5 Simple Tips for Restyling a Room

Above: Large Suffolk Cross Dining Table

Do Your Homework

Before you start, make sure you have a good idea of the look and feel you want to achieve for your room. The internet is great for browsing for inspiration. Pinterest especially comes into its own when you’re looking for room ideas, furniture trends, themes and real-life visuals of how to pull everything together and you can create a board for each room you’re renovating or each theme you want to mull over. Take a look at our Pinterest page to spur your creativity: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/furniture4yh/

Make sure you spend at least a couple of weeks thinking things through before embarking on your project and imagine the end result alongside the other parts of your home. Will it blend in effortlessly or will it look so different from the rest of your home that you’ll need to renovate other rooms?

Study the Natural Light

If there’s plenty of natural light in your room, such as in the picture above, colour choices are much easier although do bear in mind that sunlight will fade natural wood. Most of us though are not lucky enough to have such large windows or French doors and the light will change throughout the day, depending on where the sun is. This offers an opportunity to divide your room into zones, depending on the activity that will take place in that part of the room, with each zone taking on a variation of the same theme. (More thoughts on zoning below.) If on the other hand your room is lacking natural light, it’s best to avoid dark colours, which will make the room look gloomy.

Consider Zoning

If the lighting in your room varies throughout the day, (and this is true of most rooms), you might want to consider zoning according to the light. Is it more important for example, in a combined dining and sitting room such as the one below, to eat in good natural light or to sit in it? This decision will of course also be influenced by the available space. The use of colour can help to define the different zones although care should be taken not to employ too many colours, in order to avoid a cluttered appearance. We would recommend no more than three colours for the entire room; a main hue, which can be reflected in your upholstery; a contrast; and a highlight.

sunbury-collectionAbove: Sunbury Collection

 

Try Out Colours

A good method of trying out colours and working out which of your favourites go together is to pop down to your local haberdashery store and seek out fabric samples to take home. The colours in the fabric will have been chosen by designers to work well together so that part of the job is already done. With the fabric samples at home, you can see what they look like in your light, in your room, and decide whether or not those colours are for you. If they are, you can have paint mixed to match the samples and carry them with you when browsing furniture, to help with your selection.

Remove Clutter

When your project is complete, your room is refurbished and your new furniture is in situ, don’t be tempted to put everything back that was there before. Instead, go through your belongings, item by item, and see whether or not your ornaments, pictures, mirrors and knick knacks actually sit well in your new room. If they don’t, consider selling them on the internet or take them to the local charity shop. Items put into storage areas like the loft rarely make an appearance again so it’s always best to clear out as you go along.

scandic-solid-oak-furniture-collectionAbove: Scandic Oak Furniture Collection



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