Interior Design Best Practices for your Home Improvement Project
Are you all set to launch your home remodeling project? Here are 10 interior design ideas to expand your horizons and help you on your quest.
Color Me Beautiful
From the white, white and beige, so that your life in some of the colors (and your walls)! Click Designer Dave Bromstad, from HGTV Design Star and HGTV's new show, Color Splash, host big winner in color. "I think Brown is a great color, because it looks great, in many combinations: brown and yellow, brown, blue, brown and orange. This has been hot for the past five years, and will continue to be hot. White and blue color, are also great, you can with the red and orange a big impact, "the rising star. But he also warned not to be too matchy, matchy. If you decide to go to the red walls, there is no red quilt on your bed needs!
Rock the Casbah
Moroccan design is welcoming, warm, inexpensive and relatively easy to pull together, all wonderful traits for those interested in Moroccan-style home decorating. “Moroccan styles are timeless,” says interior designer Vanessa De Vargas. Morocco is known for its handmade works like carved doors and columns, hand-woven carpets, intricately painted tiles, lanterns, leather goods and silver tea sets. The color palette is warm yet cool. Earth tones combined with various shades of blue and pink are common, as are texture and pattern.
A modernized version of Moroccan style is popular in the U.S. because it successfully takes classic Moroccan-design motifs, materials and styles and gives them a fresh spin. Traditional Moroccan design is heavier and more ornate.
Back to Nature
Use Indoor plants to bring nature into your home!
During the 1970s, there was a new appreciation for the great outdoors. Consequently interior decorating incorporated macram?redwood and anything in shades of oatmeal, green or brown. In keeping with the back-to-nature movement, homeowners did what they could to bring the outdoors in. Although the days of green and brown printed wallpaper are long gone (or so we hope), plants and flowering plants are still the rage in interior design.
Wallpaper is Back!
Wallpaper has been getting some really bad press in the past few years, while solid colors and wall patterns were hip and in. It seems like wallpaper is coming back, bigger and better than ever! Traditional block printed ‘paper’ wallpaper isn’t the only option. Fabric wallpaper is also available and will add a luxurious touch to any room. Other materials include those with a metallic luster and paper that gives the appearance of silk.
According to Karen Beauchamp from Cole & Son, we are exploring new ways to use wallpaper. The following guidelines recommend how to leverage more patterns in your surrounding environment:
* Cover only one wall (its trendy, and you can be more adventurous).
* Add some color to doors and cupboards by putting wallpaper on panels. Choose the scale of the pattern carefully though: if the space is too small and the scale too large, the pattern will get lost.
* For the really adventurous, add a twist on tradition by wallpapering a ceiling. This works particularly well with high ceilings, such as those in period properties.
Everyone Feng Shui!
Take the mystical out of Feng Shui design and learn its practical uses. Decorating using these principles will help you create a simple, balanced living environment. Real Feng Shui is extraordinarily specific, and complex. The only way to do real Feng Shui is either to become a student of this art, and painstakingly learn the many principals and subtleties it requires, or to hire a professional to do an analysis and work over of your home. However, Feng Shui does teach us something that is very useful when decorating your home.
* Color: Pay attention to how colors make you feel. Color has a huge effect on our mood and energy, but is also very individual. You may be the type of person who is comfortable in dark colors, while other people may find it depressing. Colors also affect the nature of interactions, and when you enter a new space you should always pay attention to the way people behave to one another. If there is a room in your home where people tend to get into arguments, reassess the colors in that room. Bright or extreme colors can irritate people’s eyes and increase their metabolism, making them more likely to fight. Painting a room in dark colors is know to create a lethargic atmosphere and encourage bad moods in people.
* Flow: In traditional Feng said, our goal is to maximize an area of positive chi flow. Think of a three-dimensional space as the space and try to picture people how to move objects and locations will be placed. If you feel a good flow – you have the right to have a positive energy. The process you want to do is the essence of the room. You hope this is easy to move through the room of people, as well as in and out of it. The object you want to be able to get rid of their storage, at the same time use, they will not add confusion. This is a flow of a mixture of the organization and design, on the elimination of barriers and allow them in various fields, the focus of a simple movement.
Island Fantasies
Whether you make yearly pilgrimages to the white-sand beaches of the tropics or merely travel via daydreams, interiors inspired by the ocean, sand, and gentle sea breezes bring the feeling home. Simply designed rooms, filled with light and fresh air, enchant the senses and have the ability to transport you to another headspace. Think of it as an exotic take on spring cleaning.
Imperial Beds
The Four-Poster bed is a timeless piece in any bedroom design. To avoid being heavy, new four-poster beds have thin posts, and are airy enough to be considered modern. Since four-poster beds are the most romantic of beds, a romantic design, soft, comfortable, and inviting, is highly recommended to accompany this fantastic traditional bed.
Classic White
The establishment of a white monochrome elegant space, sense of purpose is peace, quiet and complex. In a white white, you have more freedom to do different things. "Clutter and keep your distance and everything should be hidden, said:" Ammie Kim, a Beverly Hills designer. The color of all unnecessary items or things that should be moved. It is a very complex but very few look at.
Kitchen Freestyle
Because we’re spending more and more time in our kitchens and baths, there is a move away from the all-or-nothing “fitted” look of continuous counters. Look for more freestanding pieces of furniture or features with furniture-like qualities. These details won’t be fussy but will further the notion that the kitchen is a room to be lived in.
Country Living in the City
Do you miss the open spaces, the country roads, and the peace and quiet that comes from being away from New York for more than a week? Why not transform your city apartment and go country? Combine the best of city sophistication and country rustic, and see how much nicer it feels to eat in that dining room you never use!
