How to Lighting a Large Room

Nov 11th, 2009 Posted in Home Decoration, Painting | no comment »

lighting-a-large-roomI am sure you are agree that the window will bring light into a room better, but if you have limited natural light you can illuminate a room with a variety of other ways. Things such as wall color and accent colors can add the illusion of lighter, brighter space, and well placed lighting equipment can really enhance the brightness factor in the room.

Nature Lighting
Starting with natural lighting. Make sure that your windows clean and use a cloth that does not block the light. The light-colored strips of cloth and work well. Hang the mirror on the wall opposite the window to help strengthen the natural light that has come into the room.

To illuminate the entire room, track lighting and concealed lighting is a reasonable option. Track light can lighting throughout the room or directed at a specific area of the room, while concealed lighting installed flush in the ceiling, even layer to light in the room. Naturally choose the most delicate effects of light, white incandescent light bulbs in the lamp. Effective way to brighten a room either subtly or dramatically is the light bouncing off the ceiling. To do this you can use wall sconces, lamps hidden in the crown molding or even high light. The lamp is also a huge task to provide lighting for reading or working.

Use a specific color to create light
By painting your walls in pale colors such as neutral or pastel colors, you allow the light to bounce from the walls make the room look brighter. Wallpaper by keeping a simple pattern and cover the floor beside the light, you increase the amount of light that moves around the room. This neutral background also gives you the ideal opportunity to decorate the room. Dark woods and fabrics will really stand as their pale color contrasts walls and floors, and in turn they make the room look brighter.

Accessories to brighten any room
Adding gloss material into the room through the accents and accessories you will go far toward keeping the room light and airy feeling. By combining furniture with shiny surfaces like glass or metal table space will be full of light and movement of light bouncing off the walls to the furniture in the mirror to the ceiling to the floor and back to the wall. Adding silver and crystal accessories will further increase the energy of light in the room.

Reflective tiles around the fireplace to help lighten the focal point of a room. Mirror surface can also be strategically placed light sources in addition to reflecting light back into the room. Then select a few of your favorite artwork or brightly patterned area rugs, and attractive accent color or two of them for use in pillows, vases, lamps and centerpieces. Adding plants and flowers for the room can also help increase the brightness for each room.

       

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Shabby Chic Decor Colors, Furniture and Accessories

Nov 9th, 2009 Posted in Furniture, Home Accessories, Home Decoration | no comment »

Shabby Chic Decor colorsThe style created by designer Rachel Ashwell is one of the most beautiful and used in environments where they try to give a decorative touch homey and cozy space with an air of romanticism.

Colors used
The predominant color is white Shabby Chic, which can be found on walls, textiles, furniture and accessories in large proportions. No problem at all an environment decorate it, although details are often located in other colors like pink, green or blue. The walls are also painted in pastel colors, leaving the shade closest to the target and the same for textiles and furniture. Supplements are widely used in warm colors, creating an atmosphere more romantic and feminine.

Textiles and accessories
The fabrics are very similar to a romantic style, ruffles, ruch, stamped on flowers, cushions and curtains bulging more than one type of fabric. Supplements are those that could color note. Being able to add candles, crystal chandeliers, lamps shaded with fabric, flowers, framed mirrors industrious, canopy beds, antiques and more.

And the furniture?
The furniture should also imitate the years, sometimes being elaborated for this style, with romantic details and old furniture. The effects of aging in wood and paint are simulated with a technique like crackle, or just a worn patina along the edges.

       

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Role of Walls

Nov 2nd, 2009 Posted in Interior Design | no comment »

home wall designIn the space home walls and ceilings have an important role. Fulfill important functions, so it is necessary to give sufficient attention and care, along with proper maintenance.

The importance of the walls is given by a series of requirements that cover an area, and they are:
• They have a role as the boundary.
• They occupy a significant area in homes or buildings in general.
• Allow for acoustic and thermal insulation of a room.
• Create indoor and allowing privacy.
• They are a useful tool for decoration.
• The potential of the walls allow you to modify the aesthetics of the environment.
• The ceilings are standard features with the walls and can be treated equally with them.

As for the decor, both walls and on rooftops the visual effect is determined by various factors. One such factor is the texture to be the surface of a wall, in this sense there are multiple possibilities to give different textures to a wall.

The next factor is the design, ie how to be a wall like structure. There are suggestive design proposals that can serve us in carrying out the decoration of the walls of a home. Another such factor is the color, then using different colors are altered visual effects that have a wall. The cold light colors can create a feeling of spaciousness, while darker shades and warm reduce the feeling of space in a room and make it seem welcoming.

Playing with these three factors can vary the aesthetics of the walls, creating new effects and points of attraction in a space. The variation in color, texture and design allows the walls to make a different character in every room in particular. As we said at the beginning, the care and maintenance of the walls is essential to enable them to discharge all functions. This will require preserving the paint or coating that are clean, no humidity, and providing care that eventually emerge, such as strengthening the thermal insulation or soundproofing.

       

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Beige and Purple, A Beautiful Combination

Sep 23rd, 2009 Posted in Furniture, Painting | no comment »

purple color combinationAdmittedly, the beige color is a wild card. If you do not know how to paint the walls, this may be a poor choice and goes well with almost any color and hue. Being able to create peaceful environments when combined with neutral tones or pastels, or more stylish and attractive with darker hues and intense.
One of the most auspicious color to match the beige is purple, or any shade of purple and countless names. On several measures, more than one less than another, it all depends on our tastes and proportions of the environment that fence to decorate.

Usually the neutral tone is used for walls, and let the intense color to the supplements and some fabrics, such as cushions, curtains, carpets, furniture completely, or just a detail. But there is another alternative, more risky, to use the purple walls and leave as small beige. The neutral color also can approach a cream, sand or almost white broken. The purple rose close to a very intense, or conversely, a very soft tone, and thereby achieve more delicate rooms.

This combination can always add other colors to make the most colorful set, thus extending the card used. The target is always very good third color, and to a lesser extent also be used gray, soft greens, pinks, oranges, soft or dark woods.

       

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Painting The Ceilings

Sep 23rd, 2009 Posted in Painting | no comment »

blue painting ceilingThe ceiling is the surface of an environment that receives less light from the outside (even if it has small windows) and generally gets used a white paint, or very mild, to maintain clarity in the room. This also makes the highest ceiling in appearance. But this should not always be taken literally and can be experienced with a variety of colors, just like on the walls. If you choose a color too dark, the tone of the walls should be more clear, to avoid taking too much light into the environment. You with a dark ceiling and light walls create the opposite effect described above, to “lower the ceiling” and does not seem too high, and that in turn seems to stay wider, which is usually used in narrow aisles.

In the case of using the same tone for walls and ceilings can be performed as in the photo on this post, where you lose the connection between the two surfaces together in a whole by color. Or instead use frames delimiting walls and ceiling, which besides being a very good decorative touch, highlights local architecture. It is hardly necessary to speak of colors. The ceiling is just to give that touch of warmth or coolness, especially with cool colors like blue or blue in warm weather.

       

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