Ideas for interior designing

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oi-Staff

By Super

Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 11:53

Hey, bought a new house? What about your interiors? Design it and make it different from the world and gift it to your loved ones. Here are some of the details about how you can make your house unique and have a home sweet home.

Home decoration is the art of decorating a room so that it looks good, is easy to use and function wells with the existing architecture. The goal of home decoration is to provide a certain "feel" for the room, it encompasses applying wallpaper, painting walls and other surfaces, choosing furniture and fittings and providing other decorations like artifacts and sculptures. There is a very thin line between designing and decoration. Interior decoration is generally focused more on finishes, such as wallpaper, paint, window covering and furnishings. Interior design leads to be more integrated with the architecture and might also be involved in room layout, cabinet designs, windows and door placement and so on.

Spacious rooms

If you love the wide-open spaces and want the light and airy atmosphere, here are some tips on achieving that sense of spaciousness in your rooms.

To create a feeling of largeness in your room, eliminate the shadows that tend to slice a room up into smaller spaces. Work on lighting the room with a soft, even light. Avoid ceiling lights, as they tend to make the ceiling feel lower. Diffused, ambient lighting will tend to enlarge the room.

Keep the surfaces free of heavy textures. Smoother surfaces tend to reflect more light and make the room feel larger.

Avoid heavy textured flooring. Choose tile over patterned or textured carpeting, wallpaper, paint, window covering and furnishings.

Soft colors and monochromatic color schemes. Use cream, beige, gray or cool pastels on your walls and floors to make them recede. The ceiling should always be the lightest color in the room.

Limit the use of patterns in the room to create a more airy feeling. A typical application of a pattern might be to reserve it for an accent piece.

Selection and placement of furniture in a room is crucial in defining the space. Keep the largest pieces against the walls whenever possible.

Choose furniture colours that are the same or similar to those selected for the walls and floors.

The paint techniques

Here are some of the effects of the paints that one can create apart from the flat surface, but one should be aware of the effect that one desire to create.

Colour washing: Color washing is among the group of finishes that have their beginnings in fine are, they are often known as broken-color technique. Specifically, it involves the application of thin washes of glaze in which the brush marks are left apparent to give the finish texture and depth. It provides an interesting alternative to flat color and can be used to decorate period or modern, town or country interiors.

Sponging: Sponging is a modern broken-colour technique. Natural sponge, moistened with water or soaked in glaze and used over the opaque base coat to produce a softly mottled effect-either by removing or adding color. Usage of sea sponge creates more interesting textures than normal household sponge.

Dry brushing: In this technique, the brush is kept relatively dry as glaze is applied lightly over a base coat to create a cloudy effect. It can be subtle if applied in soft tones with soft strokes or bold if you use hard bristled brushes and strong colors. An easy way to give texture to modern interiors, it is also used to create an aged finish for period settings. It is ideal for highlighting architectural mouldings and because it is extremely resilient, for furniture.