Thursday, May 10, 2007

Interior Design-Decorating

Interior decoration or Interior design as it is formally called is an art of decorating a house or any specific room. Making it look attractive, comfortable, easy to use and very much beautiful. There are many kinds of interior design from simple kitchen design to a whole flat or outer home designing. The work may involve any thing or all of decorating walls with wallpaper and other stuff, painting walls, furniture and fittings, lighting arrangements, flooring, carpets and other decorating accessories.

Interior designers may perform following activities among other duties and responsibilities.

  • Research the requirements for any interior design project, using drawings and diagrams.
  • Develop a file of samples that highlight end result to be with styles and colors they would use.
  • Drawing a floor plan for the room they will be designing.
  • Confirm whether space plans with designing concepts meet public health and safety standards.
  • Create and organize a budget for the needed decoration. Some times the client may give a specific amount of budget and make you decorate what every you can in that price.
  • Selecting colors, materials, furniture and fixtures and other designing equipment.
  • Create a contract for the project documenting all the pricing.
  • Create a schedule of the steps and the things you going to do.
  • And implement the process within the time constraints.

If you plan to do the decoration of your home by yourself. Just know its hard work but still can be achieved if you stick to your selected schedule of work. Select the room which you consider to decorate mostly bedrooms decoration or decorating kids room. Remember the persons taste and personalities their favorite colors and living patterns. You can go for a complete theme based room or a well decorated room which caters to the needs. Get to know what the local industry is offering its better to keep up with the time and use the latest techniques, equipment, furniture for the design.

If you don’t know any thing about the designing or think you will waste time, and money more in experimenting things then its better to contact some professional designer who will make the job easier for you. It may cost you little more money but will reduce more of your frustration. Its better to always prefer a designer you know and trust.