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Contents

Introduction

Interior design feng shui

Discovering Your Interior Design Style

The Use of Colour (Color) in Interior Design

Space Planning: The Step Beyond Interior Decoration

Modern interior designers at work

Conclusion

Literature

Introduction

Interior design, sometimes called interior beautification or decoration,
is the art of creating indoor areas into spaces that are attractive,
relaxing, and functional. Interior design involves the cautious
selection of items to suit the objective and overall atmosphere of an
area. Many items help create an interior design, including furniture,
lighting, wall and floor coverings, and window treatments.

Many think of interior design in terms of beautifying the rooms of a
home. However professional interior designers often plan and create an
interior design for hotels, motels, libraries, offices and many other
buildings. Interior design projects are also carried out on the
interiors of planes, automobiles, ships and trains.

Interior design feng shui

Combining The Use Of Color and Crystals by Sharon Kasmira Most people
are aware that clear crystal balls are used for specific purposes in
feng shui. They stimulate chi energy and they also cause it to move in
more than one direction. These are pure, powerful magnification of
light, Chi and magnetism. They may be used anywhere, to empower any
positive intention and are especially effective as protection from
intense Sha Chi (negative energy).

Clear crystals should ALWAYS be hung with red ribbon or string cut into
three inch increments. The qualities you wish in a certain feng shui
area may be attracted through the use of these beautiful crystal balls.

Colored Crystal Balls for Feng Shui Purposes:

Green: The color for healing and the life force. (However DO NOT use
around cancer patients because green is the color for growth). It’s a
good color in kitchens (life force and nutrition), “wealth corners” (the
color of money), or anywhere to stimulate money Chi. One client hung a
huge 60 milimeter emerald green crystal at his new business location and
has had steady increase in business since!

Peach: One of the healthiest colors in color therapy it represents
general health, healing and well being (okay around cancer patients).
Many of my clients hang these in their baths (especially effective hung
beneath skylights).

Blue: Use it to enhance a spiritual connection, peace, and stimulate
intuition. Good in meditation rooms to focus energy and in bedrooms
(blue is the color said to help insomnia). Many massage therapists find
it’s energies soothing above massage tables.

Pink: This is the color of love, happiness, and compassion. Good for
“relationship corners” and in bedrooms, especially over the bed, hanging
directly above the heart area, or from a center ceiling fixture. I
always recommend a pink crystal ball in the center of a new baby’s
nursery to radiate love and happiness.

Golden: This represents abundance! Also great for wisdom and
intellectual stimulation. Good to use for activating “prosperity
corners” (some are actually a champagne color to denote luxury),
“wisdom/knowledge corners”, over your desk, or anywhere you’d like the
energy of gold. Also a good color to use for the career position.

Red: The color of fire. It’s considered very effective for lifting and
balancing the energy from computers. These should hang between the
monitor and you, at about arm’s length above eye level. Also very good
for Fame/Recognition (it’s the color associated with this position). Red
crystals are also excellent for blessings, rainbows and joy in your car.

Aurora Borealis: These irredescent crystals are subtle, yet powerful,
rainbow energy to activate Chi in any area. Especially good hung beneath
skylights and excellent in workout areas. These beauties are
breathtaking in the 40-50 millimeter sizes!

Violet: An excellent color to stimulate and inspire mystical, spiritual
guidance and the upper Third Eye Chakra. Violet crystal energy helps
develop insight, strengthen intuition, sense of contentment and peace in
spirit. These also are popular in meditation areas, massage rooms and
bedrooms. Colored crystals can be suspended with clear fish line, beaded
string or any color ribbon or string. Using red, however, is the most
auspicious color in feng shui and is believed to empower crystals even
more! Enjoy!

Discovering Your Interior Design Style

Unless you’ve been lucky enough to build your house from the ground up,
you will at some point be stuck with somebody else’s ideas of interior
decoration. You may decide to live with the royal blue living room and
daisy wallpaper in the kitchen, or you might feel a sudden urgent desire
to paint the house magnolia. Neither solution is ideal, as in neither
case are you permitting your own style preferences and creativity to
find expression. But just how do you pinpoint your style?

One way is to turn yourself into a sponge. Absorb everything you come
into contact with even if it doesn’t seem relevant at the time. I was
once asked to design a bright, colourful and “fun” kitchen for a family
with young children. I poured through design magazines, and visited
countless shops for inspiration. But it wasn’t until I found myself
watching a 1950s Tom & Jerry cartoon on television that the idea struck.
The turquoises, blacks, yellows and pinks of the cartoon looked fresh
and fun. A 1950s-style kitchen with all mod cons was the answer!

There is very little in modern design which is completely new. Most
styles and changes in fashion are amalgamations, adjustments and
improvements on previous designs and trends. Today’s stream-lined
contemporary look harks back to 1930s modernism combined with a dash of
1960s spirit. And, yes, today’s turquoise, yellow and pink toasters,
kettles and lemon squeezers have the 1950s to thank for their design. No
one should blatantly copy the work of others as this is an empty
exercise, but rather mulch together sights and sounds from your
environment to create the style that suits you. Actively seek out
inspiration from museums, stately homes, art galleries, show rooms,
furniture catalogues, magazines, books, films, TV programmes and nature.
Remember the colours, sounds and sights of your last holiday. Why did
they make you feel happy? How can you use these elements to recreate
that contented feeling in your own home?

Start a file in which you can put magazine cuttings. Take photos or buy
postcards of places, buildings, furniture, beaches, sunsets… anything
that inspires you. Carry a small notebook in which you can sketch ideas.
Often the secret to why an architectural feature works is hidden in the
proportion of one part to another. Photographing or sketching this
accurately will be the only way of reproducing this later. The ancient
Greeks were very keen on geometry and used it extensively in their
buildings. Try to analyse why a particular room or building looks and
feels right to you. What are the proportions? Is it symmetrical or
asymmetrical? Are there a lot of decorative features, or is it very
plain? By finding answers to these questions, you are finding your own
style.

Once you have a store of inspiration, you are then ready to source
materials, chose colours and buy furniture that fits your style. Perhaps
you’ve been inspired by a holiday on the English seaside. You’ve taken
photos of the flint houses with their maritime blue trim, the long
stretches of sandy beach with its tufts of marsh grass, the colourful
beachhouses lined up along the shore. Translate these images and
feelings into your own environment by sourcing sofas and chairs in a
relaxed design, upholstered in sandy neutrals; paint your walls with a
creamy wash; let the sun stream into the room with modern voiles, linen
blinds or plantation shutters; accent it all with those beautiful sea
blues and greens. Keep your accessories natural – wood, stone, shells,
flowers. If you stay true to those elements which gave you a sense of
pleasure on your holiday, you will create a happy space in your home.

You may prefer a more formal environment. Perhaps you live in a Georgian
house and want to highlight its elegant proportions. Visit stately homes
of the period, walk through areas of your town where Georgian
architecture exists. Visit Brighton with its light and airy Regency and
Georgian buildings, or Edinburgh with its solid grey stone Georgian
terraces. Consider combining elements of historic Georgian style with
contemporary accents to add freshness and wit to the interior.

The more you explore and make a conscious note of the things that
inspire you, the more confident you will become with your own style
preferences. Always stay open to new influences. Keep your eyes and ears
open. Your style is something which should grow as you grow. Your style
is part of who you are. Why not make it part of your home environment?

Inspirational places to visit:

The Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

The Sir John Soane Museum, London.

Brighton Pavillion, Brighton.

Your local stately home(s).

The Use of Colour (Color) in Interior Design

The biggest influence on the human state of mind with the possible
exception of the weather is colour. We are surrounded by references: “a
red rag to a bull”, “blue with cold”, “green with envy”, “in the pink”.
The psychology of colour and how colour affects human behaviour is now a
serious course of study at universities. Hospital rooms, classrooms,
fast food restaurants and offices are painted in colours to influence
the behaviour and mood of the people who use these spaces. Even the
products on the shelves of your local supermarket have been packaged in
colours carefully chosen to attract your attention and encourage you to
buy. So why are people so hesitant to use colour in their home
environments? Why is the neutral space currently the ideal? Why are we
afraid of colour?

The first step to relinquishing fear in the use of colour is to
understand the psychological effects it has on us. Red is known to
stimulate the appetite – so it’s an excellent colour for dining rooms.
Both blue and green are fresh and calming. They are the colours of
nature and could be popular choices for bedrooms. Yellow and orange are
energising like the sun, so are good choices in rooms where your energy
may need boosting – the kitchen perhaps. Orange in its toned down
terracotta form can be ideal in a home office; it has the energising
effect of both red and orange but isn’t so bright that you won’t be able
to stay at your desk!

Many contemporary television programmes have made a virtue of the use of
bold colours in wild combinations: violet and lime green; turquoise and
red-orange; orange and fuchsia. But be careful about casually throwing
colours together. Violet and lime green will work because they are
complementary colours – they are opposite each other on the Colour
Wheel. Likewise turquoise and red-orange. You would think that orange
and fuchsia would clash, but because they sit next to each other on the
Colour Wheel, they are a colour harmony. It is worth investing in a
Colour Wheel (available from most good art shops) to help you see how
colours sit with each other before you splash out on several gallons of
grapefruit yellow and olive green paint for the bedroom. And really
consider carefully whether a violet and lime green living room is
something you can live with.

This does not mean to say that dramatic colours do not have their place.
Far too many houses are decorated in various shades of beige (I think
“taupe” is the current fashionable term although this is being
challenged by “string”), and the standard neutral colour for new
dwellings is still the veritable magnolia. Subtle, muted wall colours
(like off white and taupe) are fine, and very easy to live with. But
contrast and enliven them with bright highlights in your accessories and
upholstery. Consider a multi-coloured rug, some coloured ceramics or
glassware, vivid prints or paintings, or squashy cushions in jewel
tones. The overall effect will be airy and soothing yet the flashes of
colour can bring in your personality and be your signature touches.

Strong colours are best confined to the rooms that have less usage.
Hallways and cloakrooms are ideal spaces in which to experiment. No one
spends much time in these rooms, so you can afford to be bold. Just
because these spaces may be small or narrow, don’t be afraid of using
vivid colour. Sometimes a tiny cloakroom is just a tiny cloakroom, and
no amount of white paint is going to change that. Why not emphasis its
bijou proportions by painting the space dark burgundy or navy and use
lots of white (in the sanitaryware and towels) as the accent colour? A
touch of aqua might be the finishing touch. Be like a chef – a dollop of
coral, with a swish of aquamarine and a pinch of jade may be exactly the
right recipe for your room. The important thing is to consider the
quantities. Decide on your main colour and then add carefully selected
accents.

Consider the texture of your colours. A bright red dining room can be
toned down by the application of various glazes so that its vibrancy is
turned to a rich burnish. Bright yellows can be colourwashed over a
white base to wash them out. In both cases the original character of the
colour is maintained and only its brightness is muted. Colours can be
layered for unusual effects. A piece of inexpensive pine furniture can
be transformed by distressing it – painting an undercoat of blue, an
overcoat of white and then sanding off the white paint on its corners
and around its handles to make it look like its an antique.

If you’re stuck for ideas when trying to decide what colour scheme to
choose for a room, look at the furniture and objects you want to use.
You may have a painting or a rug that can act as your inspiration. Many
interior designers build up complex colour schemes from just one item.
Look around you – even an old purple vase or the faded red covers of a
collection of books can be the starting point of a whole room scheme.

Have fun with colour. Be brave! Be bold!

Space Planning: The Step Beyond Interior Decoration

Everybody is familiar with the dramatic change that can come about from
simply changing the colour on your walls. But how many people have
actually considered changing the shape of the space itself? Sometimes
we’re presented with problematic spaces that demand solutions. A very
narrow room with a high ceiling looks out of proportion – maybe
installing a false ceiling with recessed downlighters is the answer. A
bathroom next to a WC practically instructs you to remove the dividing
wall. Try applying this principle to an ordinary space as well, one
which doesn’t have particular problems of size or proportion, but which
might benefit from a re-think of the space and how it is to be used.

The past shows us examples of space dividing which may or may not be
desirable solutions for the way we live today. The 1960s and 1970s gave
us plastic and metal shelving units, open on both sides and jutting out
across our living rooms. The style has moved on but the principle is
still useable, except today we would use fabric panels, glass bricks,
chrome retail shelving, or folding bamboo screens to achieve the same
result.

Straightforward square spaces can be given added interest and the
illusion of greater length by incorporating a pair of screens that
mirror each other across the room. These needn’t be large, they needn’t
jut out into the room too far. Their mere presence is enough to create a
space-changing illusion. If the room is high enough, you might consider
building a platform over one end – for sleeping, reading, watching
television. This is an especially effective way of increasing living
space in a small studio or one-bedroom flat.

False ceilings needn’t be permanent. Swathes of fabric can create snug
areas in an otherwise large and clinical room. Or, you might consider
altering your space by changing the floor level. The character of a
large dining/living room can be made intimate and distinct by raising
the level of the dining room. This also offers the opportunity of using
the newly created underfloor space for storage – even as a wine cellar.
One clever architect recently tucked a full-sized bathtub under the
bedroom floor in a tiny flat!

All of these changes (except for the bathtub under the floor) have been
made without changing your structural walls and are usually limited to
one room. Redesigning an entire floor (or whole house) is an altogether
larger project. Cramped and muddled rooms on a single floor can often be
rearranged to create the feeling of more space.

The basic principles of this can be seen in good garden design. A
diagonal line of vision across a square space makes the space feel
bigger. If re-siting a door or incorporating an archway achieves a
diagonal line of sight through two or more rooms, the effect will be the
same. Gardens also use vistas, looking through and beyond the space you
inhabit to an object or space beyond. Creating an enfilade – a
progression of rooms linked together by a succession of doorways or
archways in perfect alignment – was one of the ways the architects of
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries achieved this vista effect in
their design of stately homes and palaces. You might consider borrowing
this idea for your own home.

Don’t forget about mirrors and glass. The early 19th century architect
Sir John Soane adored mirrors and the space-expanding effect they had on
his interiors. His house in London was been preserved, complete with all
its architectural quirks, mirrored ceilings and walls, and interior
porthole windows. Large Victorian mirrors, bereft of the huge mantles
and sideboards over which they used to hang, create an elegant illusion
of doubled space simply by being propped up against an empty wall.

Sand-blasted glass panels, glass bricks, and etched glass are all being
used in creative new ways to help increase light and a sense of space
and airiness in today’s homes. Today’s glass designers can create
everything from glass staircases to glass fireplaces. And this glass
isn’t fragile! It’s tough, strong and beautiful.

If you have a garden next to your room, try to incorporate that space
both visually and aesthetically. Install French or sliding doors to
bring the garden into your home. Increase that effect by using the same
floorcovering inside and outside – sandstone, terracotta tiles or slate
would work well and look great. Even if you can’t install French doors
to make the room flow into the garden, a simple expedient of
sympathetically planted window boxes will help make the garden flow into
the room, especially if the boxes are planted in colours which
co-ordinate with your room’s decor.

Be brave! Make your living space work for you.

Modern interior designers at work

The client’s brief was to refurbish the entire interior to a luxury
modern standard. An essentially open plan feel was obtained by the wide
arches leading from lounge to dining area and from dining room to
kitchen. In the lounge a modern “hole-in-the-wall” fireplace was
installed fronted by slate-topped storage. This was topped with a
streamlined cantilevered shelf.

In the dining room a warm and welcoming wall colour sets off the
contemporary design of the bespoke radiator covers. An air of simple
elegance is maintained by the simple lines of the dining furniture.

The bespoke kitchen continues the American walnut theme set in the
lounge. A glass splashback ensures easy cleaning while the modern design
emphasis is maintained by the stainless steel extractor, stainless steel
venetian blinds and 20th Century design classic bar stools.

The family bathroom again uses bespoke joinery and cabinetry but is
softened by the use of solid oak and caramel coloured mosaic wall tiles.

The en-suite bathroom is a different story. Luxuriously finished in
limestone tiles this room is a pure indulgence. The large frameless
shower maximises the visual impact of the floor-to-ceiling tiles. The
relentlessly modern design sees the dual wash basins sunk into black
granite. American black walnut reappears here to underline the luxury of
the finish. The jacuzzi bath is faced with limestone tiles, thus giving
the room a weighty solidity. The waterfall tap adds a touch of classic
luxury. The bespoke joinery is continued into the master bedroom where
the headboard, again in American black walnut, provides personalised
storage options.

Conclusion

Interior design is closely related to other existing interior features,
such as any special part of a construction, and the style that has been
built into an indoor area. For example, an attractive bay window,
archway, or fireplace may be part of an area’s existing interior design.
If some feature does not suit the planned interior design, new
furnishings may assist to draw attention away from it. On the other
hand, the interior design plan may be used to attract attention to a
particular feature. Before developing an interior design consideration
should be given to what the area is to be used for, the life style of
those who will frequent it, and the available budget for the interior
design. Conducting thorough research of interior design sites is time
consuming. However it is imperative that sufficient research is
conducted before arriving at a final decision. We trust that the sites
on interior design that have been made available for you to go to below
will suit your needs

Literature

1. “The Sovereign”, May 2006. Adrienne Chinn.

2. “The Sovereign”, March 2006. Adrienne Chinn.

3. “The Sovereign”, April 2006. Adrienne Chinn.

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