Decorating in Purples

Violet and purple home decor themes are especially transformative. Violet correlates to the crown chakra, in the Indian view of the spiritual body.

As such, the colors violet and purple help to put us in the mood to let our crown chakra connect us to Universal Wisdom. Designing room decor that emphasises violet, raises the energy in that room to support your direct connection to the Divine, your awareness of the connectivity of all things, your ability to empathize with others, and makes you a better conduit for healing energy from the cosmos. This is the color for you if you need help with your pituitary gland, your hypothalamus, or your nervous system. By bringing violet into your home decor theme, you support your quest for your soul's evolution and your body's healing or transcendence.

According to Feng Shui, violet and purple are associated with the prosperity zone of your home or office. By using these colors to decorate this zone, you support the influx of chi responsible for abundance in your life, and make an environment ripe for increased income.

Here are a few suggestions that will help you to decorate with violet and purple:

Prints and stencils of grape vines with clusters of grapes make very attractive borders along walls, on the backs of wooden furniture, and on upholstery and drape fabric. They also make great motifs on tapestries and rugs. The grape clusters are lovely ways to introduce the violet and purple colors.

Violet and purple look beautiful when offset by just a touch of orange as an accent color. They also blend nicely with greens, and are natural companions of indigo. Just a touch of yellow here and there can make the color violet sing. Violet goes well with white and with cream and neutrals like sand, so it's versatile.

Violet colored sheer organza drapes will give the room a very spiritual glow by coloring the light passing through them.

Violet translucent objects like stained or blown glass, lampshades, and gemstones hung in windows, further the theme of filtering the white light of the Universal All, into accessible help in the form of violet vibrations.

Violet looks beautiful as the color of a flower grown in a pot, or printed on fabric with another back ground color like white, cream, or sand. You can get away with solid violet upholstery if you tone it down with lots of earth-tones in the form of natural stained or unfinished wood furniture, and cream or sand throw pillows, or a sand colored lacy crochet slip cover layered on top of the violet. Violet can be a beautiful accent color on throw pillows placed on white, cream, or sand colored upholstery as well.

Violet can compliment a taupe colored decor beautifully. Accent pieces will sing out and yet look at home in an environment natural to them.

Violet colored candles and votives are great for meditation and focal points. A violet colored mandala of a thousand petaled lotus would be the perfect wall hanging for a room in which you plan to meditate.

A violet colored snugly blanket or quilt looks great draped or folded over a dark stained wooden rocking chair.

Violet motifs on the trim of place settings and on porcelain tea sets are gorgeous, and the violet color can be repeated in a solid table cloth, or in just the cloth napkins at the side of the plates off set by a neutral colored table cloth.

With a bit of imagination, you can have the transformative power of violet in your home.

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