Home Decoration Theme Ideas To Let Your Quirks Shine
Home Decoration Theme Ideas To Let Your Quirks Shine.
Just because more people keep their homes as conventional pieces of architecture doesn't mean that you have to. If it's your forever home, you should be able to make it look like what you want.
Home decor ideas often focus on colour schemes and the right pillow covers that fall in line with current trends. However, if you're trying to break free of neutral colours and traditional living space layouts, here's what you can experiment with and take into account.
Can you really do anything you want?
Here come the three dreaded letters: HOA. Homeowners Associations are sometimes required when you move into a new neighbourhood and have some strict requirements when it comes to what is and isn't allowed with the exterior facet of your home. They can't tell you what to do with your interior design, however.
Fighting with an HOA is often a painful and possibly costly affair. It's a very popular idea to 'take on the HOA' and it usually means fighting back against people abusing their power but, some HOAs are actually beneficial for your neighbourhood as a whole.
Living in a historic building also comes with restrictions that seek to preserve the historic value of the home. You would also need to get a permit before renovations, even when it comes to the interior design of your home.
If you're free of these constraints though, it's all up to you to express your personal style.
Some key things to remember.
While you're free to do what you want with your interior design, you still need to abide by some security practices to make sure that you live long enough to enjoy your home.
There is a lot of value and style in nuance. There's also a big difference between garish and quirky. Common interior design tips and tricks are still applicable.
If you intend to sell the home in the future, then remember that mint green kitchen cabinets are easy to 'fix' but adding a rope installation on the side of your home to make it look like a shape is not. The people who will buy that home will either buy it at a very low price or you will have found some new best friends who have the same expressive style as you. A floor lamp is easier to pack up but wood panelling painted to reflect scenes from your favourite movie can be a hard sell.
Logistical concerns.
It's easier to get completely lost for ten minutes and then find your way back to something more realistic when it comes to outlandish interior design ideas.
Let's take a jungle or natural theme for example; adding a great number of plants or turning parts of a room into a little indoor garden sounds like a nice idea at first but you need to consider all the things that will need to be done in the long run to keep that idea looking as beautiful as the first day.
If you have exposed wooden beams in a very humid room, like what you would have if you were to invest in an indoor garden, then you need to have a well-managed routine aimed at making sure that those beams are healthy and will last a long while. Humidity makes it easier for an intricate light fixture to grow mould in its crevices as well.
When it comes to the layout of your house, can you let that indoor garden close to the kitchen? It makes it easy for the dirt from the garden as well as possible insects to get into the kitchen and contaminate your cooking or food storage areas.
Style on a sliding scale.
Maybe you don't want an actual tree growing through your dining room table or an entire room where, aside from a narrow pathway, the room is covered in dirt. There's nothing wrong with a large living room sofa and a TV after all.
Essentially, you need to decide just how saturated your style is going to be. Instead of adding thick ropes and encasing the bottom of a massive aquarium in driftwood, you could pick up blue roman shades or other kinds of window treatments, and fill up the drab space on empty walls with paintings or a few key pieces that are reminiscent of the ocean.
The sliding scale exists in a few forms but the easiest way to visualize it is when you go from obvious to understated.
A console table made entirely out of wood reclaimed from old ships, sculptures of mermaids made from driftwood, turquoise accents in curtains or other fabrics can go a long way. If you want to add visual interest to a small room, there's no need to cram it with imagery.
Work with colour.
If you want to create a cohesive whole for your home's interior design, you don't actually need to be an interior designer. From the entrance hall to the powder room, you want to create a mood using colours throughout the home.
Look at examples online of colour families and complementary colours - remember, it's not cheating to look things up online and take inspiration.
If we're sticking with our nautical theme then your hardwood floors are already perfect the way they are. If a fresh coat of paint on your walls doesn't do enough to mask your empty wall space then you can add small accents of colour here. When it comes to big surfaces it's unwise to stay in the middle ground; either go all out with a mural full of bright colours or go with a simple pattern.
Since we're thinking about ways to break from tradition and the norm here, paint is an inexpensive way to experiment, not to mention that it is relatively easy to revert back to something more subdued.
It's also important not to let elements of the room get lost in each other. This is why you want dining chairs and a dining table as a set that doesn't blend in with the floor or the walls.
Throw pillows are a good example of how to add splashes of colour with low risk as well. A patterned brown and green area rug can do wonders to accentuate an earthy theme, it helps bring the whole room together and area rugs in general help provide a lot of focus for defining points of interest.
Define focal points.
One of the key things that make a space feel put together is the presence of a clear focal point. If you're feeling the pulling toward a certain theme then you probably have an item that embodies that theme already in your home.
A focal point is meant to draw the eyes of anyone within a room toward it - it doesn't matter if you're working with a small space or a big open-plan living room.
It could be a coffee table on which a model plane rests or an accent wall adorned with picture frames in the empty spaces drawn by the branches and leaves of a painted tree like a gallery wall. Maybe it's an end table where a drawer pulls out to reveal a stack of old photo albums that tell your family's history. The idea is to create an ambiance in every room from the moment someone walks through the front door.
They don't all have to be paintings or mirrors or incredibly fancy or old, these items serve double duty as both decoration and guides throughout your home. Try to weave stories using them, create a narrative supported by the rest of the room but that exists because of the item serving as a focal point. If that's suitable, use them to draw attention to high ceilings which can make any room appear much bigger.
Experiment!
It's your home, if you have a big effusive love for something, make it as evident as you want it to be. There are ways to be tasteful and have a beautiful home all while following what makes your heart sing.
A home library that takes over the whole house, why not? Family photos from different eras with rooms that add interest to specific little factoids? Very classy, tough to pull off, but very classy. As long as you and your family feel at home and not like you're all walking through a museum or an exhibit room in a theme park, you're sure to win over the hearts of the people exploring your home.
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