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If you have an eye for style, you can become an interior decorator. You can design your home completely all by yourself, without even hiring and interior designer. This will save a lot of money and time. This article contains some tips to decorate your own home. Interior decoration is all about style and blending of items instead what people think it is – rocket science.

Highly decorative items and furniture are something you should avoid at all costs. Your home should appear spacious, clean; crisp which will also be easier for you to take care of. You can always go ahead and splurge on decorative items, but soon, you will regret this decision. Overdoing and filling every wall in your home or apartment is a strict no-no. Also, by keeping things minimal, your home will look clean and not clumsy. Read the rest of this entry »

Decorating your apartment or home is not something you can let pass you by. Sure you can hire an interior designer to do all the work for you but there are many downsides to this. The house will never have a touch of your own and for this reason you may never develop an attachment to it. Taking part in the decoration of your house will make sure that every single item is chosen right and that it is to your desired style and taste. There is also the issue of pricing and you have control over this if you do the choosing and buying bit yourself. So here are four factors that you must take into account when deciding on a rug for your home.

Take into account shapes

Before buying a rug, consider the kind of room you would like to put it in and the type of furniture already present in it. Circular rugs for instant would auger in very well with a round dining table. If you want to create a feeling of space and length in the room then you should go with a rectangular rug as it elongates the room and makes it look spacious. When picking out the perfect shape of rug to add to your decor, consider the other shapes in your room. If they are all sharp and predominantly boxy, a curvy rug will give the room the perfect finish. Read the rest of this entry »

Moving into a new home and finding the windows bare is an exciting experience for any budding interior designer; it’s a blank canvas ripe for decoration. When it comes to choosing your window decoration, however, things can start to get difficult.

Curtains or blinds? It’s a question many homeowners have asked themselves over the years and it’s undoubtedly a question many future homeowners will ask themselves too.

While many people, usually older, are dedicated to the old school decadence a good set of curtains can offer, blinds have built up a strong following among young people looking for a more cosmopolitan look and families with pets or young children. Read the rest of this entry »

Your home should speak about you. Therefore, it is necessary that you are able to have the design that is not only good for the eyes of your friends and family but it should be something that you really want. An interior designer may make your home look superb; however, it may not reflect your personality.

Your bedroom is one of the areas in your home that must reflect your individuality. Since it is your own room, you can set the rules and design it in whatever manner you want it. Here are a few tips on how to express yourself in your bedroom.

Set a theme for your bedroom. You can start from the things that interest you most such as music, books, sports, nature, movies, theater, etc. Let your hobby be the central theme of your bedroom. You can also pick a choice from having a country, Disneyland, royal or modern style theme. Choose your furniture based on this theme so everything will be in the proper symmetry. Read the rest of this entry »

Although many people have talent when it comes to decorating their personal spaces or even those of their friends or families, there is far more to a career in Interior Design than being able to match a couch to a wall covering. A true designer has a degree in Interior Design that includes many related subjects that help to understand the underlying concepts of how and why certain things work together and others do not.

When you study Interior Design, the first thing you learn is computer skills. Just as with any other profession today, there are many computer aids and programs that can assist a designer in their work. You also need to use programs that allow you to make presentations or advertising materials or properly process photos. Read the rest of this entry »

You want to appear adventurous yet you think it’s going to cost you too much. How does one achieve dramatic interior design results without breaking the bank? You want to make your friends gasp and be impressed by your daring and your innovative ideas and your impressive and soulful profile. Well, the best way to effect swooning in those around you while still leaving you enough to buy several examples of the better single malts is to invest in some self-adhesive vinyl wall stickers.

Still the preserve of the better informed interior designer and those lucky few that happen to stumble across this secretive world, wall stickers offer huge interior design benefits for a very modest outlay. It still surprises me to find that relatively few people know about wall stickers, they have been available for a good many years now and are hugely popular in France. An enormous number of designs are available online, but try and find them in the high street and you’re likely to be disappointed.

Retailers tend to be conservative; they are reluctant to take the plunge and stock something innovative if no one else will. Somebody has to be the first! Look at motorised skate boards and throwing stars. Other excuses offered by timid shopkeepers include the shoplifting risk, the lack of an easy display method, low profit per square foot, too cheap, too dear, doesn’t fit in with existing range, please get out of my shop. It’s no wonder there are still homes out there papered in woodchip. Wall stickers remain a marginal product known only to the elect.

The majority are missing out. No other interior design solution can compare to wall stickers; they are easy to apply (I’ve put them up drunk), last forever (so far), inexpensive in relation to the impact they provide and compared to wallpaper don’t require the removal of furniture and carpets when installing. If you’ve had enough of that silhouetted forest in your sitting room you can just peel it off, it will leave the paint behind and now you’re ready for that flock of birds and the stags head.

Having spoken to many people who’ve bought and applied wall stickers in their homes, or for clients in a wide range of commercial settings the response is always the same. They look fantastic, they went up in no time and everyone who sees them is suitably impressed.

You could be the next person doing the impressing.

http://www.zazous.co.uk/

Zazous are online retailers of wall stickers, wallpaper, lighting, contemporary vinyl flooring, tableware, textiles and accessories for the modern home. Fashion-forward, highly individual designs that create striking interiors.

In a barefaced attempt to get wall stickers as well-known to the discerning consumer as other more traditional interior decoration methods, I thought it might be useful to do a direct comparison with perhaps their closest rival: wallpaper. In a step by step guide I hope to demonstrate that the former trounces the latter in every category I decide to name. This comparison will be strictly fair and non-partial. Honestly.

1. Choice. Considering the fact that wallpaper has been around in its current form since the eighteenth century there are a surprisingly dismal range of options available to the forward-looking interior designer. Watery patterns and pale floral motifs abound; if you are Miss Havisham then fire away, this is for you. If, on the other hand, you sometimes open the curtains and let light and life flood into your home then the infinite array of self-adhesive vinyl wall sticker designs available just a keystroke away on your friendly internet will be more in your line. Anything you can think of is available in practically any colour and any size.

2. Application. Simple really, wallpaper is fantastically difficult to put up and wall stickers aren’t. Wallpaper requires skill, nerve, the removal from the room of anything likely to be affected by paste flying around, protective clothing, tools and a helper. Wall stickers need a comfortable pullover and a gin and tonic and perhaps a little light opera on the stereo which you haven’t had to cover or remove for its protection.

3. Removal. OK, you’ve had the paper up for a while now and you’d like a change, well, you’ll need to set aside a fortnight to strip it, remove the stubborn bits, fill the holes where you got cross and gouged the wall with your scraper while swearing at the top of your voice, smooth down and start the torture again. Wall stickers, on the other hand, peel away simply leaving no residue and no damage, leaving you calm and unruffled as you sip your drink and consider your next design.

4. Cost. To paint a wall and then adorn it with a beautiful contrasting sticker group of trees will be about thirty quid for the paint and a hundred for the stickers. To paper a wall 3.5m long by 2.2m high will cost anything from forty pounds to four hundred for the paper, a tenner for the paste, tenner for brushes, twenty quid easily for pasting table… It soon mounts up. And what’s your time worth? The aggravation of the preparation? The stress? And what about having to buy the paper again when you’ve mucked it up? If you add it up my way then wall stickers win yet again.

These are the main considerations when choosing between the two options. If you can afford to get the men in and don’t mind the disruption and aren’t likely to change your scheme for twenty years then maybe wallpaper is for you. If you are normal then I strongly recommend a combination of emulsion paint and self-adhesive vinyl wall stickers. Thank you.

http://www.zazous.co.uk/
Zazous are online retailers of wall stickers, wallpaper, lighting, contemporary vinyl flooring, tableware, textiles and accessories for the modern home. Fashion-forward, highly individual designs that create striking interiors.