Who wants their house to look like everyone else’s house? Nobody. Each person has their own unique style and design taste. Here are a few tips that will help you when decorating your home:
1. Do not coordinate your house. This means that you shouldn’t match your window treatments, flooring, and upholstery. You don’t want everything to look the same. Mix different patterns and fabrics to give the space a bit of texture. Make sure everything still flows together though.
2. Select original pieces of art to display throughout your home. Paintings and sculptures are good examples. Having these pieces distributed around your home will show your personality and taste.
3. Stick to a set theme throughout your home. Do no take this to the extreme and decorate your home to resemble your favourite book, movie, etc. You want to keep your home classy, yet personalized.
4. When choosing a paint colour, purchase a sample of paint. Paint a portion of the wall to see what the true colour is and how it looks with everything else in the room. It is the only way to truly know what the paint colour will look like in your room before painting the whole wall. Keep in mind that some colours, especially darker ones, will appear darker the more coats you put on.
5. Reupholster furniture instead of purchasing new furniture. Many times it is a cheaper way to change up the design of the room. If you really love your couch that you have had for a few years but the colour of it doesn’t fit with the new design of the room, get the couch reupholstered. This way you still have that comfy couch that you love and it now goes perfectly with your newly designed room. If you have a valuable antique piece of furniture, do not get it reupholstered if it will lose value from the change.
6. When choosing flooring, keep in mind budget, personal taste, as well as the use of the room. For example, you may not want to put really expensive hardwood flooring in a high traffic area where it will most likely get ruined. An easy way to change up the look of your flooring is to lay down a rug. This can also be used to protect your floor too, not just as a design change.
All of these tips are just general tips that may help make designing your home easier. At the end of the day, it is up to you, as the home owner, to choose what you like. Don’t put something in your house because it is “in fashion”. You ultimately have to live there at the end of the day so make sure you choose colours, furniture, flooring, etc. that you love. There is nothing worse than decorating your whole house and then a month later realizing that you don’t like it.
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