Home Decorating Ideas and Tips
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Here are some Home Decorating Ideas and Tips to help you if you're making a start, or even a fresh re-start...
Whether you’re making a start for the first time on your Home Decorating project, or even if you’ve done it before and you’re working on a new project, or re-starting with a fresh approach - whichever way, here are some home decorating ideas and tips to help you –
It’s all about creating a pleasing, comfortable and welcoming home. It’s about home making and stimulating your senses and creativity.
This website is all about helping you develop your own home decorating ideas, style and your intuitive knowingness and confidence about who you are and what is right for you.
For Home Decorating Ideas and Inspiration -
Here's a 12 Point Checklist
1. Look through home decorating magazines and books and see what inspires you. Look for home decorating ideas that you respond to and that resonate with you. Collect home decorating ideas you like about color combinations, furniture and fabrics.
Develop your style, your eye, your home decorating taste -If you don't think you’re clear just quite yet, or you feel you haven’t developed your own style, your eye, your taste, start going about learning and looking around you for home decorating ideas you really like and may like to try.
 2. Go to the color swatch display area of your paint store or hardware store and look through colors and color ranges, and note what you gravitate towards and what pleases you the most.
3. What colors do you love?
• If you love pastel tones, then mix and match their delicate palette hues in overlays of their wonderful soothing, relaxing, merging colors.
• If you love earthy colors, surround yourself with the earth tones and textures of nature, the autumnal colors, the greens, olives, burnished browns, oranges and yellows.
• If you are bold, use bold colors and accessories – in reds, dark blues, greens, purples, browns and blacks – try the wonderful decorator color aubergine.
To explore Home Decorating with Color further, go to this section of my website
4. Think of textures you love – grainy, coarse, robust, or smooth and velvety. Take note of these things about your preferences.
5. Note what clothes you wear – they can be inspiration to your Home Decorating - your favorite clothes or accessories can be anchors or features for your home decorating.
6. What are you passionate about? Home Decorating can be a story of how your passions can transform your home … It may be artifacts and collectibles from your travels, or whatever takes your fancy ...
7. Your hobby or hobbies – do your hobbies lend themselves to being expressed in your Home Decorating? As talking pieces, or blended into the environment. Whether you love art, music, sports, movie memorabilia, cartoons, comic books, collecting seashells and coral, pets, and other things ...
8. Your Collectibles can play a featuring role in your Home Decorating, with great style and panache.
Surround yourself with the beautiful things you love. Honor your home by decorating it as a way to express who you are from your inner core.
9. Go and visit Home Decorating stores - even if you can't afford to shop at the best stores, go there to see what it's all about. Don't slavishly follow everything, but develop your sense of what looks good and incorporate the home decorating ideas you see and like.
10. Are there any Home Decorating styles that you like, or that you tend to gravitate towards that can give you a general direction? Perhaps its Contemporary or Modern, or Country, or perhaps Classical or Traditional, or Tuscan or Mediterranean, Mexican, Asian, or Rustic, or a combination of a number of styles? Which do you or would you feel most comfortable with every day?
Now, I’m certainly not advocating that you slavishly follow a particular style. Remember, the focus here at my website is to help you develop your own individual Home Decorating style and your intuitive knowingness and confidence about what is you and what is right for you.
This is about you and only you. We’ve spent quite a bit of focus on the importance of developing your own style – one that really expresses who you are.
Now that may be based on one or more or a combination of the Home Decorating styles, that is your choice. The most important thing is that it is you and expresses who you are and your loves and creative expression!
If you would like to go with one of the styles then do so. It’s your choice. Research it. Plan it out. It’s what inspires you to move forward that’s important here.
For an overview of Home Decorating Styles visit this section of my website (click here)
11. Avoid following the latest 'hottest' trends or fads – It’s best to steer clear of predictions about what’s 'hot' or the next 'big trend', unless you’re OK with finding yourself in the position of having to change your home decorating every year or two, or as often as you change your wardrobe.
Most importantly, the more your home decorating ideas reflect who you are and the things you love, the longer you will be happy with it for an extended period of time, and the longer it will last and you'll get great mileage out of it and truly enjoy it.
Remember that the more understated and elegant the interior the longer it will stand the test of time and last.
12. Be Multi Sensory - Go for it!
Home Decorating is not only about designing and arranging your home. It’s also about stimulating your mind and 'physical' experience of your surroundings. And, beyond that, its also about feeding your inner self, your soul ...
Create an atmosphere – Lighting is a fabulous mood creator. Create a focus with a lamp in a corner, or particular spot for accent. Light scented candles, light up your fireplace for an incredible effect and surround your room with further candles. WOW, what an atmosphere you'll create ...
Listen to music you love, use soaps that are creamy, luxurious, lathery and smell great. Go for the multi sensory approach.
Home Decorating Using Your Five 'Physical' Senses - It’s designing and decorating your Home using and stimulating your 5 'physical' senses – the sense of sight (pleasing to the eye), touch (tactile), smell (sets a mood and recalls or creates memories), sound (to soothe and/or awaken the soul) and taste (to excite the taste buds).
For more about using your five 'physical' senses … and more … in your Multi Sensory home decorating experience, visit this section of my website
Now that you’ve come this far, you’ll notice so many more things around you that will give you more and more home decorating ideas and tips. Always be on the look out ...
Enjoy and explore further sections of my website for some more home decorating ideas and tips.
If you find that you need some more help and guidance to discover your home decorating style – try this approach
Another great way to start your Home Decorating project is to clear the way with de-cluttering, clearing out and getting organized – if you would like some pointers to help you with this -
visit this section of my website.
How To Bring What You’re Passionate About
and Love Into Your Home Decorating
Home Decorating can be a story of how your passions can be brought in to reflect who you are and transform your home. It may be jewelry, designer clothes, handbags, or sunglasses that you adore … or glassware and ornaments, or collectibles and artifacts from your travels, or whatever takes your fancy.
Jewelry you absolutely love can inspire you - the pristine white gold, yellow gold or silver metal can be reflected in the vases, candle holders, and other ornaments and accessories around your home.
The color of the special stones or gems, whether crystal clear diamond, precious pink diamond, blue sapphire, red ruby, emerald green, purple amethyst, yellow topaz, or whatever stone you personally love can be reflected in glassware and other accessories.
Your most special favorite clothes, scarves, sunglasses and accessories you love to wear can be an inspiration for your home decorating.
If you have a beautiful designer handbag and matching pump or sling back stiletto heel shoe that you absolutely adore, you can reflect the color, texture, quilted pattern, and contrast color edge trim into your home decorating. Perhaps in a quilted and edged panel on a feature wall in the same colors, or carried through to your cushions, or throw rug.
Surround yourself with the beautiful things you love as reminders of who you are. Honor yourself and your home by decorating in a way that expresses the special individual you are. Honor your Temple, Your Haven - You and Your Home.
So, what are you passionate about? Use your imagination, and be creative. It may even be time to go shopping to bring in some new fresh inspiration. And most importantly, have fun with this. Go For It!
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