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Design Tips for Success
from:When it comes to decorating projects, it’s important to keep a few design tips in mind. These tips can help you avoid unnecessary spending and wasted hours in the process. You probably don’t know exactly what you want before you get started, but you do know what you like and don’t like. Stay true to yourself when it comes to decorating your home.
Before you begin your decorating projects, consider these tips to create a more effective and efficient process:
Determine your budget. Knowing how much you are able and willing to spend will help you determine priorities on the project. It will also steer you towards the most appropriate types of decorating elements, accessories, and components for the project.
Remember that a room is meant to be used. If your design project results in a beautifully decorated room with dramatic effects, but it is not functional, you have failed. Rooms are meant to be functional and useful. Keep this in mind with every decorating decision you make. Determine if you want the room to be child-friendly, low-maintenance, formal, or something else. This is important as you consider design elements.
Create your design with the future in mind. Rooms can be updated and changed with some simple adjustments. Selecting basic colors, furniture, and other things creates a space that is open for future decorating projects. For example, pillows, artwork, lamps, and other accessories can be added and changed quite economically. Build the basic design plan and then add accessories to make it come alive.
Clean and declutter before you begin. Chances are that if you haven’t used something in the past year, you probably won’t use it this year. Store it away or better yet, get rid of it if possible. Decluttering can help you envision the space you desire. Don’t just assume that means small things. If you have a chair, table, lamp, or other heavy furniture that is never used or just doesn’t fit, now is the time to discard it.
Start your project by stimulating your imagination. Magazines, books, and online resources are good places to start. But don’t let those glitzy, fancy resources sway you towards something that is not really you. Stay true to yourself and create a space that is uniquely you with every decorating project you undertake.
Decorating projects are fun and exciting for even the most inexperienced person. Using some basic common sense, staying true to your own personality, and starting with an idea of how much you are able to spend on the project is the best way to get started. Once you take the first step towards decorating projects, you’ll be hooked and you’ll find that there is a whole new world of decorating just waiting for you!