Category Archives: Interior Designer

French Country Decor For A Comfortable And Relaxed Look

If you’re planning to copy French Country decor then you need to visualize a welcoming and relaxed overall look for your house. All natural elements, including real wood, wool, natural cotton as well as plaster walls just about all feature strongly with this particular home decorating style. The particular colors used are normally seen in [...]

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Jobs In Interior Decorating

How to know if a job in interior design is right for you. Starting out, and moving up in the field. What kind of schooling may be required. A career field that is becoming increasingly popular is the field of interior design. Many busy people realize how important it is to have a home or [...]

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How Do I Select the Right Interior Designer For My Project?

Begin your selection process by understanding what an interior designer can do for you and what skills and experience they should have. Many people believe an interior designer simply chooses paint, furniture and accessories but you know they do so much more. Interior designers provide a long list of services including: · Using software to [...]

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The 6 Basic Elements Of Interior Design

There are 6 basic elements used in all aspects of interior design and decorating.   If you correctly incorporate all or most of these elements you will have created a beautiful and functional room.  Balance There are two types of balance – symmetrical and asymmetrical.  Perfect symmetry is like the human body – two eyes, two [...]

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Interior Decorating Using Cool Earth Tones

Cool earth tones are a range of colors achieved by mixing white, or pigments from the cool side of the spectrum such as blue and green, with the basic earth colors. Think of cool stone and slate floors, or the washed creams, gray, and pale sand of a seashore on a winter morning, to get the [...]

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Interior Decorating – Getting Ideas

The easiest way to find your interior decorating style is to start collecting ideas. Flip through interior decorating magazines or home improvement websites and collect pictures of things that catch your eye like a particular sofa style, a really cool lamp, a wall color, window treatments, a fabric, or maybe just the feeling that the [...]

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Interior Decorating – Some Things You Should Not Do

Decorating “rules” are made to be broken. Not every project will lend itself to every so-called rule.  However, following the rules can help give your project a focus that a more haphazard approach may not. Here are some of the decorating “don’ts”.      Don’t paint your walls then go out looking for fabrics to match. [...]

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