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* Add some color to doors and cupboards by putting wallpaper on panels. Choose the scale of the pattern carefully though: if the space is too small and the scale too huge, the pattern will get lost.
Rock the Casbah
Wallpaper is Back!
Moroccan design is welcoming, warm, inexpensive and relatively easy to pull together, all wonderful traits for those interested in Moroccan-style home decorating. "Moroccan styles are timeless," says interior designer Vanessa De Vargas. Morocco is known for its handmade works like carved doors and columns, hand-woven carpets, intricately painted tiles, lanterns, leather goods and silver tea sets. The color palette is warm and cool. Earth tones combined with various shades of blue and pink are common, as are texture and pattern.
Imperial Beds
* Color: Pay attention to how colors make you feel. Color has a huge effect on our mood and energy, however is also very individual. You can be the type of person who is comfortable in dark colors, while other of us may find it depressing. Colors also affect the nature of interactions, and when you enter a new space you must always be aware of the way of us behave to one another. If there is a room in your home where of us tend to get into arguments, reassess the colors in that room. Bright or extreme colors can irritate of us's eyes and build up their metabolism, making them more likely to fight. Darker rooms can put of us in a bad mood and make them lethargic.
The purpose of creating a white monochrome elegant space is to feel peaceful, serene and sophisticated. In a white on white room, you have more freedom to do things differently. "Clutter is kept away, the whole thing should be hidden," says Ammie Kim, a Beverly Hills designer. All unnecessary items or things with colors should be moved. It's a very sophisticated and minimal glance.
Take the mystical out of Feng Shui design and research its real looking uses. Decorating using these principles will help you create a clear-cut, balanced living atmosphere. Real Feng Shui is extraordinarily specific, and complex. The only way to do real Feng Shui is either to become a student of this art, and painstakingly research the many principals and subtleties it requires, or to hire a professional to do an analysis and work over of your home. However, Feng Shui does teach us something that is amazingly useful when decorating your home.
Classic White
A modernized version of Moroccan style is popular in the U.S. since it successfully takes classic Moroccan-design motifs, materials and styles and gives them a fresh spin. Traditional Moroccan design is heavier and more ornate.
Island Fantasies
* For the really adventurous, add a twist on tradition by wallpapering a ceiling. This works particularly well with high ceilings, such as those in period properties.
* Flow: In conventional Feng Shui, the goal is to maximize the flow of positive chi in an quarter. While you will probably now not be able to detect the essence of the energy of a space, you can build up the feeling of flow in a room by paying attention to the way of us and objects move through the space. The flow you want to achieve is in the essence of the room. You want there to be easy access for of us moving through the room, as well as in and out of it. You want objects to be able to move from their storage, into use, and back without adding to litter. This kind of flow is a combination of organization and design that makes a speciality of removing blockages and allowing easy movement through each quarter.
According to Karen Beauchamp from Cole & Son, we are exploring new ways to use wallpaper. Here are some strategies on how to bring more patterns into your surroundings:
Because we're spending increasingly time in our kitchens and baths, there is a move away from the all-or-nothing "fitted" glance of continuous counters. Look for more freestanding pieces of furniture or features with furniture-like characteristics. These details won't be fussy however will further the notion that the kitchen is a room to be lived in.
Kitchen Freestyle
Whether you make yearly pilgrimages to the white-sand beaches of the tropics or merely trip via daydreams, interiors inspired by the ocean, sand, and gentle sea breezes bring the feeling home. Simply designed rooms, filled with light and fresh air, enchant the senses and have the ability to transport you to another headspace. Think of it as an exotic take on spring cleaning.
Redecorating your home? Maybe you are redecorating just one room? Here are the latest, hippest, most fantastic design ideas and themes!
Break out of the white, off-white, and beige, and let some color in your life (and on your walls)! Hit Designer Dave Bromstad, winner of HGTV Design Star and host of HGTV's new show, Color Splash, is huge on color. "I think brown is a stable color since it looks sizeable in plenty of combinations: brown and blue, brown and orange, brown and yellow. It's been hot for the final five years and will continue to be hot. Whites and blues are also big, and you might make a big impact with reds and oranges," says the rising star. But he also cautions to now not be too matchy-matchy. If you to decide to go for red walls, there is no need for a red comforter on your bed!
Everyone Feng Shui!
Do you miss the open spaces, the country roads, and the peace and quiet that comes from being away from New York for more than a week? Why now not transform your city apartment and go country? Combine the best of city sophistication and country rustic, and see how much nicer it feels to eat in that dining room you never use!
Wallpaper has been getting some really bad press before few years, while forged colors and wall patterns were hip and in. It feels like wallpaper is coming back, bigger and better than ever! Traditional block printed 'paper' wallpaper isn't the only option. Fabric wallpaper is also available and will add a luxurious contact to any room. Other materials include those with a metallic luster and paper that gives the looks of silk.
The Four-Poster bed is a timeless piece in any bedroom design. To avoid being heavy, new four-poster beds have thin posts, and are airy enough to be considered current. Since four-poster beds are the most romantic of beds, a romantic design, soft, comfortable, and inviting, is relatively counseled to accompany this fantastic conventional bed.
Use Indoor plants to bring nature into your home!
* Cover only one wall (its trendy, and you can be more adventurous).
Color Me Beautiful
Country Living in the City
During the nineteen seventies, there was a new appreciation for the sizeable outdoors. Consequently interior decorating incorporated macram, redwood and anything in shades of oatmeal, green or brown. In maintaining with the back-to-nature movement, homeowners did what they'd to bring the outdoors in. Although the days of green and brown printed wallpaper are long gone (or so we hope), plants and flowering plants are still the rage in interior design.
