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Interior
Design For New Homes
By Rosemary Leake
When decorating or making decorating
decisions for new homes, it is important to remember that your major
decisions could affect decorating choices for quite a long period of time.
Commitment to bold or unusual color treatments before you have actually had
the opportunity to consider how such changes will coordinate with your
furniture placement is not very advisable in this type of situation. In any
case, the best advice you could receive while planning interior design for
new homes is to make mediocre, undramatic design choices to begin that you
can alter at a later time if you choose to do so.
This may seem like very unusual advice
concerning interior design for new homes especially coming from someone who
is working within the design industry—but there is good explanation for this
reasoning. A large, open space without viewing or visualizing any furniture
content within that space is quite easy to get a little carried away with
while making structural changes. Also, keep in mind that by using very bold
or dramatic designer interior colors on the walls you might be closing off
your future alternative color choices to those that will cover the bright
color therefore eliminating any possibility of using neutral colors without
major restructuring of wall surfaces.
Wallpaper is another such choice that you
might reconsider using while building interior design for new homes. Again,
removing wallpaper and resurfacing the surface is often times quite a
headache that can be avoided by using other alternatives for creative wall
finishing. A great alternative for wallpaper that adds a great texture to
the wall surfaces would be a finishing technique such as faux finishing,
sponging, or stenciling. These choices (and many more like them) offer you a
variety of substitutes that are equally appealing and much easier to change
then more permanent solutions such as wallpaper. If you absolutely must have
wallpaper in any of the rooms, try using a border to achieve the look you’re
going for instead of covering the entire wall surface.
When painting walls, if you apply a few
well known interior design tips and tricks to your method, you will be
pleasantly surprised in the overall effects when complete. For example,
brighten up small or dark rooms with light wall colors. Add character and
direction to larger areas by defining them with contrasting colors and
textures. Bold or stark color panels can also provide a defining feature to
an area that you can showcase wall pieces on when you are ready to
accessorize.
Once the walls have been treated in your
new home, the next item on the agenda while planning interior design for new
homes would be dynamic placement of your hanging accessories such as
mirrors, pictures, and art. Do not over clutter walls. Make good choices and
place such items in key places by establishing focal points or presentation
areas that will flatter the rest of your design.
Interior design for new homes can be a
tricky process. There is a good possibility that the area pertained in your
new home will be slightly larger or smaller then the space in your previous
home. It is this reason that planning placement and theme of each space in
your new home is so vitally important to successful interior design of new
homes. Be sure to measure widths of furniture and doorways before moving day
comes in order to avoid hassle while getting the furniture into your new
living space. Take careful notice of any moving activity that occurs into
and around your new home. Careless moving errors can disfigure floors and
walls and create flaws in your new house before you have even begun living
there.
Placement of furniture in new homes is one
of the key aspects of unique interior design for new homes. The old
philosophy of creating larger spaces (this is seen especially in living
areas and rec rooms) by lining the furniture along the walls is true at
times although at other times (again, especially in recreational-type
rooms), dividing the room into two separate spaces by positioning furniture
towards separate focal points therefore adding space and versatility to the
area as well as enlarging it.
The most important matter of concern when
designing or planning interior design for new homes is to build an
environment that caters to the individuals living there. Creating a space
that is accommodating to each person’s lifestyles is the general principle
of new home design.
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Rosemary Leake is an Independent Consultant with Southern Living at Home.
Inspired by Southern Living magazine, our exclusive home décor line brings
warmth and style to every room of your home! Visit Rosemary's Interior
Design website for more articles and resources -
http://www.interiordesignprofits.com.
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