Designing Your New Home? Don’t Forget The Appliances!
May 23rd
One of the most exciting parts of buying or building a new home is designing its interior. The kitchen is typically given the most consideration and for good reason: it’s the gathering place for friends and family. When designing your kitchen, it’s important to give a great deal of thought to your appliances. Because of their expense, doing your research before you buy will pay off in the long run. Read the rest of this entry »
Sponge Painting – An Easy Way To Add Excitement To Your Living room
May 7th
Faux painting techniques have become very popular over the past few years. These techniques can take a boring monotonous room and make it come alive. Sponge painting is the easiest of the faux painting techniques. It is a quick, simple way to bring a spark to your living room You can start off simply or really get dramatic with sponge painting techniques. The great thing is it doesn’t cost much. So if you’re looking for an easy way to make your living room pop, consider sponge painting.
Stuck On A Decorating Project? Head To The Fabric Store
Apr 19th
Interior design and home decorating projects are creative endeavours to take. Make no mistake about it, to get a room looking just right takes an artistic flair. It’s not uncommon for artists to hit a wall and run out of ideas and inspiration. You hear a lot about authors that have ‘writer’s block’, well the same thing can happen to decorators; there is a ‘decorator’s block’ that can hit right before, or worse yet, in the middle of a project. Sometimes you start with a plan and it just isn’t right after you get started. It is easy to get discouraged and just give up, but you don’t have to. There is a place you can go that will help spark your imagination – the fabric store.
Get Ideas At The Fabric Store
The first thing you should do is put the project in the back of your mind, as much as you can. Go to the fabric store with no preconceived notions. Don’t look for ideas, let the ideas find you. Begin browsing and see what catches your eye. You can even cloak your efforts by telling yourself that you are shopping for a fabric for a new pillowcase, or some smaller project. Let your subconscious work with the surroundings of the store until you find something that makes you say, “Aha!”
When a particular colour or pattern catches your, eye ask yourself these questions:
- Do I like the pattern, the texture, or the colours?
- Where would I use this idea – furniture, curtains, paint, etc?
- Can I build a theme around this idea?
After you have answered those questions, write down the answers. You may want to buy a small piece of the fabric to keep you motivated. Or, if you’ve decided to use that fabric for throw rugs or furniture coverings, go ahead and buy what you need. Then head to the hardware store and get paints and any extras that you need to get moving. Don’t sit around and mull over your decision, just run with the creative momentum. Start your work and incorporate your new ideas. You are guaranteed to have a room with a fresh, interesting design. Best of all, you will have beat the cursed ‘designer’s block’.
Colours With Meaning
Dec 29th
Picking a colour to paint your house can cause a lot of stress, especially if you don’t know what you want. Below are some colours and what they mean and represent. If you are thinking of painting your house, look below to see which colour says what!
- Red: Maintaining health, strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage, protection. This colour is widely used in defensive magic. It is the colour of the element of fire. Red is associated with blood (and thus, life and death), birth, volcanoes, and intense emotions.
- Pink: Love, friendship, compassion, relaxation. Pink is symbolic of calm emotions and of emotional unions. It’s less powerful then red.
- Orange: The colour of general attraction and energy. Orange is a lesser aspect of red.
- Yellow: Intellect, confidence, divination, communication, eloquence, travel, movement. Yellow is the colour of the element of Air and is the colour of royalty.
- Green: Money, prosperity, employment, fertility, healing, growth. Green is the colour of the element of the Earth and symbolizes our planet’s fertility (it’s the colour of chlorophyll) as well as life itself.
- Blue: Healing, peace, patience, happiness. Blue is the colour of the element of Water. It is a symbol of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky.
- Purple: Power, healing severe disease, spirituality, meditation, religion. Purple was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine.
- White: Protection, purification, all purposes. It is the Symbol of the Moon, freshness, snow, cold, and potential. Adds to spiritual strength, breaks curses or crossed conditions, represents faith, truth and sincerity.
- Black: Banishing negativity, absorbing negativity. It symbolizes outer space and the universe. Black is the absence of colours. In some cultures, black represented fertility (as in quite fruitful black earth); in others, wisdom. In our culture it has been curiously linked with evil, due to religious associations.
- Brown: Animals. Brown represents soil and, to a lesser degree, fertility of the Earth.
So what is the best colour for your home? Here is your chance to express your own taste and style and see which colours work within your life!
Choosing the Best Colour for Your Home
Dec 29th
Time for the big question: What colour paint should you use for your house? This may seem like a simple question, but the answer is complex.
Have you ever tried looking at the small details in your house? A lot of factors should be considered when choosing the kind of colours that you need in your home. Depending on what you want to focus on, you can select various colours to be painted on your walls, ceilings, windows, columns, dividers and decks. However, take note that using too many colours can be distracting to the eyes. Most interior designers will tell you to stick to one colour family when painting your house. Be aware of using contrasting colours that can clash the look of your house. If you think blue is perfect for you, try using lighter or darker tone of blue for an accent instead of having a completely opposite, dissimilar colour.
The right home colour for you does not necessarily go by any rules. The bottom line is that you can express your taste and personality through these colours.
