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September 25th, 2009 — Interior Design
More often than not you are pretty much sure which colors you want to surround you at home. But have you ever tried to understand why? Do you know which colors match your personality? Which ones make you feel comfortable?The Pratt and Lambert color quiz is the best one of all. It consists of only 9 quick questions meant to determine “what color combinations are best suited for your needs and personality”.As a result you will see the picture of the interior containing the colors that best suit you, your personality description and a list of colors you should choose:
Colour Personality test by the New Zealand / Australian company Resene is designed to identify colors that fit you best. The test is based on the premise that:
Surrounding yourself with colours that fit with your colour personality can help you feel at home in your environment. Without these comfort colours you may always feel a little out of touch, detached or dissatisfied as your personality works hard to try and find things in the environment that resonate with your preferences. Even introducing a few elements of your colour personality into a room can make it feel instantly welcoming even if the overall scheme fits another colour personality.
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September 2nd, 2009 — Interior Design
Students who are entering college this year are going to be on tight budgets. Parents are tightening the checkbooks and locking down their credit cards, telling students to buy only what they need. Families are going to be shopping at discount stores, looking for the best deals. Even with an eye on frugality, many freshmen are looking to spend on average $820.77 on their back-to-school purchases. One of their big ticket items is going to be dorm furnishings. Continue reading →
May 19th, 2009 — Interior Design
Yellow is the color of sun, that’s why people think it can save them from depression and attempt to use it in the interior to lighten up the mood. However not everything is that simple. Let’s have a look at a few most controversial features of the color yellow:
| Conflicting properties of color yellow |
| Yellow is the first color the eye sees in daylight. Thus yellow objects immediately draw attention |
Yellow is also the most fatiguing to the eye due to the high amount of light that is reflected. It is hard to perceive the color especially for elderly people. |
| Yellow can also increase the metabolism. It make you feel energetic. |
Yellow can make you both energetic and aggressive by stimulating brain receptors that may trigger very controversial emotions (from anger to happiness). |
| Yellow is the color of sunshine. It denotes happiness and joy. |
In nature yellow is used by some animals to warn they are poisonous (or pretend to be). There is a biological reflex built into us that causes even babies to recoil from this signal. People are more likely to lose their tempers in yellow rooms and babies tend to cry more in yellow rooms. |
However the controversial nature of the color doesn’t mean you should avoid it completely. Knowing both sides of this complex color will help you to make the most of it. It is recommended to use yellow in entry way, powder room, and halfways as well as transitional areas. Continue reading →
March 28th, 2009 — Furniture, Living Rooms, Interior Design
The living room is typically the one room where you spend more of your awake time than any other room in the house. Understandably this room can quickly become dull or feel outdated so it’s a good idea to update your living room regularly in small ways to keep it looking and feeling fresh and fun. Use our quick and easy living room decorating tips to refresh regularly throughout the year.
Undecorate
It seems a little backwards, but undecorating a room is a great way to give is a clean look and feeling, and it’s also great for spring cleaning. Take down everything you’ve put on the walls, on the tops of furniture, remove all throw pillows and blankets, basically strip the room of its personality. This leaves you an incredibly blank slate which can be refreshing by itself but may need a little work, so add pieces back or new pieces sparingly, editing your decisions as you go.
Shop your Storage
Try something new by going back to the old. Bring back old accessories, photos, decorations, pillows, even outdated and tired colors and give them new life in your living room. You really liked these items once, in fact so much so that you stored them rather than throwing them away, so let them breathe once again.
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January 28th, 2009 — Homes, Interior Design
Does the thought of installing crown molding make you break out into a cold sweat? The angles, the cutting, the joints! It’s enough to make any do-it-yourselfer run for the hills.
The good news is that crown molding is a task that even a novice do-it-yourselfer can tackle. All it takes it patience, time and a steady hand.
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