Modern Furniture Design – Home Living Ideas and Furniture Decorating

Some houses are equipped with bay window that seems like a usual window. Bay window is a window space projecting outward from the main walls of a building and forming a bay in a room, either square or polygonal in plan. The angles most commonly used on the inside corners of the bay are 90, 135 and 150 degrees. Although looks like ordinary overdraft, bay window may be one solution to expand the space.

Despite its simplicity, this window has two distinct roles. First, it enhances the appearance of the facade from outside the home. In the room, it created additional space as sitting area. Besides being used as a sitting area, the window is also can be used as a storage by adding a drawer at the bottom of the window. Bay window gives the appearance as if there was a wall that arises. Its existence became a focal point on the facade.

It is better if bay window planned in the beginning of house construction. It can simplify your home decor plan without the need to dismantle the building. Nevertheless, it is fine even if the house was already standing and you want to add bay window. The important point is to consider the structure of the building. The reason is, there will be the addition of the cantilever on the wall outside. You also should consider the distance between the windows with the old roof. If the distance is too close it looks like stacked and will distract the view. Select home decoration accessories that in the harmonious rhythm to beautify the house look. Last result, you will get pleasurable moment at your bay window.

Talking about home decor is not only the matter of combining cute accessories with the entire part of the house, as you desire. The first thing you must understand is the basic principles of interior design. Once you understand the principles, it will so easy for you to change your house’s look, transform the ordinary space into fabulous look. The principles knowledge might you sense is everything feels has cohesive and put together or feels just right. Of course, basic principles only would not enough without experiment to create the best interior design that suit with you.

Balance is the main principle of interior design, how we can approximate the visual weight of an object. Balance can be created through shape, color, pattern, and texture. Creating patterns of repetition and contrast to create visual interest is the next attention that we called the rhythm. The purpose is to move your eye around the room by using the same color or shape at different intervals.

When the entire elements act together to create a unified message, then you have created harmony. Harmony creates a sense of restfulness, even though from a single color only. Emphasis created by having focal point as an anchor of the room view. When everything gets equal importance, there will be scattered and boring. Last is calculate the proportion and the scale, how the size of one part can fit in to another. When you have understood about the basic principles, you are ready to start the home decoration.

Lighting become an important part of home decor since it can create many impression. Lighting function is not only as a light in a room but also as an aesthetic element. The lighting aesthetic value lies in its ability to create various kinds of dramatic effects. The shape of lamps, the cap, or the buffer container is made of aesthetics that can support the overall aesthetics of the room. Combination of various elements such as shapes, motifs, and materials with other elements of room atmosphere can produce an impression of high aesthetics.

The lamp has a focus or fluorescent light that is interesting because, naturally, emits a light that has drawn attention. Lighting can be the center of attention when it forms a unique and interesting, or because of their size. Moreover location and its relationship to other objects in the room, where the lamp is placed in the middle or in the middle of the room, for example in the middle of the wall, or hanging on the middle of the room.

Each color of light can give different effects and impressions. White lamp contains lots of blue spectrum, which causes the color more ‘cool’ than the color that comes out of the bulb. Therefore, the room can seem more ‘cool’ psychological even brighter. While the bright yellow lights tend to make the room warm colors like red, orange, yellow, beige look better. Pay attention on lighting for your home decoration, thus your room will look perfect.

Wall is usually left plain with single color only and has been ignored from the attention. Plain walls sometimes create an empty atmosphere, moreover if the arrangement of furniture and accessories are also not supportive atmosphere created. The painting itself is still failing to present the planned space atmosphere, when the wall is a wide space to be creative. Wall ca also be the supportive element to create warmth and cheerful to your family.

The easiest home decor that can apply to your wall is spreading bright color to all over your wall. The harmonious color will make your room appear nicely. Wallpaper is the other way to color your wall, not only various colors but also various motifs is been offered. Of course, not all the wall can attach to wallpaper; it depends on the function of the room. Room that has function as service area and often exposed to the elements of water should avoided. It is the same if the room has high humidity. Moldy wallpaper would seen uglier that damaged paint.

Many accessories that can used to complete home decoration, the right accessories would make your wall as be alive. There is no need to buy expensive accessories, objects of art or a beautiful framed photographs can affixed to the wall. Size, shape, color, and composition also must been noted for its placement. The right placement will beautify and give cheerful to the room.

White color for your interior home decor? I’ll bet you will think hundreds times to considered apply that color to your house. Many people trapped in the stereotype that white color is identical with a dirty easily. They do not want to be bothered with their interior to clean any time. Maybe this following article it makes you reconsiders your opinion

When you apply white paint on your wall and your interior furniture, it makes shelves and cabinets blend with the wall as if drowning. What would happen then is the color will make the room feel lighter and relieved. So you can save the lighting from electricity source. In addition, applies the same colors of some elements of this type, such as the creation of a canvas. So anything you put in it, provided that the color is not white, would be the attention. White color also gives us a freedom to combine with any style of home decoration. So your creativity will be unlimited.

To overcome that the surface is not dirty quickly, you need extra attention. This means do not be lazy to clean, when the surface has the dirt spot on it, clean it immediately. You can also look for ways to apply anti-stain paint, which is now beginning to be sold in many markets. Select also finishing duco, which is easily cleaned. So the white color can look beautiful longer.

To enhance and beautify the living room floor, the carpet can be an alternative to decorate the living room. There are varied design and models of rug and carpet ranging from modern to classical motifs. Carpet able provides warmth in the room, also providing comfort to the feet. Consider to the technique of manufacturing, it is divided into two types which are created manually by hand and machine made. If decided on buying carpet does not forget to adjust to the size of the space and the furniture that will be placed on top of it. Like other accessories or furniture, the carpet needs to be cleaned as well to keep the room hygiene.

Carpets are very sensitive to dust. In order to avoid causing an allergy, you should use a carpet which can be removed easily when you want to clean it. This kind of carpet is called a scatter rugs or accent rugs. These types of carpet mostly use in the bedroom, next to the bed set which is use as home decoration as well.

Other materials for the carpets are made from natural materials that as well able to use as home decor. For example, woven water hyacinth leaves, midrib of coconut, pandanus, seagrass and traditional mats. All of these natural mats must be in place that is not humid. Water or water spills could create stains which is difficult to clean. Cleanse it immediately and sunbathe in the heat of the sun directly if there are spills.

As well as the history of human life, people want to go back to the past. People fed up with modern form and length for elements of the past. So they do not become rational again, do not give priority to the function, and want to show everything as a character of monumental sculpture and the building. In the end, people apply them in their architecture. That kind of architecture is usually called post-modern architecture.

Post-modern architecture is a mix of traditional and non-traditional value2, mixed half and half non modern modern, a combination and integration of new elements of the two variants. The theory of post modern architecture is the creation of characters and symbols architecture must be changed. Post Modern modest means, the flow of a more contextual architecture in which the elements of classical and traditional ornaments and dug for the photo and the meaning contained in the new.

Feature prominently in the post modern architecture is the use of color and shape of space. Colors used are not real and primary colors like orange, grey and pink and Tosca. While the shape of the room intact and has a monumental impression called a great room (large room). This large space often made with high atrium, which is functionally inefficient and wasteful. Space is reminiscent of the buildings before the modern period that have a large space, and monumental.

And building, to further complement the atmosphere of post-modern, appropriate home decor is also necessary. We don’t have to find the antique accessories which exactly came from the age that we wish to. Today, many people involved in home decor creating home decoration in accordance with the post modern theme through modern media. For those of you who like fusion, this one could be an option.

The family is the environment in which some people still blood relations. Family social, a group comprised of some individuals, relationships, there is obligations, responsibilities between those individuals. Although they have blood relations and similar to each other physically, but they have different personalities one another. This personality’s differences make the taste of anything of one another is different too.

A house is not just a representation of one person but the whole member of the family that lived in. It will be perfect if whole of the family member take part in determining home decor. The most intimate room for the whole family member is the family room. In that room, they can have relaxing conversation with the other family member without have to pretend to be someone else.

This is a big change to try something new that came out of a fixed rule. If we usually decorate the room with the rule that home decoration should be match to the furniture, why don’t we try hit-run design? Each family member can contribute ideas in accordance with their respective tastes. Mixing classic style that our parents favorite with the contemporary style that the children admired. Its composition will be attracted attention because of the impressive mixed “, lots of colors and different forms.  Who would have thought, placing furniture completely different will bring a more cheerful life.