Some rules of decor which can’t be broken (Part 2)
False statements
Don’t use white color - it requires a special care
Actually, white color always looks well in an interior. It refreshes the general decor; it visually expands the space and shades favorably many colors. While decorating the room choose white materials which can be washed, and fabrics which can be bleached. Make white covers on sofas, armchairs or pillows demountable so that they could be cleaned more often. The only things from what it is better to refrain are white carpets, especially if there are small children or animals in the family.
If you are not sure, than choose neutral colors
Neutral colors: beige, sand, grey, etc. - are really practically combined with any other colors and if you are not sure in your taste, it is better to adhere to neutral colors on the basic scale. And it is not obligatory to avoid black, white, terracotta colors and some shades of dark blue and green - they also can be neutral. So the term “neutral” does not mean “colorless”.
Everything should be combined with each other
Actually, a mixture of styles or colors is not so terrible, as it is usually presented. As freq such mixture is visible only to the professional. In the mixture of different styles the presence of the common line or detail connecting is highly desirable.
Round table requires a round table cloth
You can find nothing as boring as when all the details are ideally combined and correspond to each other. You can even put a triangular cloth (if it only looks unexpectedly and pleasant to you) on the round table.
There should be a sofa, an armchair and a little table in the sitting room
Try to avoid the standard set which necessarily “should” be presented in any room. For example, there should be a place to sit and a place, where to put a cup of coffee or a magazine in the sitting room. It doesn’t mean a sofa and a little table. It is possible to use a podium or a canapé instead of a sofa.
Don’t be afraid of experiments. Break the rules, but at the same time wonder: whether it is comfortable to me in this decor? Whether I can live with it? If the answer is affirmative then you have made a wonderful house.