The great number of styles, themes and ideas today available on the market is making more and more difficult to choose the items we wish to live with and to become part of our home.
table { font-size: 10pt;}However, this problem might be
overcome easily: why don't we have fun dreaming our perfect house,
searching everything we need to fill it? Catching it off balance, we can
turn the problem into an opportunity, into the main character of this
never-ending story. The great difference among styles concerns practical
and aesthetic issues, because everybody is attracted by a different
type of furniture, whose design conveys different feelings to each one
of us. After all, the concept of interior design is similar to the
concept of clothing style: we choose the style that suits us best,
whether it concerns clothing or furnishing. We have to understand which
one makes us feel at ease, which one makes a place become our
home.
Once we understand this, we
just will need to indulge ourselves a bit, dream and imagine, and the
house of our dreams will appear: a fairy tale’s house, such as a castle.
Consider antique furniture: it is a style we want not only because is
it beautiful, but also because it is elegant, welcoming and dresses up
our home. In addition, if you agree that “the eyes want their part” and
you are willing to sacrifice a bit of modern technology in the name of
classicism, your home will be easily turned into fairy tale’s castle.
Even in fairy tale’s castles, however, modernity has nowadays arrived:
“classic” does not mean “old” and antique pieces of furniture – unless
they are not really antique – can hide the same technological features
of modern styles. The purpose of the antique furniture is, after all, to
highlight the past, the abundance of details and a studied, but never
simple, beauty, usually desired by who feels nostalgic for past times
and is attracted not only by the look, but also the idea of antique.
For example, a classic design
for a bedroom, with baldachins, draperies, carpets and commodes,
decorates and personalizes the room, rich in harmoniously distributed
details and filled with items giving pleasure to our sight. The most
utilized color is natural wood: fine woods like cherry, walnut,
mahogany, brier gives life to our furniture, with elegant and natural
grains as an essential part of the decoration, not covered with paint,
but, on the contrary, valued.
In addition, the interior
design for studios will give us the same joy: not only desks and
bookshelves, but also chairs, arm-chairs, carpets. All of them decorated
and made of wood, filling our eyes with a sense of non casual beauty.
It is true that beauty is never casual: in certain cases it is more
hidden, in others it is showed off. However, it is certainly not a
simple beauty, the one of antique furniture: simplicity is not a word
that suits this kind of interior design; beauty and preciousness,
instead, surely are.
If the interior design problem
of your house can become a game, then...have fun!
