Home Interior Design Ideas


Designing the interior of home is something we do quite infrequently (except if you are a professional home designer, that is). But, truly speaking, these are the moments we live for! Designing our own nest nothing gets more lovely than that. This is the time when all of our family gets together, adds bits and pieces to the house and converts the house into a home. And it is guaranteed much more than living in your home, you will cherish the days you spend building it bit by bit.

But, let's face it we are not professional home designers. Even if we hire professional home designers, we will need to give them a basic concept of what we are looking for. A home is a very personal thing. Your home designer will have millions of home interior design ideas, but it is you who have to provide the concept. The home designer will invariably ask you what it is that you are looking for, and work with the grain of the idea you give him or her.

So, the crux of it all is that you need to have some basic sense of what home designing is. What is it you are looking for in your home interior? This article is not about actually designing the home (you will be hiring a professional to do that, after all), but it is about making the preliminary ideas that will help you start your discussion with the interior designer.

I have enlisted three important points that you must bear in mind when setting out to making your home interior. Here they are:-

Home Interior Designing Tip 1 Space

The first thing that you should think about is the space your home affords. Each and every component of your interior designing will depend on the square foot area that your home floor has. The days of the royal palaces are gone, and homes are becoming smaller day by day. Hence, you have to keep the size of your home in mind when you are preparing the initial designs of your home.

I am not saying that small homes cannot be designed well, but you will simply need some judicious planning. For example, instead of making a sprawling wall cabinet, see if you can build some interesting shelves inside the walls. Interior designers can do that in interesting ways. If you are designing for your child's bedroom, then having a loft bed and the study table below it could be a very interesting space-saving idea. Also, you could have a wall-mounted television in the bedroom to save space. Work out such ideas. The question is not about how much space you have in your home; it is more about how you are using the space.

Even if your home is big enough, you must think whether cluttering it with furniture is a good idea. This is the day and age of minimalism, and it works in the home as well. You can in fact think of creating partitions in your rooms to make better usage of available space.

Home Interior Designing Tip 2 Utility

Most of us give the utility of the home interior design a backseat when they are chalking out the home designs. The eye is mostly on beauty and even unconventional appeal, but we hardly pause and think, 'How useful will this addition be to the home?' The wise people among us will first think about the usage of each and every aspect of the home design, even if it is a minor shelf added on a particular wall. When preparing the initial home design idea, your first question should be, 'Do I need this thing?' and the second question should be, 'Will it look beautiful?'. Think of things in this order and you will hardly go wrong.

This also applies when you are adding the furniture and furnishings to your home. For each component that the interior designer wants to put in your home, think whether you really have a use for it. This is the place where the costs pile up. So, it is wiser in more ways than one to think about these additions.

Home Interior Designing Tip 3 Color Coordination

Very few of us know about the vast improvement that a color combination can bring about in the home design. In the seventies and eighties, American homes usually contained single color schemes like a bedroom would be done in various shades of blue but the trend has drastically changed in recent times. Now people are more in contrasts. Do not be surprised if your interior designer suggests a starkly black and white color combination for your kitchen. Or some other such combination that have colors that are poles apart.

The thing is, you must stop and ask what you really want. Have you visualized a color combination for the concept you are planning? If you have, then let the designer know. It doesn't matter if the scheme is totally out of the world. The designer will suggest you other options if the scheme is impracticable. Personally, I like warmer colors for the kitchen, dining room and the sitting room and cooler colors for the bedroom and the room where I simply lounge around and read. But, of course, you can have your own color combinations in mind, and speak with your designer if you can implement them.

These are the three main tips that you need to keep in mind. Of course, there are other aspects like position of things, lighting, furnishings and such which need to be considered later on too. But these help to give you a preliminary notion of things.

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