home bargains…

Happy Monday, hope it’s been kind to you all. This week I thought I’d share 8 tips to help transform your homes. Simple yet effective, these can give your rooms the wow factor.

TIP ONE – if you have lots of small items going on say a shelf or console table, for them not to feel little and messy place them on a tray. It will make them look and feel way more important.

TIP TWO – use books as part of your decoration.  I do this a lot, books add pattern and texture but not only that you can place things on them which will vary the height of the display.

TIP THREE – talking of varying the height, if all your objects are the same height it will read as boring. We want tall things next to small things, medium things next to tall things, so use books to add height – a lively rhythm is basically what we are trying to create.

TIP FOUR – no gaps. I repeat, don’t style a shelf, table or console table with lots of gaps in between, it’s so boring. Think of your vignette in a 3 dimensional way and cluster things together (remembering to vary the height). When you put small things next to tall things you will get that negative space that is so important in design and yet it looks way classier than placing a vase then a gap, a painting then a big gap, a mirror then a gap. There is NO visual interest with gaps.

TIP FIVE – bring in something tall. Mirrors, paintings, flowers, anything with a tall vertical,  it will automatically give you that lively rhythm that I mentioned above.

TIP SIX – light your focal point, where ever you have a surface put a lamp there, not only will it cast a beautiful glow it will softly enhance your vignette.

TIP SEVEN – vary the texture with your accessories in the same way that you would with your furnishings. Glossy with rough that sort of thing.

TIP EIGHT – groupings of odd numbers are more pleasing to the eye than even. That’s a fact!

Hope you find these tips helpful.

Shelley x