I am renovating my home and I want to bring god into it. What colors should I use and are there any motifes that are more holy than others? I really want to stay away from stained glass. Thanks for the help and god bless.
2007-05-06 19:36:37 · 10 answers · asked by carl j 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You know...I don't know if there are specific colors or styles you should choose to reflect your Christian heritage. Being a Christian myself, and also having a degree in Interior Design, I offer this advice.
If you are looking for help to exagerate your Christianity (I'm assuming you're either Catholic or Christian) you might call upon your local designer and possibly spend some time together going over what is most important to you about God. Is it creation? Or is it His faithfulness? Is there a particular aspect about Christ you want to emmulate in your home? Humility, hope, love, teachings, etc? Those sorts of qualities, emotions, and stories will help you and your designer (if you choose to work with one) select colors and motifs that really emphasize those things.
For example: Creation: Naturally occuring colors (blues, greens, yellows, browns, earthy tones); light colored; simple and strong furnishings; light flowing window treatments made of strong, durable, non-synthetic fabrics; photos of nature and/or candid family shots; etc.
That's just one example. Anyway have fun with it. What a great idea!
2007-05-06 20:00:25 · answer #1 · answered by Kristen 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your decoration does not really matter, actually i dont think God is really concerned with how you decorate your house, you know whether its holy or not, however he is concerned with the state of the people in it.
Wish your question was how do i make my household more God fearing because if everyone in your house is that way others wont help notice Gods presence and pleasantness as they come to visit you.
all the best with the renovations
2007-05-06 19:50:36 · answer #2 · answered by lmteule 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some colours (and crystals/mineral rocks) can help enhance spirituality. White (selenite - cleanses) and gold help you to focus on God. Blue is good to enhance communication (and therefore prayer and harmony). Green is healing. Purple (amethyst) is good for enhancing intuition (ie getting answers to prayers for more understanding, etc). Pink (rose quartz) helps feelings of love. Green quartz has similar action to pink quartz - it helps people to feel loved and loving.
Purple is also great to put in the bedroom for married people, as it is a combination of blue (communication) and red (passion).
Other colours (not so spiritual) are yellow, stimulates intellect; orange, stimulates good humour; red, stimulates passion and motivation.
Feng shui can also help you to focus your thoughts on God, if you design your home accordingly. You can get books out of the library.
Having a picture of family, or of Jesus with children, etc, at the end of a hallway can help you focus on faith, love and kindness. (That's what I plan on doing, once I find the picture I want.)
Good luck and God bless.
2007-05-06 19:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by MumOf5 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's probably more about what you don't bring into your house, than what you put in it. Just because you have crosses and religious pictures in your home, or plaques with bible verses doesn't mean you are anymore spiritual than someone without these things. Just live your life for Christ, 'cause that's what people are really looking for these days.
2007-05-06 19:46:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Holy means 'dedicated'. It does not mean 'good'. It may be good to be 'holy', but it would depend on what you would be dedicating yourself to.
If you mean being holy to God, then there is a way to do that:
Deuteronomy 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
21 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.
So all those little things of carved verses in the Bible book store have a purpose. I hope to have a place like that some day soon.
2007-05-06 19:44:05 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Other than one or two items, religion was among the last things to determine how we decorated our home.
I do love stained glass, though.
2007-05-06 19:41:13 · answer #6 · answered by Barry auh2o 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Crosses, Pictures depicting God, are all relics
Just live your life as Christ like as possible and read the Bible
No need for all of that stuff
2007-05-06 19:41:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Require everybody who comes in to pay 10% of their income.
2007-05-06 19:40:19 · answer #8 · answered by Beavis Christ AM 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Throwing feces on the wall.
2007-05-06 19:40:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Clouds..............................................
2007-05-06 19:39:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋