Are you afraid that a professional interior designer will laugh at your home decor or turn their nose up at your ideas when it comes to interior design? Do you think that you need to have a college education or some sort of degree to be taken seriously when it comes to style and space as it pertains to interior design? While you might think that your tastes might not be accepted by professionals or the gurus of design, the truth might be something that surprises you.
Design isn’t about what you learn in a university or a classroom. Home interior design is all about creating a pleasing atmosphere that is pleasant for those that spend time in that space. It could be an office building or a bedroom. It doesn’t really matter. You, without realizing it, have designed your own space at home probably without much thought for all the elements of design. You placed your furniture where you felt it should go and picked out colors and designs based upon what was pleasing to you. You’re an interior designer without even knowing it!
Maybe you’re like my wife, who has a talent and an eye for design and can do amazing things with almost nothing at all. When we were first married, spending a lot of money on home furnishings was out of the question. We took what was given to us and she made our house into a delightful home that many of our friends were amazed with. It’s a gift and she had the simple desire to make our horrible little apartment a more pleasant place for us to spend our time.
My wife would find things that others were throwing away like Christmas garland and the old style Christmas tree lights and weave them into a tapestry of pure delight along with pine branches that she found in the woods close to our house. She would find old things that were discarded by our neighbors like a broken end table and she would throw a colorful blanket that we used to keep our feet warm when we were watching TV over the whole mess. A few cheaply framed pictures of our family, some candles on dished bought at the discount store and our house became a home.
You don’t have to have a huge bankroll to create an appealing design in your home. Everything doesn’t have to be new and while recycling is all the rage these days, old things can be made new with a little spit and polish. Antiques, after all, are nothing but old things that people wax nostalgic over, right? While you women do tend to have a bit more talent when it comes to this kind of creativity, us guys can gather and hunt down the materials that you require and, of course, appreciate the finished product since it’s always nice to come home to a space that is as beautiful as you are.
Money does help when it comes to buying new furniture and when interior design starts to move into the area of taking out walls and expanding doorways. But a little time spent in a thrift shop or looking at magazines and online resourced for inspiration when it comes to interior design can give you the creative boost that you need when it comes to changing the interior design of your own home. Just remember that interior design is all about what is appealing to you and you are your own interior designer whether you believe it or not.
