How to decorate your home tastefully

If you want to decorate your house with latest ideas but have not planed it properly, never mind just avoid certain mistakes. Let me assist you to do that for you with some innovative ideas, latest trends and no scope of a mistake whatsoever while doing it. Here are some crucial points for your consideration-

- Heavy furniture: you should never purchase the furniture for your house unless you have proper idea of your house particularly the rooms where you have to set it. The proper way to buy furniture is to have a proper measurement, shade of the paint and design of the particular room whether long or square should keep in mind while shopping for furniture. 

- Costly decoration: Costly decorative items are no guarantee for your interior decoration until you have put enough imagination in your shopping. To give your home a better look you must know the right kind of looks for your need. Mere spending big money would make it look gaudy therefore, plan your shopping carefully.

- Keep your artwork on a proper height on the walls, generally a height of 70 to 80 inches considered standard. If you keep it higher than that, it would only look odd and strenuous for eyes.

- keep your electrical wiring in a proper way, a mess of wires would make your decorative lights only in bad taste, keep them hidden or properly planned.

- Repetition of color looks odd like if your sofa cushions, walls, show pieces on the walls and some other decorations are in a particular color. That would spoil the show, this is better to use different colors for different items, the best combination should have at least three different colors/shades.

- Number of cushions on a sofa is important, too many cushions soon become the places to keep things like remote etc under them, keep the number of cushions limited.

- Velvet is out of fashion for sofa covers being too complicated to maintain therefore this is wise to avoid it, choose sofa and cushion covers according to shades of your walls. If the shades are light keep covers also of lighter shades and if your sofa cover is printed never go for heavy printed design for your curtains.

- If your windows are big and need three curtains, this would be wise to not to go for velvet cloth as this would appear too heavy. This is better to go for synthetic, organza or cotton to give your windows a good look. If you think the cloth of the curtain is light, you can add lining with matching color that would not enhance the life of the curtain but also make it look elegant and fall more decently.

- You can use different colors for your sofa cushions to give it an artistic touch with a careful use of imagination, the different colors in cushions of the same sofa is in thing these days. You can use different colors for your cushions but size of the same may also be different 

- Never select same color for your carpet as that of sofa covers, cushions and curtains, this would make your room size look smaller and closed as box type. Go for contrast colors for two items touching each other.

- The best idea as per the experts of the field says if you go for your upholstery in two contrast colors like red with yellow or beige with maroon if the sofa cover is green, your room would instantly give a different look. Use matching flowerpots to give a wonderful look to your drawing room.

-  For a small size drawing room brown or grey is not the right choice of shades, this would make your room look even more smaller better go for golden, light maroon or henna colors to give your drawing room a big and elegant look.

- If you have selected light colors for your upholstery, use of Chanderi or Malmal clothes with fine embroidery and floral designs for curtains would perfectly match with striped designs for sofa covers. 

- Use hanging lamps and table lamps to decorate your drawing room with matching colors as per upholstery to improve the look of entire décor.

Finally, be very careful with the quality of clothes and other material you have selected to decorate your rooms as most items are available in inferior qualities with same price tag therefore this is advisable to take help of some one who is an expert in such matters otherwise the cloth colors and prints won’t last long.

If you have engaged an expert for home decoration, do not depend wholly on him but check out his work occasionally to make things look according to your choice and not his. If you are planning a big home-decoration, the decorators give you even custom-made designs for your interior according to your specific choice. Use this option to give it a more personal touch to your home décor. 

A word of advice 

While this is advisable to use shades of yellow and gold in your drawing room, study and workplace as use of these shades may increase your concentration, memory and keeping your depressions away. Use of these shades especially for curtains, decorations and wall textures gives lot of positive energy at the same time use of these shades in your bedroom may give adverse effects, which may cause you sleeping disorder and uneasiness. Yellow is color of sun therefore related to energy use it at places where you need it but avoid this shade in places, which you spend for rest. 

Conclusion

Always go for an expert advice to avoid disappointment while you are going for shopping of costly furniture, curtains and other decorative items. Be very careful with your electrical fittings and wirings, as inferior quality of the same may prove dangerous. Be careful of too slippery tiles used for flooring as these may cause you or your children fall and have unnecessary problems. Check all kitchen and bathroom fittings carefully to avoid loss of time, money and unnecessary phisical injury.