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Designing the Livable Home

Tuesday, September 26th, 2017

What better way is there to personalize your home than to add a beautiful artwork? Featured here is the Uttermost Accessories Coming Home Hand Painted Art 31318.

Have you noticed how spotless most celebrity and designer homes are? Has it ever crossed your mind that these homes may look great but are not exactly the kind of home that you can live in? These thoughts are perfectly normal. After all, we don’t all live a party-every-night kind of lifestyle.

If you want to start designing a home where a family can live comfortably, then you better start from scratch. Whether your family lives in a small apartment, a townhouse, or a bungalow, you have to commit to begin this project at ground zero.

You could also be a family or an individual who still does not own a lot of furnishings so now you’re wondering how to fill up your space with more stuff. It shouldn’t be surprising that you also want all things vintage or old-looking if you grew up in a traditional home. Rather than take furnishings from your parents’ home, why not invest in your own?

Go ahead and buy your own chairs, decorative items, even your kitchen appliances. One paycheck after another, start buying stuff for your home. Call this your furniture budget or furniture fund. Get ideas from magazines but make the projects doable such as turning a sewing machine base turned into a workstation.

For the major furniture, of course, you have to make a careful move before you come up with your final decision. Remember that you will be living with these pieces of furniture for a long time so it is best to invest in just a few pieces. They may be few but they should be durable enough to last for many, many years.

Little by little, you will soon see that you have built a home according to your liking. It is also a space that you worked hard to design as each accessory or furnishing was carefully thought through.

Featured: Fine Furniture Design’s Hyde Park roundtable. Make your place look homier with the addition of flower vases and greenery.

Stack the Books

A great way to personalize and make your space look lived in is to display some book collections. Have your stack of books occupy a special spot in your living area. This could be at the center of your living room. To have this collection turned into your focal point, hang a lovely piece of artwork above the stack.

Allow a few noticeable pieces to mingle with this art and book shrine. Have a lovely wooden chest displayed in the same room with a few sitting pieces. White walls will emphasize this lovely ensemble to be enjoyed by family and friends.

Invest in Art and Heirloom Pieces

You might have come to a point when you also realized that your monthly paycheck is taking you nowhere. Rather than buy designer clothes or bags all the time, as these are dead investments, find some heirloom pieces that you can place inside your livable home.

These pieces would increase in value and could even be passed down from one generation to another. You can also invest in artworks. Again, these can be passed on to your kids and your kids’ kids.

Keep Editing

It also pays to review your interior design from time to time. Always prioritize the basics and learn to declutter. As you do so, you avoid having a place that has a mishmash of design elements. Instead, you’ll have a home that would always look fresh and evolved.

An example of editing is when you place a bench by the window sill one time then placing it at the foot of your bed the next. Always personalize your space by adding stuff that defines you.

Do you love crocheted items? Then display your crocheted item on a table or drape it on your sectional’s backrest.

There are a million ways to keep your habitat looking new and you.

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