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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Home Decoration: Little Details, Big Difference


Home decoration do not need to be expensive although there are just some things in home decoration that you have to shell out a little extra to get the look and feel that you like

Home decoration is creating a statement. The home you live in, the colors that you chose, the furnishings and the accessories are a statement of the definitive you. This is why there are just some things that you have to spend a little more extra because there are just some things that one can have in a house that needs a little more special treatment. A good home decoration can be ruined by one object placed with misjudgment.

Lets start with the walls.

A good part of home decoration focuses on walls. The walls in your home are your open canvases. A good paint or wallpaper will do the job marvelously. What will ruin the look though is what we hung on it, an artwork for example. There are many imitation paintings that are available today on the net and you will discover two kinds. One that will be printed on very high quality paper with high quality prints, perfect imitations though on paper, another will be painted directly on canvass.

No matter the quality of the print, if it is done on paper, it will never be as good as those that are directly painted on canvasses. Artwork and oil on canvasses has something to it that speaks differently to us that is never captured by print even with the highest quality. You add a little extra too.

The Bedroom
Money could be saved in a bedroom if the budget does not allow it but do not scrimp on the sheets. Aside from the sheets taking on a big percentage of the visual of the room, your bed is also where you spend the third portion of your life. It should be treated with a little more luxury. Once you slept on a 600 threads count sheet, you'll never want to sleep on a 200-thread count sheet again. More, the moment you find that your bed and sleeping is more enjoyable, you will tend to notice the other things in your bedroom that needs updating (or discarding) to match the sheets. This is usually how good home decoration starts.

Public spaces
The contemporary design for the modern home suggests that there is an interaction for the whole family. And so contemporary designs will most often no longer be the boxed in room where one function is separated from the other.

This can pose a problem in decorating. Often the dilemma is where to start one treatment and where to end. Most interior designers will tell you to use one theme for everything. While that is correct and you could still find ways to decorate a room that would add more excitement to it. To accentuate rooms according to its function try noticing the flow of things and decorate the room according to how it flows. Our mind identifies organization by grouping things that has relationships. Find something in one room (an idea or an object) that could be connected to the other that you will feel comfortable and will suggest stability in the concept and observe how things flow nicely.

Wall colors, window treatment artwork and accessories do not have to be the same for every room although they need a coordinated theme.

Home decoration is really a personal thing. Some may do it better some may not, at least at first. Eventually though, ideas catches up. One spark of inspiration from a particular subject matter or motif or theme could be a start of great home decoration activity that almost always ends up splendidly.

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