Monday 27 February 2012

You Know Your Home Decor is Frumpy and Stale when....


As a decorator, I have gone into many different homes and met homeowners with uncertain test by the tongue. One thing I am shocked about is race existing in a duration spring. I recently had a henchman who hired me because they had an "ah- ha instant" seeing their existing expanse diction on a circa 1980's sit-com rerun. Yes, their existing expanse had not been restyled in 25 years. Sometimes race just beautify like their female parent did because that is all they have ever known. Let's not be frumpy and insipid.

So how can you tell if you are existing in a duration spring and need to make fresher or less salt up your residence's look?
Here are just a few of the telltale signs:

Look up. What do you see? If you see a popcorn ceiling or scintillate blended with ceiling represent, you have an outdated look.
Now, look down. Do you see overcast carpeting? more than 10 years old? Do you see wall to wall plush carpeting? The tend is most definitely hardwood floors with showy domain rugs
Look to the edge. Do you see any fake timber-land paneling whatever? The darker and shinier it is, the worse it is. No paneling!
What do you see on the wall? Please don't tell me that you see hoary represent. The tend is tinge, tinge, and tinge. Don't be demulcent! A opulent compounded tinge can bear your expanse up to the new
If you remote a print from the wall, will there be a telltale symbol that it hung in that rigid blot too lengthy? Represent fades more than the years, yak know. Be sure to make some change in alter the accessories around every few years. I bet that print is hung way too lofty also. Is it hung more than 6 inches from the top of the couch? See told yak.
Do you have more than 5 photographs of pl of child who are now grown? Subtract points if the frames are all different types and sizes.
How about the movables? Is it lumpy and bumpy (formally known as fall back diction)? It reminds me of rolls of fat. Yuck! The updated look it polished lines with classic styling. Toss it to the hindrance with its buddy, the additional vast slack-race recliner.
Speaking of the lie, please don't let me see a knitted afghan folded more than the back of the couch. I be fond of things made by Grandma too but it doesn't need to be the focal sharp end. It is no longer the rage to open space a folded blanket of any bland more than the back of the lie.
How about the cadence pillows? The old diction of placing matching pillows at each end of the lie is dated too - just because they came with the lie doesn't mean you have to use them. Spice it up with pillows of contrasting flag, unexampled motifs, and hip textures.
Let's bridle out the kitchen. This is an not difficult expanse to tell if is out of age. On the cover with a floor, do you have bold-spirited geometric vinyl? Are your means ingathering gold or persea gratissima? Do your cupboards be in want of figure? Do they have their aboriginal knobs and pulls? Are the counters a tinge like 70's Brady Bunch orange or even 80's land sapphirine? It really pays to redo a kitchen but if you can't right now, update the knobs, get a rug, and gallons of represent.As a decorator, I have gone into many different homes and met homeowners with uncertain test by the tongue. One thing I am shocked about is race existing in a duration spring. I recently had a henchman who hired me because they had an "ah- ha instant" seeing their existing expanse diction on a circa 1980's sit-com rerun. Yes, their existing expanse had not been restyled in 25 years. Sometimes race just beautify like their female parent did because that is all they have ever known. Let's not be frumpy and insipid.

So how can you tell if you are existing in a duration spring and need to make fresher or less salt up your residence's look?
Here are just a few of the telltale signs:

Look up. What do you see? If you see a popcorn ceiling or scintillate blended with ceiling represent, you have an outdated look.
Now, look down. Do you see overcast carpeting? more than 10 years old? Do you see wall to wall plush carpeting? The tend is most definitely hardwood floors with showy domain rugs
Look to the edge. Do you see any fake timber-land paneling whatever? The darker and shinier it is, the worse it is. No paneling!

What do you see on the wall? Please don't tell me that you see hoary represent. The tend is tinge, tinge, and tinge. Don't be demulcent! A opulent compounded tinge can bear your expanse up to the new

If you remote a print from the wall, will there be a telltale symbol that it hung in that rigid blot too lengthy? Represent fades more than the years, yak know. Be sure to make some change in alter the accessories around every few years. I bet that print is hung way too lofty also. Is it hung more than 6 inches from the top of the couch? See told yak.

Do you have more than 5 photographs of pl of child who are now grown? Subtract points if the frames are all different types and sizes.

How about the movables? Is it lumpy and bumpy (formally known as fall back diction)? It reminds me of rolls of fat. Yuck! The updated look it polished lines with classic styling. Toss it to the hindrance with its buddy, the additional vast slack-race recliner.

Speaking of the lie, please don't let me see a knitted afghan folded more than the back of the couch. I be fond of things made by Grandma too but it doesn't need to be the focal sharp end. It is no longer the rage to open space a folded blanket of any bland more than the back of the lie.

How about the cadence pillows? The old diction of placing matching pillows at each end of the lie is dated too - just because they came with the lie doesn't mean you have to use them. Spice it up with pillows of contrasting flag, unexampled motifs, and hip textures.

Let's bridle out the kitchen. This is a not difficult expanse to tell if is out of age. On the cover with a floor, do you have bold-spirited geometric vinyl? Are your means ingathering gold or per sea gratissima? Do your cupboards be in want of figure? Do they have their aboriginal knobs and pulls? Are the counters a tinge like 70's Brady Bunch orange or even 80's land sapphire? It really pays to redo a kitchen but if you can't right now, update the knobs, get a rug, and gallons of represent.

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