What does it take to be an Interior Designer?

Written by Rosemary Leake


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Environmental Lighting: Many people forget that lighting is included in any space changing project. You must have knowledge of how lighting works, and have a general idea of what is needed to install light fixtures in areas that do not have them already. Many homes are not equipped with lighting fixtures in some rooms. Of course, if you wish to changerepparttar lighting fixtures from general lamps to say, track lighting, you may have a problem if you do not understand how to install it

Basic Plumbing & pipe structure: If adding or changing spaces in kitchens and bathrooms, plumbing fixtures are often changed or re-organized. You will need to understand their basic functions in order to effectively plan a change that involves them, or is to be done around them.

Rosemary Leake is an Independent Consultant with Southern Living at Home. Inspired by Southern Living magazine, our exclusive home décor line brings warmth and style to every room of your home! Visit Rosemary's Interior Design website for more articles and resources - http://www.interiordesignprofits.com. Also get your FREE Mini-Report: "A Complete Guide To Interior Design."


Interior Design For New Homes

Written by Rosemary Leake


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Oncerepparttar walls have been treated in your new home,repparttar 141370 next item onrepparttar 141371 agenda while planning interior design for new homes would be dynamic placement of your hanging accessories such as mirrors, pictures, and art. Do not over clutter walls. Make good choices and place such items in key places by establishing focal points or presentation areas that will flatterrepparttar 141372 rest of your design.

Interior design for new homes can be a tricky process. There is a good possibility thatrepparttar 141373 area pertained in your new home will be slightly larger or smaller thenrepparttar 141374 space in your previous home. It is this reason that planning placement and theme of each space in your new home is so vitally important to successful interior design of new homes. Be sure to measure widths of furniture and doorways before moving day comes in order to avoid hassle while gettingrepparttar 141375 furniture into your new living space. Take careful notice of any moving activity that occurs into and around your new home. Careless moving errors can disfigure floors and walls and create flaws in your new house before you have even begun living there.

Placement of furniture in new homes is one ofrepparttar 141376 key aspects of unique interior design for new homes. The old philosophy of creating larger spaces (this is seen especially in living areas and rec rooms) by liningrepparttar 141377 furniture alongrepparttar 141378 walls is true at times although at other times (again, especially in recreational-type rooms), dividingrepparttar 141379 room into two separate spaces by positioning furniture towards separate focal points therefore adding space and versatility torepparttar 141380 area as well as enlarging it.

The most important matter of concern when designing or planning interior design for new homes is to build an environment that caters torepparttar 141381 individuals living there. Creating a space that is accommodating to each person’s lifestyles isrepparttar 141382 general principle of new home design.

Rosemary Leake is an Independent Consultant with Southern Living at Home. Inspired by Southern Living magazine, our exclusive home décor line brings warmth and style to every room of your home! Visit Rosemary's Interior Design website for more articles and resources - http://www.interiordesignprofits.com. Also get your FREE Mini-Report: "A Complete Guide To Interior Design."


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