how to design the interior of homes in mumbai–part 2

Interior Designer

Presents

http://www.InteriorDesigner-Ideas.com/

Notwithstanding the great improvement made in the decoration of the

interior during recent years, a fault continually manifest is the failure in

many instances to consider the house or apartment as a whole.


Instead of the clean, coherent effect which should everywhere be

evident as the result of a well mapped decorative campaign-be the

property large or small-is felt a fitfulness of purpose, a lack of grasp.


The individual rooms may be charming, but the fact that they have been

separately considered, strung like beautiful but incongruous beads

upon a string, is often but too plain.


So far are our best architects and decorators from erring in

this respect that their first and guiding principle is unity,


But-not always through their own fault as we shall see-the want of

architectonic quality is frequently manifest in the work of clever and

competent people


Not to mention that of those decorators who are simply tradesmen,

while houses which are furnished by their owners are seldom free

from this defect.


The temporary craze for some particular style is responsible for much of

this: the householder furnishes a room or two in the manner then in

special fashion, or commissions a decorator to do it,


And a year or two thereafter, that vogue having had its little day, other

rooms are done, also in the style which is then "just the thing," but in a

style which is likely to be totally at variance with the first.


Do not householders know that such crazes are fostered by manufacturers

and dealers for trade purposes, that art is a matter of sanity and equilibrium,

and that worthy interior decoration recognizes no such thing as the fad?


There may be choice and preference, and it is the aim of this book to lay

before the householder and the decorator facts and principles that will

enable choice and preference to be arrived at intelligently;


so that they shall be the honest expression of the individual

temperament, and not mere whim or a temporary "liking," to be effaced

by the next attraction that grasps the attention.


As such an intelligent choice and appreciation must be based on

knowledge, and as decoration by any method or in any style is a

whole,


Its parts being intimately related and inseparable, it is urged that no

decision be made or work begun until that knowledge be made one's

own.


Special attention has here been given to making its acquirement easy

through simple, systematic and logical arrangement and treatment.


The contents of one should not be acted upon

until the others also have been studied.


If a window cannot be curtained without reference to the other

furnishings of the room, to the room itself, the others in the house,


And the exterior of that house-and it cannot then it is plain that these

other things should be taken into account before we curtain the

window.


The basis of all good decoration is plan well selected and adhered to ;

and as there are four methods of furnishing these will forthwith be

stated.


The instances in which an entire house (or apartment) is newly decorated and

supplied with new furniture throughout are few in comparison with those in

which already acquired possessions are used at least to a partial extent :


These possessions will

naturally therefore have

their influence in the

selection of a style of

furnishing.


But it is advisable to see that they do not have too great an influence,

and to remember that improvement can gradually be carried out. The

plan may therefore be built upon future rather than existing conditions.


It is possible even with limited means to change the whole character of

an interior during the course of a few years, and each of these years

may be marked by constant interest and pleasure.


It is questionable if such gradual development worked out by the householder

himself does not give quite as keen and solid satisfaction as the placing of a

large commission with a professional decorator may give his wealthy neighbor.


For those of abundant

means to allow the

possession of certain bad

furnishings to hamper and

mar right planning would

be poor policy indeed-it is

better to rid oneself of the

incubus and have done with

it. http://www.InteriorDesigner-Ideas.com/

Contact Us

Interior Designer

Mumbai

Email: [email protected]


how to design the interior of homes in mumbai–part 2

Business