How to Utilize the Web to Create Your Own Unique Interior Design
Nov 15th
The Internet is a great tool for creating your own unique interior decorating concepts, both practically and educationally. You can discover ways to select a color palette and learn the various tricks to making your ideas into a complete design. You can also learn different techniques for choosing the best furniture layout for a room. Some sites are even geared towards those looking to take an e-course on interior design. Online decorating Internet sites make decorating a fun and easy interactive experience. Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Furniture Trends to Watch For In 2012
Mar 8th
Are you ready to redecorate? When guests walk into your home, do they think they’ve stepped backwards through time? If so, you may be interested in the latest interior decorating trends. When it comes to furniture, styles change, and for 2012, they have changed dramatically.
Here are the trends you should be aware of when redecorating your domicile: Read the rest of this entry »
Tips to Elevating the Mood of Your Home
Jun 7th
Every personal living space is prime real estate for creating a personal oasis. Tips to elevating the mood of your home can start with makeover plan basics.
Physical Space Inventory
The physical space of a home includes room layouts, room contents, room functions and room personalities. The home as a whole may or may not have an overall personality, including over-aching themes or moods.
Draw a simple diagram depicting each room’s layout. Jot down on a pad or use software to inventory the general contents of each room. Consider taking one or more photos of each room. For each room, besides inventorying its contents, characterize the room itself, its personality. Read the rest of this entry »
2011 – A New Year for Interior Design
Dec 20th
With 2011 just around the corner it seems like the perfect time to be thinking about which new trends the New Year will bring. A new year always heralds a new vogue, so what will these trends turn out to be over the next coming months? For those of you too impatient to wait, below are what the experts are saying will be key styles throughout the next year. Read the rest of this entry »
Want Your Room To Look Larger? Here’s One Tip That Does The Trick
May 8th
Probably the greatest quest for any home decorator is trying to make a room appear larger. Let’s face it, we all want the spaces in our house to appear roomier. There are a lot of techniques that decorators use but there is one all-important tip that is a sure-fire way to make any room appear more spacious. It is deceptively simple and easy to pull off, and can produce dramatic results.
Magic Tricks With Lights To Make A Room Look More Spacious
May 8th
You may not be David Copperfield or David Blair, but there are still a lot of tricks that you are capable of when it comes to interior design and style. Crafty decorators know that you have to use everything you can to your advantage to bring out the best in every room of the house. One of the great dilemmas in home décor is making a room appear more spacious. There are several approaches to the fine art of room enlarging illusions and each has pros and cons. What many people fail to recognize is the importance of the right lighting to make a room appear larger.
Take Chances on Your Design Projects – Style Rules You Can Break
Apr 26th
Getting in a rut can be a tiresome ordeal. Doing the same things, the same way all the time is not good for your creative side. That is why changing up styles in your home can be such a liberating experience; it’s a chance to do something new. If you are thinking about changing the style in your home, be sure that you don’t just move from one rut to another.
A lot of people begin new home decorating projects very excited, but quickly lose that fervour. What happens to dull their passion? One setback may be a huge set of home decorating “rules.” When new designers begin to read up on different design ideas, they hear professional stylists telling them, “Do this, but never do this…” It can be enough to make anyone nip their own creative impulses in the bud. Here are a couple of the “rules of design” that you can feel free to break.
- Keep things symmetrical. This is nonsense. While a symmetrical room layout can be very inviting, it can also be very boring. Take chances with your design. Put things where you think they look best. Let your personality shine through. None of us are perfectly balanced people; so why should our rooms be perfectly balanced? Have a little fun!
- Stick with one theme. Consistency is a great thing, but you don’t have to be bogged down by the limitations of one style over another. Feel free to add a little funk to a traditional country look with a post-modern painting or sculpture. Keep things interesting.
There are plenty of other, hard and fast rules that you can break as a designer. Be sure that you know the rules well, before you break them. If you are breaking rules, just to be breaking them, you are likely to end up with a stylistic nightmare. You want to use the breaking of the rules to make a style statement not to cause people to be uncomfortable. Remember it’s OK to be a fashion outlaw sometimes, you might just surprise yourself.
The big home décor statement these days: Global
Dec 4th
Nobody can deny that the economic downturn in recent times has ravaged everything on its path including spending on home décor. This is best illustrated by the conservative nature that seems to have crept in. Lavish extravagance on the home front is becoming very rare.
Still, overriding style statements in style trends these days are all headed in one direction. And that direction is best described as global styles.
It seems so fashionable and elegant these days to take international influences from far flung places to create a personalized, interesting and sometimes provocative décor in the home.
This trend is hardly surprising considering that we live in a global village, thanks mainly to easy and rapid global air travel and the World Wide Web. These both have helped a great deal in quietly promoting more travel around the world.
The result is that when home décor stylists seek international influences these days, no continent is spared. We all frequently come across Asian, Australian, European, African and American furniture trends in the home.
For instance, prints mainly portraying animals that can only be found in Africa have been popular for quite a while now. There is no denying that some pretty interesting things can be done with leopard and cheetah skin for example. These can be used both with antique and contemporary furniture in the home and still bring out some wonderful results in both extremes.
On many occasions animal prints have been used in conjunction with leather. It is fascinating how leather has taken a new prominent role as an ideal accent on wooden and fabric prices. Used in small dozes it tends to bring out the best in a wide variety of situations.
