Home is an extension of
our personality and our taste. Your home may be as big
as a castle or you may live in an attic room, it is
your personal touch and your unique style that makes
this space your home and you feel instantly
comfortable and warm. Home decoration need not be an
expensive affair but it does take a lot of planning to
achieve the right look that you desire so much to
convert a piece of land in your dream home.
Home decoration can be a big and
expensive budget and it is always good to pre-plan and foresee the
problems that may arise beforehand to prevent wastage of money,
time and effort or a result that does not match to your original
intentions or conflict with your daily needs. Choose the project
that fits your budget. You may also want to beak up your total
project plan in smaller and more manageable projects and then
prioritize them to fit your budget. Mostly, people prefer to solve
living problems first and targeting the areas that are most used
or lived-in in the house. Décor themes and styles can be chosen
from the interior décor magazines to make your home look bright,
cheerful and casual or formal, elegant and sophisticates. You may
also prefer rustic, country and shabby-chic styles.
Color schemes should be chosen according to your theme, climatic
conditions, size of the room and light that comes in the room.
Monochromatic walls can be made to look beautiful with accents in
two or three accent colors. Prints of fabrics such as stripes,
plaids, floral or checks can be used as single or mix-and-match
according to your preference. For large rooms, choose multi-hued
upholstery, bed linens and coverings, wallpaper and window
curtains with a large-scale print. Contrasts of mid-scale and
small-scale prints look too. Play with either color or print or
texture. Variants of all can lead to chaotic feel. Solid colors or
neutrals go well with patterns. Position your furniture into more
than one group seating areas, if the room is big, use screens and
area rugs to divide the areas and use warm colors all around to
make it feel cozy.
Stick to less than three colors, prints or textures in a small
room and keep your decorating muted for serenity. Mirrors reflect
more light, and glass-to tables almost disappear from view making
the space feel larger and airy. Tall vertical furniture, floor
length curtains hung from ceiling height and vertical stripes add
to the height of the ceiling. Use symmetrical décor elements such
as a pair of lamps and vases for the formal look in a room.
Smooth, glossy and plush are the key words to elegance, be it
highly polished wooden furniture or luxurious carpeting. Casual
decorating can use horizontal lines with low furniture line and
use of different textures. Displaying your collectibles on wall
mounted shelves and grouping pictures of different sizes on walls
for an informal look, does well too. For collections, display
heaviest piece at the bottom, groupings at the eye level and
preferably in odd numbers.
