How to Decorate a Boring Room

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How to Decorate a Boring Room

Updated April 17, 2011
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House Colors

According to an architect to color your home that will not be outdated, you probably going to be safe with any combination of yellow, blue and white for a long time to come.  It is classic that has already stood the test of time and changing tastes.  Color choice boils down to individual taste.  Go with the colors that please your eyes and make you feel happy, sophisticated, romantic or whatever you have in mind for your home space.  Life is too short not to color your home just right.

 Boring rooms

Do you find your room boring?  Try these magic tricks  of transformation to enliven any boring room shared from the experts:

  • Express yourself.  In your arrangement by decorating your room with your souvenirs, inject your personality.  Your visitors can read who you are, who your friends are and so on.
  • Change layout.  Draw your visualized new arrangements on paper.  If possible remove everything inside the room.  You can have several options, then choose which one is beautiful, exciting and functional and choose the best.  You may not put back all furnishings that used to be there.  You may choose only those that are needed there.  Space limited: Go for diagonal placement of furnishings.  Diagonal placement of furnishings creates the illusion of a larger space, so it is ideal for small rooms.
  • Importance of themes.  Unity of theme is important.  An arrangement can be unified according to mood, style, or color.  In mood, do you prefer a meditative room or a cheerful one?  In style, do you want it simple, formal or elegant?  In color, light colors are serene, bright ones are stimulating.
  • Develop focus. Perhaps an area rug, a chair or a nice artwork can be a focus.  Let the other important furnishings revolve around it says an architect.
  •  Lighting.  Improve your lighting fixtures with correct lighting.  The light from fluorescent light is more soothing than what is emitted by incandescent lamps.  Add aroma therapeutic candles in a lovely corner of a room. Candles can lend a scented glow in what used to be a boring room.
  • Mirror on the wall.  Mirror gives an expansive feeling to the beholder.  Hang a big mirror on the wall.  It also reflects light that will brighten up a boring room.
  • Windows nature.  If there is no window in the room, better add one on the wall facing a garden or any facet of nature.  Windows also let the sunshine in which is uplifting to the mind, body and spirit.  You may hang on the wall a framed pictures showing Nature's beauty if its impossible to add a new window.
  • Indoor plants.  Decorate your room with potted, living plants.  They are not only decorative, their leaves also release oxygen which can freshen up the air inside the room.  Choose indoor plants so that they will not wilt after a few days indoor. 
  • Direct sunlight.  Studies have shown that for some people, lack of exposure to light causes depression.  Taking a sunshine break will give your body a dose of vitamin D, and will act as a disinfectant, killing bacteria on the your clothes and skin according to study.  A few minutes of sunshine on your face and hands each day will produce all the vitamin D you need.  Open your house to the sunshine each morning.  It will improve your health and lift your spirit.

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             Indoor plants

            

             Improve your lighting

            

             Direct sunlight

            

Source:

           Rosana, Henrietta, "Boring Rooms."  Woman's home companion Vol. XXXIII No, 35

           Rose Gilbert, "How to Color Your Home."  MOD Vol. XXXI No. 1413