Posts Tagged ‘Straight Lines’
Modern lines in home decor
The most popular decorating ideas today fall into the modern style. After all, modern interior decoration gives rise to the more clear that also allow simpler maintenance for homeowners who do not really have time to be constantly cleaning. The decor of this particular style is rid of all traces of clutter and chaos. Instead straight lines and organization are a welcome replacement.
Decorate your home in the modern style of furniture fill it more straight and simpler finishes of dark wood or black paint. The reason for decorating and furnishing with such darkness is the feeling of elegance and sophistication with which imbues the room. In general few decorative items used in this style. Only some very suitable objects placed in the room will be exposed.
This allows you to spend a little more on the quality of decoration, in some special pieces instead of completing the room with objects less expensive and less impressive.
To contrast with the dark furniture interior design, modern colors require the use of very austere. A modern room will be very well defined with white, green, black and red. Moreover, many decorating ideas free show that is better the less you add to a room. No pillows or blankets on the chairs and sofas and ottomans will or baskets on the floor.
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Interior decorating: the essential elements
Since you are working with fabrics furnished and pre-existing or if you are starting from scratch in an empty room you should always use the principles and elements of design as a guide in choosing everything. The elements are your tools or raw materials such as paint is to a painter. Design elements include space, line, shape, color and texture. Design principles as they relate to use these items, and are balance, emphasis, rhythm, proportion and scale and harmony and unity.
First element: space
The space defines the boundaries and mark the limits to what can be done, both functionally and decoratively. In general not determine the space but will meet the challenge of making the existing space.
Second Element: line
When dialing the spirit or the general feeling of a room, the lines followed in importance only to the color. The lines of the windows should strengthen the dominant line of the room. In most situations the line is straight (vertical, horizontal or diagonal) rather than curve. The emphasis he put on the direction of the lines determined by the spirit to create. Read the rest of this entry »