hints of pink. Or birds on the ceiling - a group of 3 together, or 3 spaced around the ceiling, or 3 clusters of 3 all work well.

awesome explanation! ^thumbs up

 

[watercolorwish]

Visual triangles are a good strategy. The idea is that if you have 3 things in a similar or the same colour or 3 items that look similar placed at 3 points in a room, it causes the eye to travel between them and creates a kind of balance. It doesn't have to be a perfect, even triangle, either. It's typically pretty subtle. As an example, if you put 3 plants in a room, put one by the front door, one on a side wall and another along the back wall somewhere. Or if you have, say, a room that's mostly green but include a lotus lamp, a hibiscus and a a pink cushion on a green chair and place them at different points in the room, the viewer's eye will pick out these hints of pink. Or birds on the ceiling - a group of 3 together, or 3 spaced around the ceiling, or 3 clusters of 3 all work well.

What I've been doing is just relating the room to one color but I didn't really think of adding a few different shades around some places! I'll try doing this with my next villagers house