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Do you consider renovate your home and you don’t have any living room paint ideas? We’re convinced that it’s hard to choose from so many colors and shades available on market some good and delightful combinations that highlight the rest of the decor, create the mood you want and define as well your personal style.

In a previous article How to Choose Colors for a Bedroom you found some beautiful bedroom paint ideas with colors that are indicated to be used in a room where you sleep or relax after a long hard day. We say indicated colors, because as you all know colors are very important in interior design as well as in fashion and certain colors are good to use in bedrom and bathroom, others in living rooms or kitchen and so on. If you like to know more about how the colors influence our life and mood, have a look at The Psychology of Color for Interior Design and you have there some colors ideas for living room too.

Whether your personal style tends to be more conservative or on the contrary, you like to keep up with trends, find out that both white and neutrals as well as bolder colors are fashionable whatever room you want to paint these days. Integrating a specific color combination that you love from a color scheme to obtain spectacular effects for your living room whatever your design style is, can be challenging without a professional help, but not impossible. If you are on a buget, you still can create a living room that is welcoming and comfortable by considering the following lines.

Tips to use paint colors for living room:

• If you want to achieve a stylish look, it should always be a balance between the wall colors and the other colors in the room like furnishings, rugs, floor and accessories. The colors have to be complementary one to another in terms of the painting colors as well as for the overall design.
• If the ’s colors of rest of the living room are already bold and bright, use white and neutrals (beige, cream) or one lighter shade of that colors to paint the walls. In this way, you won’t overstate and create a beautiful contrast.
• On the contrary, if colors of rest of the living room are neutrals or white are predominant, that you’re free to choose any color that cheer the room and you love from your walls that match for example with accessories. Keep in mind that is best to use no more than two shades.
• Another option that we love mostly is to have accent walls. This means having one or maximum two walls painted in another color than the rest ones. In most of the cases, the accent walls have bold and brighter colors and the other walls are white or a very light shade of the same color. This option gives you the possibility to use a bold color that it’s finded in your living room’s decor on the wall too.
• Paint colors for living room should uplift, bring out hapiness, give energy and create harmony and balance. It’s recomended to use red, purple, yellow, orange, green, grey in different combinations and also earth tones that blend in nicely with just about everything.
• If your living room is small, take into consideration that brighter and darker shades of paint make your living room even smaller, so in this case it’s best to use lighter shades, white or neutrals to create the illusion of a larger and airy space. They also  make small pieces, like lamps and tables, look bigger. Here you have some beautiful living room paint ideas pictures to find some inspiration and start experimenting.

Setting up a nursery for your baby can be pretty overwhelming, especially if you don’t have experience in such things. But designing your baby’s room is a wonderful way to celebrate the upcoming event and a great project for channeling all your energy and excitement because there isn’t any other room more special like this one and we’re sure that the final result will be worth the effort. Your new little one have to come into a beautiful, relaxing, cozy and most of all safety environment because he or she will be spending a lot of time in it. Whether you’re planning to go all out or you’re putting together your nursery on a budget, it’s important to know that you don’t have to over stuff it, so the more simple  and practical you keep it, the better.

Photo: Jeffers Design Group

New extravagant options come up every year and sometimes we have so many ideas to put in practice that we don’t know where to start and where to end to not miss something.  At least one thing is sure: babies grow fast, so if you don’t want to redecorate the nursery constantly because it gets expensive, think about the big picture and design a space that works for a long period. Here we give you some tips and advice to help you create a perfect nursery.

•  Color Schemes: today things have change in terms of using colors and traditional blue nurseries for example are not anymore just for baby boys. You can try whatever unexpected color combination you want as long as you keep in mind the great influence they have on our psychological level, and a baby’s room should not be an exception of the rule. Moreover, the colors you will use in designing the nursery it depends a lot on your taste and style and of course if your baby is a girl or a boy. If you like to make bright color combinations, note that the design experts suggest not to use too much bold color such as red, orange, bright yellow,  because can stress baby out. In this case you can opt for their lighter and creamy shades.

Photo: Tewes Design

Photo: Jack and Jill Interiors

On the other side, if you decided to set up the room and you don’t know  the baby’s sex yet, neutral shades like beige with a rug and toys as splashes of bold color can be a good choice. Do you want something trendy today? Combine chocolate brown and ice blue for a boy’s room and chocolate and pink for girls, or another lovely choices might be: gray and blue or gray and pink. An inexpensive option to paint is to decorate with an attractive wallpaper that fits with the nursery decor. Knowing the fact that babies spending lot of time looking up, you may keep them entertained for example with some stars-shaped fluorescent stickers on the ceiling. The most important thing to know is that it’s recommended to finish wallpapering and painting at least eight weeks before the baby’s arrival and aerate very well the room.

2. Furniture: Before purchasing any furniture, you should consider the size of your room, the amount of money that you have to spend, the style you want to be and the color palette you’ve chosen before. Another important criteria in choosing nursery furniture is to be practical and safe. Although furniture can get very expensive, you have to decide what is really important and you really need. Once you make a list, you’ll discover that what is absolutely necessary to have a crib, a dresser or any type of storage place you want for all their little clothes, shoes, bedding, diapers, toys and baby gear, a changing pad that might be ideally placed on top of the dresser to save space.

Photo: McCroskey Interiors

Don’t forget somewhere for you to sit like a comfy rocking chair with a foot rest for those late nights and early mornings or if the room is spacious, you can use a daybed, which is an unconventional furniture item for the baby’s room but it will turn to be very useful in the long run. You can buy nursery furniture separately or in sets depending on your budget and the design style you want to achieve. Think outside the box and mix items from different furniture sets  in a way that makes sense to you. An important aspect referring to furniture is its placement. Plan the decor in such a manner to avoid placing the crib near the window where might receive direct sunlight during the day or a streetlight all night. Any heavy furniture should be anchored to the wall, so it won’t fall over if it’s accidentally bumped.

Photo: Carousel Designs

Photo: Lucy McLintic

• Lighting: A special attention should also receive the lighting, most of the times for you than for the baby. You have to make sure is flexible because sometimes you want to be bright and other times to be soft. In order to create a soothing environment for them during the day for the nap time, consider buying some curtains in dark shades.

• Surfaces: Use wood or cork floor or area rugs rather than wall-to-wall carpet if you can because they don’t harbor as much allergy-inducing dust and are easier to clean. The rugs must be secure to the floor with double-side tape not to slip while baby’s in your arms while providing a soft place for floor play.You’ll find in stores a great variety of rugs with all sort of themes and colors that match any style.

• Accessories: Nurseries can be accessorized with theotically any item that strikes your fancy. Anything that you imagine, love and find interesting and personal you may put into your nursery: cheerful bedding, pillows, colorful pictures and family photos to the walls, a delightful mirror perhaps, a lovely wastebasket to take care of the trash in a stylish way, etc.

Photo: Niche Interiors

All in all, remember that is no rulebook when it come to create and decorate your nursery. Have fun when decorating and keep in mind that the most important aspect overall is that trying to keep the room simple and organized helps you feel less chaotic after a long night of a crying baby.

 

We all want to have a bedroom as comfortable, clean, spacious and of course to be decorated like we seen in the movies, but often, to design a bedroom interior design is required a lot of time because most of us are too tired to go shopping or too busy solving everyday problems etc., but at night after a busy day we retreat in our nests to refresh and relax for the next day of work. The bedroom is the place where we spend a part of our life by sleeping most of the time and sharing nice harmony and love feelings in evenings with the family. Where we feel the best, if not in our bedroom, where a large bed is expecting us, soft and comfortable, a dream that can become true fore every of you , nice people, and to have a bedroom like that, today is not impossible to manage. A bedroom design is very important when we decide decorating it.

Some people find that the best idea for decorating your bedroom is reflected in the activities that we like to made in the room such as for example: some people like to read a lot and then the bedroom furniture should be in a library style, others prefer to listen to music and their bedroom will have a design in the form of a music studio, etc., but this kind of bedroom furniture specific needs. In other words, your bedroom will become the most special place in your ho

me and you need to identify issues that we want to emphasize when we want to decorate your bedroom.
Before we learn how to find the perfect furniture let’s see what are the furniture that we need for us to finish decorating the bedroom as we dreamed.

Tips for how to learn which pieces of furniture we need to decorate a bedroom interior design:

 

• The bed is the centerpiece of a bedroom as everybody knows. Select a bed more comfortable to have a size corresponding to the space of the room. To cover a larger space choose a large bed  that you can decorate with pillows and other accessories depending on your style, if the space of the bedroom is small then choose obviously a single bed or a couch that runs

• Bedside-tables is defiantly a piece of furniture that you must have for decorate the room. You will need a pair of  bedside tables for the bed if it is double or a single bedside-table if the bed is for a single person. For creating a nice harmony and elegant design you can use to decorate the bedroom with lamps

•   Cabinet or chest of drawers. Choose a closet where you can keep all the clothes, accessories and other personal items. 5-drawer chest will provide more than enough space to store and other things you need such as bedding, towels, etc.. These are ideal bedside tables with drawers providing you with extra storage.

Tips for how to find the perfect furniture for your bedroom:

 

• Choose furniture that will last long and the way to test the durability before buying the furniture is to go to the furniture store and try your chosen simply pieces of furniture that will decorate your bedroom. For example to check if the bed is strong and it last in time, we have to find of what kind of material is made: wood, iron, plastic, then check the feet of the bed, lay down literally in the bed and try to feel the softness and the resistance of the mattress and of course don’t forget to analyze the bed design that should fits your design style.

• Choose colors carefully, preferably furniture should have a more natural color and more warm and relaxing pallets of colors. Check for spots of different color faces or scratches on furniture

• before buying the closet and drawers please check the closing of the drawers, check if its drawers open and close. Carefully examine the inside of drawers, and it drawing mechanisms. Drawers must be related quality of wood instead of rolls. Drawers must be the same size and presentation.

• Check the cabinet mirror. It must be firmly fixed and must not have sharp edges that can affect anyone

• Check finish, angles, legs and drawers. Finish must be applied uniformly in the same way it is seeing in the showroom.

It is also wised to use a professional to advise you how to decorate inside your bedroom but you can put your creativity to work, and to worth your taste and do not forget good idea can saves us from too much spending money. Good luck.

I choose a bedroom furniture model in images by Nihat Çakır and Kaan Aşer

 

 

 

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