Home Design
The Inspiration As you plan your interior decoration you will gradually find you have one vital, indispensable ally: your own taste. You may perhaps have felt timid about this in the past, awed by the extravagance and imaginative range of the professional interior designers; but think of them as your resource, your bank of ideas and creativity on which you can draw. Concentrate first on fine-tuning your own reactions to interiors. Every time you walk into a room, even one you know well, ask yourself to identify the handful of things you like. Look through every book and magazine you can find, and be critical: note down the colors that continually seem to appeal to you, the little touches that seem to make all the difference, even the vague `feel´ that you find your like. You will find yourself gaining confidence in your own ideas, your own likes and dislikes.This section looks at the less tangible, more subtle aspects of your interior decoration: the architectural shell itself and the part it can play, lighting, objects and collections used decoratively, and finally the soft furnishings. It is these elements that will in the end say the most about your taste and your style. Whatever your circumstances, don´t be afraid to pitch your ambitions high. Be inventive, creative, imaginative as you pore over books and magazines - then try to think of ways yin which you adapt an idea you like so that it is both affordable and realizable. This Tip was excerpted from: Conran’s Do- It- Yourself Home Design by Jocasta Innes and Jill Blake, Portland House, 1987 ISBN # 0-517-05071-4 |
