Home Interior Design Tips


Tips for Summer Home Décor

With summer just around the corner, the time is right to upgrade the décor in certain rooms of your home to reflect a lighter and airier atmosphere. Whether it’s a bathroom, living room or dining room, there are a number of simple tricks you can use to make each room more summer friendly.

Here are a few:
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Try Soft Tone Furniture Colors

Heavy reds, browns and dark tones are ideal for the cold days of winter, but when the sun is shining, try accenting your rooms with colors that reflect the season. Pastels, violets, light greens and whites are all great for sofa and chair cushions and will transform darker hued rooms into brighter living spaces. While you’re at it, also consider replacing heavy drapes with curtains. While drapes are ideal for keeping cold wind out, it can make a room stuffy in the summer. With lighter curtains you can keep the hot summer sun out, but still allow cool breezes to flow in at night.

Bring the Outdoors Indoors

Making a home feel summer fresh can be easily accomplished by adding the right plants, flowers, fruit centerpieces and scented candles that smell of fresh linen, cotton and sea breezes. You can also accent your room décor with ecofriendly materials like bamboo to help create an exotic and natural feeling.

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What is Transitional Décor?

In many design circles, the styles run black and white: you have traditional or modern décor. Some may refer to traditional as ‘classic’ and others will term modern as ‘contemporary’, but the dividing line between the two is quite clear. Homeowners are often left to choose between one style or the other for bathrooms, dining rooms, kitchens and living rooms.

Blog-transitional-hookerHowever, in recent years, a new school of décor has emerged called transitional and it is becoming more popular. Transitional is basically a combination of traditional and contemporary furniture, finishes, materials and fabrics to produce a timeless and classic design.

Discerning homeowners who want their living spaces to be unique are inquiring more about how to achieve a transitional look. Instead of simply having classic wood as bedroom décor, some are seeking to fuse traditional furnishings with more modern finishes and materials to produce a look that is a little classic and a little contemporary.

Transitional décor often blends the comfort and warmth of traditional design with the clean profiles and understated colors of more contemporary looks. The end goal is streamlined spaces that exude a certain harmony and achieve a careful balance that doesn’t lean too far to either original style.

Another way to view transitional style is to consider the classic look of traditional furniture with more functional and technologically advanced construction methods that make specific furnishings more adaptable to modern living.

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Sunbrella Fabrics

In 1961, Sunbrella debuted as an alternative to cotton. At the time, cotton was the most widely used fabric for awnings. It was a bit of a revolution when Sunbrella offered awnings made from acrylic fibers with pigmentation added prior to extrusion, hence adding the rich look and feel of cotton without the drawback of fading or degrading. Guaranteed to withstand the elements, Sunbrella quickly became a hit within the home furnishing market.

upholstery-impactStarting solely with awnings, Sunbrella soon branched out and began designing boat tops, sail covers and marine upholstery using its advanced grade fabrics. Today, Sunbrella is the leading fabric choice for power boaters and sailors who appreciate the quality and durability of the fabric.

It wasn’t until the 1980s that Sunbrella considered using its advanced technology fabrics for home furniture. Sunbrella was asked by furniture manufacturers to take their fabric formula of high performance awning fabric with the look and feel of cotton and apply it to outdoor furniture. If it could work for awnings and boat covers, then why not patio chairs and loungers?

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Achieving the “Classic” Look

Today, many sophisticated homeowners are looking to attain a classic look in living rooms, bedrooms and other living spaces. While condos still adhere to the principles of modernity, home décor is seeing a lasting trend for traditional furnishings. Achieving the classic look is easier than you think and these tips can get you started in the right direction.

Functional

aab18192_frameRemember, back in the good old days, furniture wasn’t built for style; it was made to serve a purpose. From dressers and bookcases to end tables and cabinets, every piece had a specific function. When creating a classic look in your home, search first and foremost for furniture that is functional. Having well designed and stylish pieces is fine, but your furniture needs to be useful, as a key to being classic is not being wasteful.

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