home interior design ideas

Living Room, is a place in your home, that holds many activities : relaxing, watching tv, eat, and entertaining guests. It’s a room where it should reflect your taste and your personality. It has to function pleasantly and unobtrusively, whether you are settling down to a quiet game of backgammon with an adult or a brisk round of carpet bowls with the young, and it has to go on functioning even as your demands on it change and continue changing as time goes on.

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Colors is potentially the most exciting and rewarding, as well as the most inexpensive, ingredient that goes into the making of a home. Used with flair, it can transform any interior. Planners of color scheme must not be carried away by emotion alone. They must consider colours (and non-colours) in terms of materials : oaint, stains, textiles, skins, leathers, marble and metal, before deciding on a certain colour for a certain room.

Color scheme fall, roughly, into 3 groups : monochrome, related or contrasting. There are several principle when coloring a house :

1. Continuity : consider the view from one room to another and select colours that coordinate successfully without introducing too many different surface finishes at key meeting points.
2. Colour Emphasis : In teh average house, the design emphasis should be on easy to live with colour schemes, incorporating a practical overall surface treatment and simple choice of materials.
3. Accents : Accent is important, avoiding a room being too bored. Bright color, or even a shocking one can be a very good accent, and furely make the room more interesting.

It is important to remember that colour schemes in much-used areas of the house, such as the family room, kitchen and family bathroom, should be relaxed and all the material should be practical and simple to maintain. This does not mean that these areas need to be dull or colourless ; the test of a successful scheme is that the room should look perpetually fresh, cheerful and inviting.

Those households which always seem to run smoothly with everything in its place and a place for everything, have one common feature : well-lanned storage throughout the house.

The only way to provide enough storage space in a small house is to get it against walls. “Working walls” for storage are discreet and self effacing when closed, but everything is to hand when you open the doors. And the secret of making a room look spacious rather than crammed with cupboards is to keep the outside finish simple and avoid unnecessary knobs, moulding and contrasting materials.

The first question to ask when building a storage is, what are you storing? There are many stuffs to be stored : bedroom stuff, shildren storage, linen storage, cleaning materials and seldom-used things.

There are many types of storage, the choice is likely to lie between freestanding, built-in or modular storage. Freestanding cupboards or shelves, acquired usually for their looks rather than their capacity. Built in storage on the other hand is the basis of “working wall”. Its function is to conceal or display your possesions, and it should merge with the walls. Modular storage fittings usually comprise units of standard height and depth and two or three different widths, designed as to fill almost any given space within a few inches the remaining space filled in with a scribed panel.