Posted in Linen on 27. Apr, 2010
Most people spend a lot of time planning their interior design but focus most of their efforts and energies on the main living area and the kitchen. For me, this has always been a mistake as you spend most of your time at home in the bedroom. For me, the design of your bedroom should be the first thing to consider when planning your interior right down from the wallpaper, to the furnishing to the bed linen itself.
As you’lll be spending most of your time in bed, it’s important to choose bed linen that feels comfortable and having it match your room should be the secondary requirement. With so many options out there when it comes to bedding, finding something that suits both shouldn’t be too difficult at all.
There are literally hundreds if not thousands of bed linen designs on the market from the luxury offerings to floral, right through to what we’d consider contemporary designs. I always advise to buy high quality bed linen as for the sake of an extra few pounds, you can get something extremely luxury which makes you want to spend all of your days in bed.
Most people try to match their bed linen to their curtains or carpets. I think this is wrong. When planning your bedroom, it’s often better to contrast your curtains to your duvet cover. Have your interior carpets match one of the other, don’t have everything the same colour.
Interior design is an extremely difficult tasks. Interior designers are paid a hell of a lot of money to design peoples homes. There is a reason for this, it’s difficult. Even designing a single room can be a daunting task so I’m here to tell you how to go about doing it. The first thing, in my opinion what should be decided is the colour scheme you’re going for. Most furniture and household supply stores will offer swatches that illustrate what colours go together and what don’t. From that, you’ll get an idea of what colour schemes to base your room on.
Once you’re happy with the colour option, the first thing you should consider is the carpet or flooring. This, subject to popular belief is the focal point in your room. It is what all the other elements are based on. Personally, I prefer light carpet and light walls, but you can contrast it however you wish. Once your carpet or flooring is set, you need to work on the walls. I am a big fan of the one wall papered and 3 walls plain layout which is becoming extremely popular. The wall colourings on the blank walls should be extremely neutral where as your patterned wall can be as outrageous as you like, so long as the colours contrast.
Once your walls and flooring is covered choosing your furniture, curtains and bed linen to match should be relatively straight forward. It’s easy to see what looks good and what doesn’t once you have the base layout in place.
Firstly, I must confess that I have been planning the design of my living room for the best part of 2 years. I have took countless tips from friends and family and must have purchased more interior design and interior fashion magazines than I care to remember and after all that, I still can’t decide on the way to go.
It seems that in today’s society, people design their rooms so it’s general accepted by others. People appear to be too afraid to break from the norm and try something a little different. If you open any interior design magazine from the past year or two, you’ll see countless designs featuring lots of weird and wonderful furniture and walls painted in bright colours. You’ll also see amazing wallpaper such as the popular Damask patterns and rugs and interior styling that appears to combine all design ideas from around the globe.
This is why I have to ask, why is it that we’re too afraid to try these designs? I can’t remember going into any of my friends homes and seeing a bright orange or bright green wall or a wall covered in a Damask design? Everyone seems to have plain white painted walls or a very basic 4 wall wallpaper pattern. Are we as a society too scared to try something new or do we just want to conform?
I can see why interior designers are paid so much money. It’s not because they have a special eye for design, it’s because the general public are too scared to try something new with their walls.
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If you’ve browsed around your local textiles store recently, you’ll have no doubt have noticed how much choice is out there when it comes to bed linen, curtains, towels and other textile items for around the home. This isn’t a bad thing, I realise that people have a very specific view on how they want each of their rooms in their homes to look and will no doubt want to choose textiles that match. But, what I don’t understand is why people just accept other peoples styles and designs? Home textiles is an area where anyone can get creative and can often come up with something a lot better than the offerings in the stores and more often than not, by creating something custom you’ll end up with the exact look you want that will match the rest of your furnishing completely.
I am not talking about creating your own curtains or bed linen from fabrics and sewing them up yourself. I’m talking about combining different pieces from different sets to achieve a unique look. How often do we buy a duvet set that contains matching bed cover and pillow cases? Try buying a couple of different sets and swapping the pillow cases from one with the other for example.
The same goes for your curtains. Try having a set that matches something else in your room as opposed to just matching your bed linen as most people do. By combining different textile sets you can make your room look extremely unique and match other elements of your room at the same time.
When it comes to living room design, most people in the past have chosen a coffee table or a table featuring an ornament of some kind, perhaps a vase as the centerpiece of their room. This idea is one that has stood the test of time but more and more people are now opting for more minimalistic designs for their living rooms and the clutter and large centerpiece idea is fast becoming the thing of the past.
More and more we’re now seeing plain, minimalistic layouts with their floor containing nothing but a contrasting rug to set off the rest of the room. I must say, I am a huge fan of this minimalistic and modern design style. I think there is no better look than a plain, wooden floor with a bright rug as the centerpiece. I realise that when we think of rugs, we thing of plain, boring, ragged pieces that are used to wipe your feet on. But, with the designs out there currently and the offerings in many of the popular furniture stores, rugs are fast becoming the main focual point of any modern room.
Rugs can also help the room look a lot larger than it really is. Especially if the rug design is extremely detailed and is placed on a relatively plain floor backdrop. This effect, when combined with a large wall mirror can almost make the room appear twice the size it really is and both of these options are relatively inexpensive.
Planning how you want your room to look is quite a difficult task. I guess that’s why interior designers are paid so much money! One part of the room that is often overlooked though are the walls. People pay lots of attention to their carpeting or flooring and pay equal attention to their furniture and centre pieces, but the walls should not be neglected either. I get asked often, what should I place on my walls. Should I opt for a centre mirror, some photos or perhaps some abstract art? Personally, I’d say neither. Go for Pop Art. I realise that Pop Art is mainly aimed at and purchased by the younger generation but it really can set off a room nicely. I don’t think who or what the paintings depict is too important, it’s more about the colours used and how it appears when combined with the colours of your room.
There is lots of talk in the art and design world of warm and cold colours and this is very true when it comes to paintings. If your room features warm colours such as red, organge, yellow, then choose a piece of art to match. Do not contrast. The same goes if your room consists of cold colours.
Of course, if pop art isn’t your thing, you can find some fantastic abstract pieces that really set off your room well. The beauty of abstact art is that you can find pieces composing of colours that match your room 100%.
