Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Home Decor Secrets

Planning your home decor is not easy to do. There are so many different ways you need to look at your completed look before it is even complete. Visualizing your room is important and in order to do that you need to know some of the top home decor secrets.


Before you complete any room you need to look at the following different ways that you can complete your look.


Finding the right colors


Nobody said it would be easy but you do have to choose the right colors in order to balance your room and make everything blend together. Chances are you are going to use more than one color. Usually you will have a primary color and a neutral color to balance the look and allow it to blend. You cannot decorate a room without having some way of toning your main color. A neutral color will help to tone your colors down and help them to blend together.

Neutral colors consist of gray, beige, white, cream, and tan. There are several different ways to get these colors into your room to balance the decor.

Colors can affect the mood you have while you are in that room. If you want to be happy, you need to color the room yellow. If you want a calming atmosphere, you need to have lavender or sage.


Flooring


You can put color on your flooring in two different ways. The first way is place your main color on your floor using area rugs. You can place blue rugs or red rugs down for that. If you want your floors to accent your look in the room then you can use white rugs or brown rugs instead.


Walls


You can complete your wall decor by hanging pictures correctly on the wall. You need to find a way to center your focal point and learn to highlight the rest.

The way you hang your pictures can offset the entire room. Sometimes the more you use the more cluttered and small the room may feel. You may want to try a simple arrangement with one large artwork on the main wall and balance the rest of the walls with smaller artwork.

Lighting


It's important that you have enough lighting in your room. To complete the look you need to add some table lamps to each side of the sofa. You need to be able to control the lighting and table lamps will give you that option.


Accessorize


No room is complete until you learn to accessorize the room. In order to do that you need to add floral arrangements, window treatments, and small items that have the colors that you are using in that room.


You want a room that welcomes your guests and calms you and your family when you are in it. You want a room that will be perfect for every day use. When the room is complete, you want to look around and see an expression of you.