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1. Every room must have FUNCTION. Know what rooms are going to be used for; eating, sleeping etc. so that you can layout the room decor efficiently.
2. Who are the OCCUPANTS? Plan room designs with hardwearing fabrics in mind if you have children or pets.
3. Rooms must have STYLE. This is the distinctive look you want to portray that will give the room decor character. Review our articles for ideas on interior design styles.
4. What MOOD do you want to express? Will the interior decor be elegant and sophisticated or casual and relaxed?
5. PLEASING PROPORTIONS are essential to room planning. Furnishings should be in scale to the size (width and height of rooms). A large room would have large sofas.
6. A FOCAL POINT or EMPHASIS provides drama. The first thing you see when you enter a room should be attractive. For unique room decorating ideas, use a favorite antique or have a custom fireplace surround built. No center of interest is like having a patterned fabric that looks the same all over and the same applies when planning the room designs.
7. VARIETY - avoid static designs; An all matching sofa set is boring, add a patterned chair in a different style tie the dissimilar pieces together with color or pattern.
8. BALANCE - is unity through the careful arrangement of dissimilar interior design elements. Balance the visual weight of the room decor through asymmetrical, symmetrical and radial arrangements; a large black ornate fireplace may be balanced by a symmetrical arrangement of large red sofas.
9. HARMONY - Rooms should flow together especially in open spaces to give a sense of visual continuity. Select interior design elements with a common characteristic. If you have red on your walls try repeating it in the cushions in your sofa.
Planning rooms need not be a mystery. Apply these principles of design and interior decorating ideas to room designs so that you will have comfortable, exciting and balanced interiors.
