Your dream house
Every one wants to live in a place that he can set according to his own taste and choice, color the place according to his own mood or give it a shape of his own liking. He wants to decorate it the way his pocket permits but utilizing his budget according to his own designs. He may take help of a professional interior decorator but as per own ideas and dreams. You should take certain precautions while going for your interior decoration. Every corner of your house is important, give it a proper look if you can do it yourself, which is not possible in every case so it is better to take the services of a qualified interior decorator.
Bedroom is most important
The decoration of bedroom is different for different age groups and that should be most important while setting a bedroom interior. Bedroom for a newly wed must look different from that of an elderly couple and then it depends from couple to couple therefore the need of couple specific. However, there always remain certain necessities, which find place in every bedroom. This is better to make a user specific list and area available its size and design before setting the list of items to use. Let us make a survey before finalizing the list-
• Bed should be according to size of the room so it may fit into the room comfortably as a bigger than specified size would make it only out of place and you shall not be able to set other necessary items according to your plans. Bedroom should not give a too crowded feeling that makes you uncomfortable.
• Keep your bed south-west facing as per prescribed in vastu art of designing. While on the subject, you should look for wrought iron bed for its better utility moreover the wood is no more in fashion.
• Another important aspect of a bedroom is its pant and shade. Color of paint plays a big role with mood setting process of the occupant. Since half of your life is spent in your bedroom, you should be very choosy and particular about its colors. Most people prefer lighter shades like cream, pink, peach, sky blue, light green or off white and never a mixture of shades for bedroom as it gives your bedroom a smaller and heavy look.
• Make a wall as your love corner, decorating it with framed memorable photos with your partner.
• Most people use matching or contrast colors for curtains to give your bedroom a rich look. Tissue, silk and net gives a good look for bedroom windows. Cushions and bed sheets should also be taken care with proper color combinations.
• If your bedroom is spacious enough, you can have a small sofa with a table to accommodate your close friends or relatives.
• To save space a LCD is a better choice over conventional TV, it fits in a wall for better viewing.
• Keep space for fresh flowers in your bedroom to give your room a unique look and smelling sweet.
Living room
Your living room is as important as your bedroom where you spend most of your leisure time with your family and friends talking or enjoying. Take special care of this room as it reflects your personality and creativity. You should plan your living room with imagination to give it a unique touch of your personal preferences like-
- You should provide enough sitting space according to size of the room, here is your chance to choose colors presenting your personal touch neither dark nor too light.
- You can have storage shelf under the LCD TV to utilize the space fully
- A bookshelf provides an intellectual look with books of your choice
- You can give you floor a new look with wooden flooring or vitrified tiles
- Use sleek chairs and side tables to give your room a spacious look
Your children’s room
Children’s room again is age and gender related that needs your special care with emphasis on their overall development. You should always keep in mind that this is the age when their minds take proper shapes in this particular age therefore they should be guided with utmost care so this right time you motivate them with the use of their preferred role models’ photos on walls of their room . You should know what attracts them most to decorate their room according to their preferences. Here are few tips to understand their requirements. I have taken into account that we are having one room for your two children, one of them a boy and other a girl-
* You can use a two-floored bed to give your children’s room a unique look plus a sense of privacy while sleeping, besides saving some extra space for other uses, the best part is that these beds have multiple built-in cabinets to use as storing space for books to shoes and other accessories.
* Boys prefer blue brown red and purple etc while the girls prefer pink most, orange, purple and violet are some of their other preferences. Therefore this is better to make it a combination of multiple colored maybe 3-4 colors pallets to make it acceptable to both of your kids. You should be careful to select different shades of same color otherwise use of multiple colors would look odd to make room look smaller.
* You can use different shelves for your kids like for your girl’s shelf with a theme of her choice in mind that could be from a Barbie, super girl, ocean blue etc while for the boy’s shelf, you do not have to worry much as boys are capable to do it their own way.
* In case of girl’s side of the room, you should provide her a shelf or cabinet with multiple drawers because girls generally have a habit of keeping their items safe small or big.
* Provide your girl with a mirror on the wall with provision of changing its location as many times as she wants, girls like it that way.
* Boys are carefree who do not care for safekeeping their items therefore can do with lesser space therefore give your daughter more space than your boy does. Boys are good enough to make use of as much space available.
Kitchen
Your kitchen has very wide scope for experiments as your wife may have many suggestions for the decorator. She may want to change every
suggestion offered by designer so let her make her suggestions because she is the one who knows best about her requirements. She can always offer best of advices regarding right places for right items. For instance, she is the best judge to tell interior decorator to fix items of her choice at particular points and her specific needs.
Shades of paints an important factor for your kitchen’ appearance, here I have some suggestions about most suitable colors to choose from- white, pink, and ivory light green etc in pastel shades. If you have a belief in Vastu, the art of healthy living, light yellow is considered a very important color.
For floor of your kitchen you can select tiles in different designs, maybe in contrast shades, pure white those available in different sizes according to shape and area available. Other accessories like water purifier, stoves, kitchen gadgets as per your budget and style.
Bathroom
Bathroom is another important part of your home that needs your special care where you can use your imagination to give it a beautiful and cool look. Make sure that with little bit of extra innovative ideas you can give your bathroom a complete designer look with contrast colors. Here you have a few tips to make your bathroom a place where you would enjoy your time-
- Bathroom should have bright colors in light shades as combination of peach and pink considered most relaxing
- Bathroom fittings reflect your imagination capacity in best way so go for designer accessories like towel bar, taps, hooks, cabinet pulls, handles etc. these items reflect bathroom theme in true colors. You can also choose from heavy traditional or especially designed modern bathroom accessories
- Bathroom accessories has special importance in wicker furniture, cabinet based, mating, soap dispensers, soap cases and shelves to keep your rolled towels etc.
- Tiles have special importance in your bathroom as much as geyser showers, seats etc.