Best Home Interior

If you have had a home for a while, it becomes dull after a while. This can be fixed with a little paint and elbow grease. This interior decorating guide contains tips and tricks that can tap the potential of any room and bring it to life. You will find painting styles and colors, and decorating techniques.

The first thought should be the scale of work, if the remodeling project involves more than cosmetic fixture replacements or surface interior decorating, it may be time to call in an plumber to assess you in your plumbing and pipe replacement. Homeowner should weigh the pros and cons of taking on an entire bathroom project alone. Admitting your strengths and weaknesses is the key to successfully completing any project on time and under budget.

Your bathrooms represent the greatest and fastest return on your remodeling investment. More than 80 percent of your bathroom remodeling expenses can be recouped within a year of resale. Not every room in the house offers such a return. Amazingly, kitchens are sixth on the list with just over 60 percent of the costs returned. Only bathroom additions beat bathroom remodeling with returns over 90 percent.

Best Modern Living Room House Plans

Best Modern Living Room House Plans

Popular 1935 Modern Living Room in Neutrals

1935 Modern Living Room in Neutrals by American Vintage Home.

This modern living room appeared as part of an article in Ladies Home Journal. The only change I might make would be to pull the arrangement in a bit more to avoid the wallflower phenomenon.

New home design interior decorating

New home design interior decorating

Modern Italian Kitchen Design

Futura Cucine is an Italian company, specialized in the manufacture of kitchen furniture. Futura Cucine offers creativ design and high quality product. One of them is the last set –Giada, modular furniture made of oak. The doors are 20 mm thick oak veneered chipboard with 20/10 mm thick solid wood edge on 4 sides.Unusual furniture of Giada is characterized by elegant and functional design that will stand the transitional fashion trends. Kitchen furniture have clear vision and simple, minimalist forms that create a sense of organization and order in the interior.

Required vision of the kitchen is largely due to modern doors made from scratch resistant veneer that is finished in dramatic black for a strong visual impact. The collection is also available in grey oak, dark brown oak, honey oak and natural oak. The beautiful oak wood is complemented by aluminum panel and accessories. Futura Cucine allows you to customize your kitchen by choosing the color of acidated glass or lacquered glass, colours available: white, sand, orange, coffee, red, burgundy, green, anthracite or black.

At Home and Work with Kimberly Ayres

Kimberly Ayres could have been another casualty of the demise of Domino magazine but since the photos of her home and office were taken by my friend Eric Cahan, I get to introduce you to this Designer to Watch for 2009 instead! Kimberly, like many designers, started out renovating and decorating her own houses while she was practicing law as a way to relax. Luckily for the design world, law was not her calling and as she told me, "friends began to ask for decorating advice and I realized I might have a chance to do something I loved and I couldn't be happier with my career switch!"

"After completing studies at International Fine Arts in Miami and at UCLA in Los Angeles, Kimberly jumped head first into an apprenticeship with internationally renowned designer Kelly Wearstler, and continued her development with designer Michael Lee in Malibu. In 2000, Kimberly launched Kimberly Ayres Interior Design in Los Angeles where she quickly established a notable clientele and reputation for deftly mixing eras and cultures. In 2006, she opened her much admired Kimberly Ayres Home furnishings and accessories store in San Francisco."

In the breakfast room, the parterre and curtain fabric is from Raoul Textiles in Santa Barbara. The table is vintage from Blackman Cruz. The chairs are vintage from Kimberly's friend and boutique owner Gabriella Sarlo. The chandelier is vintage. "For parties, we clear out the chairs and this table becomes the bar," says Kimberly.

The room above is the dining room in Kimberly's apartment. Her description cracks me up! "This apartment was loaded with mirrored walls when I found it. Really scary on a bad hair day. Most were removed, but I kept this one. The artwork is a collage created by Lulu de Kwiatkowski from an Eric Cahan photograph. My all-time favorite ebay purchase is the blue pigskin/suede sideboard. The parson's table and the chairs are vintage. The chandelier is Moth Design from my store."

In Kimberly's bedroom, the bed is from Oly and the lamp is from Christopher Spitzmiller. The wallpaper is the Montague print from Twenty2. The curtain fabric is from Nina Campbell and the table is the Bungalow 5 Jacqui Side Table from Eboniste. The painting is vintage.

A beautiful bedroom vignette close up.

In the guest room, the headboard is custom and the pillow fabric is Christopher Farr - Cloth. Kimberly says, "I love this quilt. It's designed and made by hand by my friend, Michael Pechenski." Moroccan lantern is an ebay find. I think the best thing about Kimberly's apartment is all the new sources and vendors that she has introduced to us all!

Kimberly's desk in her office is by Jonathan Adler but the cabinets and chair are vintage. The wallpaper is grasscloth from Twenty2 and looks like a great alternative to Phillip Jeffries, my usual source. "The french plaster sconce is by Moth Design, one of the lines we sell in the showroom," says Kimberly.

I posted this photo once before and it received a very positive response and now I can tell you that the vintage desk, lacquered in Farrow and Ball Dix Blue, is where Kimberly's lucky assistant, Angel Tasso, sits. The wallpaper is grasscloth in Neptune from Twenty2 while the lamp and chandelier are Moth Design in silver leaf finish. The chair is vintage and the drawing was found at Blackman Cruz.

"This room is in my office in San Francisco. The building is a tiny 1890's cottage in the Design District, serving as both my design studio and a showroom for the furnishings I sell. We carry new lines of lighting, accessories, wallpaper and fabric, as well as all sorts of vintage furnishings."

I think we can all agree that interior designer Kimberly Ayres made a great career switch and the design world had better look out! She's definitely one to watch and I can't wait to see what she does next!

Photos by Eric Cahan

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Home Interior Design

Before you start considering spending your hard earned money on decorators and interior designers maybe you should consider carrying out the work yourself.

You will find it fun and exhilarating , watch your home come alive with your designs and ideas. If you want to redecorate your entire home interior design software might be the way forward for you, especially if you don't want to hire a decorator.

If you're not a computer-friendly person then you might find it a bit difficult to navigate the waters of interior design software. But if you get an interior decorator you might have to shell out considerably more than you can afford.

Which in turn, means that you might have to cut down on some of your decorating needs. Why don't you go for it!

It doesn't be as difficult as you think and can even be downright fun most times. The only time that you'll really get a headache is when you need to do your budget.

After that it's a matter of sliding your way downhill through your home interior design project with hardly any bumps or detours.

Then again, if you're not too comfortable with your artistic abilities and visualization skills you might need the backup of a decorator to help you get things going, or you might even like to stick with the home interior design software.

It doesn't really matter either way how you go about it as long as you get you home interior design project off the ground.

After all there's only so long that you can stand and watch your house fall to pieces around your very ears.

Although that might have been a bit of an exaggeration, if you're thinking about home interior design or remodeling then now's the time to do it. If you put it off now, there's no telling when next you'll be able, or even want to redecorate your house.

And one of the very first things you can do for your home interior design project will be to decide exactly what you're going to do. Are you going to go through the entire house one room at a time or are you going to do only one or two rooms right now.

After you decide that, then you can move on to the next phase which is planning what you're going to do. And this is where the home interior design software comes in handy.

With this little visualization aid you can imagine what your redecorating plans will do to your rooms and make your life just that little bit easier. And in the end that's really what you want isn't it, to make your life easier.

Midnight Shore Flooring

Midnight Shore Flooring

Midnight Shore Flooring

Midnight Shore Flooring

Fossil Palm Mural

Fossil Palm Mural

Custom Fossil Stone Countertop

Custom Fossil Stone Countertop

Home Interior Decoration with Trims or Passementerie

Trims or passementerie are high quality decorative textile bands, which are an easy way to provide detail and smarten up a simple curtain or drapery.

They range from tassels to cords, lace, velvet and ribbons.

The most important thing to remember is to keep the scale, weight and proportion in keeping with the dimensions of the curtain.

To follow are a few types that are available, most come in natural fibers and synthetic fibers, the luxury end of trims are often made from silk or linen. Often rayon or viscose is added to cotton or wool to provide sheen to them.

Braid

Is a woven ornamental trimming that has two finished edges, it is a flat border. It was popular for placing over finished edges of upholstery on chairs.

Gimp

This has looped or scalloped edges and is a narrow type of braid. It is often used to cover over upholstery tacks on chairs.

Loads of trim used on the curtains in this period ballroom.

Piping

Piping Is a product that can be stitched into the seam of a curtain. It is a fabric-covered cord in a pipe like fold over cord with a narrow flange. It provides a subtle detail to drapery and is a good way of introducing a highlight color. It is used extensively with cushions and not as popular with curtains because it is labor intensive to make.

Buttons can be covered in fabric or selected off the shelf, they are used to pull two pieces of fabric together for example a cushion pulled in the center, or create a design - the back of a chair can be buttoned creating a padded look i.e. Chesterfield.

With curtains they can be used with French Pleats to hold the pleat together at the base and create a stunning look if used in a contrasting color. They are often used on tiebacks, and are a decorative feature on valances when used to hold tassels.