If you are wondering how to beautify your home, the first rule is to make it more personal : your home must talk about you! The worst feeling you can experience is that of living in an “alien” environment, anonymous and without personality.
In this article we reveal some ideas to beautify your home by transforming it into a more comfortable, functional and personal space, even if the best advice is always to be accompanied on this path by an interior design professional: it will help you make better use of the spaces. and create the style that suits you best!
1) ORGANIZE SPACES WELL
A good distribution of spaces is the starting point for embellishing the house with a partial renovation project or a simple re-look of the rooms.
It is not enough to choose designer furniture and insert them ‘at random’ in the environment: the first study is the distributive and functional one to best satisfy daily habits , always trying to give importance to one’s lifestyle.
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This step, which at times may seem obvious, is instead of fundamental importance to model a pleasant and welcoming home.
2) USE A NEUTRAL COLOR ALONG WITH A FEW POPS OF COLOR
Choose a neutral color that is recalled in every room to give continuity to the interior of the house .
But be careful not to choose only cold colors! For example, gray is an excellent starting point because it is an elegant color and can be declined in many variations, but an environment characterized by grays alone becomes too cold and not very personal.
To beautify your home, the advice is therefore to combine the neutral color with a more lively desaturated color (desaturation allows you to obtain less vivid colors), in this way you will not risk getting tired after a short time.
An alternative way to heat a too cold room is to insert a floor , a wall covering (such as a modern boiserie ) or some wooden furniture .
Wood gives warmth to all the spaces in which it is inserted. The oak parquet in natural color and furnishings with ‘dark’ inserts in heat-treated wood or dark oak are very trendy.
3) WATCH OUT FOR THE LIGHTS!
To beautify the home and create an atmosphere, light is one of the main ingredients. Just think how the right lighting varies according to need; bright light while dining, soft light while watching TV …
The practical advice is to have more light sources inside the room . For example, in the living room, in addition to the light point on the dining area and the overall lighting of the room, there must be a floor or table lamp with adjustable intensity able to create a relaxing atmosphere or a reading area as needed.
The lighting fixtures are also elements with a strong aesthetic and chromatic connotation: they can be minimal until they disappear in the hallway / passage areas or real design elements that are protagonists inside the rooms.
The important thing is not to overdo it : not all lamps have to be special. Give importance to only one lamp in the room and keep the others more sober.
4) DON’T FORGET RUGS AND ACCESSORIES!
To make an environment comfortable, textiles are a fundamental element. In particular , curtains and carpets can give warmth and color to the environment .
Trendy linen blend curtains , able to let a lot of light through and give a not completely uniform texture.
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Attention also to textile accessories; in the sleeping area, the complete bed is an element of great visual importance: it is not enough to study the combinations of floor / furniture and rear bed wall; the duvet cover or blanket must also be chosen according to the other elements present in the room.
5) USE PAINTINGS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND TEXTURES ON THE WALLS
Decorate the themed walls, you choose the style: abstract drawings, photographs, prints. Give the right importance to what you hang and don’t mix styles. In this way you will be able to give warmth to the environment as well as decorate.
6) PLANTS AND FLOWERS
To beautify the house, flowers or plants cannot be missing that have a relaxing power and give a good mood .
However, if you don’t have a ‘green thumb’, choose plants that need little maintenance and little care, such as succulents.
If, on the other hand, the premises are not very bright, fall back on plants that need little light such as the Zamia or the Philodendron. Avoid fake plants instead, you risk getting the opposite effect.
7) PERSONALIZE EACH ROOM
You make the difference! The house must talk about you , your tastes, your hobbies.
For this reason, in the design phase it is important to follow your instincts and insert everything that is considered essential to be represented in the best way: objects that you think are interesting, photos, colors and everything you need to make yourself known and that you would like …
