Decorate for Personal Style
By Teresa Opdycke
Photo: © Randy Romano / iStockphoto
Every family maintains an identity that filters into the home. If making your home impressive while retaining the unique flavor of your family is important, implement the following decorating tips.
Surround Yourself with What You Love - Only you know what you love and what brings you a sense of tranquility or excitement. Use the things you love to decorate your home. If you love the quilt your grandmother made, but you live in a glass and steel high-rise, use the quilt as a geometric piece of art on a large wall.
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If you take the things you love and make a passionate decorating statement with them, coming home will always be a pleasure.
Know Your Colors - Mixed shades of violet may be all the rage this year, but if you abhor violet and purples in any hue you'll hate being in style. Know your emotional colors and use them to color your home. The colors that make you smile, make you feel calm, happy, excited, or dreamy, create the look. Personal colors make people feel a certain way and using them in your home inspires you and sets a mood unique to you.
Think Textures - Textures in a room add interest. Combining the rough, knobby look and feel of a woolen throw against the smooth canvas fabric on a sofa adds appeal. Use textures as a focal point or accent such as bamboo shades combined with satiny fabric covered cornices. Just think rough and smooth to come up with texture combinations for feel appeal.
Know Your Style - You could hire a top interior designer, but if your home doesn't reflect your personal style then you're not going to like it for long. Knowing your style means understanding that you prefer casual to formal, natural rather than contrived, or French Country over minimalist. Before starting an interior-decorating project, define your personal style. |
