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- When furniture is modern, it must be simple and comfortable.
- Colour sets the mood of a room. For instance, a farm house could have cobalt blue for the dining area, pumpkin for the living room, soft green for the bedroom and pale yellow stairs and halls. The house can become a living piece of art.
- Don’t try to decorate one piece at a time and hope to finish in 10 years. Have shorter two-year goals aiming for a more finished look, even if you have to make adjustments down the road.
- Get rid of those floral curtains and hang new, solid colour panels with contrasting tape trims. Add a new coffee table or straw rug to take the starch out of a traditional room.
- Walls are probably the first thing people address, but floors have historically been among the richest surfaces. We often create patterns in wood or we design painted borders on floors. A border can be used to frame a rug and ease the transition from floor to walls.
- Use wood sparingly; it overpowers a space easily. If you have wood paneling and wood floors, or furniture all in the same wood, paint the walls or floors and bring in lacquered or painted pieces.
- The simpler the lighting the better. Dramatic lighting is for stores and restaurants. Use lamps instead of overhead fixtures and try and have your lamps wired to the wall switches.
- Don’t buy items for your house while you are on vacation. They seldom look right when you get them home.
- A room should have subtleties of details that reveal themselves over time, not an assortment of attention grabbing tricks that bombard at first viewing but ultimately prove hard to live with.
- Always include opposites – old and new, east and west, large and small, delicate and tough, pale and strong.
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