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Mark Etinger
When revamping your home and interior design, there are certain elements that are very important. You don't have to spend a lot of money either; vintage furniture can look even better than new chairs and dressers, and subtle accents and details can do a lot for the overall image of a room. Read on to learn more. Let's start from the bottom up. Any nice home has a rug to tie different design elements together. If you are going for a more contemporary styling, consider sheepskin rugs. If it's a bedroom, a sheepskin rug thrown over the foot of your bed can also add a certain panache and coziness that you'd otherwise lack. If you're shooting for a more traditional design, you may prefer an Oriental design as a room's underpinning. Remember that a rug looks good on top of a wooden floor or a taupe colored carpet. Once you choose a rug around which to build your room, you can start buying accessories. Think about textures. You want variation, so if you have wood, think velvet and other warm fabrics. If you have steel, adding glass is a good idea. Drapes over curtains, or finer fabric such as silk, satin or lace blow easily in a breeze, allowing a more organic feel into your home. Another organic element every room should have is a plant. Broad shiny leafs, or thin, sharp prickly ones change the feeling of a room from tropical to desert-like. Vibrant greens add to decor and act as an air purifier, preventing rooms from feeling stuffy. Lighting is also important. Buying lamps to create shadows adds a sense of coziness to any room. Place them on end tables, or if they're floor lamps, behind large pieces of furniture. Your room should never be dark - that's the first reason someone would want to spend time somewhere else. Then think about decorating the walls with art. The art you choose doesn't have to coincide with a room's interior design. For example, hanging a Rembrandt print across from a low black modern chair is a lot like having velvet pincushions on your leather couch - it adds to an eclectic mix. But if you want to reinforce a specific tendency, minimalism, for example, you may do well to have an Ellsworth Kelly or a Rothko print instead. When you walk into a room, you want to feel like it's made for you, to sit and talk in it. By incorporating these different design elements into your room, you will.
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