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Interior Design Tips: How To Give a Room a Designer Feel
Have you ever wondered why a room planned by an interior designer feels so different?
What is the thing that you are missing in your home? This mind-blowing interior design tip comes to the rescue.
A room should be planned in many aspects, such a function, style, color scheme, textures, lighting, just to name a few.
But there are two very basic points to start with: scale and balance.
Scale
The scale is the relationship between the piece of furniture and the room.
The basic rules here are a big room needs big furniture while a small room needs small furniture.
Here are some examples of how the size of the piece impacts the whole room, for good or not so good:
If you are redecorating a room at home, ask yourself: Is there anything too big or too small for my room?
Balance
While checking the scale is quite simple, the balance gets more interesting.
Balance is the KEY.
Here are the steps to achieve balance in a room:
- Imaginary, divide the room into quarters and set two middle lines.
- Start with placing your biggest piece -e.,g., the sofa in a living room, bed in your bedroom- on one of the middle lines, based on the shape of the room (avoid blocking doors, openings, or windows)
- This line becomes the axis of the room. The axis need to be balanced: an object in one side of the line, needs another object on the other end.
The Designer Trick
From all the interior design tips you can hear, I can assure you once you learn this one, there is no coming back. You will see it in every space you get into (even your home!)
On top of balancing the axis, this is the trick to get the touch of a designer:
the eye should be carried up (from the floor to the ceiling) all the way to the opposite wall. And again down (from the ceiling to the floor) where another piece of furniture or architectural structure balances the other side.
Hopefully, a picture will help:
The sofa is in the middle of the right wall of the living room (on the axis line). The window above the sofa carries the eye to the ceiling, all the way to the opposite wall, where you find the artwork, and then get down to the fireplace. Great balance!
Now, take a look at this other living room:
This room is pretty symmetrical, but there is lacking something on the left side, under the window. The chairs on the right wall add visual weight on this side, that is not balanced on the left side. Almost there!
The following room is a great example of a well balanced room:
The bed is placed in the middle of the left wall. The upholstered wall paneling carries your eye to the ceiling. The ceiling wood work ties everything together. The window curtains and dresser on the opposite wall balance the whole room out. Good!
Final note
You won’t always work with a perfectly symmetrical room, which makes it easier to find the balance.
Some rooms are harder than others, with openings, doors, stairs, or fireplaces that are not centered. This can be a bigger challenge, but everything can have a good fix.
Do you have any of these axis breakers in your space? Share it in a comment and we can brainstorm solutions!
Still wondering how to achieve balance or which would be the best layout for your room?
Get in touch! I’d love to hear from you.
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