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Most Amazing Interior Design Tricks to Transform Your Home

20 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

It is always needed by many of us to transform the homes, giving them an edgy and wonderful look. If you have just moved and looking for easy home pick-ups, or perhaps something highly innovative, then here we have shared the most amazing interior design tricks to transform your home.

Pay Attention to Small Things

Sometimes the smallest things like mirror, paintings, lamps, or even an indoor plant can give wonderful look to your home environment. These are the items that provide a feeling of being in a calm and brightened living space. Add more warmth to your house by paying attention to the small and tiniest things. These can make your home look inspiring and magnificent.

Soft and Light Colors for Small Rooms

The soft and light colors are helpful to make your small rooms feel larger. Paint small living areas or limited spaces with colors like pink, sea-green, blue, or light orange etc. There are a lot of other shades that give cooling effect to your home environment. Those who give preference to dark and bright colors have to suffer from being in a restricted environment, which is I don’t think much supportive for luxury home-lovers.

Use Decorative Home Accessories

The decorative home accessories like mirrors, fancy lights, and others add instant brightness and beauty to your living area. What I love the most is the fancy mirrors. These can be used for making small space look larger and exceptional. The purpose of these mirrors is to reflect the light in all parts of your room. Mirrors placed directly across the windows will add extra value and charm to your indoor area.

Mix up Patterns and Textures

Gone are the days when there were no patterns and textures to make the homes look magnificent. Now there is much trend of mixing up old and new, expensive and inexpensive patterns and textures, which give a remarkable look to your home. There is nothing wrong to place family heirlooms alongside your modern couch. All professional interior decorators combine varying patterns and textures to make sure that you get out-of-the-world results.

Slip into Something Highly Comfortable

Consider to slip into something little more convenient and comfortable. The slip covers serve as a mean of beauty and innovation. They can be renovated and changed season after season. These let you have sophisticated look without any worries of individuals who are there and dirtying your living area.

Place Baskets in Corners

The purpose of placing baskets in different corners of your home is to keep it clean internally and externally. The wicker baskets are only purposed to add storage to the rooms, while the dust-baskets are what you need to bring home for sure. In every room, these baskets need to be present so that unnecessary things can be thrown properly and the house looks cleaner.

On the other hand the wicker baskets, placed in your kitchen, will not only add beauty but also will store your fruits and vegetables.

Go Green

Add plants to your living space. Place them in all the rooms—whether large or small. Plants need not to be expensive for indoor use because these may be destroyed by your children. Instead of giving preference to the expensive decorative items, it is good to add color and texture to your home with plants. These are helpful to get rid of air pollutants, and act like your best friends.

What is inspiring for you? I personally have been satisfied with the trick of beautifying the rooms with plants.

4 Real-Life Ways to Decorate with Antiques

17 July 201509 January 2017 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Mixing antiques in your home decor is definitely back in the interior design game. You can easily combine old with new by following some of our real-life ways to decorate with antiques!

Photo: Walter Studio Interior Design

1. Keep Them Close

There is no need to keep your collection of antiques out of the reach on pedestals. Keeping antiques at eye level where you can see and enjoy them is a much better look. If you have a spacious house where you want to place antiques everywhere, the best way is to choose separate pieces for each room. A house over-crowded with antiques can look junky, and take away from the “mixing old with new” look.

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2. Mix Old and New

Photo: Design House, New York

Bringing home new collections of antiques and decorative products doesn’t mean you cannot keep the old products. Mix old and new to create variety. Collections don’t need to be all antique; allow yourself to see the design evolution within a specific world and this is only possible when you update certain pieces and organize them with a few older ones.

3. Group Objects by Color

Photo: Pamela Hope Designs

If your room is of pink or red color, it is important to keep antiques of either same or contrast family that give unique and beautiful look. It is a must remember trick that grouping the objects on the basis of their color is what you have to remembers. Antiques instantly become unified and, unlike a museum, you need not to organize them in particular time period. Just be assured that everything you place makes sense. There is absolutely no need to follow any particular rules. Either the antiques can be adjusted in similar colors or with a total color contrast. My personal preference is to organize them with respect to the similarity of their shades.

4. Stay Focused

Photo: Resource Lifestyles, Toronto

Focus plays key role in the success of any interior designing. Stay focused when you are decorating your home. Unlike museum collections which remain scattered here and there in the entire space, you have to concentrate on the collections that give nicer look. Arranging the antiques around a special focal point is a good idea. If some of your rooms is lacking a focal point, don’t worry, you can keep the products close to the windows. For this, I recommend to first bring a medium-sized table which can be dedicated to antiques only.

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Make sure that when you purchase antiques, you do it wisely to regret spending a lot of money on something cheap that is about to fall apart. Have an antique-obsessed friend? Bring them along the next time you go shopping and you’ll surely walk away with something beautiful for your home!

Most Useful Guest Room Decoration Tips to Remember

16 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Here we have shared the most useful guest room decoration tips to remember. Having a dreamy guest room at an exotic location is very interesting. Once you plan to travel to a distant area to spend holidays, make sure the place you are in is free of anxiety and stress.

Anticipate your needs

Make sure the guest room anticipates the needs of the people. Its decoration is all dependent on how creative minded you are. Having a little gift basket or tray in one of the corners of the guest room has no alternative. This idea goes well with the rooms for couples or newlyweds who have just started their whole-new life. The guest room essentials include toothbrushes, toothpaste, floss, pain medications, antacids, band-aids, razors, lip balm, shampoos, conditioners, and soaps etc.

Embrace in warmth

Sleeping is a different bed disturbs one’s sleep every now and then. Embracing in warmth is what we all want. Remember to pull out an extra blanket and a few extra pillows so that the guest room becomes a marvelous and comfortable place for anyone who visits you and is interested to stay in your home for a few days. Settling a double-bed is also a nice touch. Place mint on the pillows to make the room smell perfect.

Perfect guest room decoration

Bear in mind that just like all other parts of your house, the guest room needs perfect decoration. Each and everything of it has to be well maintained, and well organized. Make sure nothing leaves a bad impression on the guests when they have approached.

From one corner to another, its decoration has to be appealing and superb.

Keep something to eat

Yes, you must keep something in the guest room for the guests to eat. Sometimes it happens that some of the people are night dwellers, so they never want to sleep sooner than watching their favorite night movie or reading a book/novel. In such circumstances, they are likely to feel hungry. Keeping something to eat means you understand their requirements and are always there to fulfill their demands in a better way. Snacks, sandwiches, French fries, soft drinks, and other things can be placed in the guest room.

Allocate them separate cabinets

Of course he who lives in the guest room must have some personal things. Allocate the guests separate cabinets so that they can keep their cash, mobile, and other small things. If possible, give them a cupboard’s portion to hang the clothes.

Make them feel like home

It is your responsibility as a host to make the guests feel like home. For this, the guest room has to be managed superbly, with all the things kept appropriately. Try to give all the comforts of life to them so that they love and enjoy the time with you.

The above tips are easy to follow, solving many of your problems when the guests have suddenly arrived. If the guest room is pre-prepared, you will have absolutely no problem to make their stay with you out of the world and fully entertaining.

How to Make Your Bedroom Look Wow

15 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Bedroom is a place where we enjoy our romantic moments, sleep during night hours, and do a lot of personal things. When it comes to décor the home, we never ever forget to make the bedrooms look fabulous. There are, without any doubt, a lot of ways you can make your bedroom look interesting and attractive.

How to make your bedroom look wow? Here is an overview:

Create a central point

We all know that in a movie there is always a central character around which the whole story revolves. In the same way, choose which part of your bedroom should give highly exceptional and top notch feeling. Choose your star and try making it the focal point for anchoring the bedroom. Let the other items to play secondary role. The central point can be anything: your bed, cupboard, curtains, and others. For my bedroom, I have made the fireplace central point. Make sure the lighting works effectively to bring brightness to your eyes.

Consider sight lines

Each bedroom of your lovely house should have different central/focal points. Create variety so that we feel like being drawn between all the rooms. The best place to make the focal point is directly across from the entrance of the bedroom, but you can definitely choose as per your taste and desire. Consider sight lines to make the room more than enough attractive.

Update your decoration items

Yes, it is needed to update and edit your collectibles as well as decoration items. Gone are the days when we used to keep the useless decorative products in different cabinets. Now you need to pay all attention to bring home the items which not only make the rooms look beautiful, but also are useful in one way or the other.

Create balance

Whatever is present in your bedroom should look well-balanced. In other words we can say that the things have to be organized superbly. The unifying theme can be created using black and white shades. From the wall colors to the accessories, curtains, cupboard, your dressing table, and even the bed, everything has to be great looking.

Vary the scale

Here you have to understand that what looks good in the living area may look useless in the bedroom. Vary the scale and have different proportions. In the same way, tiny bedrooms with oversized sunburst mirror frame can look odd and boring. Fill the places with items which are perfect and interesting. For your bedroom, you can organize things which are made for the use of adults. But the same kind of items aren’t going to look good when it comes to keep something in the children’ room.

Be bold

Personality is what makes spaces look great. You can make your own statement to look unique. It is okay to be bold with the decoration of the bedroom. The walls can have shiny paint with paintings and pictures of hot and beautiful women. Begin to see what looks good and what doesn’t in a particular area.

Add proper lighting, natural light is best

Last but not the least add proper lighting, give highest preference to natural light. Allow sunlight to enter the room via windows and doors. Having glass windows which can open outside, towards the lawn or garden area, is a perfect idea. In the morning, when you wake-up, open those windows and let the fresh air and natural light make your room breath.

Best Tips for Kitchens That Are Short on Counter Space

14 July 2015 Michelle from Modern Architecture Concept

Counter space is one of the best and most precious real estate in your lovely house. There are certainly ways to take good care of the kitchen. Sometimes in this part of the house, the counters act as extra storage for everyday tools and ingredients.

Here are the best tips for kitchens that are short on counter space.

Try a towel bar

A towel bar is one of the simplest solutions to take advantage of a portion of your kitchen counters: the sides. Install it in different parts of your house. It is nice enough to hang pots and pans on a hanging bar as the bonus is you’ll save enough space plus the outlook of the kitchen become superb. The towel bars come in wide range of finishes, so choose the one that matches your kitchen environment in a perfect way.

Keep a cake stand by the sink

It is a wonderful, in fact genius idea to keep a cake stand by the sink with soaps and dishrags in it. This stand will add pretty touch to your kitchen, making the counter double-decker, so cleaners cannot be in the way all the times.

Cute toaster for your kitchen

The selection of a cute toaster for your kitchen is a great idea. It is one of the finest storing appliances you use every day. We strongly recommend devoting counter space to blender or toaster, making sure it looks good with the kitchen and doesn’t give a feeling of being something useless. It has to be of a good brand, so that reliability can be made sure.

Pick utensils to match

Pick the versions of utensils that are both stylish and easy to use. This will definitely create great kitchen environment. Your favorite kitchen tools, plates, glasses, spoons, and rest of the things need to be well organized. It will be more than great to match your countertop appliances with the tools of your choice. Say no to those “bad looking and non-stylish” kitchen products because you don’t need them anymore.

Selection of pretty canisters

If you’re an avid baker who always loves to easily access the sugar, flours, and other things during cooking, devote some counter space to non-perishables, and don’t forget to leave them in their original packaging so that their shine and grace is maintained when not in use. You can place elegant glass jars with a few glasses of different sizes in the middle of the dining table. On the other hand, the opaque stainless canisters look fabulous and have become necessity of many of the kitchens these days.

Create cohesive, and intentional feel

It is very important to create cohesive and intentional feel by having more storage area. Adapt clever kitchen decoration designs. Layering cutting boards against backsplash, and the use of white serving tray to corral large utensils, spices, and olive oil is fair enough. Devote a portion or two of your kitchen to the tools you would like to grab every now and then. Keep the daily use utensils within the reach, and those who aren’t used prior to the arrival of guests need to be places in the store room so that decoration is not compromised at all.

It is very important to remember that you don’t need any special tricks to beautify the kitchen. The above ones can certainly give good results. So, what do you think of these tips!

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