Your home is an extension of your personality.
Remember your bedrom as a teenager? Child?
Carefully covering the walls- every inch of them with posters (if you were me, or not if you was my sister whom I shared with). Surrounding yourself with all of the things that you love.
I think It is important to go back to this memory when decorating your home. Think of the whole space as your bedroom, your personal quarters.
My room at home is filed to the rafters with stuff. I could fill an entire house, with the contents I have rammed into one little room.
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Dress your home
Your home is an extension of your personality.
It is useful to think of dressing your home, in the same way that you would dress yourself. Use your wardrobe as inspiration.
If you like to wear classic pieces, or simple styles dress the home this way. If you prefer to wear a riot of colour go colour crazy in your local DIY store.
Use wallpaper to add pattern and texture. Make a statement by papering just one wall. Or if you are really creative, make like the old Chinese masters and hand paint your own.
If you are a lover of sparkle and pearls, use pearlescent paint. Create your dream home on a small budget. If you like to wear costume jewellery, get jewels for the home. Think chandeliers, gold or silver candlesticks.
Dress your table, sofa windows and floors. Soft furnishings can easily b switched up season by season. The same ad our clothes wardrobe.
Homes should be fun. And if we love our home, we will be much more likely to want to spend time there.
Make a mood board of inspiration. By collecting things in your favourite colours. Ripping out images from magazines and taking photographs of anything that inspires you.
Remember your bedrom as a teenager. How did it look? Did you have a collage of posters. Your favourite band? Football team. Whatever it was, teenagers tend to be resourceful and are not shy to personalise a space. Customise it and make it truly theirs. But once we get a little older we often lose that creative spark we once had.
So think like your teenage self, even though your taste will have changed. Try to express yourself in that way that used to be so easy.
It is useful to think of dressing your home, in the same way that you would dress yourself. Use your wardrobe as inspiration.
If you like to wear classic pieces, or simple styles dress the home this way. If you prefer to wear a riot of colour go colour crazy in your local DIY store.
Use wallpaper to add pattern and texture. Make a statement by papering just one wall. Or if you are really creative, make like the old Chinese masters and hand paint your own.
If you are a lover of sparkle and pearls, use pearlescent paint. Create your dream home on a small budget. If you like to wear costume jewellery, get jewels for the home. Think chandeliers, gold or silver candlesticks.
Dress your table, sofa windows and floors. Soft furnishings can easily b switched up season by season. The same ad our clothes wardrobe.
Homes should be fun. And if we love our home, we will be much more likely to want to spend time there.
Make a mood board of inspiration. By collecting things in your favourite colours. Ripping out images from magazines and taking photographs of anything that inspires you.
Remember your bedrom as a teenager. How did it look? Did you have a collage of posters. Your favourite band? Football team. Whatever it was, teenagers tend to be resourceful and are not shy to personalise a space. Customise it and make it truly theirs. But once we get a little older we often lose that creative spark we once had.
So think like your teenage self, even though your taste will have changed. Try to express yourself in that way that used to be so easy.
Elsie De Wolfe First Lady of interior design
“never complain, never explain.”
"A House is a dead give-a-way...we are sure to judge a woman in whose house we find ourselves for the first time, by her surroundings. We judge her temperment, her habbits, her inclinations, by the interior of her home. We may talk of the weather , but we are looking at the furniture." Elsie de Wolfe
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