How To Make A Small Space Look Larger

Are you having trouble designing a small room? Here are a few tips to help you make a small room look sleek and fashionable.

Tips:

1. Use sleek furniture that doesn’t take up a lot of space

2. A large carpet will elongate a room and make it appear bigger

3. Use an ottoman instead of a coffee table to save space

4. Don’t clutter a small space

5. Use a flat screen or plasma tv because it will save wall space

Choosing A Paint Colour

Choosing a paint colour can be really tough.  You pick out a bunch of paint chips, take them home and hold them up in your room to see if it will look good.  All of us know that if a paint colour looks good on the paint chip, if could look horrible once you put it on the wall.  I've provided you with a few tips that will help you choose the perfect paint colour for your home.

Tips:

1. Buy a fan deck

2. Match a paint colour to the objects in your home

3. Get matching paint chips

4. Try colours with a hint of gray for a more sophisticated look

5. Choose a white that complements your furniture

6. Use a semi-gloss finish on your trims for easy clean-up

7. Consider the sight lines from room to room

8. Add contrast by highlighting your baseboards, windows and trims with a darker colour

9 Draw attention to one wall in particular by painting it a different colour

10. Experiment with sample boards

Decorating Your Home For Christmas

Christmas is fast approaching and many of us get a little overwhelemed with the thought of decorating our home.  During the holidays, you are bound to have people over to your home so you want to make sure your house looks outstanding.  In this video, a professional interior designer by the name of Rebecca Robeson shows you a few things about how to make your home perfect for the holiday.

6 Ways To Choose The Right Design For Your Home

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.