 | Linda Warrington
has been in sales and interior design for 25 years, and employed by Horton's Furniture for l8 years. Linda has designed furnishings and murals for the Eaton Place in Wichita's Old Town business district as well as Chaucer Estates, Park Plaza West and Via Christi Executive Suites. Linda also owns her own mural painting business called 'Just You'. She can be reached by phone at (3l6) 722-5090, by fax at (3l6) 722-596l, or by mail at l09l5 W. Kellogg, Wichita, Ks., 67209. |
Interior Decorating
2003-12-01 10:27:00
Decorating with white
ANSWER: Yes. Balance, balance, balance. It is floating and you need to add a balancing agent to the floor. You don't say if your style is traditional, country, contemporary or eclectic, so I'm going to shoot for contemporary. Consider an area rug in front of the sofa. If a smaller room, a 4 x 6 will work fine. If a larger room, go with a 6 x 8 or larger. If color is not your thing, try a rug in white, black and brown. Go as wild or as calm as you feel, after all the point of decorating is to tell a story about who you are and what makes you happy. Next, repeat the shades used in your rug, around the room with toss pillows, pictures, art glass, etc., use your imagination. Let's say you did the black, brown and white area rug and you have white pottery lamps. Cut a square of cardboard in two sizes that would fit on the front of your lamp base. Now lay the larger one on the front of the lamp and draw around it with a pencil, then take the smaller one and lay it inside the large square and draw around it creating two squares on your lamp. Paint the outside square brown and the inside square black. You clever thing, everyone is going to wonder where you found a lamp that so perfectly matches your rug. Of course, the shapes are endless. Square, round, diamond … get creative. Another trick is to purchase a piece of fabric in the colors used in a room, then fringe the fabric to use as a decorative throw across the arm of a sofa or chair. Make sure your fabric is soft enough to drape. How simple was that? Remember, your home speaks volumes about who you are, it says all the things you may not be able to say about yourself. Whether your style is formal, casual, or eclectic, a little planning and forethought will create the space of your dreams.
