Architectaria - Arsitek dan Perencana

Last time we learnt about How to Pull Your Decorating Scheme Together, today we will learn about The Finishing Touches.

Your contractors have left you have a brand new interior, you have placed your furniture, but there is still something missing. Yes! The finishing touches. This is where, less is definately best, so select wisely. You want to create features in the room, not collections.

Here are some ways to finish your room:

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The positioning of artwork in a room can provide balance and interest if placed correctly. A mismatch of paintings haphazardly placed can be distressing to the eye and creates a sense of disorder and disjoints the flow through a room. Therefore careful consideration needs to be used when undertaking this task.

Here are a few guidelines that can be followed to help you:

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Last time we learnt about Furniture Placement Guidelines, today we will learn about How to Pull Your Decorating SchemeTogether.

With all the hard work over, we now need to tie up all the loose ends. Unfortunately, like every job there is the element of paperwork! I’m sorry, but it can’t all be glamor and fun. You must document your scheme, so that everyone involved is following the same path. This is then able to be used to get pricing from contractors and suppliers of products, as well as making sure that you or (your client if you are doing this for someone else) knows exactly where they stand and what they are going to get for their money.

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Last time we learnt about What to Look for in Home Finishes, today we will learn about Furniture Placement Guidelines.

Now that we are progressing well into the field of decorating, and have a solid grasp on getting a design brief, brainstorming for a style, using color well, making fabrics work for you and what to look for in home finishes, we will look at how to place the furniture into you cleverly decorated room. The furniture placement will further enhance all your good work you have done so far.

I will show you how to place your furniture by telling you what not to do!!

The most common error in furniture placement is to place all the pieces around the walls, thinking that it will make the room look larger. Unfortunately this theory is incorrect, and it does exactly the opposite, it makes the room feel smaller and is less usable.

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Last time we learnt about How to Choose Fittings and Fixtures, today we will learn about What to Look for in Home Finishes.

It is important to have an understanding of what interior finishes are, what they are used for, when and where to use them and why. The why is important, as you must always be able to justify WHY you have selected a finish or a product to use. Because “I like the look of it” is not enough. This is the part of Interior Decoration that we get accessed on, as it is what people “see.” It is a complex process of continual questions that we need to ask to ensure that the product will do what we expect of it.

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