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10 Ways to Add Mood and Character to Your Rooms
Implementing shades and colors with experimentation of tones can install a good ambience in your home. Here are some great ideas how to lend mood and character to your rooms at home
Set multiple colour tones
If you experiment with two complimentary shades of colour palette in your dining area and living area it would greatly enhance the depth and the character of the room and you can even go minimalist with the decor too. Deeper shades gives warmth and paler shades lightens up the rooms.
Add the Antique touch
Your living room could be a lot cosier if you add the warm Victorian touch through grandfather clock or a high Back rest chair against the fire place or even go quirky with classic chesterfield sofa and tufted armchairs, with vintage family pictures frames all across the walls.
Create natural focal point
It could be the mason crafted fire place a marble old world mantle piece with family china and memorabilia. The idea is to have a living room which is not consumed by a huge grotesque TV or a game station. Even a glass aquarium or your personal book collection placed on wooden racks is a fabulous idea to lend character to your room.
Personalise your kitchen
Even if you do not regularly cook it is no reason your kitchen cannot reflect your personality. Instead of going by industrially manufactured and fitted kitchen you can get some elements like the gas range or refrigerator from which are vintage and has its own quirky touch to your monochrome mechanised kitchen.
Go rustic
Yes the shelves and panelling even your dining table top could be of wood which is rustic and beautiful in its own imperfect way. Stay away from the over sleek polished granite counter tops and dining tables; they are boring as well as mechanical.
Put your best stuff forward
Use all the open shelves and cabinets to show off your collations and pretty memorabilia. Be it books in your study designer knives and wine collection in the kitchen. While the utilitarian stuffs can be shoved in drawers and closed cabinets. This makes your rooms functional as well as prettier.
Reclaim and Recycle
A vintage copper pot or old faux Chinese vase can be repainted and re modelled for different use or even for just aesthetic purpose if you put a bit of imagination to it, just think before you throw it away. Remember your junk can be somebody else’s treasure!
Lighten up!
If your internal decor is of darker shades then make avenues for more sunlight and natural light to stream in by strategically placing the window panes (they must open outwards rather in wards or have sliding doors instead of traditional ones, with glass panelling instead of wood.
Choose vintage silhouettes
A claw foot tub in the bath will give it an archaic look but not necessarily make a big hole in the pocket either. As acrylic made vintage baths are custom made which are lighter (100 pounds) and can be carried up to any floor of the house.
Use earthy textures
To lend character to your rooms such as the bathrooms or bedroom, you can have custom made vanity drawers and shelves made of salvaged wood, use bean baskets or crates for storage. Brass and copper can be great for kitchen fittings as well aesthetically fabulous.