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Article #289: Getting Started With Interior Design

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It is often difficult for people starting mentioned in the previous point. This
with Interior Design to know where to will prevent you from making errors in
start. Good interior design or style terms of available space before you make
mainly arises out of a feeling, flair or expensive purchases. You can also to use
an intuition for colour, pattern and the floor plan to try out various
scale. For this to be rewarding or combinations of placements of pieces. A
pleasing the end result must be useful tip here is to draw your floor
functional, practical and stylish. plan to scale on a large piece of paper
To get you going with achieving these and cut your main pieces out of smaller
goals, here are a couple of practical blocks of cardboard. This way you can
tips: move your pieces of furniture around on
~ Before decorating, start a scrap book. the plan in various configurations and
~ can visualize the layout that much
Collect samples of colors as well as easier. Of course this is a low-tech
photographs of rooms that you like. option, there are much more high-tech
Analyze your scrapbook to determine solutions available for your PC, but this
styles and colors that are your approach can be amazingly effective.
preferences. Even if you do not intend ~ Start thinking about the details. ~
decorating the whole house straight away, These are always the elements that get
it is good practice to draw up a color the least attention since the details are
schedule, listing all the colors you not as exciting to decide upon such as,
intend to use. This forces you to devise for example, the color scheme. However,
a scheme that works in the whole, rather the details are vitally important and can
than a piecemeal, room-by-room solution. make or break a scheme. They create a
~ Plan your space ~ hidden life establishing relationships
Whatever the size of a room, space must between different objects regulating the
be organised carefully to provide effect of competing centres of attention,
distinct areas for different uses, but at introducing a sense of rhythm and
the same time remain a harmonious whole. strengthening line. Again, start
Planning is essential and in a sense you collecting samples and photos of
are obliged to finish the room first trimmings, door handles, light fittings
before you can start it, a and so forth.
catch-twenty-two situation. This does not Not the greatest skill with color nor the
mean that you have to buy everything at most careful choice of accessories and
once but you should have a clear picture trimmings may prevent the result from
of the end result. I prefer the looking flat and lifeless.
collect-as-you-go method since this way Surprisingly maybe, a sense of humour is
everything tells a story reflecting the an essential element in good design.
interesting habitat of complex dynamic Humour, flair and surprise these are all
human beings. ways of describing the happy accident,
~ Draw a floor plan ~ the odd combination of objects or the
Draw a floor plan and place signature quirky touch which makes a room a living
pieces. This will help you visualize the interior rather than a studio set.
layout and organize your space as






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