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Interior Design

How Furniture Can Make a Room

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Interior design takes your space and uses furniture and objets d’art to showcase the visual appeal and function of the space.  It takes your tastes, artistic expression to create a warm and inviting space.  To design your home you can use different furniture, fabrics and light to create the space you feel comfortable in.  Interior design is about arranging these items in a manner that makes your home comfortable but still functional, it is very much a balancing act.  Furniture is by far the biggest contributor to how the room looks and feels so let’s look at how furniture can make a room.

Maximize Your Space

Furniture is more than somewhere to sit, it is also a visual element of your design.  Furniture that fits and blends with the room adds to the overall feel and look of your living space.  You want to choose furniture that works not just with the size of the room but with the shape as well.  You want your furniture to look like it belongs in your rooms.  Furniture that is oversized can make your room feel small and furniture that is too small makes the room look cold and impersonal.  Here is some help arranging furniture.

Visual Appeal

Furniture is also there to look good.  The colors you choose and how it blends with walls, flooring and other pieces in the room all make your rooms look beautiful.  Patterns and texture is also important, not just the color you have selected.  The furniture is one of the biggest elements of your overall design scheme, you can build a room around just a couch.

Creating a Theme

While your furniture is one of the biggest design elements in your room, it also helps create the design theme you want too.  French provincial furniture, for example is easily recognizable along with plenty of other styles.  You can select furniture based on an overall style that you would like.  Not everything needs to be consistent, you can mix and match as well.

Display Your Style

Other than your clothing, how you decorate your home is one way you show the world your style.  Do you like retro chic, or is sleek and modern your thing?  Your home is a big reflection of your taste and style.  Everything from the lighting to the throw pillows shows the world what you like, the type of fabrics that feel good to you and what makes you comfortable.  Your home is your space, let it reflect you!

Make Your Home Office Perfect

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Nearly 25% of the workforce does some or all of their work from a home office.  Most homeowners don’t have a dedicated home office and working at the kitchen table is not the most comfortable place to spend 8 hours.  They are feeling the imbalance in their workspace.  Putting together a home office that is both comfortable and functional isn’t easy.

If you don’t know where to begin creating the right space for your home office, your body will probably tell you.  Your back will probably not enjoy sitting at your kitchen table for very long.  Before you end up in traction here are some steps to creating not only a comfortable home office but one that looks good too.

Start With Lighting

The average person spends something like seven hours a day in front of their computer screen and while having the room as bright as possible may seem like a good idea.  The glare from your computer monitor makes you strain your eyes and you need to direct the light away from the computer screen.  So when you start creating your home office try and make light come in from the side  and supplement that light with a desk lamp or two.
Here are some lighting tricks you can use to avoid glare on your screen:

  • Shine your desk lamp onto your paperwork instead of directly at the computer screen
  • Put the window and the natural light beside you and not in front of or directly at the screen
  • Remember your monitor tilts so you tilting your head isn’t necessary

Now it is Time for the Furniture

If you don’t have the budget to create a whole home office you can’t afford not to get a good chair, even if you continue to work at the kitchen table.  Don’t buy the pretty chair, buy the chair that is comfortable and make sure you try it out before you bring it home.  The second thing you want is a good warranty.  Your backside will be spending 8 hours a day so you want to be able to send it back if it isn’t comfortable.

Every part of the chair needs to be adjustable, you need armrests and the ability to adjust the height of the seat.  The chair needs to work for you and your body.  A chair that will move in a complete circle and both bounces and rocks.  Look for a chair with a flexible height, we’re not all 5’10”.  A short person in a tall chair is going to have a sore back.  Some other features you might want to look into if budget allows are footrests, anti-fatigue mats and you might want to at some keyboard platforms too.