Using The Extra Space Wisely

Posted by on Mar 18, 2014 in Blogroll | 0 comments

Architectural details in the house definitely make it look more glamorous and beautiful. However, as an average homeowner who has galleries that remain empty, hallways that lead to nowhere and a staircase that comes with an empty space, you know how much trouble these vacant spots can create. In general, a house becomes a home only when it is decorated with the right kind of furniture and accessories. It is quite possible that these empty spaces in your house look quite irritating. You must never stick only to the specific rooms when it comes to home designs. You also have to make sure that you use the leftover space wisely and create more value in your house. But how do you do that? Let us have a look at some simple tips that would ensure the same.

Using The Extra Space Wisely

  • Look for storage options in the space- one of the things that bothers homeowners the most is the lack of storage space. You might think that chests and cupboards are only meant for the bedrooms. However, this is not true. You have the option of keeping storage furniture like big cupboards and chests in this empty space. It would help in decorating your room and would also make sure that you are paying enough attention to the storage space issue. Keeping a big closet here is always a great idea.
  • Look for seating options in the space- this can be one of your new spaces for coffee tables. If it is under a staircase or if there is a big open window in whatever gallery you are using this, then it can become a great place for your coffee table. You can even place a settee or a sofa in this space to make it look attractive. Other options may include some statement chairs that are bought from the local discount furniture store would look great here as well. This space would usually be a quieter space, therefore, you can even keep a bookcase here and arrange for a table and a couple of chairs and make it a small study or reading room.
  • Utilize old furniture in the house- it is so easy to buy new furniture for yourself. However, when it comes to discarding the old furniture, it definitely becomes a problem. We understand that changing your living furniture at regular intervals can be a necessity at times. Therefore, we suggest that you take the older furniture, add a few tweaks and try to re-fabricate it and use it in these empty spaces. Sometimes, they can come in really handy when there are many people in the house. Moreover, you would never have to discard a furniture that isn’t bad, but just out of fashion.

Decorate these empty spaces just like you would decorate other rooms in the house. If not, it would simply look like an ugly store room with no personality of its own. Whatever you add here, just add a little bit of furnishing details and you would get a perfect space.

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Modern But Luxurious Living Room

Posted by on Feb 28, 2014 in Blogroll | 0 comments

How would you describe a living room? Is it a place where you can entertain your guests? Is it a place where you feel the most relaxed? Is it a space where you can connect with your family? No matter what you chose, it is quite obvious that the living room is the liveliest place in the house. Therefore, you have to make sure that it remains that way. However, when you are entertaining your guests formally, you can’t expect to do so in a brightly colored living room. The room design idea that we would be talking about today is based on a simple, elegant, luxurious and classy theme that would give a very modern look to your home. It is designed especially for an urbane setting but can be used pretty much anywhere that you like. Let us get started.

The most important thing that you need to focus upon in this room is the furniture of the house. Therefore, we would first start talking about the furniture. You need to buy a big fluffy sofa for your living room. Make it a cottage style thickly padded sofa that would help you in making sure that the room retains a very earthen look. The sofa should seat three and must be provided with both large and medium sized cushions. While the sofa must be in an oyster white shade, you can chose the cushions in a complementing pattern. This would help in maintaining the theme of the room. The armrests must be simple and not very high. Keep moss green colored sofas on either side of the 3 seater sofa. These two must follow the contemporary designs but must have a high and straight arm chair. These sofas need not be very fluffy. Just keep them firm and comfortable. It can also come with accents of deep chocolate brown color. A bench with textures and similar moss green colors would complete the look.

Modern But Luxurious Living Room

The table that you must keep in the room should be rectangular in shape and must have a glass tabletop. Keep a small flower vase on the table but keep only yellow flowers here. This is because it would match the theme of the room. Keeping red flowers is also okay but it would hardly do anything to accentuate the look and feel of the room. Keep side tables that are chunky and stand exactly at the height of the armrests of your couch. Add lamps and flowers here to complete the furniture part of the room. You must ideally have large French windows here. Use solid grey and sheer white curtains with patterns. The room must be painted in an extremely light variety of moss green. This would help you in keeping the room looking light even after using heavy furniture over here.

Remember, you don’t have to use anything that is too heavy or too dark in the living room otherwise it looks quite boring. Keep it light but make sure it looks fairly elegant.

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Tips For The Best Minimalist Home Décor

Posted by on Feb 10, 2014 in Blogroll | 0 comments

There is no doubt regarding the fact that a minimalist home décor is in these days. This is because the modern or urbane styles do not allow cramming of many elements of furnishings in the same room. People have now started focusing more on the spaciousness in the room rather than the number of seating options available to them. This, quite obviously, demands for new kind of home design ideas. The minimalist home décor is on one extreme of this idea. In this theme, we focus on keeping things at the level of bare essentials and allow as much space in the house as possible. Some people say that Asian style home décor themes are the best representations of this kind of ideas. They use solid furniture but make sure that the room doesn’t look too crammed up. However, the minimalist theme and design is much more than this.

Minimalism became quite popular as an architectural achievement in the past century. The designs are sparingly decorative and are quite straight and streamlined as well. Still, the designs are quite appealing. The sole idea is to create clutter free spaces and a cleaner or neater living space that has more of personality and less of furnishing elements. If you also like this idea and want to incorporate it in your house, here is something that you might want to try before. This tips are simple but they always work really well.

  • Tips For The Best Minimalist Home DécorCreate a neat area- minimalism is not about ‘stuffing’ things into your household. It is more about keeping what is really needed and doing away with the rest. You don’t create an illusion of space, you actually make space for things and that is exactly what needs to be done. The lesser the number of décor and furnishing elements, the better you would be feeling. Start with the furniture. We are habitual of cramming things in our room. Having three pieces of sofa with ottomans was not enough so we also bought a huge coffee table that left a space of merely 4 feet between the sofa and the coffee table. Now, this is something that you don’t want. Clear it. Don’t go for cluttered surfaces as well. Accents are meant for accentuating the beauty of your surface, not making it a collage. Be it tabletops, countertops or even your walls, you would need only a couple of colors and accents to the max.
  • Buy simple- if you are planning to replace the furniture of your room, then go for chic pieces that look very elegant but are very simple as well. Don’t go for heavy paddings and upholsteries and overly bright designs. Just keep it simple.
  • Lighting- focus on the lights that you have kept in the room. Use recessed lights as well as track lights instead of bold floor lamps or even table lamps. All install dimmers in your room so that you can change the amount of light you need.
  • Use cozy colors- let them neutral or natural. Earthen shades look good too.
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Exceptional Home Décor Tips

Posted by on Feb 10, 2014 in Blogroll | 0 comments

Home décor is a touchy subject. Everyone wants their home to look different than the rest and this is the reason why most of us are trying really hard to find that one idea that would click. There are many websites and magazines around that would be providing you with a readymade idea that you can be utilizing in order to find the right mixture for yourself. In order to do so, you must not depend on readymade ideas. They are often pretty hard to get and leave you more unsatisfied than you were in the beginning. Therefore, it is important that you do change the home decor of the appearance of the room, but in a way that suits you the most. This should help you in making sure that everything works in a perfect sync.

There are many things that would be inspiring you in order to create your own home décor theme and idea. Here are some of the tips that would certainly help you in getting better results than the rest. Have a look!

  • Exceptional Home Décor TipsColor- the color of the room is definitely the most important thing that you must think about. To begin with, you can always go for even toned colors or even muted colors. This kind of colors always make the room look bigger than it is and it also makes sure that you get a chance to use bright accents and make the room come to life without even going over the top. You can even go for contrasting colors. This would help you in ensuring that the walls really stand out. It is always better to go on the same side of the color wheel and find colors that can provide you harmony as well as balance. However, there is one more thing that you need to look after. The color of the rugs or the carpets or flooring that you are using in the room should definitely be in a contest with the rest of the walls as it helps it stand out.
  • Fluency- Always make sure that all the rooms of your house blend well into each other. Though using the same kind of colors is not the right thing to do. However, you can still use the same kind of accents in the room.
  • Form and function- now, this is something really important that you should know about. While the living room demands more seating, a bedroom might demand an equal amount of storage space. Therefore, before you decorate the room, you need to find out the purpose for which it would be used.
  • Patterns- textures are the best way to make your room come alive, but you have to use it sparingly. You can go for textured fabrics and make sure that there are some kind of patterns that make the room look livelier. Look for table cloths, throws, carpeting and many more things that can help you in broadening your horizon. Cushions are a good way of handling this.
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Home Décor And Color Combinations

Posted by on Feb 10, 2014 in Blogroll | 0 comments

Home Décor And Color CombinationsOne of the most important parts of your home décor themes is the color combination that you would be using in the rooms of your house. This is the reason why you must be extremely conscious of the colors that you are using in the house. But why is color that important? It is because color always has some kind of personality and each color depicts a different kind of mood and lends a personality to the room itself. Let’s understand this with the help of a few examples. After you have had a long day at work, where you were overstressed because an important project was going to end or where you had to work overtime, what would you prefer? Would you like to sit in a room that is painted in green or would you prefer a room that is painted in red? Of course, you would chose the first room.

Do you know why this is so? It is because colors play a very important role in our lives. Each and every color represents an emotion or a feeling and it definitely helps us in having an ultimate impact on the people who are being exposed to that color. Therefore, you have to focus on getting the right color for your room. This can be done in three ways. First, you have to focus on the color of the walls. Second, you have to focus on the color of the furniture. Third, you need to focus on the color of the rest of furnishings, decorative items as well as draping. In order to find the right combination for this, you need to focus on keeping the color of the walls lighter. We would always prefer to keep the wooden and furniture shades as natural as possible. Of course, there is no dearth of different kinds of furniture shades around. However, the real beauty of furniture is experienced only with natural wood colors.

Now, it is time for you to go for the paint of the walls as well as the draping and furnishings. You must always remember to choose a lighter shade for the walls and add an exactly contrasting deep color to the rugs that you are using in the house. This helps in creating a diverse personality in the room and it appears quite nice as well. Otherwise, it might look very monotonous and you would not get a chance to handle the things well. The other two things that must be used for your color combinations are curtains and cushions or pillows. Usually, people like to keep brightly colored cushions in their houses that meet with lightly colored curtains. However, you can also go vice versa if the theme of the room allows so. You must always remember to use different hues of the same shade of color for these two items. The best thing for you is to keep a color palette along at all times. This shall help you in recognizing the colors that would suit you well.

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