13 Effortlessly Modernising Home Design Tricks.
Sometimes designing your home can be daunting, and creativity doesn’t come naturally. Luckily, we have broken down the 13 most effective home design tricks anybody can follow!. These house design tricks can help you easily achieve that desired modern home.
1. Natural Light
Nothing compares to the benefits you gain from natural light filling up your room. Not only is it beneficial to your health and mood, but it illuminates objects in different ways. Therefore it is important that you acknowledge the line of light each individual room has whilst decorating. I suggest playing around with the placement of your staple objects in that line of light to see how light reflects off and onto objects.
2. Open Plan Designs
Open plan designs are a perfect way of creating a more sociable living space. You don’t need to extend to create this free-flowing dynamic it can be created using your existing structure by altering the positioning of the walls. An open-plan design will allow more natural light to enter the room, creating a happy sociable area for families and friends to congregate.
3. Pendant Lighting
Pendant lighting is a successful way of refreshing the interior of a room as it has multiple different advantages. Its functional advantage is that it provides a focused light source to any given area, which is especially useful when cooking! On the other hand, it can be very aesthetically adventurous and further add to the art in the room. Whilst choosing what pendant style lighting you want to go for, take into consideration whether you want it to stand out against the rest of the rooms entire as a visual art piece or whether you want them to blend in.
4. Wooden Additions
If you are concerned your room lacks warmth, try adding some wooden furniture/ objects. This will deepen the textures In the room whilst exploring characteristics of the interior.
5. 70 – 30 Split
Have you ever heard of the 70-30 interior design golden rule? If your a beginner at designing and are not sure where to start to follow this rule and you can’t go wrong!. 70 – 30 design split means when dressing your room you should keep 70% of it in one style (for instance traditional) and a further 30% should be modern. This way it keeps your interior fresh and allows you to keep it evolving with the times.
6. Rule of Three
A great way to designing your home is by grouping objects e.g cushions, vases, candles, pictures and plants e.t.c in numbers of 3. This perfectly odd number may seem strange but to the eye, this attention to detail leads guests to look at the whole picture rather than just two symmetrical objects.
7. Large Plants
Plants are a really easy way to fill the room up with life and energy. They also make a really nice decorative feature to your home, that can be placed in hallways or entrances.
8. Add Panelling to the Walls
Panels on the wall used to be a thing of the past until it came back into the trend with a modern facelift! This popular new feature is so easy to recreate and can revamp any run-down wall that may need refurbishing with a touch of detail.
9. Eye-Catching Accessories
Don’t be afraid to dabble with your colour choices for your room’s accessories. Another tip is to consider accessories with a shine to them as the light can catch the object in different areas further highlighting it.
10. Tonal Shade Accessories
The power of layering tonal shades in a room is surprisingly more than you would expect. This little interior trick is perfect for bringing the room together with a polished indefinite theme. If you’re not certain on this idea to begin by just layering the cushions and see how you get on before changing furniture/curtains to match.
11. Add Some Wall Art
By adding some stand out art to the walls of every room, you will change the dynamics of the room, creating more colours and dimensions to the room whilst modernising it with a fresh image to compliment the area.
12. Play with Scale
Use your furniture and accessories as statements by incorporating large statement pieces in your designs. This playful technique is perfect for adding dynamics to the rooms aesthetic.
13. Spot Light Lighting
Have you ever considered spotlight lighting amongst your home? It’s a perfect way to draw attention to specific areas such as art or the wall, of cabinet features and contents. That’s, not the only advantage, as they also provide an extra light source to rooms that cant retain lots of natural light.
At ABM our team of experts will be able to guide you through the unfamiliarity of designing your home. Check out our case studies to see how some of these home design tricks have been successfully carried out. Or do not hesitate to contact us to see how we can help you.
