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American Look: 1950s Automotive, Industrial, Interior and Architectural Design (1/3) (1958)
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Interior Design account / ART Placement #3
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Interior Design Tips - How to Decorate a Formal Dining Room
Dining spaces can be formal, casual, or a combination of both. Many traditional homes have both a formal dining room and an informal eat-in kitchen.
When planning for a remodel of this area, whether you're converting an existing space or adding on, consider:
The size of your family
The number of guests you typically invite to dinner parties
The types of occasions when you'll use the room.
The traffic flow and especially the proximity to the kitchen for serving meals.
These facts will help guide you in planning the size of your dining space, the layout, and the furniture you'll ultimately choose.
Your dining room is also a great space to store extra-large serving pieces that don't typically fit into your kitchen. Whether you incorporate built-in cabinetry or individual storage pieces, make sure to provide enough clearance for cabinet doors to open fully. When planning lighting, consider all the uses: dramatic enough for elegant dinner parties and bright enough for your kids' birthday parties.
10 Tips To Consider When Designing A More Formal Dining Room
Add character in your dining room by adding simple wood panels, moldings, or beams on your ceiling.
For a more traditional feel and layered look, install some paneled wainscoting and beefy crown molding around the perimeter of your room.
Increase the size of your baseboard by adding another piece of molding to the existing material to make it look chunkier and more substantial.
If you're lucky enough to have hardwood flooring beneath that old green carpeting, then simply re-finish and stain it in a deep rich tone.
When renovating your dining room, check the plans to make sure your existing furniture will fit back in to the new space.
Rectangular dining tables are best suited for rectangular dining rooms. If you need to seat 8 to 10 people, the recommended room size is a minimum of 10'6" x 15'.
Square dining spaces look fantastic with either square or round tables. Rounds are my personal favorite as they provide for a much more intimate dining experience. For 8 to 10 people, the recommended room size for an 8 ft. diameter table typically is an 18'6" square space.
Provide a focal point in the dining room either by enhancing an existing fireplace or creating a new vignette by introducing a beautiful hutch for storage, and flank your favorite piece of art above with a pair of colorful lamps.
Use a combination of light sources. In addition to a central fixture or chandelier, it's tremendously effective to add some recessed halogen light fixtures to highlight artwork, or any other key pieces-and your crystal and silverware will sparkle like diamonds.
Hang your chandelier anywhere from 36" to 42" from the tabletop (from the top of the table to the underside of the fixture). Keep the diameter of the fixture 9"- 12" smaller than the width of your table.
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Basic Interior Design and Dining Room Furniture
There are some prerequisites you need to go through before you can select the dining room furniture that will suit your tastes and life style. It's important to remember that when you learn some basic interior design principles, implementing formal dining room designs that include the right furniture will be much easier. There are several aspects that need to come together to create a well-balanced room with a centerpiece that is carefully thought out and selected formal dining room furniture.
Balance
It doesn't matter what kind of room furniture you're looking for. Balance is that feeling of equilibrium that a room gives off regardless of which dining room chairs or formal dining table you've selected. There are several things that you need to consider what you're striving to create a balance and these include:
* Color. Too much of one color will throw the balance off and that's often the case with harsh strident colors as well.
* Pattern and Texture. It's important to keep in mind that patterns and textures are just as important as colors and on top of all the other features that you will need to consider to get the best formal room furniture, these are three things that you'll need to keep in mind.
Although there are three different kinds of balance that you need to concern yourself with, a symmetrical or formal balance is the one that most people consider when they're looking into formal room designs. In a symmetrical balance, one side of the room mirrors the other so that one side doesn't draw more attention than the other.
Here's a good example. After you look online and find that you like a contemporary dining room furniture set, when you get the pieces home and set them up in your dining room you can attain a formal balance by putting two chairs on each side if you have four altogether.
As you might have guessed one of the other kinds of balance is asymmetrical or informal. This means that the elements of the interior design are balanced without exact replication. As an example here, you might have three wall paintings on one side of a country dining room table and only one on the other.
Finally a radial balance is carried out when there is a central point to the room like a round dining table.
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Eric Ross Interior Experience: Butler dining SUMMARY
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Interior Decorating Ideas For Small Dining Rooms
Are you looking for decorating tips for your small dining room? You have come to the right place! A small dining room can look cozy while at the same time provide a place to enjoy a nice meal with friends or family. It can even be used on a daily basis to make mealtime with your immediate family a special time. These home decorating ideas will make your small dining room unique and interesting.
A good place to begin is with paint color. You may want to use a monochromatic paint color. So if you are using, for instance, tans, you would have two or three shades of tan that would go together and look very nice. If you want a little more color, you can combine different colors, but just make sure they are the same intensity.
For even more color, use blues and greens of equal intensity. They have a soothing effect, and you can get away with using a little more color by using blues and greens even in a small room. If you want a very soothing color in a small dining room, use pale blue. This is a color that you can live with for a long time, and I really don't think you will get tired of it.
If you would like to add drama and depth to a small dining room, paint one wall in a deeper, intense color. It may only be one or two shades darker than what you have on the other walls, but it really helps to add some depth to the room and makes decorating the room that much easier.
Another way to maximize space in a small dining room is to use a table with table leaves. Because you obviously can remove those leaves on an everyday basis, the table can be smaller. Then when you have company or you have more family members at home, you can put the leaves in, and you have room for everyone at the table.
Also, a table with drop leaves is excellent to use in a small dining room because the leaves are right there and are not stored in a closet in another room. You can just put the drop leaf down when you want the table smaller and then put it up very easily when you want more places at the table.
Don't be afraid to mix large with small in a dining room, such as a small table paired with a large mirror or some type of large server. It gives style to the room and also gives the sensation that the room is more spacious than it really is. It also adds a focal point to the room.
วันเสาร์ที่ 24 กรกฎาคม พ.ศ. 2553
Furniture and Interior Decoration
Home Sweet Home, this is something people love to say affectionately for their lovely homes. Everyone used to have some dreams about a perfect house their dream house. People arrange several things to decorate their homes. They take help of Interior Designers, expert painters or architects to make a wonderful and best of the best homes.
Home Decoration
To decorate their home people use several things, some important and some decorative materials only. Furniture's play vital role in interior designing of homes, and these are a necessity for every person. Every part of home needs special furniture like Bedroom, Living Room, Drawing Room, Study Room, and Kid's room all section has different use and importance. Therefore, the furniture should be different for all these different subsections, specially designed to suit your needs exactly.
Furniture Market
The furniture market is being bigger and bigger than ever. The demand for furniture is increasing. People want latest, customized, durable, and stylish furniture for their home to make it unique and more attractive than their neighbours do. The demand for antique furniture is also there, but limited to a particular class because of their costliness.
Earlier furniture market was based on the work by local carpenters only. People used to order them in advance for customized furniture, else used to purchase readymade furniture. Later by the time, the trend changed bit by bit and currently there is huge market demand for designer furniture. There are several well-known designer furniture manufacturers engaged in designing and making furniture according to customers demand, their budget, ease of use and convenience in mind.
The Design Concept
Design is very important in current fashion mad world. People always go behind design of furniture. No matter, how exclusive or durable the materials are, they will not buy a single piece of furniture if design is not suitable to their mood. Therefore, design is the most important aspects. The trend is to use wooden furniture, although teakwood, and sandalwood is also popular but they are very much expensive. Plywood is being used frequently due to its lightweight and humidity and fire resistant nature (present in select types).
If you are also going to build a home for yourself, its time for you to decide about your kind of furniture specially designed to your own home.