Interior Designers. How To Become One.

by: Allison Thompson



In this day and age more and more people are looking for individuals to help enhance the interiors of either their homes or offices and certainly if you decide to take up a career as an interior designer the world seems to be your oyster with regards to employment.

There are a number of reasons as to why becoming an interior designer is a good career move, firstly is the freedom that is associated with it, especially the freedom for you to express your own creativity. Certainly many interior designers find that being able to imagine and then watch that idea unfold before them as the work is carried out is the most rewarding part of their career. Also it provides you with a chance to meet new people and in some cases you may find yourself traveling as well (especially if you become successful). Also another reason why many people find a career as an interior designer both exciting and alluring is the chance of becoming their own boss.

Certainly the benefits that this career will provide to you seem quite vast and also there is the added benefit of the possibility of earning a good salary as well (in some cases it can be as much as six figures). But not only this may you well have the chance to visit some of those beautiful homes that you are always looking at in magazines.

Now if you then decide to be an interior designer for businesses, then the types of businesses where you services are likely to be required can be either in Hotels, Restaurants, Spas and you may find that your help will be required by an art gallery.

You will soon be surprised at just how little training is required to become an interior designer. There are many training programs available but these are not always required when taking up a career in interior design, but they may help to increase your chances at becoming successful. In some cases there have been suggestions that you don’t need any experience, but it does help. But at the end of the day all that is necessary to make this career worthwhile is a little reading, lots of creativity and bags of willpower and determination to make it work.

How to Change a Rooms Dimension using Wall Pictures

by: Claire Bowes


The Basic Role of Pictures

Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create the ambience of a room. By cleverly placing wall pictures in certain ways, you can change and create a new look and feel in a room.

The role wall pictures play in interior design are:-

pictures, mirrors or other ornamental accessories on walls help make the room look 'lived in' and they also inject your personality into the room;
color pictures and prints help connect with the rooms accent;
pictures help absorb noise in a room, otherwise a room with totally bare walls will sound empty and will have an echo;
pictures and prints can help enhance or change a room's 'look and feel'.
How to Lengthen a Room

If you have a small room in your house, you can easily achieve the illusion of length. This can be done in two ways. If you like bold statements then simply paint a couple of horizontal lines in a bold color across the middle of the wall in which you want to lengthen. These lines then naturally create the illusion of increased length in the room. An alternative way to do this, and a more subtle way, is to use pictures.

By strategically placing art pictures or photographs with any kind of strong horizontal line in the print, can accomplish the illusion of length. For example, if you chose two or three long rectangular pictures with horizontal panoramic prints such as "http://www.landscape-pictures-n-posters.com/beach-pictures.htm" ocean & beach pictures, fields, or scenic "http://www.landscape-pictures-n-posters.com/mountain-pictures.htm" mountain pictures, then this will help extend the length of the room naturally.

Two, three or more of these horizontal landscape pictures will give the maximum impact you are looking for to help lengthen a small room. Also bear in mind not to overdo the room with furniture. Too much clutter makes a room appear smaller.

How to Broaden a Narrow Room

If you have a room which is a bit on the narrow side, there is a simple strategy to make the room appear broader. All you need is a tin of paint,a wall mirror and a large colorful wall picture.

Get your tin of paint, which should preferably be a darker contrasting color to your other walls, and paint one of the walls with this darker paint. Find a colorful and lively large painting and hang it on the wall you have just painted - colorful "http://www.flower-pictures-n-posters.com/flower-pictures.htm" flower pictures are ideal for this.

On the wall adjacent to your picture, hang a decorative large mirror. What has happened here is that the mirror reflects on the large picture, and the additional darker color on the wall has immediately given the room some much-needed depth. This combination will then make the room appear wider.

By adding these simple additions to your narrow room, you have instantly created a balance in the room's dimensions giving the sensation of additional space.

How to Heighten a Low Ceiling

Rooms with low ceilings give an oppressive feeling, whereas rooms with a high ceiling give a light and airy feel with a large amount of space. To overcome the problem of a low ceiling, there are a couple of interior design strategies to use.

First of all put down a darker floor covering, whether it be a wooden floor, carpet or lino. Paint the walls with a lighter color than the floor, or use light colored wallpaper. If you can, use white paint for the ceiling as this always gives the room maximum light and instantly draws the eyes upwards.

Hang up wall pictures with strong vertical lines as this then gives the impression of height. Use portrait prints such as vertical landscapes, i.e. lighthouses, trees, cityscapes, or floral prints such as flowers in a vertical vase or tall long stem roses. Therefore, by combining the dark floor, light walls and ceiling and portraits prints, all adds to the sense of height in a room.

Summary

Art pictures and prints play an important role in home decorating for several reasons. They do not only reflect and put your own personality into the room, but they can also help as a solution to change the look and feel of a room by giving the illusion of height, width and length. This can easily be achieved by combining wall pictures, contrasting colors and decorative mirrors.