Home Furnishing

Creating a Unique Home Decor

A room is like clothe. It has to keep us warm and comfortable, but also how we use it says a lot about ourselves. Your home decor has to be comfortable and practical, but there has to be room for style as well. There is a fine line that makes the difference between an impersonal but high in style hotel room and a warm and welcoming stylish room of you own.

When we choose our clothes, we tend to use bits and pieces from several different fashion looks to suit our moods and express our individual preferences, and we do the same thing in our home decor with furniture, architectural elements, lighting fixtures, accessories and color. Decorating style is not just a question of the overall look, it also depends on quality of the home furnishings used in the room.

Successfully creating a sophisticated and harmonious home means finding the right balance between style and function, and between fashion and comfort. Decorating, like cooking, should open up the senses.

Let your room decor radiate your love of living. Regardless of the number of rooms, you want to experience the warmth and intimacy of your love in every room of your home, right down to the laundry room. Some of the greatest refinement in your home decor may be in your bedroom closet where the lines are lacquered smooth and the edges rounded and sensual, although no one ever spends time there but you. Room decor should begin with you and your family. You build from there, room by room, space by space, bringing refinement and harmony.

When you are in a room that is filled with love, no matter what function it serves, you are uplifted by the harmony and spirit of place. By surrounding yourself with things you love you will create a home decor for endless pleasure and felling of well-been. Always remember that interesting people create interesting rooms. By expressing ourselves, we can break through the limitations imposed by place and circumstance. It is the expression of well-lived lives that creates beautiful spirit and charm in a home. Home decor style really comes down to what makes you feel good. Contour your home decor around yourself. Luxury and elegance can always be understated.

You can create your own reality. You can have a romantic country home even if you live in a noisy urban area. Your feelings about life, the places you've traveled to, and your favorite things, all give your home decor a personal signature. Inside the rooms were you live you are free to express yourself in unique ways. Let your dreams and fantasies about how you want your home to look and feel create the decor solution. Feel free too create at least one room in your home that is different from the others.

Choosing Right Furniture

Most people associate comfortable furniture with soft cushions and pillows, but there is another dimension to comfort that involves emotional comfort as well as physical solace. Look around some beautiful houses. Other than the upholstered furniture—sofas, love seats, chairs, and ottomans—most of the furniture will be direct, firm, softened only by a seat cushion or a pad on a wooden arm.

But the beauty of the wood provides its own kind of comfort, with its appealing silhouettes and gentle links to nature and, if you own antiques, to the past.

You need wood furniture pieces to balance the softness of fabric-covered furniture. Chairs, stools, benches, tables, desks, chests of drawers, cabinets, jelly cabinets (two-door hutches or high pieces), or credenzas, whether painted or stained—these are the pieces that will give your room personality and character.

One of the reasons a lot of people are so attracted to country furniture is the down-to-earth honesty and charm of wood, but most of the people are equally comfortable in finely decorated rooms with elegantly proportioned eighteenth-century antiques from England, France, and Italy. You can love the unpretentiousness of pine with its light, simple appearance, and also appreciate the beauty of delicate marquetry where three or four different fruitwoods are intricately inlaid.

Different woods have different looks as well as feelings. Fruitwood and oak are both medium-colored woods, yet I prefer the character and grain of fruitwood to oak in furniture because fruitwood has a softer, more refined and delicate texture, and tones of yellow, brown, and dark brown that add to its warmth. Dark woods such as mahogany, valued for its hard reddish-brown character and appearance, tend to look more formal and serious. Cabinetmakers used mahogany when they intended to carve intricate designs in the wood. If you choose dark wood furniture, you should also consider having a dark wood floor. Dark objects on a light floor can be unsettling, though some people like this dramatic contrast. If your furniture is not ideal, blend wood tones so the eye is not drawn to particular pieces. If you want a light-toned room, be sure to select furniture to enhance your scheme, remembering that dark colors absorb light. There has never been more furniture available to the public than today. If you can't afford an antique, manufacturers give you the flavor of the classical past in well-made reproductions.

Choosing one of these furniture pieces is a way to really make your room something special. It the time to bring back the value of decorative furniture. We have all gotten caught up in specific furniture that is only used for its purposes and serves no purpose in making the space more attractive. Since each piece that is put inside of the space affects the way the other pieces and the space itself looks, one should really consider the impact that each and every piece can have on the environment of your home.

Hand Made Furniture

When building your furniture collection, you will want to pay special attention to acquiring at least some hand-crafted pieces. Not only do these furniture pieces tend to be beautiful in their artistry, they have soul that turns inanimate objects into living artistic expressions of life's value. Furniture replicated from a quieter, gentler era balances out the high-speed machines of today. If you have a passion for hand-made, try to add one new piece to your collection each year.

Rooms breathe with energy and truth if you give them "gifts" of hand-crafted furniture. Why do hand-crafted bring so much emotional comfort? What is it about an hand-made piece of furniture that energizes a space? The answers to these questions all stem from the rare beauty and craftsmanship that have been treasured by generations. Hand-made reproductions of antiques take you back to an earlier age, a time of handmade artistry long before the dawn of the information age. When an artist puts his heart, hands, and soul into his work, the object is infused with his spirit. Hand-made furniture pieces are more than mere possessions scattered around the house; they are indeed your friends, physically and viscerally adored. As you move these lovable objects from place to place, room to room, or house to house, they bring warmth and continuity wherever you live. They share your life with you. Hand made reproductions of historical designs connect you to the past, reminding you of men and women who lived by the natural rhythms of the day, waking at sunrise and going to bed at sunset, at a time when people took pride in their workmanship. Patience was a necessity in order to accomplish the degree of refinement expected in handmade objects.