Choosing a Theme for your Home by Joy Ofili-Yebovi

Decorating your home is a very significant part of your personality. Whether you are decorating a single room or your entire house, you will need a theme to guide and help you focus on your likes and dislikes.  You will also learn the elements that will help you achieve your dream room or make your home express your very unique taste. With the market full of products, finishes, colors, decorative elements, there is really no reason for anyone to be stuck with a home decorating theme that does not capture his or her unique style.  If you have not identified your particular style or if you are uncertain about how to start, here are themes, from Simplinteriors, that can help you get started.

Shabby Chic: This are looks that incorporates all white interior walls, floors, and ceilings accented with vintage items resting on distressed furniture. Soft pastels bring focus and offer a more feminine feel to the design.

Swedish Style: An eclectic look is created through a trendy approach called maximalist, which means to make the most of a small space. Vibrant colours are used to create focal points throughout the room that beg the visitor to examine each piece more closely.

Contemporary: Noticeable design features include solid colors with contrasting properties. Furniture has sleek, straight lines with sharp corners. Few accent pieces are used, which leaves a clean and open look for visual appeal.

Classic Contemporary: Softer colour contrasts highlight the art on the walls as the visual emphasis. Rounded furniture lines offer an appealing and warm setting that draws the visitor to sit and rest awhile. Colours are complementary instead of contrasting

Funky: Bulky, comfortable chairs set against the stark lines of tables with metal legs. Every element is clean and visibly interesting. Colours are often in the chairs

Traditional: A formal home setting is the most appropriate choice for this style. Choices between many time periods create a sense of timeless tradition in a home that is decorated in the traditional sense. Colours include the jewel tones in coordinating hues. Silks, brocades and satin are the prevalent fabrics used in this style of decorating.

Eclectic: As the term conveys, the Eclectic decorating style is varied and can develop into a room that resembles any number of the other decorating styles. Colours are strictly up to the taste of the person who will live with the interior décor. Most people who choose this style do so because they enjoy certain aspects of all the other styles.

Garden: Most homes decorated in the Garden style will have a sun room full of plants built onto an exterior wall. The use of live plants inside the house is accompanied by landscape pictures. Colours are vibrant and natural to bring the outdoors into each living space.

Asian: Use of space is central to decorating in the Asian style. Leaving the middle of the room open is essential to convey the openness of heart valued in the Asian cultures of the world. Colours are close to nature and bright colours are used in focal points around each room.

 

Joy Ofili-Yebovi is a furnishing and design expert. She is the founder and managing director of Simplinteriors and Décor, one of the leading office and home furnishing company in Nigeria. If you need assistance with furnishing or redesigning your home and office, then call Joy Ofili-Yebovi on +234 803 201 7258 or email:info@simplinteriors.com. You can also visit the company’s website: www.simplinteriors.com. Also catch up with Joy Ofili-Yebovi on Home Connect 360, every Friday from 4:30-4:45pm on Smooth FM 98.1