What is your vision of living? Your design? What would you like to call home?
It’s more than just about the style and comfort; it’s about the overall look, setting, and of course-the mood.

How can you define it? Inspiration!
Discover our design tips to help you find what’s practical, chic, energetic, or fashion forward.

Lifestyle Preference
What is your lifestyle preference?
Do you prefer a space with clean and cutting-edge design? Or would you prefer a more traditional approach?

No matter what your lifestyle preference maybe, it is important to first identify which style better suits your needs. You may choose from modern, metro, eclectic, tradition, transitional, or elegance.

Designing Your Space

Floor Plan
When it comes to creating your space, you must start with a vision of your end result. It is very important for you to know what you want. A suggestive approach would be to map your space in order to achieve your objective.

The following step would be to create a floor plan. A floor plan is a “view of your space drawn to scale”. Creating one will help you visualize and strategize your area in order to determine the best furniture arrangement. What you will be doing in that space will dictate how you will furnish it.

Begin by measuring your space from wall to wall. This includes measuring height, length, and distance. Consider the placement of your doors, windows, and other features that may interfere with moving furniture into that space. The floor also needs to be acknowledged. Will you be sitting on it? Will there be pets? If so, consider to make room for a quality area rug.

Finally, use your measurements to draw the room’s perimeter.

Furniture Arrangement

Once you finish your floor plan, you may begin arranging your furniture into your floor plan. Remember, let the rooms purpose decide the décor.

(1) Keep size in mind! Measure the length and width of each furniture piece. Match the furniture to the rooms overall scale.
(2) Draw each furniture piece to scale on your floor plan. You may also color each furniture piece to visualize how color is mixed throughout the space.
(3) Consider how the room will be used and who will be using it. If the room will be used for dinning, plan for extra space and/or seating.
(4) Identify a focal point, or main activity that will take place in the room. If watching television is your main activity in this room, then you must arrange seating within a reasonable distance from the television. Place your furniture to draw attention to it.
(5) Separate a large space into several areas. This can be accomplished with distinct furniture groupings and area rugs.
(6) Arrange the main piece of furniture first (dinning table in a dinning room, or bed in a bedroom) along with the related furniture (side tables).
(7) Consider the poise of furniture. This means to keep pieces of similar in scale.
(8) Remember to allow sufficient space in front of dressers and console to allow doors and drawers to be opened easily.
(9) Accessorize your space. Accessories will make your space vibrant and practical.
Color

It can be difficult to choose the right color pallet for your interiors. Here are a few tips to help you find the right color scheme.

(1) Pluck colors from your surrounding patterns! Observe the colors around you. Whether it is an Oriental rug, or large piece of artwork, pick colors you like from the patterns around you. Once you choose the colors of your liking, look for items that will match under the same color scheme.
(2) Use darker color values for the floor, medium for the walls, and light for the ceiling.
(3) Use the color wheel. Complementary colors (colors opposite each other on the color wheel), provide more definition and tend to make the space more formal and exciting. You may want to use casual colors (blue, green, and beige) in spaces that are for relaxation such as your bedroom.
(4) Use the 60-30-10 Rule. Divide colors in the space into components of 60 percent dominant color, 30 percent of secondary color, and 10 percent of accent color. The walls are usually the dominant color, furniture is the secondary color, and accessories will make up 10 percent of remaining color scheme.