Recipe for a beautiful home

What makes a recipe a success? A recipe is a success when it has the right balance between various elements it makes and the required punch, the spark and the spontaneity! So, what exactly makes for a delightful recipe for a home beautiful and manageable home? Here are the steps to a delightful home:

1. Mix and stir the decor of your room

Having a coordinated space takes away more than half the burden of creating a beautiful home. Choose colours for your home decor wisely. Curtains, sofas, walls, doors, paintings, accessories, table runners...everything should have a coordinated look. No colour should overpower the decor, if different colours are being used...they should hang well together. Choose your style!

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2. Throw in some accessories

Add some new accessories to your home. Throw the old ones and bring some fresh accessories to your home. Some artworks, new pots, beautiful paintings, fresh and bright curtains would work just fine to renew your home decor. Accessories really refresh the way your house feels. In low budget, you can find some great accessories for your home. Mixing and matching is the key to decorate your home in less expenditure and more style!

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3. Add some light to taste
When the question is about beautiful look and home atmosphere, warm lighting plays an extremely important role. Lighting changes the mood of a person completely. A decor can appear warm, inviting, lax, casual, formal, glum..anything depending upon the lighting of the place! So choose your space's lighting properly. Lamps, hanging lights, chandeliers, overhead lights etc. are some of the great options you could explore from!

Choose lights- bright or light, of different colours and kinds...as you would like in your home!  

                                          

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4. Garnish with green

Greenery in your house has a really relaxing and out of the world impact on your system and your mind. Having a garden really helps in creating a better atmosphere around you. Bring home some plants for your interiors as well and use them to accessorize your home interiors. A garden with beautiful plants growing fantastic flowers and different shaped and coloured leaves looks absolutely fabulous. You could always have a quiet time with a cup of coffee in your garden, amongst your plants to feel and rejuvenate yourself on and off!

                                              

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Just follow the simple steps above and your beautiful and fabulous home is ready!!! Enjoy :)

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Discover something new with your home interior design

If you don't feel comfortable in your home just because of the interior color and other elements, it's time to take a look at your home interior design. What is home interior design? It refers to make over of your residential space including designing and decoration of your interiors with means of painting, window covers, flooring by using granite, Italian flooring etc. In simple words, it is all about your creativity, skills, money, effort and time and loads of intelligence you put to enhance the overall look of your home.

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Your ideas and imagination play a crucial role in making your home interior design a successful one rather expensive paints, modern finishes, and rich textures. The interior design should be like that is very much suited to the individual living in. This is why your own involvement is utmost necessary. Home designs vary from person to person such as an old age person would select a different color them than a young individual.

Always remember that the design of your home interiors mainly depends upon your personal preference and taste. Some people prefer calm and traditional themes whereas some like to make it more elegant and modernized look. It is suggested to keep comparing the various prices of different furniture, flooring, lighting fixtures, paints etc to keep yourself satisfied about selecting the best.

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Before you start implementing your ideas, do checkout the advantages and disadvantages of specific products you wish to use in your home interior design. The quality of material you choose eventually decides the money you spend on interior design. By carefully selecting the materials, you can save huge sum of money easily. By hanging your family pictures, you can easily add a personal touch to your home décor ideas. However, if you wish to preserve old things of your grandparent's time, make sure you keep them in a separate room otherwise it may give an old-fashioned look to your interiors.

Today most of the people prefer earthly, natural and warm brown tones from the past colours which used to be quite vibrant and loud. Blue and gray hues have replaced the dull red and dark blue.

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Home Sweet Home

A home is where you belong. The feeling of belonging comes from feeling of knowing and association. Association with home comes from the memories of the moments that one spends and has spent throughout in that place called home.

When one moves into a new house, it becomes a home when one spends moments of togetherness, sharing and caring with the family members and the loved ones. A house is a home when sentimental value gets attached to the architecture.

The sentiments are associated with the time that one spends in one’s home through times that are joyous, times that are unhappy. There may be times that are beyond smiles and tears. Words can’t always express what one feels with one’s loved ones in one’s home. 

                                         

What really makes home more special and ideal? Or should we say that special and ideal home adds on to the sentimental value that one may attach with the place to call it home? It is both. If one feels happy and warm thinking about one’s home, if one’s home is a happy place to be in, then home becomes ideal with the mind associations that one has. These sweet and warm feelings towards one’s home makes one try a little extra to decorate one’s home in a way that speaks a ton about oneself. Being in a space that home speaks of you and you reflect your home is what makes it special. It is true otherwise too. For instance, if one decorates one’s home with a lot of thought and a lot of understanding as per one’s taste, the attachment from all the things that contribute to make the home comfortable become high on emotional value and quotient, making the home an ideal place to be in.

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DISPLAY MEMORIES ON YOUR WALLS

Pictures are tokens of the cherishable moments that you once lived and that are now living in the warm hearts of you and your loved ones who shared those brilliant moments of love and togetherness with you. Why not enhance your room décor using the beautiful pieces of those fascinating moments that you have captured as pictures and colouring your walls with Dulux Velvet Touch?

However, just deciding to put pictures is not enough, one has to make sure that picture frames that one chooses, gels with the entire room décor and the wall paints. There are certain basic but important things one has to pay attention to as one sets out to frame the pictures.

Firstly, if you’re putting pictures, then, we assume that pictures have to be the focus item on the wall, right?! Choose Dulux Velvet Touch paint to enhance the glaze on your walls. Create a classy look by adding pictures that compliment the wall paint. So, make sure that you make some changes here and there to fuse the pictures together with your room décor and total home interior in such a way that the picture stands out without looking too distinct or standing away from the rest of your home interior. Also, do not destroy or break the effect of your picture for your curtains’ and other furnishings’ sake. Balance becomes the key when your room décor is in question.

Make sure you choose the glass type for your painting which doesn’t interfere with the colour and quality of your image. You can choose from a non reflexive glass, UV Control glass, Reflection Control Glass etc. to get the best effect of your artwork and pictures onto your home interior.

You can go in for matboards to frame your pictures. Try out newer designs, combinations, innovative cuts etc. to give an edge to your pictures or wall artwork. Rectangular cuts are passé now; therefore, you have more creative options like rounded corners, oval shape, diamond shape etc. when it comes to framing your pictures and artwork. Give your home interior a stylish wall décor using Dulux Velvet Touch paint and beautiful pictures of you!

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