Tired of your boring home? Looking for a way to liven up the house and impress your guest? Look no further because today we will teach you how to renovate your house and make it one fit for a King. When renovating your house, interior design is one of the biggest aspects which can make or break a home. Interior design can be as intricate as you want it to be, even down to a science. Whether it be what colors to paint your wall or even what bedlinen you drape across your bed can harmonize or throw the entire aesthetic of the room into chaos.
Interior Design
The interior design of a room can greatly impact your psyche and mood greatly and must be carefully planned out. Interior design isn’t just about flipping through magazines to see what’s popular and replicating it or hiring a professional to take care of it for you while you doze off. The choices made when deciding how to design the look of your home will have a documented effect on your emotions and perceptions. One example of this is the color of the walls in your room which can contribute to your anxiety or calm you down based on your decision. There are 3 very important aspects of interior design and these are:
- Color
- Furniture
- Perception of space
Color
It is no surprise that color can affect the way we perceive our environment and make us experience various emotions. As such, one of the first and most important steps when designing your house is to select a color scheme that fits the area and mood you wish to set.
Examples of this being red hues symbolising power and passion which can be used to warm up spaces and make them feel more intimate or blue hues give off a calm and fresh aura. However, having everything be one colour may induce the opposite effect and as such it is good to instead have a combination of at least three colours with the least intrusive one being for large parts like walls, the second complimentary colour being for large furnishings like bed linen supplies and the third and brightest hue used for highlights and accents sparingly.
Furniture
Furniture, to the untrained eye may seem like a tool only to fill up space. However, the truth is that every single item serves a function not just aesthetically but to also express oneself. When people visit a home, they tend to instinctively evaluate the furniture based on 4 main criteria:
- Functionality
- Cost effectiveness
- Emotional/Sentimental value
- Aesthetics
In terms of aesthetics, the proper furniture choice and placement can make you feel calmer and even happier. The key factor being symmetry which can change the atmosphere because it helps tie the whole room together at a first glance before one focuses on specific elements of the design itself.
Perception of Space
Perception of a space is just as important as the actual physical space. A good interior design is able to trick one into believing that the space is larger than it actually is for example through methods like choosing furniture that is scaled to size and slimmer, placing a large mirror on the back wall, and creating depth with wall hangings. Our eyes and in turn ourselves tend to prefer a room which is clutter-free while having plenty of visual stimuli. Methods to induce this effect is through high ceilings, absence of walls which may restrict eye movement or even introducing outdoor elements into the space whether through windows or having a balcony with a glass door which allows for an unrestricted view of the outdoors.