Instil Confidence In Your Project
Revamping your interior design at home can feel overwhelming. With so many glossy magazines showcasing inspirational and often costly designs, it can feel like a project not worth pursuing. But, when you have a few simple rules of design in your back pocket, you can feel confident in tackling any redesign plan to make your space feel fresh, welcoming, and most definitely yours.
Knowing the best-kept secrets of interior design can transform your space, create a fresh atmosphere, and invite productive, positive energy into your daily life. Keep reading for the rules of the professionals to really upgrade your design plans, and create a home you, and your loved ones, can be inspired by.
Find Your Favourite Style
Deciding on a style that you’re passionate about as a focal theme for your redesign can help keep a cohesive focus in your space. From shabby chic, to minimalist, to industrial, Scandinavian or farmhouse, there are plenty of styles that could take your fancy, with their own colour palettes, shapes, furniture, and uses of space.
Set Your Budget
Hacking interior design doesn’t have to cost the earth. Whilst it can be all too easy to feel you have to invest in high-end, luxury items and designer pieces to make a space truly breathtaking, there are plenty of lower-cost options that can be just as striking. Besides, you want to be able to enjoy your space - not have it invoke stress and misery because of the small fortune it cost you!
Be honest about what you’re willing, and able, to spend on redesigning your space. Knowing what you’ll be spending on your project and breaking that down across furniture, lighting, accessories, and so forth, can take the pressure off you, and help you focus in as you search for the perfect additions to reinvent your home.
Find Your Colour Pallette
Muted and sophisticated neutrals, soft pastels, or bright flashes of neon colour? Finding the palette you love and that works for the room you’re working on can be a wonderful anchor for strong interior design.
Bright colours can be best for living spaces that see a lot of activity and energy, whilst softer pastel colours can invoke calm and rest. Monochromatic colours may help you feel more focused in an office space. Blues offer calm, whilst oranges, reds, and yellows can energise and bring a sense of joy and warmth to a room.
Colour can be incorporated in a bold way, with a feature wall or using multiple shades and tones of a colour or colours to create a space that’s encompassed in colour. Alternatively, some subtle bursts of colour in some select accessories - scatter cushions, flowers, art or ornaments - could be a more introverted way for you to incorporate colour within your interior design project.
Decide On Your Focal Point
Having a particular piece that takes the main focus in your interior space - whether that’s a central piece of art, a fireplace, stylised piece of furniture, or unique house plant - can pull a space together and really define your room. Consider this as a design element in collaboration with your chosen style to take your design plans to the next level.
Balance And Levels
Developing an eye for the use of balance and levels in interior design can take some time. However, understanding how the visual weight of a room works and how to make use of low- and high- level shelving and furniture in the room can create a sophisticated sense of balance and wholeness. Considering scale of furniture and accessories, textures, and position can all play into developing balance and levels of a space.
Light And Shadow
Making use of lighting suitable for your design project, alongside placement of mirrors, can completely change the atmosphere and sense of space in your home. Improper use of lighting can make a room feel small and claustrophobic, whilst lighting that showcases the space, accenting windows to make the most of natural light, and using mirrors to open up the room and redirect light and shadow can make it feel welcoming, fresh, and stylised.
Make Your Space Liveable
When we’re looking to redesign our living spaces, we can sometimes get caught up in the showroom mentality, and forget the most important reason of our redesign - to make our homes more joyful to live in! Find the style, design, and accent pieces that offer the interior look you’re after, whilst still allowing you to feel comfortable and able to live in your home. The best design works with, not against, daily life, and embraces the everyday.
Get Ready To Design!
With these handy tips, you’re bound to have an ultra-successful, low stress interior design project ahead of you. Don’t forget to take time to plan clearly, and research widely to find the styles, resources, and inspiration that fits for your home. If something’s worth doing, it’s worth doing properly!
