Scale/ Proportion

Principals of Design: Scale and Proportion

Good Proportion and Scale

Bad proportion and scale 

Emphasis

Principals of Design: Emphasis 

 My emphasis was the windows  

Element of Design: Line

LINES

This Olio board shows; horizontal, Diagonal, vertical lines, and curved lines. the white trim, the red wood on the top, and the stone on the wall show horizontal lines. The shelving, and the windows, show vertical lines. The decoration in the pilows and on the rug show diagonal lines. Items that show curved lines are ; the cow printed ottoman, the blanket, the guitar, the lantern, the skulls, and the lamp shade. 

This board shows a lot of horizontal and vertical lines. with the curtains, the rug, and the ceiling. 

This board is a really good example of curved lines. the wire things in the background, the couch, the foot stools, the chairs. Basically everything in this has some kind of curved line in it.

This shows a good example of diagonal lines. with the stairs. Diagonal lines lead your eyes. 

Principles of Design: Balance

Design Challenge 

I have been hired as a design consultant by a client who is remodeling her living room. She has one large empty wall that needs to be filled over her couch. 

The client would like to see two options for the arrangement: symmetrical and Asymmetrical

The client has also asked me to keep these ideas in mind.

1. She would like to keep the couch against the wall

2. She would be open to the idea of adding lighting or end tables.

3. She would like a grouping of pictures that hang over the couch

Symmetrical

Asymmetrical

Color Schemes

Monochromatic 

Monochromatic colors are varying tints and shades of one hue. The paint swatch above shows different tints of red, meaning they added white, if you add black it would be a shade. 

 My Olio board I used red. I have pillows with reds and pink, and my pictures on the wall have reds and pinks in them. In a monochromatic room you can also add neutral colors so it doesn't look like too much of one color. I add a grey couch and some pillow. Making a room Monochromatic makes the room calming. Everything just works well together. 

Analogous

Analogous colors are the colors that are right next to each other on the color wheel like, in the picture above they are showing, Blue-green, green, and yellow-green, as analogous colors.

In my analogous Olio Board, i did what the color wheel shows above, I did yellow-green, Green, and Blue-green. I added some neutral colors with the carpet, grey and white and black to make it look not so "one color."

Split-Complementary

The split complementary scheme is a variation of the standard complementary scheme. It uses a color and the two colors adjacent to its complementary. 

For example; on the color wheel above Reds compliment is green, but a split compliment would be the two colors on each side of Reds compliment, that would make reds split compliments Blue-green, and yellow-green.

Triadic

Triadic color schemes are three colors that are equal distance from each other on the color wheel. Like the primary colors Red, Blue and Yellow. They are all equal distance apart from each other.

Housing Styles

Tudor

This Tudor revival house features wood trim to suggest half timbers, a double gable front, and a decorative chimney. The front door wall is stone, the half timbered front  is brick, and the rest of the facade stucco. 1920's, has a steep roof.

Neo-Classical Greek Revival

The Greek revival has pillars that form a classical Portico.  The facade is symmetrical. It is very formal looking 

Queen Anne has many gables, a turret, large porch, decorative shingles, and elaborate wood decoration.

Queen Anne

A Bungalow you can find a front shed dormer, full width porch, and exposed roof rafters. Usually has natural colors, with a low roof.

Bungalow

Ranch attached garage often dominates the design. Private patio. 

Ranch (Split level)

The Prairie has wide overhangs, a hipped roof, and bands of casement windows. Horizontal lines, hidden front door, and stained glass windows.

Prairie

Colonial Revival - Georgian, demonstrates a symmetrical facade, spoiled only by the attached garage. the front door surrounded with its suggested pillars. The front door features side lights. this style lacks a central chimney. It is formal and simple

Colonial revival (Georgian) 

International School floats on pillars and is  and exercise in geometrical lines and space. Made of glass concrete and steel.

International  School

Colonial revival - Cape Code- has a large central chimney, gabled dormers, and shingled facade. the front door uses wood trim to hint at classical pillars. has a classical doorway, it is smaller and has a detached garage. 

Colonial revival - Cape Code

Colonial revival- Dutch has a Gambrel roof with front shed dormer. Barn type roof, arched entries

Colonial revival - Dutch

Neo-Eclectic - (post modern) This contemporary house features a Palladian window motif, decorative front gables suggestive of a Queen Anne style, and a front porch. 

Neo-Eclectic - (post modern)

Housing Styles

Roof Styles:

Front Gable

Side Gable

Gable Roof: The triangular section of a wall formed by the end of a pointed (gabled) roof.

Gambrel Roof: A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope having the steeper pitch. Often  found in Colonial revival houses in the "Dutch" style.

Gambrel 

Hip Roof: (hipped Roof) A roof with slopes on all four sides. The "hips" are the lines formed when the slopes meet at the center.

Hipped roof

Saltbox

Saltbox: A frame house with two stories in front and one in back, having a pitched roof with unequal sides, being short and high in front and long and low in back.

Mansard

 

  Mansard: a hip roof having two slopes on  each side

Housing characteristics: 

Bay Window

Bay Window: A set of two or more windows that protrude out from the wall. The window is moved away from the wall to provide more light and wider views.

Casement Window

Casement window: A window that opens by swinging inward or outward much like a door. Casement windows are usually vertical in shape but are often grouped in bands.

Clapboard 

Clapboard:Also known as weatherboard or siding. Long, narrow boards overlapped to cover the outer walls. Used in Colonial style frame houses.

Dormer

Dormer: The setting for a vertical window in the roof. Called a gable dormer if it has its own gable or a shed dormer if a flat roof. most often found in upstairs bedrooms. 
Eaves: that portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall. I call it the "over hang" 

Eaves

The windows on the garage door are Fan lights

Fanlight: A semicircular or arched window above a door
Palladian window: A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights.

Palladian Window

Pediment: A triangular crown used over doors, windows, or porches. A classical style.

The triangle on top of the porch is Called a Pediment

Portico

Portico: A large porch usually with a pediment roof supported by classical columns of pillars.
Rafter: A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall. in most houses, rafters are visible only from the attic. In styles such as craftsman bungalows and some "rustic"  contemporaries, they are exposed.

Rafters

Turret

Sidelight

Sidelights: Windows on either side of a door.
Turret:A small tower, often at the corner of a building. Common in Queen Anne styles among others. A turret is a smaller structure while a tower begins at ground level.