Many people opt to hire a painter and decorator to decorate for them. But doing it yourself can save you money and help you put your stamp on your home. 

If you’re a novice, then use this simple guide to help you get your hands dirty and successfully decorate your home. 

Planning Your Design

Before you get down to the nitty-gritty, you need a careful and thorough plan of how you want to decorate your home. 

You might have an idea of the colour scheme you are hoping to achieve. You might have pieces of furniture you are planning on incorporating. Create a mood board on paper or on your phone to plan out your décor. 

Colour Choices 

When you decide to decorate your home, picking the perfect colour can be difficult. The colour of your dreams might not be ideal for the room. You need to consider: 

• The size of your room
• The direction that your room faces
• The furniture you have or want
• The colour your thinking of

Each colour has different shades, which have underlying tones and hues. Are you hoping to achieve a cold space or a warm space? 

No room has just one colour. Furthermore, the paintwork usually incorporates the main colour of the room. But paintwork only contributes to 60% of the room. 

Around 30% of the room uses a secondary colour. Usually, this takes the form of a feature wall, flooring, ceilings, and so on. 

However, don’t mix the colours up too much when decorating your home. Instead, create a cohesive feel within the room, and more importantly, within the home. 

Choose three complementary colours and use them throughout the home to tie the rooms together. Furthermore, maintain consistency. 

Decorate Your Home With Furniture Choice And Placement

Pulling your furniture out from the wall can make a huge difference when you decorate your home. 

Many people think that pushing the furniture up to the wall creates more space within the room. However, this is not the case. 

Moreover, allowing your furniture to float and gravitate towards the centre of the room can help to group the pieces. Allow your furniture space to breathe. 

Decorate Your Home With Light Fittings

Light fittings are usually an afterthought when decorating your home. Make them more centre of attention. 

Using your light fitting as a statement piece can transform the design of your room. Many people would previously opt for chandelier style lights. Nowadays, there’s much more choice.

Moreover, try a dimmer switch in some rooms. Doing so will allow you to change the mood of a room at the touch of a button. 

Introduce Texture and Materials

If you’re looking to add dimension when you decorate your home, add some texture. Introduce a rug to the floor or add some scatter cushions to your sofa or bed.

Furthermore, shapes can also add interest to a room – so invest in a funky coffee table for something more eye-catching or a piece of wall art. 

When adding wall-art or mirrors, choose wisely. If you’re installing them on large, bare walls – they’ll drown in the space. Instead, go big. Add a collage of photos or art pieces to a wall, or invest in a large mirror that will fill most of the space. 

Floating shelves can also enhance a large room, as well as busy wallpaper. 

Summary

Centre each room around a few key pieces when you decorate your home. Furthermore, decorate your home by focusing on colours, materials and textures that tie together.

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People tend to focus on their blinds and curtains when it comes to decorating their windows. But the window sill often gets left out. Our handy guide will help you choose window sill decorations to modernise your home. 

Living Room Window Sill Decorations

The beauty of living rooms is that they sometimes benefit from having bay windows. Furthermore, this means that the windows and sills can be styled with both furniture and trinkets. 

Placing furniture within the bay can make the sills look decorated. Moreover, whether you have a bay window or not, you can place potted plants on the window sills to style the room. Cactus plants are ideal for brightening up a room. 

Alternatively, plants can be hung from curtain rails at different heights to really add to a room. 

If you’re not a fan of plants, why not style the sill with some books or magazines instead and use the sill like a table? 

Kitchen Window Sills

Much like the living room, kitchen window sills are ideal for plants. Especially herbs. 

Moreover, you could grow a small herb garden in your kitchen, or store crockery or spices instead.

Bedroom Window Sills

Similar to the living room, if your bedroom has a bay window – why not make it into a seat with some cushions? Moreover, this would be the perfect place for relaxing with a book. 

On the other hand, you could use the window sill to house candles or photo frames with your favourite memories. 

Bedroom window sills can also be used as a dressing table, storing your jewellery or mirror and make-up bits. 

Bathroom Window Sill Decorations

Bathrooms tend to be small. Thus, bathrooms tend to lack storage space. Where better to store your toothbrush and toothpaste or shampoo and conditioner than on your bathroom window sill? 

Add a few candles to make the ultimate relaxation zone.

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