Home furnishing & interior design ideas

Furnishing an apartment - contemporary style living room

To create harmony and comfortable interior in an apartment, it is necessary that everything is planned on paper first. As experience shows, it is better that the sketching of the interior design is divided in separate levels in considering the fundamental rules in each of them.

Arranging the space is the most complex and in the same time the most interesting stage of the preparation. As smaller is an apartment as the imagination of the designer has to be bigger. For example, if you have very small rooms, you do not have to block their space with wardrobes, it would be better to move them in the corridor. Use additional lighting and mirrors to make the space more commodious. To form a clear idea of the type of furniture you could buy, take the dimensions of the floor, doors, windows, walls etc.

The next stage is choosing the colour. This question has to be examined really carefully. Competent using of colours in decorating could bring good psychological effect. Every colour has precise energy – it could make comfort, stimulate, inspire or even calm. Pay attention to the orientation of the rooms before you make your final decision about the colour – if they look north – use warm tones; if they look south – cold tones.

Style. Obviously classic styles such as Baroque and Victorian are suitable for spacious houses with high ceilings. Their characteristic features are heavy architectural elements which could be difficult realized in confined city apartments. These styles envisage also leaving big voids, which is too irrational for an apartment.

Contemporary Living room interior design

Suitable styles for an apartment are:

Modernistic: Its characteristics are cold colours of the water and air, floral patterns and geometrical figures, and neoplasticism also – the so called “alive” architecture. This style is inspired by the technological home equipment and is represented in different forms – for example, sofas with screwy or asymmetric long drawn - out design are so typical for this style as sofas with strict geometrical form and long backrest.

Art deco: The use of sweeping curves is typical of it – straight or with sharp returns, which look like realized graphics. Ornaments and decorations of the furniture have triangular, square, round or zigzag shapes. The most used materials in the furniture in this style are metals – stainless steel, iron, bronze.

Living room elegant table

Minimalism: It is characterized by use of most necessary elements only. The space would be not elaborate in reason to be made impression of “alive and breathing” home. Bright colours are used mostly, lightly contoured with black or grey. Materials are rude and natural. The shapes of the furniture are simple and extra conveniences like pillows on sofas are not characteristic.

High technology style: Interior like this is created by combination of space and light, propagandizing aesthetic form of materials and their structures. This design is typical for industrial buildings where metal constructions and technical devices are exposed. Synthetic materials combined with stone, glass and metal are used in this style. The absence of any decoration forms in the interior is compensated by the type of the furniture with unique design, made of plastic and other unusual materials. This style is hardly suitable for small city apartments because it makes economies in the space with its few elements in the interior.

Finally – the eclecticism: Few people today furnish their entire homes in only one style. Bold combination of some disparate styles separate in different places in the apartment – this is the new characterization of the conventional standards in contemporary design.