To design the interior of our own home – it’s not at all a difficult task. If you have sense of beauty, a little creativity and a habit of observation interior designing is easy for you. It’s a myth that only expensive items can make your interior attractive and beautiful. So, let me give you a few simple tips in a snapshot through this column. Also, let me provide a few simple tips to make your rooms appear large and stay unique in design, through right choice of colour shades. Before I proceed let me start with a few tips to make your interior designing perfect, after all everything should be well balanced!

10 basic things to know about balancing

1. Though all the furnishing products and furniture available in a room are not matching, if there is a single cord connecting them all, it’s possible to arrange the room beautifully. That means, at least one factor of all the items should match, either in shape, colour or any other factor. For example, if curtain colour is sky blue, you can choose upholstery work with blue shades and paint your room with pure white or any variant of blue. You can place a flower vase of blue colour also.
2. Choose furniture according to the size of the room. Also, the room should never lose its balance once you have placed the furniture. For example, to balance with the sofa of drawing room you can place a table or a decorative item of big size. Also, it’s better to arrange all decorative items at one place than scattering them to place here and there, as small pieces.
3. While using curtains, keep in mind the balance of your room. It should suit the size of room and windows. Soft and simple curtains are best for small rooms while you can use royal ones for a big living room. When you stitch your curtains with simple designs it gives an elegant look to your rooms too.
4. The biggest object of a room should be furniture. But simple furniture suits every interior. It is cost effective as well as makes your rooms appear large. Cushions should suit the upholstery works.
5. Painting and its colour shades play a significant role in exhibiting the beauty of an interior. You can use wall papers of flowers, natural scenery or paintings in your walls, at cheap rate. You can try other ideas like wall cladding to give a natural look to your walls. You can try designer paints too, for a single wall in a room or to highlight a border or painting. It depends on your creativity to choose suitable shades and designs. You can frame pictures also. ‘Continuity style’ of framing pictures is the latest trend. In this trend, either a picture is divided into three equal parts or shot of same location at three different angles is used. 
6. Use big walls of your room to hang pictures. If placed perpendicular one above the other, it makes the room appear tall. The picture at center should be in same eye level with the viewer. If they are placed horizontally the room will appear fat. Opposite walls can be used to hang photos. This strategy gives balance to the design as well. If you use more than one small painting in one wall, you can balance them all with a big picture exactly in the opposite wall.
7. Beautiful teapots and pots or vessels with pictures of fruits and vegetables (motifs) can be used to decorate your kitchen. Spices or camphor placed in open dishes can make your kitchen filled with perfumed.
8. You can paint a wall of every room with a contrast dark colour. But it’s not at all appealing to your eyes if not provided those shades somewhere else. The same paint can be used to colour corners, borders or to highlight some objects in the room. If you place a flower vase, dry stick, flowers or any decorative item exactly the same colour, your design becomes perfect. If such decorations are done againts the opposite wall, the blend of colours becomes amazing.
9. In a study room, an open shelf with books looks amazing. Place a few nice books in that shelf to give the room an intellectual look. If you are creative you can decorate it with different colours according to your imagination.
10. You can place a pot of money plant in your bathroom. It purifies the air and lessens the bad smell and moisture content. You can place the pot near bathroom window. This trick is enough to make even a small bathroom modern.

Place things in the right places

Trends are changing fast. New principle is to give suitable location to each and every object of a home; it’s not at all applicable for humans only. It’s not at all significant to buy all equipments needed for home. Important fact is that, they should be placed at suitable places, taking less space. Then only your interior designing becomes effective. Also, when they are placed at right positions they are secure and can be used effectively. It’s better to pre-decide the spaces and positions of each and every device, during planning stage itself. It makes your home compact and all spaces used efficiently. It should be determined according to the characteristics of the product, size of your home and your life style.

The space for your LED

Now star of a living room is flat LED televisions. If you have plans to place wall mounted LED in your home, you need not buy a TV stand for your home or reserve a large space totally for a television. It’s true, LEDs have saved a lot of space in your living room. If you have plans to place an LED in your living room, forget those TV stands. Instead build a nish (hollow) on your wall in 8-10 cm thickness to place your LED. Now everyone prefers to place their television in family living room as it’s inconvenient to watch television in the presence of guests. A few persons love to make a home theatre in the upper storey where the whole members can gather together. If your home is enough spacious to do so, it’s the best decision. You can place furniture 10-15 feet distant from television.

Kitchen arrangements for your interior

Now let us go to kitchen. Sink, fridge and hob – the three ingredients of a work triangle should come in the corners if a virtual triangle is drawn in your kitchen. This model of arranging the three is the most effective kitchen. It reduces the total time in your kitchen considerably. Modular kitchen types with fridges inside cabinet are of high demand now. Cabinet should be built exactly the same size of your refrigerator. A little space should be reserved on either sides of the fridge and one should be able to open the fridge door fully. Also, the open fridge door should never block the free passage to any path. You can place a small table with one or two shelves beside your refrigerator to place the things taken from it. Electric connection should be given in 16 ampere socket.
If you have plans to place microwave oven in your kitchen, you can build inbuilt cabinet for it, during construction of home. If it’s used only for heating your cooked food, you can place it in your pantry. The centre point of oven should be slightly below our eye point.

Utility room for your washing machine

Place of washing machine can be fixed according to the convenience of house wife or maid who wash clothes. If clothes are dried in your back courtyard place your washing machine in ground floor. If you dry clothes in terrace, you can place it in your second floor. Latest trend is to place the washing machine in utility room. If you can place a basket to put used clothes, a few threads to hang washed clothes, a small cup board to fold and place clothes and an ironing table in your utility room, your design becomes perfect and efficient. Every task related to your clothes will end here. Later you can place them in your shelves of bedrooms. Utility room can be designed near your kitchen or on your terrace. If you have done tress work for your terrace, you can make use of that space for your utility room. It can be built near your open terrace too. You should give 16 ampere socket and power plug for your washing machine. Drainage hole used to drain water from your machine should be 1.5 inch diameter.

Beautiful pictures to decorate your interior 

If you hang a beautiful picture in your interior, it beautifies your home manifold. To nourish the beauty of your interior by giving a fresh look and to change the mood of your room, paintings are the best. Selection of paintings depends on the artistic mind, tastes and culture of the person who chooses it. So, take extra care while choosing pictures for your interior. During interior designing phase, select the walls where you need to hang pictures. Also you should have an idea of size of the pictures. In accordance to it, you can do lighting arrangement. Indirect lighting and spot lights for paintings is the latest trend.

Painting should suit your interior

The painting that you select should match with other elements of the room – it’s the most significant factor while choosing your painting. Give equal preference to its colour shades, size, shapes and patterns. It should be noted that a painting can directly influence your mind and mood. So, always choose nice and pleasant pictures. It’s better to avoid scenes of worries and distress.
When you stand up, painting should be in the same level of your eyes. Then only a painting can catch guest’s eyes easily. If paintings are arranged in perpendicular, they make your room appear high while horizontal arrangements make your room appeal lengthy. In the living room, above the sofa you can place big paintings. But its size should never exceed a chair size. If an important picture is placed exactly in the opposite wall, you can add a magical touch to your interior. When you hang paintings of different sizes, it should be well-balanced by exactly the same sized paintings.

Hang your own drawings

Paintings are bit expensive. If you have an artistic mind and can spend a little time, why can’t you frame your own creativity? You can frame pictures drawn by your kids in kids’ room too. Family photo, caricatures and images of your homes can also be framed and hung on walls of your living room. Using photoshop you can make variants of your photos and they can be framed in your bedroom or family living room.
Let me give you another idea. Not only paintings and photos, but coins, sports’ jersey and official symbols can also be used in on walls. Instead of framing, you can laminate paintings or photos in different finishes available.

Curtains to add extra beauty to your interior

Now curtains are used not to cover the rooms and windows completely, but to add beauty to interior and to slightly hide the privacy. It also controls the inflow of sunlight and air. It forms a part of soft furnishing, and if chosen colours that suit the interior, curtain is ‘the queen of interior’ in true means. Choose curtains in accordance with characteristics and colours of furniture and decorative items used and size of the room. Painted colour on walls is another significant factor. All should match well, though intensity of shades may differ. Now favourite colours are pink and white as they give a spacious appeal to rooms and pass sunlight easily. Such transparent colours give a comfort mood to the persons who are sitting inside the rooms. Instead of scallop curtains with pleats, loop curtains are simply the best. Pleated curtains of 2 or 3 pleats with an inner simple curtain can also be used. Use tie-backs as well. Cotton fabrics are simply the best than thick embroidery curtains. It’s easy to clean and maintain too. Blends are also popular nowadays. It is most suited for kitchen and office room. 

A few tips to make appear dwarf rooms big

If you are worried that a room of your newly constructed home looks like dwarf, a few tricks can help you. Just a few arrangements in your interior can solve those problems easily.

1. Stick wall papers of straight lines horizontally on your walls. A few strips of lines painted using two colours alternatively is its alternative. Paint from lower side with upper strokes.
2. Use curtains for windows that touches floor. Eyes will be deviated from small windows. If you don’t want to give big curtains to your small windows, choose small curtains, exactly the same size of window with the colour matching your walls.
3. Give bright white for ceilings. It reflects light more, thus making your room appear tall.
4. Use indirect lighting for ceiling and use soft lights also. It makes your ceiling appear double height.
5. Wardrobes from floor that touch the ceiling are enough to hide the dwarfism of your bedroom or dressing room. It adds beauty to your interior too. Less height beds is alternative solution to make your bedroom appear tall.
6. Avoid hanging lights and chandeliers in dwarf rooms. They are suited most for rooms with enough height or double height living rooms.   

Bring beauty to your interior with these final tips

1. All pieces used for your interior should have uniformity. Even a single irregular shape or size can kill the whole beauty of your interior. Make it simple with a few furniture and decorative items placed.
2. If you choose a single colour or material for flooring of all rooms, your home appears big. Furniture can be given light or darker shades of the colour used for walls. 
3. Curtain style chosen should go well with size of room and its windows. Always remember, big designs make your small rooms smaller.
4. Colour chosen for walls, furniture, upholstery, curtains and decorations should match in some way. Those strange colours chosen will be highlighted most, killing the beauty of your interior.
5. If pink and blue is your favourite combination, you can bring that combo in every piece of design in your interior. As they are your favourite colours, your mood will be refreshed, thus serving you as positive energy.
6. Instead of placing a lot of tiny cupboards here and there, it’s better to provide storage as a single piece. 
7. Lighting is also significant. Through proper lighting techniques you can highlight important things of your interior and hide its defects too. Lighting is of three types – general, feature and task. It keeps changing with time. Choose bulbs and lighting techniques that beautify your interior most.

Conclusion

So, this discussion has come to an end note. Through this article I have briefly explained about creations and decorations that can be done yourself to beautify your interior, a few tips to place electric equipments inside your home, use of paintings and curtains in your interior and finally, a few tips in a snapshot that you can do yourself to bring more beauty and freshness to your new home. I have provided a few tips to make your dwarf rooms appear tall too.