Home Repair: One Room Apartment to Tuscan Villa – Rules to Make your Decorating a Success

One Room Apartment to Tuscan Villa – Rules to Make your Decorating a Success

Written by Pamela Cole Harris

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One Room Apartment to Tuscan Villa – Rules to Make your Decorating a Success

Making a French chateau library out of that extra room in your modular home can be a challenge (we are talking monumental challenge here!). And making your one room apartment into a Tuscan villa can stretch repparttar limits of your imagination (You’ve been watching too many episodes of Trading Spaces again!). But Tuscan villa, French chateau, English cottage or Santa Fe adobe — whatever your dream décor may be, there are basic rules of design that will help make your decorating task a success:

1.Scale and proportion - If you are trying to make a Tuscan villa out of a one room apartment, make sure it’s a small Tuscan villa. Take into account repparttar 100170 scale of repparttar 100171 room, remembering that repparttar 100172 people who will use repparttar 100173 room will also be part of that scale. If you want large comfortable seats in a small room, you will need to reduce repparttar 100174 number of other things that will be in repparttar 100175 room and make sure that repparttar 100176 other accessories seem correctly proportioned in relation to one another. Remember that a small delicate tea table may look wonderful next to a wingback chair, but will seem at odds with an over-stuffed club chair! Also repparttar 100177 smaller repparttar 100178 space, repparttar 100179 smaller repparttar 100180 prints on upholstery or wallpaper you choose. If you have a large space, let yourself go with large splashy prints!

2.Line - Line defines a space. Vertical lines in your room give more height, dignity and formality (think of repparttar 100181 stateliness of Grecian columns or pillars!). Horizontal lines give a sense of space, width and security (think of a bed or a chair rails!). Diagonal lines give a sense of motion, transition or change (Think of eaves or a diagonal slash of paint!) Curved lines give a sense of freedom, softness and sensuality (think of curved, plush cushions or sofas!) Remember you don’t have to stay inside repparttar 100182 lines! Don’t place all your furniture against repparttar 100183 wall like a police lineup or firing squad! Bring some out into repparttar 100184 middle of repparttar 100185 room or at least move a piece or two at an angle to repparttar 100186 wall.

Pickle Green or Passionate Puce? How to Select the Right Color for your Room!

Written by Pamela Cole Harris

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TITLE: Pickle Green or Passionate Puce? How to select repparttar right color for your room!

AUTHOR: Pamela Cole Harris

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Pickle Green or Passionate Puce? How to select repparttar 100169 right color for your room!

by Pamela Cole Harris

Did repparttar 100170 yellow paint in your room seem like a wonderful, sunny choice two years ago, but now reminds you of two day old eggs? Is repparttar 100171 harvest orange seem trendy? The dusty plum seem elegant? And did that certain shade of green that seemed restful yesterday seem faintly reminiscent of moldy algae? Then it is time to find repparttar 100172 right color for your room!

Here are some hints to help you make a choice:

1.Look at home improvement magazines, decorating magazines and architectural journals. Pick 5 or 6 color schemes that you like. Take those to repparttar 100173 paint store when shopping for paint chips. Take repparttar 100174 chips home and live with them a bit before you make a decision.

2.Remember that lighting and shadows will make a color appear drastically different than repparttar 100175 color you expected. Take this into account when you pick out a paint color at repparttar 100176 store. After you have lived with repparttar 100177 paint chip for several days, bring a small can of your preferred color home and try a sample on each wall. View it at different times of repparttar 100178 day and with different lighting combinations.

3.If you don’t want to paint repparttar 100179 walls, try painting a large piece of scrap wood or drywall. You can then lean it up against repparttar 100180 wall to decide if it is right.

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