5 Essential Tips to Do to Achieve Your Ideal Room

When it’s time to remodel a room or design a room from scratch, then it’s time for your creativeness to really come out and shine. You will literally find millions of ideas and images online that you will fall in love with, but at the end you want to develop your own style and something that speaks to you and expresses your personality.

You might already be thinking of colors, matching, and the finer things that will go into the room. There will come a time for that, but not yet. You first have to look at the bigger picture, which is the room and not what is going to go in the room. This goes under interior decorating, but to get the room going you have to first start thinking like an interior designer.

If the room is already empty, that’s great! It will save you time, but if not, then you have to get up and empty it. Emptying the room will give you a much clearer vision of the space you’ll be working with. 

Now that the room is empty, let’s check these five tips below you can follow for a smoother project completion.

Space

The space available in the room is the essential step and the foundation of the room. Besides taking measurements, a professional designer will tell you that space is of two types; the 2D space which is about the floor in length and width, and 3D space which constitutes the living space area and includes length and width. Positive space is a space using furniture, while the negative is empty space; and these two need to be balanced. To understand this better, you might have noticed at other people’s homes, the room is overly-crowded. Another house might have wide empty spaces with too few pieces of furniture; in both cases there is a lack of balance. 

Flooring

Some people may start with the walls, but it makes more sense to start choosing a floor if only for the simple reason that flooring is a permanent and costly fixture. Choosing a wrong wall color paint can be easily changed, but choosing the wrong floor is a big blunder. The materials, colors and patterns are abundant, from solid hardwood, engineered wood, stained concrete, vinyl and others. One factor to consider is how much foot traffic is in the room.

Walls

Start by choosing the colors you like! You will find a lot of tips on how to choose the color, but there’s no point in choosing a color that you dread simply because it complements the floor. It’s more important to know how the room is going to be used. So, for example, if you have little kids running around and expect to see little handprints on the wall, choose a latex paint because it’s easier to clean up and very durable. The glossier the paint, the easier it is to clean. 

Planning

You’re pretty much there! When it’s time to design, you’ll appreciate the measurements you took. You can find millions of images online to help you in this part. Yet the mistake most people make is looking at images that are totally different in size and style of their own room, thinking what works for others will work for them. Actually, it doesn’t work like that at all, so while online you want to look at the rooms that mirror a bit your own room. To get a real professional perspective to your room, you can get some room design ideas just by uploading photos of your room to certain design platforms, or post your room’s measurements on the forums. This can prove to be the best solution when you might be feeling at a loss or just not interested to do things by yourself and want a little professional help.

Personal touch

You can experiment with a lot. Don’t be afraid to mix elements; wood with metal, old and new, different textures of fabrics, etc. Your room doesn’t need to be like a matching 3-piece suit. Try adding some intriguing pieces like antique or modern art to bring a new dimension to the living space. 

By the end, you want a functional room and one that suits your lifestyle. There are many ways to change the feel of a room through colors, materials, furniture and art pieces. The main purpose of the room and how it’s used will be your biggest compass to know the best design that suits it. The only last thing to do is to enjoy your room.

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