Amidst our hustling life in office, work, family, responsibilities, commitments, EMI, shopping, gadgets, sports and outings, after all you need a home to come back and relax yourself, shutting off from the outside world. Don't you want your home to become a weekend spa/resort?
Zen is the most essential meditative state in our lives right now, where we dont even get time to remain still and watch the inner mind's sheer beautifulness. If you are postponing to learn meditation now, atleast try giving a zen makeover to your home and see the difference!! You will end up travelling into deep meditative states of your mind :)

Bringing the essence of Zen in our home, is to help calm down our stressed mind, bring clarity in thoughts, allow us to breathe more freely and consciously, become one with nature and things around us (Feel the Oneness). The ultimate reason of Zen design is to create a peaceful, inspiring home that looks good without much a do. 

What is Zen in spiritual terms?
Zen is a style of Buddhist spiritual practice. It is sometimes called a 'teaching' or a 'philosophy', but its core is the practice. As a Zen practitioner: # Throughout your daily life and work, you cultivate a calm, clear, pure, wide open attitude of mind. # You practice conscious awareness, with mind and body, in everything you do - all day long. # You practice loving kindness toward all beings (not just the human ones). # You meditate in the zazen style, sitting quietly, emptying your mind of thoughts (memories, plans, opinions) and focusing on your breathing.

Now lets get into business, following are the basics of Zen Design Principle:

This post is in continuation to the basics of color theory post. We would be using the basic color schemes to best decorate our living space. Every color has a significant stimulation of feelings and emotions to humans, and this is called as Color Psychology. Choose your interiors and paints, keping in mind the color combinations that can be used from the color wheel and the color psychology.

Colors around you in your daily activities, play an important role in your life. We may tend to ignore our choices for colors, but if given importance it can improve our moods, energy levels, physical health, productivity and happiness. Let's first learn the basic color theory in common man terms, and how we can use them effectively.
Color theory is a guide to mix colors logically and create visual effects with various color combinations as required. The basics of color theory - the color wheel and color harmony - context of how colors are used. These theories can be used to choose color combinations while painting our house, artwork, fabrics and in any of your design.

1. The Color wheel 
A color wheel chart helps us to relate colors with each other and find a color combination logically. There are two color wheels possible - A color wheel formed with 3 Primary colors - Red, Yellow, Blue (RYB) and the other wheel is formed with 4 Primary Colors - RYBG (adding green). The 3-primary color wheel is used for color mixing to bring the particular shade, especially in paints and the 4-primary color wheel is used to relate colors to what we see and how we feel. The  Secondary colors are derived from a combination of two primary colors. Tertiary colors are derived from mixing one secondary color and one primary color. Neutral (Achromatic) colors are Grey, Black and Brown - which are not included in the color wheel. Neutral colors can be used to tone down the brightness of the original color wheel pigments. The 4-color wheel can be used to select warmer or cooler shades of the same color. It's outer ring scale shown below signifies red as warmer, yellow as warm, green as cool and blue as cooler. We would suggest to use 4-color wheel for better choices in your art, craftwork, fabrics, or interior design, as it has some feel factor in it.