Interior Home Decorating Tips
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To decorate on a budget try using greeting cards or calendar pictures and framing them with a ready made frame can achieve simple and effective decoration. It is also a great way to use your children’s art around the house and give them a sense of pride. You can pick a theme or go with a color or texture, you can even use remnants of fabric, they provide interest as well as good color and depth. You can then continue your theme inexpensively.
Simple framed greeting cards
When replacing a light bulb make sure that the correct wattage for the fitting is used and that the fitting itself is either bayonet or screw in. You don’t want your lampshade to catch on fire if you have the bulb too hot. I have seen a few melted lampshades in my time.
I see this time and time again. Do not position valuable art in direct sunlight or near a fireplace or heater. It is not healthy for your artwork or their frames and will cause discoloration and warp the frames. How to arrange artwork.
An item often overlooked with joinery is the hinges, remember to match the finish of the hinges with the rest of the hardware.
Using a feature wall can greatly enhance the look of a room, but keep in mind the color that you choose as it may alter the perception of depth or width to the room. Great if that is intentional but a disaster if it is not.
Trompe l’oeil adds a very definite artistic and three-dimensional element to a room. It also helps create the illusion of space and added dimension, and a very good talking point. Trompe l’oeil is a form of decorative paint effects.
Trompe l’oeil used in a restaurant to disguise the service exit
When designing a joinery unit be sure that the person using it is able to use it. Many women have decorative fingernails and some types of handles and knobs may not be designed to accommodate this. Always have your eye on the detail.
Using translucent sheers allow filtered natural light into the room and can hide unattractive views seen through the windows. The view can then be turned into an attractive feature. More information on sheers.
Sheers diffuse the light
More Interior Home Decoration Ideas
A simple way to make your house your home is by creating themed rooms with knick-knacks and accessories that you already have. This reflects your taste and your life’s travels and then you can slowly add to them, to build up the personal homely feeling to your house.
Themed Rooms – great interior decorating idea
When selecting hardware color think that bright metals on dark timbers or colors allow for the eye to focus quickly providing good detail and ergonomics. Whereas bright metals on light timbers and colors are far subtler and subdued.
Don’t fear displaying your precious possessions. If sculpture and ceramics are what you enjoy, then let them be part of your home. Art is not just the obvious. Hand made crockery can be displayed in French Dressers for maximum effect.
A simple tip to remember if you want to disguise an ugly fixture or feature in a room is to paint it the same color as the walls and it will no longer stand out.
Easy way to disguise and ugly feature
It is important to think of the artwork when selecting a frame for it. Choose one that will enhance it’s beauty, rather than detract. Think about where it is to be placed in the room and that can sometimes help you work out the overall size of the frame and the colored mount to use.
If in doubt – keep it simple
The purchase of furniture is a major expenditure in home decorating, so it is essential to think long term and not be impulsive. (Impulsive = Expensive) If you want to change your interior it is more economical to change the style of your accessories than large items like a couch. An example, using bright bold upholstery fabric on the sofa may be just what you love now, but next year you probably won’t be able to stand the sight of it – a very expensive item to change.
Selecting the right grout for your tiles can make a big difference to the overall finished look. The same color gout as your tile creates a monotone look, simple and elegant, a darker tone makes the tile stand out in contrast. Therefore different colored grouts can add a decorative and higher contrast to tiles use.
Written by Lee Brown
