Why Decorate Only a Wall & Not The Entire Room ?

  Decorate a single wall and give your entire room a makeover Wall has always been a very important part of a designing one for a designer it is like a plain canvas on which he can express his design style. Given that is a plain canvas makes the selection of a wall more important. …

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Quick Interior Fixes to Enlighten your Living Space

Hello All, One can’t be spending behind doing and redoing the interiors of our house every few years. Obviously one tends to get bored looking at the same stuff for years. SO here are some quick fixes which will help you rejuvenate the interiors of your house and with that your mood too!! Lets begin …

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Why Decorate Only a Wall & Not The Entire Room ? Quick Interior Fixes to Enlighten your Living Space

Oct
10

Why Decorate Only a Wall & Not The Entire Room ?

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Decorate a single wall and give your entire room a makeover

Wall has always been a very important part of a designing one for a designer it is like a plain canvas on which he can express his design style. Given that is a plain canvas makes the selection of a wall more important. Selecting the right wall is key to the perfect use of it as a design element; the wrong selection will break other design components as well.

Let’s discuss wall decoration in more detail

To begin with the main question

Which wall should be decorated?

Try to select a wall which will gather the maximum attention, for example when you enter a room the wall that meets your sight as soon as you enter can be one, a wall chihc has a fire place, wall which has a TV unit or a wall which practically has nothing but can be highlighted to the best effect.

What are the options to decorate wall? 

1)      Wallpaper

Wallpaper is one of the most popular and more effective options. The use of wallpapers can be dated back to the Renaissance time. Wall papers have good textures and detailed graphics within themselves so all you need to do is select what suits you and your room

2)      Decorating wall : paint

Painting is one of the most common and the most popular way to make any dull surface look good. Right place and right color is all that you need to make your walls and rooms look beautiful.

3)      Decorating wall : fabric

Fabrics can also be used instead of wall papers to decorate walls.

4)      Decorating wall :  stencils 

Make your own stencils and decorate the wall the way you want. Alternatively you can buy stencils from market too.

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   5) Decorating wall :  graphic The latest trend to have come in interior designing of houses is wall graphics. Graphics has more expression and is a more detailed work along with a long life guarantee.

 

6)      Decorating wall : picture frame painting , mural

Decorating wall by buying some frames, pictures is one the oldest and maybe somewhat common way. But it still is the most successful way to make walls look gorgeous.

7)      Decorating wall : Decorative texture wall

If you are ready with what wall you want to decorate then you can use textures. Use of textures can also be done creatively.

8)      Decorating wall : Wall Pealing (wood work)

Wall pealing is one of the traditional ways to decorate wall. It is time consuming as well as costly but the end result is what you will cherish for lifetime.

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9)       Decorating wall :  Furniture Shelf 

If you have some nice thing to be put on display or if you are a book lover and a collector then use this wall space to display them with an artistically shaped shelf.

Watch out for next post in which we shall talk more in detail about how you can actually go about using each of the above mentioned ways and if you are in Pune I can even guide you about the places where you can actually look out for to buy or get inspired to design your house interiors beautifully.

 

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Jul
21

Quick Interior Fixes to Enlighten your Living Space

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Hello All,

One can’t be spending behind doing and redoing the interiors of our house every few years. Obviously one tends to get bored looking at the same stuff for years. SO here are some quick fixes which will help you rejuvenate the interiors of your house and with that your mood too!!

Lets begin with Quick Fixes for your living room:

-          Sofa:

The Life of living room is sofa and a sofa’s soul is cushion. Always buy some extra cushions. So for the next party you can embellish your sofa with some shiny and bright plain colored cushions. Similarly if you have puja or any other traditional function at your place switch over to the ethnic style and keep traditional style stitched cushions.

-          Painting on wall:

Change the paintings that you are currently having on your walls or if you do not having any paintings or frames then buy it and put them in your living room. The only thing that should be taken care when you select new paintings/frames is that the painting should look sad or else it will make the mood gloomy. Add colors to the life of your living room with beautiful frames. Also if you do not wish to spend money on buying paintings then you can frame some of the photos or fabrics and put them across the wall

-          Flower Vase:

Flower vases are no longer expensive and decorative pieces can be bought from the market for throw away prices. But if you still wish to use something from your house instead of buying a new thing you can use decorative glass bottles that lie idle in your house. You can use them as flower vase or paint the bottles using glass paint. You can also put pebbles, colorful glasses inside the bottles.

-          Books :

If you are a book lover and have some good collection of books then you should utilize the collection to add a touch of grace to your living space. You should keep them in front of the eyes as that will also inspire your kids to read more plus it always creates a good impression.

-          Wall paper:

If you have wall paper on one of the wall then you can change the wall paper or put the wallpaper on a different wall. In case you don’t have wall papers then get one and use them to highlight one of the walls.

-          Paint :

Changing of paint of the house is a very tedious task which can be very time consuming and costly. But what one can do is just paint only one wall of the entire room. Also one need not get painters to paint the wall we can ourselves paint the wall and add the charm to the room.

-          Graphics:

Now a day’s readymade graphics with a huge variety are available in the market – all you need to do is just stick them on the wall. But make sure that what you stick on wall should be of good quality else it can spoil your wall. Also ensure that while selecting the graphic it should go with the flow of your room’s look

Another option is that of making a painting yourself. If you are good at painting then you can use your art to liven up the look of your walls.

-          Art:

You can buy any new expensive artefacts or can get some good clay art from roadside and paint it using vibrant colors. Either way you can also paint some unused items lying in your house.

 

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