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Create an Artful Interior Home
Redesign Your Living Space
Do you ever get tired of the way your home interior looks?
Interior home redesign is creatively utilizing the furnishings and home decor you already own and offers an exciting way to revitalize your home. (And you!)
By simply rearranging the furniture in a room, using your decorative accessories in a different manner, and switching around some of your
home decorating pictures
and artwork, you can transform your living space into something new and exciting.
Begin the interior home redesign process with one room at a time. Trying to tackle more than one room can become overwhelming and to much like work.
Empty out the room as much as possible so that you are starting
with a clean slate.
Analyze the room.
Determine a focal point from which to expand, the function of the room and the feeling that you desire. Be true to the way that you live and your family’s lifestyle, but keep the room from multitasking. If the room has too much activity it becomes confusing to the eye.
Sticking to one theme, or color scheme walk through the rest of your home to find additional pieces that will be compatible for your interior home redesign.
Rotate furniture and accessories from other rooms into the room that you are working, editing out anything that doesn’t “go”.
Some of your belongings that you have been collecting over the years may be working and look great, but try using them in a different manner, or in other rooms. You will gain even more enjoyment from them and optimize their usage.
I think we all can get stuck sometimes, especially when it comes time for
decorating your walls.
I have a print that I love. I’ve had it hanging over my fireplace for years. I never thought to move it because it looked really nice there. Finally though when I felt the rest of my house looking a little “tired,” I decided to move it.
Guess what happened. It looks great in its new place in my home now too! In the library. (the living room that has books in it)
Interior Home Redesign keeps things
looking fresh and up to date.
Your interior home redesign should start with the basics, by beginning with the seating arrangement. Aside from the tv, the sofa is generally the largest piece of furniture in a living/family room. The sofa becomes the anchor from which everything else falls easily into place.
Keeping in mind the scale and balance place the case goods and your
home decorating lighting
next. Make sure to keep things evenly distributed throughout.
Saving the best for last,
Work in layers with the accessories and
home decorating accents
until the look and feel you desire is achieved, expressing your unique personality.
Walk out of the room for a second, then come back and appraise your work.
| What do you see?
Does anything “jump” out at you? |
If it does, you may need to rework it a bit.
Everything wants to be harmonious with each other.
Create a flow from one room to the next, using an accent piece that easily transcends into the adjoining space. If that isn’t possible use a blocker, like a tree or a tall arrangement. You don’t want to “confuse” the eye, if you can view the next room when seated in this one. (if your home has an open floor plan)
Interior Home Redesign
Re-Mix it up!
- Try placing furniture on angles
- Break up sets, separate the sofa from the matching love seat or chair, creating two seating arrangements
- Define and anchor seating arrangements with
area rugs
- Place area rugs at different angles than the furniture
- Move furniture away from the walls
- Divide long rooms into separate seating arrangements, making
for more intimate settings
- End tables as small tea tables in front of a sofa
- Introduce an object that is whimsical
- Don’t try to fill every inch of the room, leave some open space and let the room “breathe”
- Make the rooms more interesting with a mix of woods, shapes and textures
- Use a touch of black
- Strike an equal balance between your upholstered pieces and your wood furniture so your room doesn’t become “leggy”
- Group items that have a common denominator like all of your silver or picture frames together
- Make grand statements with your accessories to prevent a cluttered look
Use accent chairs,
To pull up to a sofa table to use as a desk,
At a round table for use as a game or reading table,
Next to the bed as a side table for reading material,
In the bath to hold decorative towels
Bring in a touch of nature,
A porcelain bowl filled with lemons,
A flowering geranium in a terra-cotta pot,
Twisted branches for flower arrangements,
for use where you need height
Above all, trust you instincts!
When you are done your interior home redesign, create a wish list of any additional items you may want to infuse into this
affordable home decorating
mix.
A lot of these same principles apply if you are
staging a home to sell.
But instead of making your rooms reflect you and your family, you are working to should show off the room’s “spaciousness” and purpose.
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