5 Tips for a successful decoration

A decoration has what it takes to beautify the home. It provides cosiness, individuality and makes a room complete. The following five tips complement the selected furniture by the factor of well-being.

 

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Five tips for a great decoration

“Our home should become more beautiful!“ This saying is well known in a slightly modified form. But he says what is a fact: the home will only be restored with a compilation of classic and personal decorations really individual and offers the feel-good factor par excellence.

It is not enough to simply set up a few vases and candles or to ensure that a house looks stylish with the help of the use of a lot of glass. The combination of style and coziness, of individuality and classicism is important.

Here are the five best tips for decorating an apartment or a house:

1. Decorating with books

   Books, especially in some households, are almost forgotten and have to give way to tablets, smartphones and e-book readers. They not only offer information, but also a wonderful way to decorate! A bookshelf, which is filled to the top with thick pages, guidebooks, specialist and non-fiction books, creates an intellectual impression and ensures cosiness. The sound alone is swallowed by the books and a room therefore looks more cozy.

   But it doesn’t always have to be the well-known bookshelves that open up on the walls to the ceiling. A shelf can be used as a room divider and, with sufficient depth, can be stocked with books from each side. Due to the open shelf compartments, this room divider looks more friendly and ensures a harmonious division of the room.

However, books can also be stacked up as stacks and form towers of different heights. Here, attention must be paid to the composition of the books: too colorful book spines make the stack restless and leave the eye no chance to find a resting place.

Therefore, it is better to place books of similar color and approximately the same size on such stacks of books. If the stacks get into a possible fluctuation too much, decorative figures can serve as bookends.

1. Decorating furniture with textiles

   The furniture alone often looks cold and sober in a room. The decoration makes the difference here and turns an apparent furniture warehouse into a room full of cosiness. No one has to live in pillows, it is enough if a few pillows are made decoratively on the sofa or on the armchair.

But there are other details to the textile equipment. Here, for example, carpets should be mentioned, which are placed on certain places in the room. Curtains and drapes are also counted in the textile area and make a room more cozy.

Probably everyone who has moved before knows the difference: a room without curtains looks cold and impersonal despite the placement of all the furniture. It becomes much more individual and, above all, more comfortable as soon as curtains have been installed.

Important when decorating with textiles, it is important that the colors are not too colorful. Anyone who finds himself in an Easter egg will hardly feel comfortable, especially since the different colors have a different effect on people. Nevertheless, not everything has to be designed in one shade.

When decorating, it should only be ensured that the colors are used within a color palette. If you want to live with pillows, then choose them in color similar to the carpet or blankets, which can be placed on the upholstered furniture.

1. Decoration with indoor plants

   Living with pillows? Much less important than living with plants! This does not only mean bouquets that are placed in vases in obviously well-chosen places. Rather, it is about green houseplants, which have two benefits at once. On the one hand, they have a positive effect on the indoor climate and ensure that the oxygen content in the room increases.

   On the other hand, they are decorative and can be placed on the shelves and cabinets, on the window sill, on the side table or anywhere else. At the same time, care must be taken with plants to ensure that they do not become a nuisance.

   If you place a hanging plant above the dining table, you will soon be annoyed by falling tendrils in the neck. Therefore, plants should be given the appropriate location for them and for the residents of the house, be of appropriate size themselves and, if necessary, be shortened if they become too large.

Important: In rooms that have a south orientation of the window, there should not be plants with thin and delicate leaves. The rooms heat up a lot in the summer, which would not get the plants. Thick-leaved plants are much more suitable here.

Palm-like plants, on the other hand, like to live in rooms that have a lot of light on the one hand, but on the other hand do not get too warm and provide sufficient humidity. They can also be used to decorate the bathroom nicely!

1. Decoration with the appropriate lighting

   Not only Pillows are suitable as a decoration for any room, the right lighting is also a true all-rounder. Especially in the living room, many different light sources are a good idea.

   It is ideal if a central light source is used that illuminates the entire room or at least one half of the room. In addition, there are other lamps and luminaires that, for example, draw attention to a certain point in the room as a spot.

Table and floor lamps are just as well suited as lamps that look very decorative in the form of candles even when turned off. If the lighting is also dimmable, the decoration is perfect.

Of course, this type of decoration also has a practical use and should be chosen accordingly. It must be possible that it not only looks beautiful in the living room, but that enough light is actually generated to read or do sewing work, for example.

Tip: With the right lighting, the rest of the decoration also comes into its own much better, because the eye of the viewer can direct the light.

It should be noted that large rooms necessarily need a central ceiling light, which is considered an anchor point. Small living rooms, on the other hand, sometimes do completely without this ceiling lamp and benefit from indirect lighting, which makes the room look larger.

1. Decorating with small accessories

   Even if the entire decoration is practically thought out, small accessories will accumulate over time, which stand for a special cosiness and individuality.

   Vases and candles, a special glass in the showcase, small figurines, etc. create the impression of individuality. However, care should be taken to ensure that the impression never arises that it is a collection of knick-knacks from all over the world.

More tips for a great decoration

• Vases made of glass (when using, be sure to always keep the flower water fresh and clean!
• Decoteller
• Photo frames with photos
• Watches and mirrors
• small figures
• seasonal decorative items: candles, Santas, Easter bunnies, witches, etc.

However, it is certainly also true that a great decoration for the house it is not equally suitable for all people. Many are absolute minimalists and would only feel overwhelmed with a decoration. It should always be noted that the decoration certainly allows conclusions to be drawn about the personality of the residents.

So whoever surrounds himself with things that he or she does not like at all, gives the appearance of pretending. In addition, the decoration should also be quietly practical: if you put a lot of dust catchers on a shelf, you should keep in mind that they also need to be cleaned regularly.

Decorating your own apartment can begin with these great decorating tips. Many decoration friends are even very flexible and at least redecorate the living room, for example, after the holiday. So the holiday feeling can be preserved a little, which is to be assessed quite positively. Why not fill the decorative plate with shells and stones collected by yourself? There are no limits to the ideas!