Home Interior Decoration – The
process of decorating a home in order to make it look good becomes
easier to use and gels well with the architecture. Home interior
decoration provides a certain "feel" to the home; it includes applying
wallpaper, painting the walls, choosing of furniture and fittings such
as light fixtures, and adding decorations such as paintings.
Home interior decoration is
professionally done by interior designers/ decorators and also by a few
architects. There is a distinctive difference between home interior
decoration and interior design.
Home interior decoration is focused
on finishing, such as wallpaper, window covering, furnishings and paint.
Interior design is more integrated with the architecture, and in
addition to home interior decoration involves cabinet making, room
layout etc and host of other design parameters that go into making a
home.
Although the concept of home
interior decoration evolved in Paris and London in the late 18th
century, modern home interior decoration began with Jeanselme in Paris,
Lenygon and Morant in London and Ogden Codman from New York. This
concept of home interior decoration has gone through many trends and
discussions. The current trends of this industry is to discover
innovative ways to decorate on a budget mostly shoe string.
The whole objective of home interior
decoration is to functionally improve the home and make it reflect your
tastes and personality at the same time rendering it unique. A big
challenge, nevertheless, undertaken by artistic scientists.
Homeowners spent approximately $175
billion in the year 2003 to improve their homes. About 65% of this can
be attributed to home interior decoration. The new trends indicate most
spending on expanding kitchens and livening up bathrooms with new
fittings. Current trends also indicate that emphasis is being given to
creating specialty rooms and areas for individual members of the family.
Growing in popularity are massage suites, spa areas, media space, craft
rooms, wine cellars and home library areas. Even though luxury is a
synonym for space, most small home owners are eagerly using home
interior decoration to create definition areas for each individual.
Colors are also undergoing a new
preference towards earthly, natural and warm brown tones from the
vibrant and loud colors of the past. Blue and gray hues are preferred
today over dull reds and dark blues of the past.
Innovative home interior decoration
ideas, which cost less but at the same time giving the impression of an
ornate design scheme are in vogue for new career professionals and newly
married couples.
The new trend of Life-styling has
given home interior decoration industry a boost. This has given rise to
eclectic decorating styles which include High Tech and Shabby Chic
replacing the good old Victorian or Early American.
Focus has changed to harmony and
function compared to uniqueness and good looking. Rightly so, since
uniqueness can never be 100% and neatness has always been good looking,
which can be brought about by good functionality.
