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The rooms in your house should reflect your own personal taste. Three main categories of a rooms décor are traditional, contemporary, and country with many variations. Regardless of the style you prefer, most people lean toward either a casual or formal decorating style. For example, do you want to convey easygoing and relaxed or gracious and timeless?
A formal attitude uses lustrous materials like brass, crystal, marble, dark woods with glossy, polished finishes, such as cherry, walnut and mahogany. Tightly woven upholstery and shiny finish leathers complete this look. Were as a casual attitude creates a relaxed room atmosphere by using matte (non-shiny) finishes and textures. Using stone, aged metals, baskets and textured pottery for accessories.
Casual furniture is usually made from lighter woods like oak, pine, ash, maple and leathers with a matte finish. What makes a room truly comfortable? The answer is more than just great furniture, it’s the right colors, size, fit, positioning of furnishings and accessories. Choosing colors for private areas may be different from those for a home’s more common areas. Warm colors are good choices for the high usage rooms, such as family or dining rooms. Rich jewel tones (sapphire, emerald) lend a more formal tone.
The simplest way to help chose a color scheme is to pick the three major colors from your sofa or drapery and use them as the basis for your room’s color scheme. Then, repeat each color at least three times throughout the room. Add color with throw pillows, area rugs, vases, paintings and other accessories. Try to use these same three colors through out your home. This will tie all the rooms together in an inviting manner.
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