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DIY Dilemmas: This Week: “THE ORIENT-EXPRESS” |
The Orient-Express is synonymous the world over for its flamboyant décor. As to with latest offering from Hollywood, Memoirs of a Geisha, the Oriental influence in home decorating is making a very strong comeback. There is something inspiring about Asia its origins are steeped in ancient philosophy and cultural practices.
This week, our DIY Doctor Kevin Farrelly, focuses on giving your room the ‘WOW' factor! Let's start by taking a look at Asian interior design, its uncluttered and perfectly attuned for today's stressful lifestyle. By just simplifying your surroundings will instantly offer you and your family a better quality environment.
Feng Shui
Feng Shui, is at the heart of Oriental design. It is the ancient Chinese art of placement that allows the free flow of energy and guides our lives toward harmony. Feng Shui, practiced in China for 4,000 years, is now taken seriously all around the world; it appears exotic to the eye, yet soothing to the soul.
Wallpaper
Yes you heard it hear first wallpaper is back on the DIY catwalk of decorating fashion. After a decade of paint wallpaper is now making a much heralded return. It's still early days yet and some of the new designed; it strikes me, to be for a featured wall in the hall or bedroom areas. Wallpaper offers you the “Medias Touch” that will pull your room together and give it lot's of personality.
New Collections
These new collections of wallpaper are translated into decorating styles that echo the soothing elements of nature and draw inspiration directly from the environment. Providing rich textures and colors not found in the paint pallet, thus offering you more choice to express your own personal style. For example some original oriental wallpaper can feature subtle, floral stripes with rich hues like fire engine red, olive green and soft neutrals. It will be exciting to look at all the new collections of wallpaper as they appear on the market. More and more people are looking to put their own stamp on the décor in individual rooms wallpaper offers you this choice.
Interior Designers
Interior designers the world over have historically shown a penchant for Asian design. Chinese calligraphy, this style again much admired by designers as an Asian decorative motif that has also stood the test of time. Like an exotic spice, Oriental wallpaper design can be used generously or in small amounts, either to make a bold statement or merely enhance the eclectic flavor of any room, in your home.
Adding Colour
What a difference the addition of colour will makes! By adding a vibrant colour to this eclectic mix is like adding icing to a cake. Why not try adding Chinese red to your kaleidoscope; you will be surprised with the results. If incorporated in a dining room you will reap all the benefits as you combine luxury and glamour. Other colours like those found in natural materials, like bamboo and stone may also be used to create a serene calming environment to your living room.
Achieving the Look
The perfect look when completed should be both pleasing to the touch as well as the eye. It should also offer you an exotic but elegance feel and create harmony through out your home. If used in the bedroom it should offer warmth, be soft while at the same time be crisp and contemporary. This influence will offer you the perfect balance between your hectic lifestyle and your spiritual self.
Moving Forward?
The trend moving forward in wallpaper will be down to choice of product and individual's personal choice. I believe this trend will only get stronger the reason I say this is more and more people today are making excellent decorating decisions. They know exactly the look they are after for their own home whether it be contemporary, modern, or traditional.
Glam
Be glamorous and adventures with your Oriental decoration decisions. Have lots of fun choosing that new wallpaper for your home. Through this fantastic publication we will be keeping you up to date with the latest DIY trends and innovative ideas.
Sianora!
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