Luxury Interior Designer Shares Top 5 Design Secrets
Tue, Sep 25, 2012
While most people would like to believe that their home is impeccably designed with the utmost taste and style, the fact remains that not everyone knows as much as an interior designer does. Their skills and expertise allow these professionals to bring the most unique design schemes into reality. For those individuals who would like to give interior design a try on their own, premier interior designer Kellie Burke Interiors is revealing the top five interior design secrets.
Taking your interior design to the extreme is the work of top interior designers, but for a simple room change-up, here are a few helpful tips.
- Secret 1: Let the light shine in. You can change the entire ambiance of a room simply by changing the lighting. Try hanging a large pendant light above the center piece of the room, like a dining room table or a large coffee table. Add in a dimmer switch to casually adjust the mood when necessary. Be aware of the color of your shade, as this will greatly impact the light reflected in the room.
- Secret 2: Don’t let the TV consume your life. While everyone enjoys watching a little television, if it’s too large it can completely throw off the interior design of a room. In order to ensure the right size television, measure from the sofa to where the TV would go and divide this number by 2.5. That sum is the width of the television screen you should have in that room.
- Secret 3: Don’t overcrowd your space. It is nice to be an accommodating host, but having too much furniture in a room makes it feel cluttered, messy and small. You want to have enough space inbetween your furniture to comfortably walk by. Start by marking imaginary furniture into a room and then walk around to see how much space you really have.
- Secret 4: Choosing the right paint color is essential. Without the help of an interior designer, choosing paint from a color chart can be difficult and daunting. Instead, buy sample pots to paint on to thick white paper and then hang on your walls. This will allow you to see the color when it is dried and the way it reflects with the light in the room.
- Secret 5: Be careful when hanging pictures. Many people make the mistake of hanging pictures too high or low. A good rule of thumb is hanging a picture 1.5m from the floor, which is the average person’s eye line.
