How to be Consistent with Furniture and Decoration

This article explores simple techniques and suggestions for making a room consistent in terms of color and theme.

When carrying out home improvements it is essential that the furniture you buy and the decorations you choose complement one another. This article gives some tips and hints on ensuring that colour and theme are consistent with one another and matching furniture with interior decoration.

Choosing the right colour palette

Getting the colours right in a room is a difficult task and is often dependent on the furniture you have available. But first of all let us think about some colour palettes that work well together.

For a room with lots of natural light, go for pure white walls, with some earth coloured soft furnishings and wooden floorboards. Look to buy sofas online for a range of colours which match the ambience of the room.

Use pastel or terracotta colours in the wall or ceiling paint in order to add some extra warmth into the room. Pastel wall colours need not be too stark or bold. Try picking a colour which is just off the colour of the flooring below.

Blues and greens are great to bring life and energy into a room, especially in a bathroom, kitchen or conservatory. Match with either a white ceiling or white floor.

When going for primary colours such as bright red, yellows, blues and greens, there is a lot of room for creativity. Just make sure to be consistent with the vibrancy and keep everything bold and illuminating. If you need to tone it down a little, go for splashes of plain white, rather than dark, earthy or pastel colours.

Deep reds and earthy colours can bring a lot of warmth into a room, especially when combined with rich wooden furniture and thick cream or earth coloured carpets. Be sure not to let deep colours suffocate all the light in a room. If this is the case pick a spot which can be illuminated using light pastel colours.

Furnishing and fixtures and fittings.

In any room with a light or pastel colour theme, it is essential to keep any soft furnishings crisp, clean and simple. Avoid fluffy, bulky or elaborately patterned furnishings. Instead go for bold, indiscreet furniture and let the natural light filling the room do the talking.

Wooden furnishings often add a lot of character and vitality to a room, but should always complement one another tonally. When choosing the right flooring a light wooden flooring or carpet will bring out the features of dark wooden furniture whereas a dark floor will bring life and vitality into light wooden furniture.

Conclusion

The main thing when choosing any colour scheme is to make sure that it is consistent and one that suits you. Always be prepared to try things out, match up different items of furnishings with different floors and walls.

AUTHOR BIO:

Shirley is a seasoned homes and interior decorations writer. She has been offering advice on homes and interiors, writing for a range of websites and blogs. She also runs her own interior designs consultancy company and always advises customers to shop around and buy sofas online in order to access the diverse range available.

A New Home

 This home belongs to my BIL. We visited them yesterday to congratulate my BIL and his wife. He bought a home at the same spot since a year ago but it’s very small for two adults and two kids. 

Therefore the previous home was totally renovated; it takes about six months to build the new home. It’s a comfy home; many new neighbors admire their home:)

Monday Mellow Yellows

Top 8 Tips to Paint Your Home

The easiest way to make your home look attractive is to paint the interiors. It is such a small thing but can be very expensive if you make mistakes, not to mention the strained neck. The choice of colors, the brushes and way you prepare to paint, all contribute to a good interior job. Follow the detailed tips given below and ensure a well-done paint job –

  1.   Remove All Fixtures – Before you begin painting, you have to prepare the house for it. Remove all the fixtures and the faceplates. Put a tape over those fixtures that you cannot remove. Painted fixtures and faceplates do not look good. A small preparation ensures that the painting is done properly.

  2.   Prepare Properly – When you prepare well, you can expect a good finish. Ensure that the surface is clean and that it is not flaky. If there are cracks on the wall, then fill them up with a good filler. It is necessary to apply primer over the wall before you begin painting.

  3.   Protect Your Brushes – it is easy to ignore the brushes when you are painting but they are very important for this job and thus, you must ensure that you take good care of them. When you are between coats, don’t wash them or leave them in the thinner. Put the brushes in a Ziploc pouch and secure them properly.

  4.   Keep an Old Rag – Painting is messy and an odd drop may fall here and there. You must keep an old rag with you and wipe the surface where the paint drips. Wiping it immediately ensures that there is no unsightly stain.

  5.   Keep The Corners Wet – As far as possible, keep the corners wet and work into them. If you paint over an area that has already dried, you can have overlapping stripes that don’t look good.

  6.   Use Good Quality Materials – It is easy to cut corners and choose bad quality materials just to save money. But that can actually be an expensive proposition. The interior job can be botched up if you use low quality materials. Use good brushes and paints.

If you are a beginner painting your house in Orlando, you can talk to a good and experienced painter before you start. So, who is the best Orlando painter? Simple! The best painter will know his work well and take care of all the basics and the quality of work.

  7.   Apply a Base Coat after Laying Tape – When you are taping, you need crisp lines. For this, apply a base coat after laying the tape. After this , you can apply top coat. When you lay the tape, the base color leaks and seals the tape giving a contrasting color. This results in crisp lines.

  8.   Power Roll – Finally, roll paint using a power roller. It is an inexpensive option and very effective. It also saves a lot of time.

When you are planning to paint, always have someone to help you so the painting is done well and quickly. Follow the above tips and you will have done a good painting job even if you are a beginner.

Paddy Field and Pond

 This beautiful spot located opposite a hotel in Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia. Captured in one bright morning last year, during long Feast holidays.

The Weekend in Black and White

Business Services Worth Investing In

If, like me, you have aspirations of one day owning your own company and making a lot of money, something you need to know about before you get started is what type of services are most valuable to companies in the 21^st century. In other words, which ones can you live without or economise on and which should you stretch your budget for if necessary? I have done a fair amount of research recently in anticipation of starting a small venture in the near future and have listed my findings below for my fellow entrepreneurs to peruse. I hope that you find them useful or at least vaguely entertaining!

1.   Location – perhaps you don’t think about the location of your company headquarters in terms of a service but if you choose to rent a fully equipped workspace in a building such as 1Union Square Seattle WA, that’s exactly what it is and it is well worth paying more for if necessary. In spite of the fact that more and more business is being conducted online nowadays, the physical location of a company can still make a really big impression on prospective clients. The great thing about renting serviced office space is that it often comes with a full complement of administrative staff and an ICT infrastructure already in place, meaning that you are ready to roll from the first day that you arrive. Furthermore, with short-term contracts and special offers freely available, you may end up paying far less for a prestigious location that you thought was possible.

2.   Accountants – yes I know, not a subject to set most people’s heart racing but if you want to make sure that your company turns a profit at the end of the year, you need to keep accurate records of all your income and expenditure and, more importantly, find somebody who can interpret all the figures and let you know which areas of your business are making money and which are not. Hire a cheap and inefficient accountant at your peril!

3.   Graphic designers – whether you are going to focus on promoting the goods and services that your company provides via a website or through a combination of traditional and digital media, it is vital to make a good first impression on your target audience. A corporate logo does not have to be flashy but it should make a bold statement about your organisation and leave customers in no doubt as to your intentions. It takes a skilled designer to pull this off without producing something that looks tacky and it is worth paying for the best if you want good results.

4.   IT support – almost all companies rely on computers and mobile devices to carry out their day-to-day activities in the 21^st century so it is a good idea to hire a rock solid support team to make sure that the software and hardware in which you invest does not let you down at an inopportune moment. Telling potential customers to call back for prices because the system is down at the moment is sure to antagonise them and send them scurrying to find an alternative supplier.

There are bound to be other services that are critical to your particular business but these will depend on the industry and part of the world in which you plan to operate so you will have to make your own list to complement the one above. When you have finished, double check everything to make sure that you have not overlooked a really obvious service that could create problems for your new venture if you do not find a reliable provider.

About the Author

Peter is a company that aims to provide corporate services along with suitable permanent and temporary office space NYC to clients. For more information, refer to http://www.regus.com