9 Brillian ways decorating small house

Posted by DSH on Sunday, September 24, 2006

by D. S. Handayani

Many people that had a small house wished to have the bigger house, but did not have
quite financial yet to buy. While you are saving money to buy a bigger house, why not tried your
imagination to re-decorated your small house.

If you decided to start re-decorate your small house, try these several tips:

1. Clean up
Start cleaning each surface of the house, beginning with the floor, the wall, and then tables.
After that tried to avoid re-decorate the same pattern or the same old decoration. Think about the new one, something you like or unique. If you don't have any idea - think pretty decoration you ever seen or same as your friend's house which is you think it is pretty look.

2. Empty Canvas
Avoid placed more things inside the house that do not have more space.
Try to place the thing or furnitures with the balanced set. Again use your imagination.
Imagine that your room was empty as empty canvas which is ready to be painted with various pictures and colours .

3. The middle part Work
Start to fill up your house at the middle and try to balance the things between, meaning no dominant thing among others. The idea is to create the formation that really was different, including the texture, the colour and the area of the room.

4. In between
Each thing or furniture you have should complement each other inside your house. Just remember that certain furniture should not dominant from others.

5. Choose only what you need
Not each of your furniture has to be the centre of attention by placing too many with details or the excessive style. The philosophy in decorating the house is buy the things you need (in small number) and in good quality.

6. Balancing factor
The Core of house decorating although in the small house in order to looks comfortable and pretty is the balancing factor.

7. Sit down
If you are installing decoration of two painting pictures or the same size pictures in one wall,
you must follow the straight line in room. The decoration picture, the painting or the photograph
that will be displayed can used to covered the creak or bad part of the wall it self. See the result of your work which is better when you are sit than stand. Sit for a while and watch your work, detail and think if it is already balance as you looks it is good enough for you.

8. Acessories
All kind of acessories on the surface of tables in your house looks better if you filled only in the small numbers, which are more beneficial. A unique tray could also put on the table with a small pair acessories just to create symmetry looks on the table.

9. The shelf
If a room inside your house have a table and a cupboard, you could hanging in the wood shelf on the wall to the room. This will make your room more pretty. You could place and manage materials such as ceramics, crystal, and the unique small glasses or books in the shelf.

You could carry out all tips above in stages and not necessary finished it all in one full day.
Because it is possible that each stage tips you have your own idea and imagination in managing things. The things that you feel more suitable and looks comfortable. Sometimes your material must be looked first in the storage room to find it matched.

Although your house in small size but you could feel the extent and the uniqueness.
Try it do not think. Lets your idea plays

Author: D. S. Handayani has many articles for home the interior design and how to decorating home. She always practicing with some the interior designer and decorator people.
Read more her articles collection at http://home-interior-design-tips-article.blogspot.com.