Design Tips
When it comes to your home, picking your color scheme is a crucial step. In fact it is so crucial that many people – even old pros – can find the process incredibly daunting. Here are a few tips to get those creative juices flowing.
Even though you’re working on the indoors, don’t neglect the outdoors! A brisk walk outside not only can you get your blood flowing and eliminate feelings of sluggishness, but being outside you’ll notice patterns and colors within the natural world which can be very inspiring.
Pictures are taken from Benjamin Moore website
While you may simply think of fashion magazines as a way to distract yourself, use those magazines to inform your design. What looks and colors are the designers playing with on this season’s runway? Designers make bold brash choices – let their bravery inform the colors you dare to pick!
Pictures are taken from elle.com
As we’ve said before, sometimes just evaluating pieces you already have can get you started in the right direction. Have you selected wallpaper? New fabric? What was appealing about these pieces and can it translate into a viable option for a new color scheme?
Pictures were taken from wallpaperfromthe70s.com
Interior design is an art – as a result, where better to turn than images by your favorite artist when it comes to picking a color scheme? Use their palate to inspire your palate – what better way to pay tribute to the artists you love?
Pictures were taken from The Raw Artist
Search Design Magazines, clip out rooms that speak to you and save them in a special file. Go a step further and try to look at the world around you the same way you study these design magazines. Before long you’ll be finding inspiration in everything around you, and pretty soon your only color scheme problem will be having more than you know what to do with!
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Posted by chictip.com at 12 December, 2008
We all have photographs or artwork that remain out of interior design rotation simply because we don’t have the right utilities to hang them, or feel we lack the curator’s eye for placement.
Eliminate this fear and restore those images to delight your family, friends, and visitors. The system includes 10 frames and takes it a step further, ridding you of the hassle of creating a cohesive picture by providing you with a preview template that will ensure your art is properly placed and level every time. Not only will your whole collection will be visible, but all that can now be accomplished in no time.
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Posted by chictip.com at 22 November, 2008
The temptation to update a space is one we have all caved to, some more often than others. There’s nothing wrong with this, a room, like we as people, is created to be ever evolving.
The trick to giving in to the sumptuous indulgence of new look for your space, is planning ahead, and seeing the possibilities.
Playing with neutrals is a great way to do this without turning your home into a war zone, or worse yet, a démodé hodge podge – making you out to be more design trend follower, than artist.
Keeping your wall color neutral doesn’t translate to sterile. Neutral colors on your walls, window treatments or accessories enable you to play with bolder colors, textures and patterns in your larger pieces of furniture, or other choice textiles.
But what exactly are neutrals? Consider this – neutral colors include black, white, gray and other shades in between. They are all understated, all elegant, and all serve as great foundation blocks for any space.
Now tell me… how easy it is to replace the accent pillows and the art piece to change the whole color scheme and the look of the room.
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Posted by chictip.com at 14 November, 2008
I found this hilarious video - Enjoy!
You brits are funny as hell!
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Posted by chictip.com at 12 November, 2008
When I see home makeovers on cable TV or in magazines, the designer’s choices for change always seem so natural and sensible that I think, “Why, of course!” Yet, when tasked with my own interior design projects the starting point doesn’t seem so obvious. Where do you start with a blank slate? In the living room: should I replace the one sofa and two chairs with two small sofas? Will more shelving make the room look more cluttered or cleaner?
Enter: free software design tools!
Several companies offer free (yes, free!), easily downloadable programs for charting out and playing with ideas. Here are few tools that we recommend:
- IKEA.com’s “Home Planner” has separate plans for each room. After customizing the measurements to your home, you can drag and drop your choice of IKEA furniture and appliances, then view and print the plans in 3-D, just like an architect.
- BoConcept.com’s “Furnish” program allows you to design your own piece of furniture by choosing from a variety of colors, fronts, armrests, materials, leg designs and tabletops. You can then enter the dimensions of your room to determine the perfect arrangement for your customized piece.
- http://sweethome3d.sourceforge.net/ offers a truly unique service in that “Sweet Home 3D” can be used to re-imagine the design you already have — mainly to reconfigure furniture (the program has over 75 furniture models to choose from). This is a refreshingly simple, user-friendly program designed for the novice.
- Last but not least is http://www.designmyroom.com by Metropolitan Home Magazine
Enjoy!
Posted by chictip.com at 30 October, 2008
