WHERE TO USE BLUE (Part 2)
WHERE TO USE BLUE (Part 2)THE BLUE SPECTRUM The range of different blues is enormous, and using too large a selection can end in disaster. There is a vast difference in both tone and atmosphere between a greenish blue, like turquoise, and one which v ...
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WHERE TO USE BLUE (Part 1)
Because of the feeling of space it creates, blue used decoratively can have a calming, relaxing effect, which is why it is often used for waiting rooms in hospitals and clinics. These properties also make it an ideal color for bedrooms, where relaxat ...
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GETTING IT TOGETHER
If you are still nervous about coordinating all the elements in your design – the paints, papers, fabrics and accessories or find it difficult to decide on a theme color, take a tip from the professionals and build up your own personalized colo ...
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COLOR AND LIGHT
Light, both natural and artificial, will also affect your final choice of color. There is a world of difference between artificial and natural light, and if you in trend to use the room in both the daytime and the evening you should view your propose ...
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FABRICS & FLOORING
Fabric is the most flexible of all the materials at your disposal, and it allows you to give full rein to your imagination. It can be heavily draped as luxurious curtains, of course, or made up as covers for furniture or cushions-or indeed ...
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WALLCOVERINGS
These provide perhaps the greatest range of textures, from real silks and shiny vinyl’s to thick velvets and imitation ceramic tiles. They can be used not only to cover walls but also employed to great effect to decorate door panels or furnitur ...
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USING TEXTURE & PAINT FINISHES
Good interior design is concerned with more than just color: the prettiest or subtlest scheme can fall flat if there is no contrast of textures. Imagine, for instance, a room in which everything – walls, woodwork, furniture – was painted ...
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UNDERSTANDING COLOR (Part 1)
Color is like the air we breathe; we don’t truly appreciate it, or even fully realize it is there, until we begin to think about it in a specific context like home decorating. And then, as we try to gain some idea of the tremendous range of dif ...
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UNDERSTANDING COLOR (Part 2)
HOW COLOURS WORK TOGETHER One of the biggest problems in home decorating springs from the failure to realize that color is a perversely changeable thing. No one color exists by itself; it is given its character by the other colors that surround it, a ...
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