Home Decoration Tips For Novices
For the novices who have just been out of their parents' homes,
ready to start their own lives, we have come up with tips and ideas
for the decoration of their first home or apartment. Childish décor
styles and futons are not for grown-ups and you may still not be
earning enough to buy those sleek and expensive furniture pieces
that you desire for your rented apartment. Here are some tips and
ideas from interior designers and specialists that you can use to live
like a king in your miniature castle:
- For independent living, you need some basic furniture items,
which you can shop from flea markets and thrift shops, borrow from
friends, relatives or parents or buy from big home décor stores, as
you like. These include:
· Sofa bed with slipcover or a sofa and a bed with
headboard as separate pieces,
· At least one upholstered club
chair for comfort,
· At least one or two chairs that may be built to be
stacked on top of each other and may be wooden or metallic,
· Tall book cases, wall mounted shelves or armoires to
keep your things,
· A coffee table,
· A small side table to be kept beside your club chair,
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Lamps that can be kept on table, floor or be
wall-mounted, and
· A nightstand.
- Add life to the old furniture using slipcovers in range of
fabrics, styles and colors.
- Be creative with your eating and entertaining area by using
leather ottoman or even neatly-arranged stacks of hardcover books as
the coffee table or making use of old drums and tyres from the junk
yard to design your own innovative center tables for almost nothing.
- Hardcover books that are neatly arranged speak of intellectual
minds and avid readers.
- Any mismatched furniture pieces can be covered with slipcovers
for maintaining the harmony.
- Fresh paint can do wonders to an old home, walls, furniture and
tiles.
- Use up lighting, dim lights, floor lighting, spotlights on
accessories and interesting focal point of the room, and soft
incandescent lights to your advantage and make your room look
completely different with mood lighting.
- Bring Nature inside by tending a plant that is low-maintenance
one or buy an artificial one that looks like a real one for the
corner and windowsill décor.
- Some interesting accent ideas include pottery,
porcelain, bamboo stalks, glasses, elegant
carpets, Oriental rugs, tapestries, damasks and wallpapers.
- Personalize the space by displaying family photos and handmade
covers and sheets.
- Clean and ironed linens, towels, sheets,
blankets and comforters can make the shabbiest
place look chic.
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