Interior Decorating by Room


The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
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Category Checklist:
Make sure to consider the latest Home Improvement products and services. If you are doing the work yourself or planning on working with a home improvement contractor use this checklist below as a guide to review and ask questions about the preferred products, details, and installation techniques related to:

Interior Decorating by Room:
Decorating Bedrooms, Decorating Dining Rooms, Decorating Guestrooms, Decorating Home Offices, Decorating Kitchens, Decorating Living Rooms, and Decorating Other Living Spaces.

Tips on Interior Decorating by Room:
Think Scale, Texture, and Color. Remember with color to carefully consider both the ‘chroma’ and the ‘value’. The chroma could be grey/blue but the value is the density of the color so it could range from light in contrast to the other colors in the room to dark. Consider making a sample board that has swatches of color and fabric to see of the whole room works together. Don’t forget to carefully consider how the room works with natural light and at different times of day. Too often people see a photo in a magazine and assume that the stylistic look will work in their home. The photo could be of a room twice the size with a ten foot ceiling and a wall of southern French doors on the opposite side, and that may not match your situation.

The size and ceiling height of a room both contribute to its scale, and one of the keys in selecting the right furniture is to understand the scale. Many people focus first on style, color, and texture, so scale is an often overlooked consideration during the furniture selection process. Avoid falling in love with just one piece and buying it before you look into the other pieces for the room. If you have the opportunity to design an addition to your home, draw in the furniture to the scale of the floor plan or ask your architect to draw in the major pieces and even the side tables. You can easily find dimensions for every type of furniture online and if you are re-furnishing existing rooms, you can use the bright blue wide painters tape to quickly layout the sizes and see if your ‘strategy’ works before spending all of the money for the room. Then have some fun picking the style, color, and textures of the whole room.

Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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