Find your Perfect Home Decorating Style
Have you just bought a new home? Are you still looking to find your perfect home decorating style?
With the right home style and the right interior design ideas, you and your family will be well on your way to enjoying a home that will fit perfectly into your lifestyle, your climate and your geographical location as well as your own personal preferences.
Decorators, designers and architects have long tried to define styles by giving them identifying names but in the end it really boils down to what you really need, want and admire. For example some people like to mix and match styles. Others prefer a definite distinguishing home decorating style.
If you're not sure how to find your decorating style try visiting new home developments where you can review different styles of display houses and keeping your eyes open for any open houses for sale will also give you some additional creative ideas.
It's definitely in your best interests to explore your options before you part with any of your hard earned cash. Buying and decorating a home is a long term investment for most folks and you want to have a clear idea and a concrete plan of your wants and needs before making any financial decisions.
We have tried to list some of the most popular home design styles and interior decorating styles for you to review. We hope you can discover and delight in finding your perfect home decorating style either in part one or part two of this article.
Bring the Past to Life with a Colonial Style:
When it comes to choosing a home decorating style, older homes have a certain charm that more modern dwellings simply cannot match and those who are blessed enough to live in such surrounds may find that a Colonial style and decorating theme is just the perfect solution.
Painting your walls in slate blues, greys, muted greens, barn red or traditional white will keep your home within the historical context of the early American Colonial era and bring it to life with a wonderful look and feel.
Adding chair rails, wainscoting and garden theme wallpaper to your rooms as well as Ethan Allan style furniture will give you the feel of a very comfortable and elegant New England style home at the turn of the 20th century.
The variety of architectural styles and elements that work well with older homes makes this type of decorating style even more exciting.
Enjoy Down to Earth Living with a Mission Style:
These days many of us are trying to get back to basics, cutting out unnecessary waste and focusing on what is truly important.
The Mission style of decorating lends itself well to these simpler lifestyles, and this style exemplifies the Frank Lloyd Wright architecture and the interior design style which features elements such as fancy candleabras, Stickley furniture, artistic stained glass and interesting
wall mirrors and accessories.
All of these elements combined help to pull the look together and can work equally well in an old apartment or a new home.
The Mission style of home and wall décor is particularly appropriate for country dwellers, but with the right approach this home decorating style will be right at home even in the suburbs.
Show Off Your Style with an Art Deco Design:
Trends in the art world come and go on a regular basis, but the Art Deco
style never seems to get old. This unique form of artistic home decorating style has been around for many decades now, but it always seems to create lots of interest and intrigue.
Hollywood in it's heyday made this style fashionable in the l920's with various shades of green being the fashionable color to decorate walls. Pastel green colored walls made a great backdrop for the rich red and black-framed lacquered furniture that was all the rage back then as well as old very popular movie posters
You might be lucky enough to find some of these original posters to adorn your walls but if not you can find some authentic looking retro reproductions if you want to create your own art deco interior design style.
Decorating your urban dwelling in an art deco wall design style is a great way to showcase your individual taste and style, and many city dwellers are choosing to redo their homes with these unique interior design styles.
Relive a Piece of History with a Craftsman's Lodge, Cottage or Bungalow Style:
If you love to work with your hands a craftsmen lodge or cottage style may be the perfect choice for you.
This unique home decorating style is the perfect choice for country cabins, vacation homes and small town and neighborhood dwellers.
A craftsman's lodge or bungalow style homes have distinctive and unique design elements like wraparound porches, a lot of built in cabinets, shelves and seating, palladin dormers and angled floor plans that add architectural interest.
I live in a craftsmen's bungalow built in l923 in a small community of simple, economical and extremely popular bungalow style homes all built around the same time period
.All of the homeowners in our community have painted their houses in bright and cheerful wall design styles and colors.
Don't you just love the colors of this cute charming and obviously well-loved bungalow home?
Of course you might opt for more of the historical and muted paint colors such as taupes, beiges and creams for your bungalow house.
However, when it comes to wall design styles there's nothing wrong with stepping out of the box and doing your own thing especially with an older home that needs a new coat of paint and some good ole fixin up.
These wholesome and comfortable style homes with their low pitched gabled roofs, wide overhung eaves, stone or wood pillars, some with stained glass doors and windows are heavily influenced by the art and craft movement of the early 20th century.
These original homes as well as the new ones exude character style, and charm and are definitely a step up from your cookie cutter home that dots lots of neighborhoods and landscapes across this great country of ours.
Depending on whether your craftsman's style home is rustic, more traditional or just cozy and comfortable will dictate your choice of interior color schemes, interior design styles, accents, furniture and accessories
Almost any interior design style will fit from country to traditional, mission to colonial with probably the exception of contemporary, will work in these relaxed, warm and welcoming style homes. It's entirely your call.
Whether you are a dedicated woodworker or just a lover of beautiful design, the craftsman lodge or bungalow home decorating style is a great choice.
Bring Back the Past with a Western Design Style:
If you’ve always wanted to relive the old days of the wild west, decorating a room or the entire house in an intriguing western style can be the next best thing.
Whether you go all out with a western themed room complete with saddles, rifles and even a cow skull or take a more subdued approach, a western theme can be lots of fun to design
.
Enjoy the Beauty of Nature with a Coastal Cottage Style:
Whether you live by the sea or just wish you did, a coastal cottage style
or a more modern beach house can be a great choice.
Decorating your home with ocean and beach interior design styles makes even the most landlocked home feel like a wonderful ocean front property.
Start by painting your walls with a color palette of cool whites, or a shabby chic look if you want a more rustic feel, or you could go neutral with a color that matches seaside sand.
Maybe some beachy or ocean style wallpaper might fit the bill.
You can choose furniture and wall decor in watery seafoam greens and of course there's no color more coastal than blue.
In fact, you can make a great color combination by mixing blues and greens together since they are opposites on the color wheel.
If you looking for a New England beach cottage feel, choose wall accessories that have a seaside theme such as a beautiful painting in soft pastel colors that feature images of sand dunes, ligthouses and breezy summer days spent enjoying the sand dunes and the sea.
For more of a beach casual lool and feel frame your art in distressed or whitewashed wood frames.
You can have some fun and impress your guests by putting up rustic wooden or metal plaques with great beachy sayings and or display nautical memorbilia and collectibles on your walls.
A coastal style is a great one for small cottages and seaside homes, and there are many great ways to bring this unique home decorating style to life.
Bring the Beauty of the West Indoors with a Southwestern Style:
You don't have to live in Santa Fe New Mexico to enjoy southwestern
interior design styles.
A southwestern design draws its inspiration from nature with the colors and the textures of the desert southwest as well as Mexican and Indian cultures such as this interesting eyecatching Native Amercian dreamcatcher.
Wall design styles and colors range from adobe red to rich terra cotta to deep maghony brown accented with bright yellow, dusty orange and turquoise as well as the sand colors of the desert.
Other key elements in the home decorating style are clay and colorful Mexican tiles, iron hardware and wall scrolls, wooden beams and archways..
These interior design styles are of course most suited to homes with southwestern architecture, but they can be a good choice for Spanish style cottages and other designs as well.
Show Your Glamorous Side with a Hollywood Regency Style:
If you have always loved glitz and glamour, you may want to consider decorating your home in a Hollywood Regency design style.
Defined by the early movie heyday of the l930's the stars loved to decorate their homes with over the top glitzy lighting, lots of plush
animal skins as well as rich sumptuous furniture and fabrics
This fireplace has a very unique and interesting wall design style with recessed wall lighting and a beautiful gold mirror to balance the overall look and really make a stunning statement.
This unique design style can be used in a number of ways, from the understated elegance of a single piece of fine art to an over the top lavish wall design style that looks like it just came off a movie set.
Of course these interior design styles may not work so well in a country home in the woods, but a Hollywood regency style would be just perfect for a city dweller’s apartment or that big house on the hill.
With so many home interior decorating styles to choose from it is no wonder so many people are taking the opportunity in this challenging economy to spruce up and add value to their homes .
Whether you're house hunting for the perfect home for your family or whether you're looking to update your current home with some up-to-date and exciting home decorating styles we hope we've helped you in your search. With a little imagination and some careful planning you can transform even the plainest spaces into a thing of uncommon beauty and glorious style.
Look for your perfect home decorating style in part one of popular interior design styles.
