September 28th, 2007Style, Taste and Touch
The first step towards decorating your house is to find your style and taste and decorate your house with your personal touch.
Guidelines to easily find your house decorating style:
- Where do you live? Do you live in a town or village? This is important to flow with the style of the place where you live and look of the home, keeping the initial theme consistent. You may want to continue the same style in your interior to make the home really flow.
- Is the home dark, excessively sunny, light and airy? If the home is dark, then lighten it up in color, furniture, mirrors, etc. if the home is excessively sunny take care of the sun problems when planning ideas for decorating your house.
- How would you like to furnish your house? Look at the existing furniture to see what you have selected in the past and have a tendency to prefer.
- What are your favorite colors, and which of these luxuriates colors would your like to live with for a long period of time?
- Assorted styles are always a very comfortable way to decorate. Eclectic arrangements and combinations add interest and relief from too much of the same look. You may want to invest in artwork. Use the artwork as the focal point. Use the colors of the artwork to decorate the room around. Look through books and magazines. See what you consistently seem to prefer. Decide what you like about certain elements and ideas over others.
- Study your surroundings. By studying your surroundings the style in your home and also touring model homes and seeing the actual rooms decorated will benefit you a lot. Snap pictures of ideas you see that you particularly admire. Visiting friends and neighbors homes will give you a range of design ideas. Tour decorating shops and studios reflect in your decorating shops and studios reflect in your decorating selections and preferences for a wide range of displayed styles and effects. Your occupation will also reflect in your decorating selections and preferences.
- Style according to your personality and status. Do you entertain a lot, and desire elaborate treatments to show your status in life? Is the home primarily a backdrop for entertainment? Your lifestyle will heavily reflect upon your designing style.
- Be sure to think about your animals while designing your home.
- Are you home often? Do you put the home to full use or do you just come home to sleep, bathe, and change clothes? Are you seeking a comfortable, cozy feeling, or is an extremely clean atmosphere desired?
- Try to decide how you really want your interior to look. You and your family are the ones who must live in the home with the interior selections. You should have what you really want. If what you desire is not affordable, do the decorating in stages.
- When you decide which design direction you are going to go in for, assemble all the fabric samples, and wallpaper samples. Look at all the samples together in the home. Live with the combination for a few days to see if you and your family are happy with the selected design. Try to match all the things together and try to relate it with your personality.