Monday - Design Theory Day: The Designers Pyramid

So today is Design Theory Day!
What exactly is design theory? you may ask

Design theory is the stuff interior designers, architects and decorators use in order to achieve the best look possible, using 'rules' and ideas that nearly always work. My goal for each Monday is to teach you how to use some of the design tricks for StrongerDesign in your own home!

Todays piece of Theory is something slightly mysterious sounding:
The Designers Pyramid

The Designers pyramid is a 'typical' arrangement of anything from furniture to accessories in a specific formation that is both interesting to the eye but displays the items effectively and cohesively.

Different examples of the pyramid:

Above you can see the far more unusual Designers Pyramid (excuse my quick photoshopping) Rather than using accessories, the furniture itself forms the pyramid shape. Creating a far more interesting composition than having them in a straight line, allowing the eyes to start from the floor and spiral upwards to the top of the tall floor lamp.

The above pyramid is displayed in a simple scaling method - we've all seen this one hundreds of times. Like this one most pyramids toy with scale.

Next Monday we will look at colour theory, the rules to live by and the rules to be broken!

The first of many to come...

Rather than bore you with my life history (if you are actually interested in the man behind the blog - feel free to take a peak at the about me section).

I'm planning to break down each day of the week into its own 'theme' day so to speak. The plan is as follows:

Monday - Theory-day. General rules of Design Theory for that perfect look.

Tuesday - Colour-day Combination masterclass - the how to's and no no's of
design.

Wednesday - Finaltouches-dayFurnishing and adding the final touches.

Thursday - Help-day Dealing with less-desireably features in your home.

Friday - DIY-day project or two for inspiration and to do over the weekend.

Saturday - Art-day of self-indulgence featuring Art & Graphic Design by yours
truly.

Sunday - Feature-day, featuring another page/blog or design from someone else.


These days may change over time depending upon how useful and how enjoyable they are to read.

Ultimately I know initially I'll have a small readership but hopefully over time and with some good writing I'll have more than a handfull of readers interested in the knowledge I hope I can depart.