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Dezine Tip of the Day - Curing Clutterbugs

December 25, 2007 – 6:17 pm

Dezine Tip of the Day - Curing Clutterbugs

Curing the clutterbug!
What is a Clutterbug?
A clutterbug is a compulsive collector (or hoarder) who can't bear to put worthless things in the bin (garbage)or throw anything away that is broken. They feel secure with all their possessions around them, and this means a dusty cluttered home interior. At first glance their rooms look like a garbage pile, but digging deeper they are often well ordered just very busy and crammed full.

How to fix a clutterbug?
Action 1 - pretend you are about to move home. Take everything out of the rooms. (Do this one room at a time or the clutterbug just won't cope!) Give the room a good scrub and clean. The clutterbug won't recognize the room or realize just how big the space is!

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Lighting Dezine Tip of the Day - Lighting Considerations

December 22, 2007 – 3:05 pm

Lighting Considerations

Think about the light in a room before you start planning, visit a few rooms and physically look at the space and see if the lighting works, sit down and try and read, look at the walls, are the paintings highlighted, does the room have movement and focus.
Light in the room requires contrast and/or shadow or else it will become bland. The room will feel flat and lifeless and there will be no focal point and it will not be functional. This applies to your home interiors but in commercial situations lighting is far more complex and often a studio, office or classroom will require a bright overall ambient light for concentrated work.

For more information on lighting planning for your home

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Dezine Tip of the Day - Interiordezine.com

December 20, 2007 – 8:18 pm

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Color Dezine Tip of the Day - Using Accent Colors

December 20, 2007 – 7:15 pm

Color Dezine Tip of the Day - Using Accent Colors

Accent colors are a great way to liven up a room. Often people are too scared to add colors, patterns or textures to a room, but by using them as accents you can gradually layer them around the room until you get the right amount of detail to the space. This can be done by using the most popular accent items, cushions, lampshades, area rugs, curtain tie backs, artwork, or throws.

Dezine Tip of the Day - Door Hardware

December 17, 2007 – 5:37 pm

Dezine Tip of the Day - Door Hardware

A practical item in interior design, but one often left to chance an allowing the building contractor to specify is door hardware. We are so busy thinking about how the interior will look that we forget that we need to be able to get in and out of the doors and make the space secure. Door stops are specified even less and are a vital part of door hardware as they protect your walls from the door handle bashing through it. A little tip when specifying these is to ensure that the doorstop is long enough to stop the door before the handle reaches the wall!

Dezine Tip of the Day - Fabric Color Fastness

December 16, 2007 – 10:43 pm

Dezine Tip of the Day - Fabric Color Fastness

To find a completely color fast fabric, you would be looking for a very long time. Some fabrics change uniformly, so their color just pales and is only noticeable to you, while others will darken or become streaky, some just fade where they are exposed to the sunlight. The process that the fabric is dyed will often contribute to the level of colorfastness, so learn a little about how fabric is dyed so it can help you make decisions on choosing the best colorfast fabric you can for your project.
Find out more about color fastness and fabric dying here

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Color Dezine Tip of the Day - Wall Color Changing Look and Feel of a Room

December 12, 2007 – 9:38 pm

Dezine Tip of the Day

If you want to spruce up a room, and only have a small budget, then painting walls can completely change the look and feel of a room. Using the existing soft furnishings and decorative elements in a room and the wonderful tools of technology, we have shown just how different a bedroom can look simply by changing the wall colors.
This isn't much of a tip but the photos in this article will definitely give you loads of ideas and inspire you to make big changes for small dollars!

View the photographs and tips of changing wall colors in a bedroom

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Color Dezine Tip of the Day - Dividing Areas of a Wall

December 6, 2007 – 5:35 pm

Color Dezine Tip of the Day

For selecting colors when you are dividing areas of a wall, use the darkest color to the bottom, this will help ground the scheme and not leave it floating. It is also more pleasing on the eye. This works well if you are using a chair rail, paint the darker color below this.

Photograph example of using a darker color below the chair rail.

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Color Dezine Tip of The Day - The Color White

December 6, 2007 – 12:19 am

White is not technically a color, it is a neutral like black and grey, but we often call it a color to make our lives simpler.

White is probably the most used color in home decorating! Most ceilings today are white, a great deal of bathrooms are predominately white, and a good proportion of bathroom and kitchen fittings, fixtures and appliances are white, probably due to the fact that pretty much everything goes with white.

White is very useful color tool when starting out in decorating or design and have a fear for jumping into using bold color. It can be easy to start with white walls and gradually build up color around it in the soft furnishings and artwork, accessories and furniture. This is the safe way to get confidence using color using white as your starting palette.

For more information on using white and it's meanings and color associations

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