Home Decoration

Romantic Bedroom Décor has a secret that all interior decorators make use of for that professional-looking lovable huggable cozy bedroom. It is meant to stimulate all your senses and awaken your body senses to their heights. Here are some practical tips for you to turn your bedroom into a room exuding love and passion:

• A small bar drawer with choicest wines, a Champagne bottle and sparkling white Champagne and wine glasses complete the mood of a romantic bedroom.
• Bright harsh lights are a strict no-no for a romantic bedroom décor.
• Choose all your furniture, furnishings and accessories to make the room as intimate and comfortable as possible.
• If you have a sweet tooth, you may keep strawberries, chocolate-dip and whipped cream ready for a late night snack on your dresser too.
• Light up fragrant candles for special occasions to lend that surreal look.
• Make use of those canopy beds and hang sheer light-fabric draperies around the bed to make it ready for your fragile princess.
• Peaceful romantic bedroom needs silence enough to let you hear your partner’s breathing and moaning and block out any other distractions. So keep your television in another room or block out the noise of traffic by hanging thick curtains on your windows.
• Soft romantic music is a must for any romantic bedroom setting and thus, keep your CD system around for easy use.
• Use opulent red or other bold colored satin or silk sheets that are soft, have a rich smooth texture and fluffy soft plush pillows.
• Use soft and comfortable mattress that will make you and your partner to plop into the bed immediately.
• Use soft filtered light and you may use colored incandescent lights with soft red or pink glow to add romance.
• You can use fragrant room fresheners, aromatic incense sticks, scented sachets of soft fragrances such as lavender and rosemary or add a thin coat of perfumed oil on your light bulb.
• You may sprinkle your favorite fragrant powder on bedsheets to make the bed smell sweet and musky.

The bedroom in any season should be relaxing and make you sleep comfortably. The designing and décor of this room of your home should not have any distracting item that attracts your attention away from your comfort. While planning a restful bedroom for your summer home, here are some tips that you can use:

• Any view of water such as ocean, sea, river or lake should be made use of and a tall window that provides the full view of the cool scene outside should never be missed.
• Views of gardens, trees and mountains are relaxing too and should be counted on giving the airy feel to the viewer.
• Instead of covering your windows with the curtains, you can leave them unobstructed to enjoy the beautiful views while you can place the curtains and draperies around your bed to block the sunrays from disturbing your morning sleep.
• Curtains around your bed having soft pillows and throws lend a romantic and fantasy Arabian Night look to your bedroom décor too and make it look cozier and more intimate.
• If you have a habit of reading books in the bed, the night stands on both side of the bed with a lamp on each side, a few good books and magazines, alarm clock and a jug of water along with other accessories can offer the relaxed feel to the room.
• For an old-time feel, you can add bulky antique furniture pieces that make the room look lavish and transport you to those simple times once again but stick to one or two pieces at the most to avoid the stuffiness in the room.
• A carpet, modern big-sized windows and sheer translucent draperies can make the room look and feel open and airy.
• Maintain harmony in the room and stick to pale and light colors for summers.
• White bedspreads make the room look cooler.
• Walls can be tinted white or pale green, yellow or blue in subdued and muted tones to maintain the relaxing effect.
• Carpet should also be light-colored though it can be darker than walls.
  Let the furniture and pillows take on the deepest hues and add color to your bedroom décor and give it a feel of warmth and intimacy to it.

Each school and college has certain set of rules and regulations for the students in their dormitories that are meant to prevent and resolve any misunderstandings and fights between them and enable each of them to live and study together, peacefully and have a privacy of their own too while sharing the room with each other. While you may have your own ideas for dorm décor, it is always the best to check with college administration, what is permissible and what changes you can make to the room. Be sure to take your roommates into confidence too, before changing anything in their space. The rules that are common and related to dorm décor are :

• Dorm rooms need to be kept clean and orderly and any damage to University property, room or furnishings may result in fines, community service or expulsion from dormitory.
• You may not be allowed to use or shift University furniture from other dormitory rooms or social areas in your room or keep your possessions outside your allotted room or area.
• You may have to use furniture provided by college only and may not be allowed to bring in your own furniture, specially loft beds or other furniture pieces that may not be so safe.
• It is better use removable plastic adhesive to attach something to the wall in a dorm rather than nails or tape that may leave a scar or hole and disfigure the look of the room.
• Be sure that you do not damage walls, ceilings, doors, windows, carpets and other university room furnishings in any way.
• Remember, that this room or apartment has to be used by other tenants after you and that you have roommates living with you. Make sure that your dorm décor projects do not become a nuisance for them.
• Decorated and well-maintained dormitories do not mean that you can do anything with university and college possessions. Limit your décor ideas to using your own furnishings and accessories that are easily removable and replaceable rather than making drastic changes.
• Before opting for flower arrangements or room freshener that may trigger allergic reactions, check with your roommate first.
• Since, it is only a temporary stay, it is sensible not to spend a fortune on your dorm room décor and stick to minimalist and functional life style.

Inexpensive, functional but stylish dorm room décor is not as hard to accomplish as it may seem at first. Here are a few ideas that you can use :

• Measure out our space carefully.
• Make a budget that you can spend on the room décor.
• Bohemian chic furniture, furnishings and home accessories are meant for college students and are quite affordable, functional and come in all sorts of funky trendy designs and colors.
• Keep your area well organized, clean and tidy and minimalist. Avoid clutter.
• Store items in a particular place so that they are easy to find and buy some cheap baskets, milk crates and drawer systems to keep your books, wallet, car keys and other things.
• Put up some portraits of your family and old friends on walls and on your desk to make your dormitory feel like home.
• Leather ottomans with storage space underneath are good options as they can be used for sitting, serve as coffee tables and can be also used to dump your magazines and old CDs in them. They look good too.
• Invite your friends sometime for watching movies or a night out and play host to have that lived-in feel in your room.
• If you love your culture or have a soft corner for a particular culture, you can use some features of their decorating style too for that special touch.

Some dorm rooms stand out among others as a popular hangout for all students and where everyone loves to spend time in. Here area few tips, tricks and ideas to transform your dorm room into an ideal retreat :

• Plan well beforehand.
• Remember, your dorm décor showcases your personality and thus, it should be functional, stylish and yet have some character of its own.
• Most dorm rooms have extra-long twin beds that need special sheets and bedding.
• Choose and invest in a comfortable mattress so that you can sleep well.
• Fluffy and soft throw pillows can add instant style to your bed to be used as sofa for a get together with friends.
• Choose a study area according to your preference, such as a desk, bed or even a beanbag chair on the floor.
• Make sure for bright halogen lighting in your study area with the help of desk or floor lamp.
• You may use stacked milk crates, instead of shelves to store textbooks and table to keep your dinner plates, as a much cheaper option that occupies little space.
• Funky high-tech music and light gadgets can lend an instant party touch to your dorm room. Choose something you can afford and is a source of constant fun.
• High-tech furniture is also available such as ottomans that can double up as massagers that look quite stylish and have a soft.
• If you are investing in furniture and furnishings, invest in pieces that are versatile and can serve for multi-purpose duties. They must not occupy much space, which is often a problem in a dorm room.

Home Décor can be quite an overwhelming task with all those measurements, planning, wall colors, ceiling colors, type, color and size of furniture, furnishing colors and patterns, size of rugs, storage areas, cabinets and so many things to keep in mind. It is an expensive task too. To make home décor easier and more manageable, it is advisable to make a time and budget schedule and decorate your home step by step. Narrow down your focus to one corner at a time and complete your home décor as a series of projects that are not too taxing on your time, energy and budget. This will also be rewarding as completion of one project will relieve you of that portion of home décor and motivate you with success and the beautiful change.

While doing the entire room at once seems to be a daunting task, making a cozy corner in the living area as the focal point of the room may be achieved by placing a coffee table, chairs around it and arranging flowers in a vase on the table. Here are some tips for step-by-step home décor:

• Choose a really attractive art piece or feature to make it the focus of attention in the room.
• Lend the dramatic touch and personality to your room by setting your focal point around the piece you have chosen.
• Every year, invest in one single but visually appealing piece of furniture.
• A fashionable sofa in attractive colors with pillows and a throw in complimentary colors can add new life to your living room.
• Improvise a long wall or an unused corner by placing an antique chest or armoire there and beautify them using a collection of displayable china, glass or pottery.
• Drawers and shelves are always needed to store linens and many other household items and can be carved out in any unused area and long-forgotten corners of the home.
• Remove the clutter that gets collected on the table and keep the items needed in drawers. A study lamp or a personal computer, a pen stand, a paperweight and a small notepad should be enough for daily use. Keep it simple and organized.
• Keep the dining room simple too. It should be friendly, warm and its furnishings should be versatile that can be style according to the occasion and changing trends.
• Try flexible dark colored furnishings that can be brightened up with using sparse modern art accessories.
• Light-finished wood can be infused with new life by adding greenery or ceramics and glass collectibles.
• Be as creative as you like in your master bedroom that makes your feel pampered, happy and relaxing. Invest in a really good bed and make it the center of attention.
• Other features of the bedroom should be rather kept muted and dress the bed with stylish linen in beautiful hues, prints and patterns and spare functional accessories.
• Do-it-yourself features such as sewing up upholstery for your home or giving a new look to an old ottoman or a table and making a stylish lampshade not only makes your home look better but also give you an artist’s satisfaction. Try them out.

Room Décor is not as easy as it seems at the first sight. You may fancy that glamorous room in the home décor magazine but you may find it almost impossible to translate into a reality because of the simple reason that the construction of your home and measurement of your rooms is entirely different. You may be renting an apartment where you cannot redo the positioning of walls, doors and windows or have a large large hall you do not seem to put to best use. Color, lines and furniture arrangement can make a huge difference to your room décor. We have identified the five most common problems that people often face while doing room décor and have come up with the possible solutions. These are:

1. Very Long Room

• The best way to deal with a very long room is to split it into two using screens and room dividers that you may use as study area, living area, dining room, personal gym or just entertainment room.
• Use warm dark colors on shorter walls to make them advance and give the room a balanced look.
• You may also define separate areas by using different area rugs.

2. Low Ceiling

• Long curtains that can be draped from above the door level and window level all the way to the floor, add height to the room.
• Paint ceiling in light cool color to make it recede and add light to the room.
• Tall accessories such as lamps look good and make room look taller too.
• You can add height to a room by installing vertical and tall cabinets or bookcases in the room.

3. Narrow Room

• Any linear arrangement on shorter walls such as placement of shelves, art pieces or rugs, will make them look wider.
• Diagonal arrangement of furniture looks better.
• You can also fool the eye by painting your longer walls in cool light colors to make them recede.

4. Tall Room

• Horizontally placed shelves, crown mouldings and art pieces cut off the height of the room.
• In such rooms, ceilings should have a warm dark color.
• You can also play the visual trick of installing the mouldings or chair rails to one half to three quarters of the way up the walls.

5. Very Big Room

• Experiment with warm and dark colors on your wall to make the room look cozier and friendlier.
• Group furniture pieces into two or more separate seating arrangements.
• Like long rooms, big rooms can also be divided into smaller areas using screens and room dividers and can be used for better purposes and will make the room look cozier too.

Interior Designing is all about creativity and imagination. The basic elements that we use to play around with the mood, look, personality, character and overall environment of our rooms, kitchen, bathrooms, garden, backyard, garage and home, in general, are described below:
Fluorescent and halogen lights look harsh and are too bright for coziness and warmth in the room. Use soft incandescent lights instead.
Direct the light to attract the attention to visually appealing focal point in the room such as down lighting as from lamps shades of table lamps or up-lighting for attracting the attention to the family photos and portraits on the walls.
Make use of variety of textures. Soft and fluffy pillows, cushions and throw blankets make the room look cozier while baskets and hardbound books arranged neatly in book cases make the room look more sophisticated and ethnic. Black chrome armchairs, metallic round chairs, modern irregular-shaped tables and large mirrors make the room look too formal.
For the cozy room décor, use textured furniture as sleek furniture makes the room look quite formal.
The use of more patterns makes the room appear smaller and cozier. In a small room, use patterns sparingly.
Throw rugs add instant warmth to the room and are great for those who are renting.
Dark warm-toned colors on walls, furniture or furnishings make room look smaller but cozier.

White is the most versatile color and the most popular one too, for home décor. It reflects light beautifully, giving home a fresh clean airy feeling and make it look like a blank canvas that can become alive with the judicious use of colors. White has different meanings in different cultures. Westerners often associate it with purity and chastity while many Eastern cultures associate it with mourning. Thus, people belonging from different cultures may be affected differently by white home décor. While Westerners find it heavenly and paradisiacal, Easterners may find it peaceful, restful and even sorrowful. Here are some tips to use white in home décor:

• Accessories such as bowl full of water with gray-green stones, throw pillows on a white sofa and a goldfish bowl, all seem to have a special place in the all-white room.
• Bittersweet chocolate walls need white furnishings and furniture to balance the look of the room.
• Black and white color scheme has a clean and classy feel when used on floors, walls and furniture, in stripes or checks.
• Blue and white room reminds us of sky and water bodies and are quite serene to look at.
• Colorful table linens, food, flower and napkin arrangements, all seem to get more attention when the dishes, plates and cups are white.
• Green and white remind us of gardens and wilderness. Bluish green may add a touch of undersea environ while lime green instantly makes the room look cool and funky.
• Lighter tan hue or pale sandy tone for the walls look even better with white moldings.
• Orange citrus hue with white in a room looks quite tempting while kids love combinations of purple and white.
• Pastels such as light pink, yellow, pale green, baby blue and aqua with white moldings and trim look absolutely lovely.
• Red and white theme décor featuring strawberries or touches of dramatic blacks, aquas or hot pinks, is just perfect for holiday decor.
• Today, white has gained a new status and popularity in the hands of creative interior designers who break the clinical dull monotony of hospital-like white room with astounding use of colorful furnishings and accessories such as fresh flower arrangements and patterned bedsheets, pillows and coverlets. Add colors to the room daily that seem to stand out against the white background.
• White is considered the most popular neutral color and was almost a default color for walls, ceilings and bed sheets in older times.
• You may replace the harsh blinding white with softer ivory, beige and cream tones for the perfect look.

Neutral colors (such as white, taupe and beige) give you a beautiful canvas to work upon when it comes to home décor. Limited use of colors and patterns help you to create a sophisticated environment along with interesting focal points in rooms, garden and living area. Natural fibers are available in these colors too and have quite different textures for experimenting. The variety of texture in neutral natural colors infuses peace and calm in the home environment. Here are some tips for home décor in neutral colors:

• Simple peaceful homes mostly use off-white or beige colored furniture.
• To create a warm comforting rustic look, use dark neutral colors such as shades of brown, rust and black.
• Natural tones are the strong points of a neutral color scheme. Artificial tints can be disturbing to the overall effect.
• Simple yet sleek homes prefer to use single, multi-purpose and versatile item rather than many small furniture objects.
• Natural fibers in neutral colors can add texture and character to home in the form of curtains, window draperies, slipcovers and pillows.
• Use simple and few accessories that are chosen prudently and in moderation.
• If you are sick of an item that is no more useful to you, dump it boldly. Clutter makes home look messy.
• Ivory, black and gray also come under the heading of neutral colors but be sure to understand their undertones while choosing their combinations. These undertones of colors can be pink, tan, gold, yellow, blue or even peach.
• Remember, red is a warm color that attracts attention and represents energy, passion and healing. It can be used as accents to add instant life to a dull neutral colored home decor.