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Coloring the Interiors – concept selection of colors – tips and guidance for Interior designing and decoration

ACCESSORIES CO-ORDINATION & GROUPING

One of the easiest ways to give cohesion to a group of accessories and ornaments is to pick a theme. It may be a color, a subject, or a similar shape, although the things you collect need not necessarily be in the same style or period. Start with a core of items with some connection and keep your choice flexible. A thoughtful, eclectic mixture can reflect truly individual taste; in a collection of jugs, for instance, a few genuine, antique examples will blend in beautifully with new, reproduction jugs of any period.

Color grouping

Grouping ornaments and accessories by their color is a powerful way to highlight a color scheme. You could choose cushions, lampshades and picture frames in antique, muted soft colors that pick up one of the tones in a rug, carpet or wallpaper. Select your colors carefully: coral ceramic vases and lamp bases contrast well in a smoke-blue living room scheme. In a predominately apricot bedroom, accents of soft aquamarine could be introduced – in delicately embroidered cushions and decorative glass.

Collecting ornaments in the same colors, such as blue and white jars, bowls and plates and displaying them against a matching backdrop brings a welcome freshness. Conversely, a collection of brilliant saffron yellow plates on a dresser can make a predominately cool blue and white kitchen scheme feel sunny and Mediterranean. Large blue and white ginger jars were a favorite early-Georgian accessory offering a welcome focal point and light relief to many heavily carved mantelpieces.

 A pair, or group, of blue and white ginger jars can still do the same for traditional mantelpieces, or use them to bring a classical touch to a modern setting. Covering old blanket chests and screens, small card and wooden boxes and metal wastepaper bins in fabrics that either co-ordinate or blend in with the rest of the furnishings helps to link some of the more disparate elements. 

Extra touches Collections and accessories can be witty and tongue-in-cheek. An assortment of necklaces can enhance the necks of plain glass and pottery vases. A trompe l’oeil painted cat on a fire screen with a collection of needlepoint cat cushions makes an amusing point. If you haven’t much wall space on which to hang all your objects, consider displaying them on a freestanding fabric-covered screen – the panels are perfect for pinning up collections of old Valentine cards and dolls’ hats. Antique toy and games collections can be carefully displayed in special Perspex cases to great effect. Medals, coins, stamps, old pieces of lace and fans can be framed in deep box frames 
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Kids Bedroom designing and decoration with kids Items and play things

NURSERY BEDDING & Ac deep. Use a single thickness of double thickness of lighter fabric. Of fabric for the back panel the finished overall piece. Cut the pockets making the length of a same as the width of the panel, 2.5 cm(1 in) across the top for a ( and 12 mm (! in) turning across Cut sufficient binding or bias cut f the outer edge of the back pane. two loops from fabric or binding storage pockets from the corner cot or from two hooks on the back Turn under a double 12 mm across the top of each pocket. Turn under and press a 12 mm allowance across the lower edge, three strips across the front of the spacing them evenly apart. Ta down the sides and across the Top stitch in place.

 Mark the pocket across the strips, and tack marked lines. Top stitch in place, the end of the stitching at the pocket by sewing a few stitches in Position binding around the 01 the front panel, making a pleat at to form a neat miter. Position the strip for the corner loops between and fabric at each top corner. Stitch enclosing the sides of the pockets J across the end of the loops. Turn to the back of the panel and stitch edge in place by hand or machine. 

For deeper pockets, allow an (1 in) for each pocket along the strip. Turn and stitch the top hem: seam allowance under along the before stitching the strip in position stitching lines for each pocket deep tuck on either line. Make similar tucks 2 cm end of the pocket strip. Tack the tucks in place. Position across the back panel and stitch before, so that the ends of the tuck by the base stitching. Remove bind the edge. Turn under 2.5 cm down each long edge of the binding, position on the inner side of the quilted panel, with the raw edge of the binding 2.5 cm from the edge of the panel, right sides together. Stitch along the fold line, making tucks to turn the corners.

Turn the binding over to the outside of the quilted panel and slip stitch in place by hand or machine just inside the previous line of stitching. 3 Make up ties by turning in 12 mm (t in) down each long edge and then folding in half. Press and stitch, turning in the ends. Stitch the center of each tie to the appropriate point on the outside of the binding by hand. Do not make the ties too long; if they were to come untied, they could become entwined around a baby’s neck.

 POCKET STORAGE A simple fabric pocket storage system, hung on the back of the door or at the foot of the cot, can be used to store baby-changing equipment or small items of clothing. Decide on a suitable overall size for the storage system: about 60 cm wide by 100 cm deep is suitable for most needs. Plan the size and number of pockets: the instructions here are for three rows of pockets across the width of the panel, 30cm. 
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Kids Bedroom accessories and Interior designing and decoration at home


NURSERY BEDDING & ACCESSORIES deep. Use a single thickness of chintz, or a double thickness of lighter fabric. Cut a panel of fabric for the back panel the size of the finished overall piece. Cut three strips for pockets making the length of each strip the same as the width of the panel, and adding 2.5cm(1 in) across the top for a double hem, and 12 mm (t in) turning across the bottom. 

Cut sufficient binding or bias cut fabric to bind the outer edge of the back panel, and make two loops from fabric or binding to hang the storage pockets from the corner posts of the cot or from two hooks on the back of the door. Turn under a double 12 mm (t in) hem across the top of each pocket strip and stitch. Turn under and press a 12 mm (t in) seam allowance across the lower edge. Position the three strips across the front of the back panel, spacing them evenly apart.

 Tack in place down the sides and across the lower edge. Top stitch in place. Mark the width of each pocket across the strips, and tack down the marked lines. Top stitch in place, reinforcing the end of the stitching at the top of each pocket by sewing a few stitches in reverse, position binding around the outer edge of the front panel, making a pleat at each corner to form a neat mitre. 

Position the ends of the strip for the corner loops between the binding and fabric at each top corner. Stitch in place, enclosing the sides of the pockets and stitching across the end of the loops. Turn binding over to the back of the panel and stitch the folded edge in place by hand or machine.  

 For deeper pockets, allow an extra 2.5 cm (1 in) for each pocket along the length of the strip. Turn and stitch the top hem and press the seam allowance under along the lower edge. Before stitching the strip in position, mark the stitching lines for each pocket and make a 6 mm (;} in) deep tuck on either side of each line. Make similar tucks 2cmG in) from each end of the pocket strip. Tack the tucks in place. Position the strips across the back panel and stitch in place as before, so that the ends of the tucks are held in by the base stitching. Remove tacking and bind the edge. 
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How to use our own bed linen for Interior designing and decoration – Tips and guidance

BED LINEN 

Wealthy medieval households spun and wove their own bed linen which was stored in huge oak linen presses smelling sweetly of wood ruff and lavender. Bed linen was considered so precious it was included in wedding dowries and wills; rich travelers took their sheets and pillows with them when they went to stay with friends. And while embroidered silk ‘over sheets’ adorned royal beds, practical linen sheets went underneath. Satin sheets were reputed to have made a brief appearance in Tudor times in Britain through the auspices of Anne Boleyn who brought them back from France.

 However, cotton sheets were not introduced until the end of the eighteenth century and remained white throughout the nineteenth century, although the edges were often elaborately embroidered and trimmed with lace and ribbons. It was not until the 1960s that deep- dyed colors and sumptuous floral printed cotton bed linen first appeared; duvets from Germany and Scandinavia were also introduced and revolutionized styles in modern bed linen. 

Styles and fabrics Bed lien should be seen as part of the whole bedroom scheme. Colors, styles and patterns in duvets and pillowcases should match, complement or contrast with other bedroom furnishings such as the curtains, blinds or a bedspread.

It also helps to think of successful combinations: pure, crisp white cotton sheets with delicate lace, scalloped or picot edges always look marvelous against rich mahogany or walnut bedheads and Empire-style beds. Flower-sprigged cotton duvets and valance frills are pretty and practical on a divan in a young girl’s room or a spare bedroom. Sheets and pillowcases patterned with bold cabbage roses can complement a white lace and crochet bedspread or perhaps co-ordinate with a smaller geometric trellis, a striped bedspread and matching curtains or an Austrian blind. 

Sofa beds in a living room, study or one- room apartment could have a set of bed linen that 160 complements the upholstery: midnight-blue sheets and pillowcases with a light quilt in a bold paisley pattern could either match or co-ordinate with the sofa covers. By making your own bed linen, you can add special decorative touches, making it truly individual- details such as tucking and cording in a contrasting color for pillowcase and sheet borders. 

Borders of coordinating fabrics or plain fabrics in a contrasting color also look attractive. A time-honored favorite is to have plain sheets and pillowcases discreetly monogrammed in satin stitch with your initials. A few embroidered flowers, leaves or bows do wonders for a plain white pillowcase corner.