Too boring to sleep here?

Imagine you cannot find sleep because you are in a room that is so "calm" that your mind finds nothing to concentrate on? This sounds paradox to you? But exactly this would happen to me if had to sleep in this room. The night is dark and you cannot see anything anyway - you might reply - but there is something else to keep in mind. You look at a room normally with daylight or artificial light. So you SEE how a room looks like and this is in your memory already. A boring room is not a room where we find peace and calmness - boring things can even annoy - and gone is the sleep...

The room below is probably "only" a guest room and not the master bedroom but in any way it looks boring I'm afraid to say. Maybe the owner is going to decorate this room a bit further - just a guess.

There is nothing in this room that interests the eye. That's a shame. You don't need much to add a bit of a focus, an object of interest. Without this the room just looks very unkind.

I would have chosen a piece of art painted in bright colours that build some contrast to the wall. In this case it is "Sari 2", a painting and handprint with an interesting pattern, framed in a decent gilded wood frame.

"Sari 2" is an acrylic painting on heavy water colour paper that has been additionally hand printed with some ancient Indian wood blocks from my collection in order to add some beautiful patterns which normally are used on Saris and other textiles.

"Sari 2"

(from the Prints series)

15" x 20", acrylic on paper

©Petra Voegtle

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Prints - not only for your Wall...

There are prints and there are prints...
A small company in Paris, Téo Jasmin, creates prints which are not only for wall decoration or cushions but for furniture also. Déco designs for young people, affordable but definitely no cheapos, gift ideas which cannot be found at any giftshop - but see for yourself:



For those who love London above all cities and cannot forget about San Francisco...



And how about having your last holiday impressions always in the back of your mind and your favourite sofa? Certainly an idea that you could talk about - an intriguing mix of charming old baroque furniture style and modern chic...

all photos with courtesy of www.teojasmin.com