HOME ACCENTS

Creating your new home interior can be a challenge especially when you are bringing together his ideas and her furniture or vice versa. After you have narrowed down your selections of furniture for the room, wall coloring, and a theme you can begin to put it all together.

While developing a theme for inspiration can make things easier to decorate a room, there is a flip side of going too far - over accessorizing can overwhelm the room. Keep the tone of the room simple and choose home accents that will have a piece of your theme in it but don’t do too much of one thing. For example, a garden or floral theme, you could go crazy with florals on wallpaper, accent pillows, carpets, pictures etc. There are so many floral design ideas out there that you just have to know when to stop! However, by taking a few of the florals you can use them sparingly in the room like an area rug, or throw pillows and floral arrangements. Keep solid colors in the wall coloring, the furniture and soften the rest of the room with antiqued metal based lamps with off white lamp shades. The room can be elegant, subtle and a match for both him and her.

If you are stumped on how to decorate your new home, check out home decorating or home design books, watch HGTV for ideas or hire an interior decorator to help see your vision more clearly.