Psycho-Decorating--designing your home surroundings to reflect your
unique personality--
developed from a three-year research project which studied the actual decorating choices made by
individual women, along with their personalities. The women filled out extensive inventory-style
questionnaires listing the exact contents of their homes, e. g., What color were their living
room walls? What was the shape of their coffee tables? How many different patterns had they
used in their living room? etc. To measure their personalities, several psychological tests
were filled out by the women. Ratings on the psychological tests were then correlated
statistically with answers given on the decorating inventories.
Results of this study formed the basis for the publication of the book, Psycho-Decorating, What Homes Reveal About People, Wyden Books, New York. In this book, psychological researcher and interior decorator, Dr. Margaret H. Harmon, detailed the many fascinating relationships uncovered in her study between preferences in home decorating and personality.
From this background the Personal Decorating Analysis has been developed--to help you chart the course of decorating your home in ways that will be most satisfying to you--and with the greatest of ease.
