Top 10 tips to designing a room like an interior designer

Sometimes you just need a little guidance in the right direction and the purpose of this article is to do just that. This month I'm talking about advise on renovating, decorating and styling your home and adding the final all important objet d'art, that will give your room that sense of the interior design look.

I have broke down the top points into  10 top tips of designing a room in order, so that you can give your home, room by room the interior design look that we give our clients.

 1. In planning the design of a room it is important that you seek a balanced approach in terms of style and practicality. With this in mind you should consider carefully the potential requirements of children, pets or elderly relatives; in fact everything that makes a house into a comfortable home.
 
2. In considering the design of your room, looking through interior design books can be advantageous in developing your ideas and concepts as to how the room should look. However it is important to remember that these are show-pieces-nice to look at, useful for ideas, but impractical for most people to live in.
 
3. Before finalizing your requirements for the room, take a moment to consider the future needs you may have in terms of changed circumstances that you may foresee.
 
4. The first points to consider in designing your room are possible repositioning of electrical and plumbing alterations, together with any physical structural changes and possible replacements of doors and windows.

5. Ceilings are often overlooked in the planning of a room and potentially can act as a design feature. You may wish to consider tiering and shaping, contrasting/hints of colour, concealed and down-lighting and more styled cornicing and coving.
 
6. With regards to the woodwork of the room, i.e. skirting boards and door-frames, strive to make a compatible match which agrees with the overall concept you have of the room.
 
7. When choosing the texture and colour of your walls have in mind that what you have chosen will act as a backdrop to your furniture, fabrics and pictures and objet d'art. Therefore we would suggest light, warm, harmonious colours.
 
8. When dressing a window it is important that you recognize that you are doing so from an internal and external perspective. The point at which you make decisions about how you window-dress should be made at the same time as you choose the wall and floor coverings to ensure they are congruent.

9. When considering a floor covering whether carpets, rugs, laminate, stone, paint or ceramics, endeavor to unify the colours and textures to ensure compatibility throughout the house.
 
10. Now that you have completed the infrastructure of the room you have to consider your choice of furniture, pictures and decorative accessories objects of art. In making your choices it is important to take your time, slowly adding items to the room which should both reflect the importance of comfort as well as style.

For advice or guidance with your decorative items or objects of art, take a look at our shop on line. We have coordinated our products into Rangers to make it essayer to accessories your room and add that little sense of interior design with flash's of colour shapes and objet d'art.

Our items range form white, cream, amber to blue, bronze and black, it is all about balancing colour in your overall room. I always say that if you start with a neutral room then you can easily change the accessories when you get bored, and straight away you have a new room. Were as if you have to change the colour of the walls to add a new colour then you mite as well just start from scratch.

Our message to you therefore is to plan ahead carefully, take time in choosing your designs, adopt a balanced approach between practicality, comfort and style and most importantly - ENJOY!