Interior Design and placing art in your home
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Interior Design and Placing Art in Your Homes.
Use art in your living space to establish mood and create a relaxing atmosphere for you and your guests. The art you choose says a lot about you and your personality, and creates a unique identity for your home.
At the Door County Outpost we can offer you a broad range of styles and designs to choose from, most of which have a modern and bright presentation, sure to lift and enhance the mood of people in your Door County Home.
The living room or family room, where you spend much of your time, is an important room and requires careful attention when contemplating your own interior design project.
Here are a few tips on selecting art that will showcase your interests and make your guests feel comfortable.
1.Start with the walls and identify the specific spaces that you want to fill. Consider paintings or other forms of wall-art that are in scale with the space where it will be placed. (large pieces for large spaces and smaller pieces for smaller spaces).
2.Decide on a color scheme if you haven't already.
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Decide on a mood or identify the one you've already created for the room. Is your living room a formal Victorian parlor? Or an informal space with beach mats and beanbag chairs on the floor for kids to sprawl around on? Having a theme for your interior design will make shopping for art and other home furnishings much easier.
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Look for pieces that complement your theme. For a living room, it's best to avoid anything too controversial - landscapes and black-and-white photographs are fine, but erotica and dead animals are out, unless you really want to make a statement (or put some things away when your mother-in-law comes over).
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Consider incorporating several themes or categories in your Door County home- hang art wall by wall. You might, for example, have one wall with vintage sepia-toned photos and another with small desert landscapes to enhance your designs.
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Frame the pieces well if they're paper, using archival-quality mats and sealing the backs. It's a good idea to match frames, especially for similar categories - for example, cream mats with narrow black wood frames for all the black-and-white photographs; double mats and gold leaf frames for your set of Italian lithographs.
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Make it a point to check your pieces once in a while. Light changes during the year, so something that's fine in December may find itself in direct sun come June - and a piece that's fine one year may take on moisture damage the next year if the backing comes loose.
Tips & Warnings
Make sure to choose appropriate hangers (according to the makeup of your walls and the weight of your pieces).
Red is the canary in the coal mine for art - it's the color that goes first when a piece is getting too much light. If you notice changes, move the piece.
For more interior design ideas in Door County, visit us at the Outpost
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