How to Create a Focal Point in a Room

Video Transcript

"I believe that is the first option or objective is to create that focal point. Whenever someone walks into a room it goes back to that innate feeling that someone wants to experience the room, either consciously or subconsciously. So everyone's eye is going to be drawn to a focal point, whether you acknowledge it or not. A focal point can be anything from a painting that you love, to a painting that you pick out. It could be a window, it could be an accent wall, it could be a piece of furniture. It really doesn't matter what the focal point is, it's just that you establish one, and then everything else should revolve around the focal point. I would walk in and see how the first place that my eye draws me to, so whether it is something in the room that is already established, such as a fireplace. All the time the fireplace ends up being the focal point, and you can definitely draw from that. Or if you have a painting that may not look appropriate over a fireplace then you put it on the largest wall in the room, and you kind of shift. You can shift the focal point, even if one is already established, and create your own focal point, or you can use what may already be in a space. Some of the coolest focal points that I have seen is I had a client who was traveling abroad, she found an old painting in an antique store in Paris. And she is like I don't care what my room looks like this is what I want everything to resemble. And so we took that one painting that she did, it was probably not bigger than an 11x13, and we started with that on a wall, and branched off from that. So of course something had to accompany that, but we were able to take that one inspiration and design an entire room from concept to completion from that one point."