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Home Design
The Inspiration
As you plan your
interior decoration you will gradually find you have one vital, indispensable ally: your
own taste. You may perhaps have felt timid about this in the past, awed by the
extravagance and imaginative range of the professional interior designers; but think of
them as your resource, your bank of ideas and creativity on which you can draw.
Concentrate first on fine-tuning your own reactions to interiors. Every time you walk into
a room, even one you know well, ask yourself to identify the handful of things you like.
Look through every book and magazine you can find, and be critical: note down the colors
that continually seem to appeal to you, the little touches that seem to make all the
difference, even the vague `feelī that you find your like. You will find yourself gaining
confidence in your own ideas, your own likes and dislikes.
This section looks at the less tangible, more subtle
aspects of your interior decoration: the architectural shell itself and the part it can
play, lighting, objects and collections used decoratively, and finally the soft
furnishings. It is these elements that will in the end say the most about your taste and
your style.
Whatever your circumstances, donīt be afraid to pitch your
ambitions high. Be inventive, creative, imaginative as you pore over books and magazines -
then try to think of ways in which you adapt an idea you like so that it is both
affordable and realizable.
This Tip was excerpted from:
Conran’s Do-It-Yourself Home Design by Jocasta Innes and
Jill Blake, Portland House, 1987
ISBN # 0-517-05071-4
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