Fashion
Rules For Decorating Your Home
When it
comes time to decorate your home remember the fashion dos and don’ts of style.
While they may seem simple they can make the difference between a finished,
polished appearance or one that lacks cohesiveness.
Color Palette Guidelines - Choose your furnishings and carpet before painting the room. Paint is inexpensive when compared to changing carpets to match a favorite paint color. Blending a room together ends with a complimentary wall application of color and textures if desired.
Choosing a neutral color for the room can provide a canvas to add your favorite colors as accents. A well blended room features stylish furniture that provides comfortable seating with colors that are not distracting from the overall look of a room. Accent colors offer a palette to choose touches that allow your personality to shine through with sophisticated touches of elegance and design.
Stylish Furniture Arrangements - While your collection of furniture does not have to be the most expensive, it should match in color and upholstery design. Painting older pieces or bookshelves side tables and decorating your dining table to match the rest, can offer new life and style to a room. Using slipcovers’ can bring upholstery into the same decade and be done with style and elegance. Many of today’s slipcover options feature design elements that look like professionally designed upholstery.
Furniture arrangements should be done in such a way they provide areas of seating for your guest to feel welcome and the center of attention. Leave the television out of the seating arrangements for guest; it is a distraction to entertaining, unless you are hosting a sports themed gathering. Place large colored Flokati rugs and flower centerpieces arrange the furniture in groupings for comfort and ease of conversation. Do not leave the furniture hugging the walls, this leaves too much room between you and your guest, and appears unwelcoming. Make sure the area rugs you are displaying compliment the colors of the furnishings and the draperies, and your seating arrangements will have the look of formal homes and palatial estates.
Personal Items - You never want to cover a room with personal displays or collections; two or three items are plenty to add that personal touch. You can change them out now and then for variety or seasonal changes. Box up your seasonal choices in boxes that make it quick and easy to make a change. Your home should appear as uncluttered as possible for a stylish, elegant look. Museums are for collections, not for accessorizing living rooms.
Finishing Touches – Accessories add the finished touch to any room. Placing matching crystal bud vases on a mantel with an ornate display of family photographs in matching frames, adds a feeling of warmth to any room, and tells about the importance of family in your home. Set the atmosphere of your home with personal touches that declare your home as a place of welcoming style and mood setting warmth.
While no one else can set the décor of your home, doing it with style means using guidelines created to provide strategies for achieving elegant décor.
Color Palette Guidelines - Choose your furnishings and carpet before painting the room. Paint is inexpensive when compared to changing carpets to match a favorite paint color. Blending a room together ends with a complimentary wall application of color and textures if desired.
Choosing a neutral color for the room can provide a canvas to add your favorite colors as accents. A well blended room features stylish furniture that provides comfortable seating with colors that are not distracting from the overall look of a room. Accent colors offer a palette to choose touches that allow your personality to shine through with sophisticated touches of elegance and design.
Stylish Furniture Arrangements - While your collection of furniture does not have to be the most expensive, it should match in color and upholstery design. Painting older pieces or bookshelves side tables and decorating your dining table to match the rest, can offer new life and style to a room. Using slipcovers’ can bring upholstery into the same decade and be done with style and elegance. Many of today’s slipcover options feature design elements that look like professionally designed upholstery.
Furniture arrangements should be done in such a way they provide areas of seating for your guest to feel welcome and the center of attention. Leave the television out of the seating arrangements for guest; it is a distraction to entertaining, unless you are hosting a sports themed gathering. Place large colored Flokati rugs and flower centerpieces arrange the furniture in groupings for comfort and ease of conversation. Do not leave the furniture hugging the walls, this leaves too much room between you and your guest, and appears unwelcoming. Make sure the area rugs you are displaying compliment the colors of the furnishings and the draperies, and your seating arrangements will have the look of formal homes and palatial estates.
Personal Items - You never want to cover a room with personal displays or collections; two or three items are plenty to add that personal touch. You can change them out now and then for variety or seasonal changes. Box up your seasonal choices in boxes that make it quick and easy to make a change. Your home should appear as uncluttered as possible for a stylish, elegant look. Museums are for collections, not for accessorizing living rooms.
Finishing Touches – Accessories add the finished touch to any room. Placing matching crystal bud vases on a mantel with an ornate display of family photographs in matching frames, adds a feeling of warmth to any room, and tells about the importance of family in your home. Set the atmosphere of your home with personal touches that declare your home as a place of welcoming style and mood setting warmth.
While no one else can set the décor of your home, doing it with style means using guidelines created to provide strategies for achieving elegant décor.
