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A Guide to Home Decoration

Posted in accessories, architecture, colours, lighting, soft furnishings by dezignbuzz on the August 1, 2008

These days’ people are looking forward for some great home decorating ideas so that they can reveal their modern lifestyle. Home decoration makes your house look attractive and thus; inspire others to do something of that sort. The basic goal behind home decoration is to provide a certain feel for your house. Everybody wants their abode of dreams and happiness to look good. This is the reason why today, people are searching for home decorators and interior designers to furnish their home décor in their own way. However, a person should follow this method if and only if he is ready to spend a handsome amount of money because this procedure of calling up interior decorators is an expensive affair. If a person is interested in making his home beautiful, then he can do so even without their help.

This article is a guide for your home decoration in budget. People want their home décor to look different and unique. Although, there are many ways to do that but, you should take only one step at a time. Home decoration can be divided into separate categories. When these categories are all combined together, you will get the type of home that you have imagined. These are the categories, which are to be covered for a modern budget home decoration:

Home Lightings: Decoration of your home is never completed until and unless you have proper lighting arrangements. This is a vital step for illuminating your home’s beauty. To adorn the interiors of any house, selecting the right fixtures is a must. However, the feel and requirement of the individual room acts as one of the major deciding factors. As far as your home decoration is concerned, lights play a very important role in this. One can even think of decorative light fixtures and lamp shades. Some of these light effects can simply make you feel relaxed while sitting in a comfortable armchair. There is another favorite lighting option that simply enhances your home decoration. You can select various mood and dinner lightings. Numerous designs and shapes are available in the market. You can just pick the right one, which suits your modern home décor and of course your budget.

Wall colors: This is one of the best ways to give your house a modernized and a fresh look. These days’ people are learning different concepts of wall colors and by applying the same you can also give your home décor a rich feel. It plays a very vital role when it comes to transforming a dull room into a vivacious one. When it comes to trying new and impressive wall colors, most of us are not ready to implement that. You can remodel your house theme and style by adding some diverse color shade. You can select the right kind of wall color by following these tips.

  • One of the best ways to select the right kind of color for your house is to focus on the architecture of every room. You can add some interesting colors to the moldings, window shades, doorways etc.
  • There might be some rooms in your house without any features. To make that room attractive, you can simply paint that wall with some glowing colors and leave the rest. This will automatically grab the attention of the viewers.
  • One can try variety of different colors for the ceiling. Selecting the right color for the ceiling will give your room a larger appearance. There are thousands of color shades out there to choose from.

Home Furniture: This again plays a very important part in your home decoration. These days, people generally, prefer some modern furniture items especially, ones that occupy less space. Modernized home furniture adds a great effect on your home décor. For that matter contemporary furniture is the pride of every home. This concept has evolved greatly over years. There are numerous classy designs available in the market, which have been created by combining the technically innovative materials and of course the different manufacturing methods. Moreover, the stylish and trendy furniture also reveals your modern lifestyle as they are available in variety of different shapes and designs.

Home Décor Accessories: The home decoration accessories have a lot to do with your budget home décor. It reflects the taste and style of an individual and these are very important to add that extra sheen to the décor. Selecting the right kind of accessories and all the above mentioned things becomes a reflection of your persona. There are varieties of home decoration accessories available from which, you can select just the right kind for yourself. Some of them are:

  • Carpets
  • Curtains
  • Wall decors
  • Sculptures and paintings
  • Show pieces and wall hangings
  • Antiques

Thus, you can combine these categories in order to get that real picture of a well decorated modernized home.

Concept of Vaastu in House Doors

Posted in Uncategorized by dezignbuzz on the July 22, 2008

Most of the people use the term vaastu at the time of their new house construction or redesigning of their house. However, many of us might not know the essence of this term. The basic purpose behind vaastu is to actually structure your house in total conformity with the utilization of five basic things that humans are made off, which is Earth, Sky, Air, water and Sun. Therefore, it’s very necessary to design your home in such a way that it satisfies all the essential criteria’s. Before getting this concept done, you first need to understand the in and out of the property. By this we mean that all directions and shapes have to be considered well and then accordingly one can apply vaastu strategies on that. Many of us may not know that even doors play a very important role in vaastu. Our home doors and windows need great attention from this point as they form a very vital part of our house. Moreover, the entrance door of your house has to be given utmost importance, while the application of vaastu to your house. It says that the main entrance door should either be placed in North, East or North East part of the house. This positioning of the entrance door is because of the fact that the god of wealth resides in the north. Similarly, the northeast position is for the god of righteousness. However, the doors in west and south are not auspicious and are not recommend by vaastu. In addition to this the entrance door of your house should always be larger than all the other doors of the house.
This ancient Vedic philosophy of planning and architecture has great significant in our lives. If everything is done properly, it has positive effects on our lives and brings good luck as well. If we go by this method of structuring our house we have to give importance to the doors as well. As per this philosophy the doors and windows in a house should always be in even numbers. For instance the total doors in the house should be either 2, 4…..etc. As far as placing of the doors is concerned, they should always be placed off centered. Vaastu is a very broad term in itself and if we talk about doors then again there are many points that are to be considered. If we talk about the shape the doors then irregular shaped doors are not recommended by vaastu. These kinds of doors are considered inauspicious for the house.
One vital strategy recommended by vaastu especially, for doors is that the main door should always have a threshold. The basic reason behind this is that the threshold is said to protect your house from diseases and other hazards. Furthermore, if you have more than one door in the house then its arrangement is equally imperative from the vaastu point of view. Some of you might need your doors to look good and auspicious. For that matter some of us inscribe images of gods however; this should not be done on the outer side of the house as it may lead to problems. Thus; it’s very necessary to keep all these things in mind. So, if you are planning to restructure your house then this is the best time to get things done as per vaastu so that you bring good luck to your home.