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10 Home Decorating Tips To Quickly Update Any Room
Not all home decorating tips and ideas require a
heavy investment of time and money. If you're looking for a few
affordable home interior decorating ideas to freshen up a room over a
weekend, try these ten decorating tips:
1. Rearrange The Furniture - Pull your furniture away from the walls.
Try positioning it at intriguing angles. For example, a sofa arranged
diagonally across a narrow living room will make the room look wider.
2. Paint A Wall - Paint one wall your favorite color and make it the
focal point. Hang interesting art on that wall and move a nice piece of
furniture there. (Note: Make sure that the color is one that is shared
with several other objects and fabrics in the room.)
3. Bring In Plants - Greenery always adds a breath of fresh air to a
room. If you don't have a green thumb, try silk plants and trees. The
quality has gotten so good that its hard to distinguish them from the
real thing.
4. Lay An Area Rug - An area rug is a wonderful way of defining a
conversation area. Try one that complements the room. Lay it at an angle
beneath your coffee table.
5. Hang Pictures or Mirror - Hang pictures that reflect your
personality. Try frames that are more ornate. When hanging a mirror, try
and position it so that it reflects and nice view or an interesting
architectural element.
6. Group Figurines - Pull out your favorite collectibles. Show off your
personality. Find a display area and group related objects together, in
sets of three or five. Try and vary the shapes.
7. Add Decorative Pillows - The good news about decorative pillows is
that they are an easy way to add textures and patterns to a room. Still
better, they can be changed to jazz up a sofa or chair before your room
is ready for a major makeover.
8. Replace Lamps - Lamps are probably the one thing in your home that
will give others a clue that your room is outdated. Seek out new and
fresh lamps that make a statement.
9. Add A Throw Or Afghan - Similar to decorative pillows, throws and
afghans add texture to your furniture. They come in all kinds of natural
and man made fabrics. Find a pattern and style that you like.
10. Eliminate Clutter - Clutter has a way of eliminating the desired
mood and effect of any room. Find storage spaces for papers, toys, and
other items that take from the personality of a room.
If you have a decorative mirror or lamps in mind, I recommend that you
check out Bellacor. They have a wide and interesting selection of both.
For area rugs, you'll find a mind boggling collection of all types,
colors, sizes, and patterns at ifloor. Check out Bellacor's quality rugs
as well.
For figurines and vases, you're certain to find something you like at Go
Collect. And for quality prints and posters, browse through All Posters.
They'll even frame your choice.
Article: 10 Home Decorating Tips To Quickly Update Any Room by Michael
Holland
Michael Holland is the author of "The
Awaken Your Interior Designer! Collection." Visit his web site,
www.home-decorating-made-easy.com
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Decorating With Lights and
Shades
Candlestick, lamp and fixtures for electricity
must accord with the lines of your architectures and furniture. The mantelpiece
is the connecting link between the architecture and furnishing of a room. It is
the architect contribution to the furnishing, and for this reason the keynote
for decorator.
In the same way lighting fixtures are links between construction and decoration
of a room, and can contribute to, or seriously divert from decorators design.
It is important that fixtures be so placed as to appear a part of a decoration
and not merely to illuminate conveniently a corner of the room, a writing desk,
table or piano.
In planning your house after arranging for proper wall space for your various
articles of furniture, keep in mind always that lights will be needed and must
be at the same time conveniently placed and distinctly decorative.
One is astonished to see how often the actual balance of a room is upset by the
careless placing of electric fixtures.
Therefore keep in mind when deciding upon the lighting of a room the following
points:
- fixtures must follow inline style
of architecture and furniture
- the position of fixtures on walls must carry out the architect
scheme of proportion, line and balance
- the material used in fixtures, brass, gilded wood, glass or
wrought iron must contribute to the decorators scheme of line and color
- as a contribution to color scheme the fixtures must be in harmony
with the color of the side walls, so as not cut them up, and the shade should be
a light note of color, not one of the dark notes when illuminated.
This bring us to the question of shades. The selecting of shapes and colors for
shading the lights in your rooms is of the greatest importance, for then shades
are one of the harmonics for striking important color notes, and their value
must be equal by day and by night, that is, equally, even if different.
Some shades, beautiful and decorative by night, when illuminated lose their
color and become meaningless blots in a room.
In ordering or making shades, be sure that you select colors and materials which
produce a diffused light. A soft thin pink silk as a lining for a silk or
cretonne shade is always successful, and if a delicate pink, never clashes with
the colors on the outside.
When you decide upon the shape of your shades do not forget that successful
results depend upon absolutely correct proportions.
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