5 secrets for decorating your home or apartment
Just a single apartment arranged properly. But the general opinion, it “feels good …”.
Create a universe of colors and textures :
Do not think your apartment as a place where simple greet your friends and maybe more. Think of your apartment as a journey and experience. Each piece must be a stop on this journey, and each chair during a sensory experience (by sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste … why not we will return). My apartment, for example, is characterized by two of Asia and music. So wear all Asian motifs, and each piece (or almost) has a monitoring system (even if it is plugged into an iPod shuffle small speakers) or musical instruments. There is nothing worse than a succession of rooms without thematic continuity
between them, like a patchwork quilt made at random.
Empty! Videz ! Empty!
The trinkets are the bane of apartments. They attract dust and encourage your friends to consistently offer other trinkets worse!
Generally, I avoid any element of unnecessary decoration (especially for a guy flat): no statues pitites adorable, no cut sport hard won on the last curling competition, not records or CDs or DVDs lying around on all tables and chairs of the room, no electric son lying on the floor between your computer and your toaster. Beside the pictures / tables, lighting and this will be used to sensory experiences (cushions, rugs, incense, etc..), Do not drag. Remember: “Empty + clean = comfortable”.
Use harmony with the universe:
You know the Feng Shui? The traditional art of Asian design your interior to bring it into harmony with the universe! Extensive program, and quite hard to master.
If you do not want stuff for hours of reading, still try to apply these principles:
■ Remove any knick-knacks and other brothels will interfere your mental and emotional energy in the apartment.
■ Place each piece in a small light, or a small symbol that attract “good vibrations”.
■ Use colors to suit your emotions. If red is for you, sensuality, put some in your bedroom. If the
green represents the rich, put some in your desk. And do not reverse …
■ Bring the light in the apartment to bring it into your life. It may be tempting to leave the apartment in a semi-darkness, to create an atmosphere. But unless you are sensitive (or you feared particularly the sun, garlic and stakes in the heart), a dark apartment during the day gradually instill a feeling of depression. let the sunshine in… Stick a clearer wallpaper, open your shutters and let the sunshine in …
Check lighting
Let the sunshine in, okay, but the evening? Poor lighting can totally ruin your interior, reduce or modify the space, or create a feeling of coldness clinic.
As George Lucas, I recommend the light ILM. Not Industrial Light and Magic , but “Indirect, and Multiple Slight.
In short:
■ Indirect: not directly illuminate the center of your room, choose lighting to the walls, tables, corners of rooms. Forget the whole dome that often flatten and crush.
■ Lightweight: prefer candles, lamps and many watts (preferably saving energy is good for the planet!), Small LED spotlights that produce white light blinding not and does not involve heat.
■ Multiple: Do not rest your lights on a single strong source of light, but several small sources arranged randomly in the room.
Right now, I love the little balls of lights sold at Casa alternating different colors at a very slow pace, and illuminate little about them. I have one, two, three, ten in one room with the degree of lighting desired.
Make it a sensory experience
Your apartment must not only be a place of rest and togetherness, but also a sensory experience. Odors, colors, textures are as important as the wallpaper or the heating temperature.
Make up games or using visual taste.
Multiply the sofas. On the sofas, cushions multiply, and before the sofas, ottomans multiply (it must put your feet somewhere!). You have a room reserved for music? Unlock a couch, nobody likes to listen to music if it can stand to listen to sitting or lying … You spend a lot of time in the kitchen with your friends? Fill it with pictures,
games to touch and feel, for them to do anything but watch you chop the vegetables without being able to put their hands in the dough …