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When it comes to decorating our homes, we all have our own tastes and preferences regarding how to get started, and where we hope to end up. While there are universal rules that make interior decoration more sensible (just as we have them for getting dressed, to use a worthwhile comparison), often, the sensibilities of our creativity is the only limit we have.
However, it’s also true that certain priorities that surround the idea of home decoration can also define our choices. It might be that we love color, for instance, but we don’t wish for a small space to seem cluttered or oppressive, so we opt for a minimal approach instead.
Or, perhaps we love decorating with ornaments but know that having too many on the mantlepiece will only cause them to look overly busy and cluttered, which is never a good thing. Allowing a home to breathe by understanding that less is more is important, but what if this leads a room closer to feeling bland and uninteresting? In this post, we’ll discuss a few ways you can make a visual impact without losing out on good sense:
Beautiful Iron-Wrought Doors
Often, the most impressive and immediate elements are the best place to start. This page can show you how wrought iron doors bring so much to a home, from enhancing their security, to offering a beautiful and imposing door that serves to impress and showcase craftsmanship in decoration from the top down. One standout element here, just like a large table crafted from reclaimed wood, or large bay windows, can make a profound difference regarding the character of your property, and helps you stand out amongst your neighbors.
Feature Walls & Focal Decorations
A feature wall can help a home look absolutely beautiful in its own right, and if painted properly, can help you gain the visual addition of a nice, darker color without making the entire room look oppressive by being painted that way on each wall. A focal decoration too, such as a beautiful hanging piece of wall art, a large-frame television mounted to the wall, as well as a gorgeous wood-burning stove fireplace can add beautiful light to a space, and are worth your renovative efforts.
Bold Decisions Based On Practicality
It’s good to make bold decisions from time to time, but perhaps you can offset a little of your indulgence by making these decisions thoroughly practical, too. For instance, it might be that your bathroom feels too small based on the needs of your family, and the fact that your children are growing now. Tearing out your bathroom fixtures, then, like a bathtub and shower unit, and laying the space with sealed tiles, making it into a wet room with an overhead shower, could be a great new visual motif while also giving you more space to shower in. Efforts like that can make a tremendous difference going forward.
With this advice, we hope you can continue to make more of a visual impact with your home.