When it comes to how we organise and structure our homes, there are a lot of different things to take into consideration – including, of course, things like how functionally suitable your home is for you and your family’s needs, and how cluttered versus tidy it is.

While we all have some sense that the way we decorate and ornament our homes matters, it is nonetheless the case that the aesthetics of the home are often left more or less as an afterthought.

As a matter of fact, however, the decorative features you choose for your home – such as chandeliers could be a lot more meaningful than you might assume.

Here are some reasons why you should pay attention to the aesthetic you are cultivating in your home.

The aesthetic you surround yourself with will have a big impact on your perspective (and on what you notice)

As human beings, an extraordinary amount of our overall experience the world is driven by the perspective we adopt – and the extent to which we are able to notice different patterns and features in our environments.

To give a simple example: if you spend all your time watching heartbreak romantic films, reading novels about heartbreak, and listening to breakup songs, you are likely to feel pretty negative as a rule, and likely also a bit pessimistic about love and relationships.

The aesthetic you surround yourself with habitually will have a big impact on your perspective – which is the same as saying it will have a big impact on what you most notice.

This, of course, has profound implications for your life as a whole.

It’s a very good thing for your home to “feel right” to you

Your home is a place where you will inevitably spend a huge amount of your time. In fact, there’s a good chance that your home will be the single most central location in your life, purely with regards to how much time you spend in it.

Therefore, if your home feels like it doesn’t really “resonate” with you, or match your interests, or help you to feel centered and positive, that’s a real issue.

When all is said and done, the way your home “feels” will always have a lot to do with its overall design aesthetic.

Life is more interesting when you add some colour and imagination to it

Life is a rich and wonderful thing, filled with all kinds of different experiences, possibilities, connections, highs, and lows.

So, wouldn’t you like your home to reflect and add to the overall colour and texture of life, rather than being a drab and uninspiring place that puts you in a mundane state of mind?

Ultimately, life is just more interesting when you take a more imaginative and creative approach to it – and your home decor can certainly help to achieve this.