1.)   Wall décor and transfers

Very simple, easy to use and easy to attach, wall transfers are making waves in the interior design world for their ease of use and their ability to transform a room. Take a blank wall in a room of your choosing, and through a small cash sum of around twenty to thirty pounds, you can turn that wall into a statement, a picture or simply break up the monotony with a stick on. You don’t have to worry about longevity much either, as transfers come in different materials from paper to vinyl to give you a long lasting tattoo on your wall that can be easily wiped and cleaned like the rest of your home. Wall décor in the form of transfers add a third dimension to a room and give it depth and feeling, so dot be afraid and get sticking!

2.)   Ornaments

If you rolled your eyes when you saw the word “ornaments” then for sure you are thinking about a cluttered home full of decade old relics that reek of lack of taste and age. You could not be more wrong! Ornaments can be anything from floral arrangements, to photos, to holiday relics which, if done correctly and appropriately can bring life, energy and atmosphere to a boring and quiet room.  The trick in choosing what you display and how you display is by choosing items that are of an appropriate shape, size, style and colour: and this is the rule to follow for photo frames, mirror borders and items like models or faux plants. With these items you can either create a feature wall, or a decoration or simply use them to break up monotonous areas like fireplace mantle pieces and window ledges.

3.)   Rearrange

Very simple, very easy and at no cost at all is the classic trick of rearranging the rooms, and room layout. A very simple way to refresh your home: many people like to remove rugs in the summer and replace in the winter. Swapping around shelving space, moving sofas from one end to the other and organizing storage units and areas do amazing things for your interior design, and the main reason for this is the impact of natural sunlight which changes throughout the year. Dark winters will have an impact, as would like bright summers so rearranging the home to make the best of these natural changes will keep your home fresh, alive and relevant all year round!

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In some ways, then, any room can be a designer interior because the home owner has accrued its pieces and parts over the years and has, in effect, designed the finished outcome. This would, however, be missing the point – which is that the single designing mind does so en masse, and tends to populate the designed space with items either designed by himself or herself, or sources by himself or herself.

It’s a hard trick to pull off, this designing a living space in one go. Most really cosy and comfortable spaces are built by accretion, like the home of a caddis fly nymph: which spends weeks selecting bits of gravel and sticking them to its self-designed house. To try to design a living space all at once is to run the risk of falling foul of the oldest building and decoration law in the business: if you do it too quickly, you’ll realise what you did wrong when you finish and then you have to start again.

This is why, all other things being equal, people who have a designer interior to their home tend to have let someone else do the designing. Because an external eye often has a much greater chance of defining the space in a way that makes sense, than an eye already too emotionally and financially invested in a place is able to do.

Designing a living space may involve designing an overall look and feel for an entire home (obviously with practical considerations dictated by the actual purpose of each room). Or it may incorporate a more room led approach, similar to that seen in old country mansions, where each room has its own theme and flavour. In the latter case, some quite remarkable creations may be found: and it is normally the sheer ambition of the project they embody that remains the only unifying theme between them.

In reality, of course, the everyday designed interior falls somewhere between these two. A home is an odd place – nominally defined by the personalities of the people who live there, but in reality simply a collection of rooms designed to facilitate different living functions. Designing one that flows, then, requires a mind that can overlook the mundanities of each room without forgetting what they are actually intended to be used for.

A designer interior is normally made up to embody a theme through colour, material and image. In some cases it may also employ ornaments and fittings particular to the room – for example shower headsin a bathroom or an extractor fan in a kitchen – to arrive at the style in question.

Designer interiors are normally created to impart a flowing theme to a home or a collection of rooms.

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