Interior Decorating – Home Staging

Archive for May, 2008

Decorating the home to improve it looks is simple. You just need to understand that decorating can include painting, including techniques and so forth.

The marketplace has a variety of paints. You can even mix and match the paints, or buy a single color and decorate the home to the desired effect.

For those who want the paint easier to clean – choose latex paint (water-based paint) or paints composed of solvent-base.

The flat paints are better for walls that are not smoothed out. Whereas for the woodworks - semi-glossy paints are much better. Solvent paints or oil-base paints are often used on metals, for those who like the damp appeal – they can go on walls as well. But remember, if solvent or oil paints are used on wall without being thinned out first, the paint will PEEL after some time passes.

Basically the flat paints are better for interior walls and ceilings. The semi-glossy paints – for ceiling, interior walls and woodwork.

Paintbrushes should never shed. For this reason the nylon bristled brushes are the best. Do not use a crowbar or hard-surface narrow head object to open cans of paint. Better use special paint opener that go free with the purchase of paint cans.

You can also think about wallpaper trimmings to bring in a special effect. For example, paint a living room, coloring it a type of greenish color. A wallpaper at the trim of the walls with a lighter green with a hint of mist or white in the lining and produce a lighter effect in the room.

Wallpaper is also a great choice as you can purchase paper with multi-colors and single colors. The paper also gives a possibility to add to the design, by playing with texture and designing patterns.

The marbled types of wallpapers will look nice for larger areas in the home. Speckle wallpapering are better for smaller areas as they can offset vases, lamps, and pictures on the wall.

When making a purchase of a wallpaper, opt for the water-base papers – they often stand up. Wallpapers are in wood-like resemblance, marble, speckle, and many designs.

Source: home improvement designing

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Home Remodeling can be as simple as changing your interior decoration, or as complex as a major construction job. It can be done in a jiffy, or involve spending long stretches of time in a house that looks more like a construction site than a residence.

An effective remodeling job might be as involved and complicated as a major build-out, or it might be as uncomplicated as changing the drapes and carpeting.

No matter what the project, however, it will require careful planning if you are to avoid expensive delay and unnecessary expenses. Planning need not be all that difficult, depending upon the type of job you are planning to do. Simply changing the color scheme of your bedrooms may only require a short list materials and an hour spent at the local home improvement depot. Pick a color from a chart, buy the paint, the brushes or rollers, a tarp – maybe even a little paper hat to prevent accidently changing the color of your hair. Simple tasks require simple plans, and offer little danger of running seriously over budget.

Larger remodeling jobs, such as building an addition to your house, are major projects that require professionals of many stripes, and may include architects, engineers, licensed contractors and applications to the local government for construction permits. What if you wanted to change the look of a room by changing not just the wall color, but also the furniture, flooring, lamps and drapes? You can see that as more and more elements are added to the project, more and more time and planning is necessary.

As your project becomes bigger in scope, it naturally becomes more complex. Perhaps changing the color scheme is not enough; perhaps the drapes, furniture, floors and lamps need to be upgraded.

We’ll take you through all aspects of the remodeling process – from the big stuff, like room additions, through the small stuff, like picking out a bathroom sink. We’re not going to overload you with lots of complicated do-it-yourself tips, but we will try to point out the who, what, when, where and why of home remodeling. These types of remodeling projects are prone to unpredictable cost overruns, and are inherently difficult to coordinate and plan. These are precisely the reasons why more time must be spent in the preparation stages of the job.

Building an addition to expand your home, or raising the roof to create more living space – jobs like this demand the use of several different professionals. Quite likely you will need to employ the services of an architect or engineer; you will need to hire a licensed contractor for the construction. You will have to deal with the local government for permits and inspections.

Frank Sarntarpia

Source: Home Remodeling

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