Charlotte Moss – an Interior designer – says it best:
“There are two things
that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of furniture”.
We concur. In fact, we’d go on to add a lot more to that
simple statement Charlotte makes. To
make your home really work, we’d throw in tasteful minimalism, fantastic art,
little trinkets, various knickknacks, and possibly simple finishing touches to
your home décor.
Choose mood. Set it
up
The first step to essential home décor is to decide the
mood, lighting, and many other basics. Some timeless necessities remain: you’ll
need proper lighting – both natural and artificial. Window shutters, drapes,
and vertical blinds can help you regulate natural sunshine flooding into your
room. As for artificial lighting, there’s no dearth of lighting fixtures, floor
lamps, table lamps, lights embedded into false ceilings, and many other ideas
to make your home stand out.
Less is good. Avoid
Clutter.
There’s a reason minimalism works: too much of anything is
clutter. That holds good for life in general and for rooms in particular. Exercising
restraint is an elegant exercise. It keeps your rooms serene, peaceful, quiet,
and allow for light, sound, and air to flow.
Choose simple furniture; avoid trying to fill up every inch
of space with something. Much like white space between reams of text – or in
the belly of intricate design – empty space renders simplicity to your home
décor.
Windows need dressing.
Always
Bare, open, undressed windows make your home look bare.
Further, you’d have no privacy from roving eyes of strangers while adding to
the risk of attracting more attention from those with malicious intent to
intrude. Windows, needless to say, are best covered when not open.
Curtains are old-fashioned. Even standard shutters might
look a little outdated (depending on your original home design and décor). For
a change, you can try out some inexpensive vertical blinds. Further, vertical blinds have textures and
they come in a variety of colors to allow you to match them with your overall
color theme.
Hunt for home
furnishings. Like, Forever.
If you go out looking, you’ll have plenty of elegant home
furnishing objects to shop for. While you don’t have to trade in your money for
Aztec art or ancient Buddhist relics, you’d find plenty of handmade pottery and
plenty of other objects to dig out your choices from. For instance,
Realsimple.com has a beautiful list of at least forty elegant home furnishings
that can make your visitors go, “wow”.
What would you like to do today to add that extra touch of
personality to your home?
Author Bio:
Passionate about interior design,
Chris Savage researches about inexpensive vertical blinds
and home decor. In his spare time he likes to design and develop WordPress
websites, play golf, and hang out with his wife.
