How to Use Accents in Interior Decorating
Home Accents - Personality Plus
Home accents to any home decor room project is like the frosting to a cake. The bow on a package - The jewelry for the dress!
Accessorizing a room is giving that final personal touch to your decorated home or space. Here you can really fine tune your personal style and your uniquely you look.
But, you don't want to just throw those pictures on the wall haphazardly or dump those kick knacks wherever you may find a shelf...because there are rules to placing home accents - and important ones at that.
We want to enhance the rooms furniture and room arrangement. Creating visual enrichment strategically. To please the eye without distracting or overwhelming.
Every home accent introduced into your room's decorating should serve a purpose. Either contributing to form (complentary design) function or preferably both. Otherwise it is simply clutter. The number one enemy of interior decorating!
We can summarize the "how to accessorize a room" with 3 elements working together to create a uniquely pleasing look.
Balance + Groupings + Scale
These are kind of tricky to explain with words so take a look at the examples above and to the right. 
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