5 tips for decorating your home for the first time

Rashmi Jindal
Jul 20, 2017 · 3 min read

The adventure of having an empty house in front of you and filling it with your own style and your energy, where do you start?

It is very difficult when you face your new house completely empty, without furniture, without anything. A thousand doubts arise: What style? How do I choose colors? Why room do I start? All together? Little by little?

For those who already have their home ready, do not stop reading it because it is always good to know a tip that allows us to make our house more comfortable and beautiful.

Where to start?

When you plan to decorate your home for the first time it is a good idea to start with the living room. It is the most important place in the house — where you spend more time — the place where you enjoy to rest for a while and where you meet with your family and friends.

The essential furniture can not miss: the sofa. Then the auxiliary furniture, textiles, accessories, etc. will arrive.

How to choose furniture?

To decorate the house for the first time is necessary to go little by little. Do not buy things that you do not know how to fit, or how to make them all work together in a space that seemed bigger than it really is.

My advice is to live the house a while before buying the furniture. Obvious that is not comfortable, but I assure you that you will save money and the result will be much better.

Once you have more idea of ​​how your house is and you have inhabited it for a while, buy the most important furniture and always with the subway at hand. Then he adds pieces little by little, but without filling you with things. I distributed the furniture well and left enough circulation space between them.

Functionality or aesthetics?

Always first the functionality. And here I have to do a self-criticism. I am very buy for esthetics and husband hates to do that! And he’s right, the important thing is to feel comfortable, because that makes life easier for us. If we shoot with a sofa but we do not feel comfortable, then we keep looking until we find the functionality and the aesthetics in equal parts.

How to choose colors?

Neutral colors, bright and clear: for walls. You will never go wrong. If you want to give a more trendy effect, paint one of the walls of the room in a darker color, but only one.

Strong color for accessories, much easier to replace if you get bored.

Another thing, the warm tones go better in the living room, the entrance and the living room. For the bedrooms, the colors are more relaxed and relaxing.

illumination

This point is very important! It is necessary to give much ball to the light as much natural as artificial.

and decorate your house with 3D Illusion Desk Night Light LED

The natural, we must enhance it. Never cover windows with curtains of heavy fabrics. It seems obvious, but I tell them it’s more common than you think.

If you have nice windows and a nice view, do not close the curtains. Another thing that also seems obvious, but how many people do it.

Who is about to decorate your house for the first time? Those that already did, would they add some other tip?

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