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8 Interior Decorating Essentials by Kim Pham
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Home Improvement
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If you’re not a designer or you’re new to the built arts, there’s a lot to know about making beautiful interior spaces. Here, we delve into 8 essential interior decorating tips that you should take into account when trying to create those amazing spaces in your projects. 1. Lighting – You may have picked an awesome color scheme for your room but if you can’t see in it, you’ve wasted your time & money. Be aware that when you’re choosing colors for your room, they’re going to look darker or lighter depending on the lighting level. That deep purple or red can end up looking black. Make sure to position lights on focal points and surfaces that will look dark in low lighting. That will ensure that during a storm or at night, your room still embodies the character you designed into it. 2. Shelve height, spacing, & reach – If you’re putting up shelves a good height to put your bottom shelf is at 52? above the floor. This will allow you to still comfortably put a desk under the shelves, and whatever you place on the shelves will be within reach. According to about home, for multiple shelves your spacing is going to be dependent on what you place on the shelves. Your above counter shelving should be within a 1'-0? reach of any counter’s edge. 3. Making a small room feel bigger – It’s common to have a small room that you have big plans for. I’m in full support of making the most of your square footage. In order to do that, you’re going to want to use lighter colors. Darker colors feel comfy, but trigger our primal instincts and make us travel back to the days of cave dwelling. Maximize light, and any views out of windows to avoid this. Use lines that draw your eyes around the space so that you can give the illusion of a wider or taller room. Verticals will make the room feel taller, while horizontals will make it feel wider. Make the most of any furniture you put in there. You might want to consider a beautiful couch that has a folding seat where you can store books inside of. 4. Kitchen space – In order to ensure that you have enough room to maneuver in your kitchen you should have 3'-6? (42?) clear between cabinets. Counter heights are typically around 36? high and bar counters are around 42? high. 5. Kitchen space – In order to ensure that you have enough room to maneuver in your kitchen you should have 3'-6? (42?) clear between cabinets. Counter heights are typically around 36? high and bar counters are around 42? high. 6. Furniture spacing – The basics of furniture spacing is a great article on apartment therapy that covers this topic. When I’m designing, I usually use 18? spacing between furniture you’re willing to scoot around and 36? for anything with major circulation. 7. Poster height – Posters are actually supposed to be hung the same way as pictures. What’s that mean? All art is hung the same! I love Ab Chao’s post on the topic. She came up with an awesome mnemonic device to remember, “sixty to center”. That means, no matter your art, the center of it should be around 60? above the floor. For anyone using the metric system… maybe you can come up with a mnemonic device for 150cm and leave it in the comments below. 8. Designing a traditional home – Traditional homes are a bit tricky because ‘traditional’ had such a wide connotation. For this, I’m going to define traditional as a formal colonial style home. If that’s the case, one interior thing to do is to make sure you have beautiful and decorative base and ceiling trim. Any columns or pilasters you have should look fancy and have a nice capital and base as well. The decorative column doesn’t have to be structural, just wrap your columns in something nice. For your floors, wood is always a safe design bet. If you’re looking Lowe's coupons 20% to buy Decor Essentials, You can get Lowes coupons at: Coupon4share.com
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