My friend who is an Interior Designer by profession always tells me that I don’t need to spend thousands of cash in styling my own space. Besides, I could find the best cheap thrills in the nearest depot without splurging too much.
There are four areas in your home or space that needs to be given attention in order to yield an impressive result:
1. Paint – Painting a room is one of the easiest but most impressive decor changes you can make. And the good news is you can paint like a pro by buying quality paint and quality brushes and rollers.
2. Area Rugs – A new area rug represents one of the best home decor purchases you can make. These affordable rugs come in a multitude of styles, fabrics, and colors. You can use them to brighten a room, accent your furniture, or provide a lively contrast to the primary decorating theme.
3. Furniture –It makes a statement in a room. Furniture, especially older furniture, is often extremely well made. The frame is often hardwood and very sound.
4. Lamps – using a lighting can bring a room alive. One of the best ways make a lighting decor statement is through a combination of floor and table lamps. Lamps represent your best lighting value because they require no wiring alterations to your home and because they can be moved from room to room and from house to house.
I have to admit, I am a failure when it comes to room organization. My mom always tells me that my room is a mess and that my things are all over the place. At times, I am having a hard time finding my things since my clutter is all over the room. But as time goes by, I have managed on how to keep my room organized in my own little way.
There are many advantages one could get to being organized such as:
•Decreases stress
•Allows you to have more time to enjoy the things that you love
•Develops good time managment skills you can use everyday at home or on the job.
And with the current lifestyle that we have or I have, room organization is no longer a luxury but a necessity.
A child’s room is special, so it’s important to create a room that the child loves. Even a child has favorite colors, and their choice should be reflected in their rooms, whether it’s pastel colors for a girl’s room or bold primary colors for a boy. It could be easily changed when the child has outgrown it or when you have to sell.
When deciding for a theme for your child’s room, it should include not only the walls and fabrics but also the bed. Creating a fantasyland based on your child’s choice of characters will transform your child’s room into something extraordinary where they will feel at home.
Simple is beautiful. If you are just starting to decorate your brand new house, keep it simple to be safe. Sometimes, we tend to be sentimental and love to keep things through the years. To avoid looking cluttered, leave spaces for your old furniture, decors and accessories. It’s not a crime to mix and match. Combinations of different styles are allowed for as long as the blending is well coordinated. Colors play an important role in interior design. The illusion of space is affected by the colors you use. Overall, the design of your home should possess balance, harmony and proportion.
• Mirrors give an illusion of more space. It makes the room look bigger.
• Use light colored paints such as beige or off-white it creates an illusion of more space.
• Less is more. Stay organized. Clutter will make the room look even smaller.
• Store only the items that you love. Refrain from being attached to your items. For those things that you hardly use, keep them.
• Utilize every single space in your room.
• Go for built-ins. This is a great way to maximize your space.
• Use smaller pieces to create the illusion of proportion.
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More often, we are faced with the dilemma of choosing the right colors for our homes. Starting out, we have no idea of what color scheme or color palette we could decorate with. Looking at color boards could be very helpful. They could guide you in determining your color preferences and coordinating the colors. A color guide will give you the immediate ability to visualize design concepts and colors of the choices available to you without having to spend so much time researching books and magazines. Knowing the perfect color scheme and style for your home will give you the confidence to proceed with your decorating project.
Each room has different architectural features but designer tricks can make small rooms appear larger. By allowing as much natural light to enter the room as possible and using artificial light freely will help to keep things bright creating a spacious look. Placing lamps will bounce the light off the ceiling and reflect it back into the room. Another way is the use of mirrors, if possible using a space on the wall from ceiling to the floor. Furniture made of glass reveal much floor space. To help keep the space open and free, furniture with longer legs is recommended.
Everything small is hip these days, just check out the iPod Nano if you don’t believe me. This also pertains to home decorating since those dainty and small condo units are getting their fair share attention. Chandeliers are supposed to look grand and…well…big. Nowadays, we need to scrimp on space and the old idea of the large chandelier on top of the piano is no longer that possible.
Welcome the mini chandelier.
Since these are small, they’re usually made up of lesser materials like aluminum or hollow. This however makes them easier to install and makes them cost effective as well.
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It used to be that TVs are bulky things that take up a chunk of space in your living room, now with the introduction of LCD and Plasma screens, those days are coming to an end.
However, this presents a new challenge to interior design artists: how do you make something like a TV look design-worthy on a living room wall? Most people still see these plasma on the wall designs as an irritation to the eyes. That is until this article suggested the Italia Television Panel:
These contemporary tv stands panels surround the screen in a multitude of colors such as dark oak tv stands and an attractive ash grey, which integrate the technology into the home.
Smooth and sleek, the panels are used on screens of various sizes and if the television is no more than 10 centimeters can be mounted to be flush with the panel creating a smooth surface.
Even if you find yourself with a television more than 10cm in depth the effect of the wall panels is attractive and desirable.
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Lighting is one of the ways where wisdom and artistry can be applied for a home and they basically come in three types according to decorators, ambient, task and general lighting. General lighting illuminates the area for you and everybody else who enters a space. Ambient lighting gives focus to the elements of a space that may need emphasis such as art or antiques giving them their own light. Task lighting may be the most misunderstood for most of us generally adopt a technique known as “glare lighting”, where we have one central lighting fixture that is to provide all the light you need for a particular space. task lighting is the best way to improve safety for everybody knows what a nasty shadow is cast by you on the under-cabinet
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