Interior designer gives tips to do your own interior design
Published on: 09-Jul-2007
A leading interior design expert has given his tips about the best ways to do your own interior design work.Writing on articlebliss.com, James Brown presents a series of crucial questions that you should consider when doing your own interior design work in any room at home.
To make the most out of your own interior design work, amateur enthusiasts need to consider what each room is going to be used for and which people are likely to be spending the most time in the room.
After that, the next step in creating your own, personalised, interior design ideas is to discard all furniture and accessories that you no longer like, says Brown, and then use the remaining pieces to help develop your future style and colour schemes.
"List the colour of any pieces of furniture, fabrics or finds that would be a good start to develop a colour scheme. Decide on a colour scheme for every room," recommends Brown.
"Create a file of clippings and samples that show the style and colours you would like to use in your home. Draw a floor plan of the room you will be decorating."
Brown then concludes with the three key elements in creating DIY interior design that will make any of your rooms shine.
"Good design shows three things: it shows a mood, it shows harmony, and it is functional. If you have achieved this result, you have succeeded."
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