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For clarity, it is important here for you to remember there is a difference between design and decoration. You, the decorator work with the design of objects that are already out there. In the case of “modern Italian", decoration is the putting together of the finest and most fitting of traditional objects and the best the new wave has to offer.
What’s good
Furnishing your home in a simplified manner, with functional fixtures and objects to satisfy the demands of a hurried life, and familiar fixtures and objects that make you feel comfortable and secure.
Your attention is focused on an expression which is respectful of a philosophical approach to life and art while simultaneously providing utility.
Colors and texture
Impact of quality furnishings. Walls are smooth, sleek, clean and modern. Gone are the days of lots of wall texture and monochromatic fresco paintings. Limited use of tone on tone for applying color to walls where you want more depth is acceptable. The goal of wall color is to more modernly define the space in an older building. Save the introduction of deep color for the accessories.
Marble is widely used for entry floors, hallways and in Italian decorating bathrooms. It is well polished and texture free. You won’t find any wall to wall carpeting. Floors are generally finely crafted terra cotta and ceramic tiles with parquet wood laid down in bedrooms only.
Furnishings
Furniture is your big opportunity to show off the best of modern Italian design. Not a lot of furnishings are called for but they will all be of utmost quality and fine line design. Exotic woods like bamboo floors, with deep clear lacquer finish or finely worked wood with brilliant, deep colored polyester finishing.
Sofas and chairs combining a show of chrome and soft, luxurious Italian worked leathers.
Accessories
Color is added to floors with Persian rugs and large Venetian plasters and tapestry on walls. Be selective about the pieces you choose because you will be looking for impact from quality and use of ‘white space’, not quantity.
Do not add clutter when you add accessories. Choose them wisely to represent the most forward of modern design. Floor lamps and desk or table lamps should be looked upon as artistic accessories, not lights. Let one single, special piece be a connection to the past.
When considering a Japanese interior design scheme it will be very helpful for you to stay mindful of how far Eastern design ideas and culture is from Japanese interiors western world.
Japanese Interiors as a Different Way of Looking at Colors
Black and whites interior designs are not considered colors in our customary view but, throughout the Orient they are important color elements. The black interior decorator is put to distinctive use defining form and aligning structural geometry.
Consider that the most widely used interior colors are off whites and neutrals that take their cue from nature. Black doesn’t clash, it defines. It works in harmony. Think of opaque white rice paper room dividers with polished black wooden frames, a thought where calmness rules.
When choosing color, don’t let it to stand in the way of the architecture of the room. Neutrals will help you imply an orderliness which you will soon discover, should be, will need to be, an underlying objective of your entire Japanese decorating plan.
When vivid color is put to use, resist the urge to apply it in multiples. Primary colors are used to stand out and stand alone on a single object or architectural feature chosen to be a focal point.
Western thinking would have us stand back and decide “if it looks good there then lets put some more of it here” but doing so.
Red lacquer on a single bamboo post or column is a strong statement.
Continuing the Japanese search for balance
As with color, selecting materials of strongly contrasting finish and texture is not a contradiction to your goal of achieving tranquility, balance and order. Keep thinking yin and yang, the widely known Buddhist doctrine of balancing opposites.
Long grained cedar wood matched with a perfectly crafted, shinning lacquered box. Floors of engineered bamboo hardwood surrounding a single large slab of quarry-stone. Wicker furnishings topped off with silky smooth cushions. Strive for simplicity. Nothing complex.
A heavily textured, natural fiber mat centered and stretched taunt and inlayed into as opposed to onto a smoothly finished, similar tone wall is transformed into a finishing material. This is not simply a hung accent as we might traditionally consider such an item but, rather an integral part of the search for balancing contrasts.
There Cannot Be Peacefulness Where Clutter Is Present
The underlying design feature of a room or series of rooms is dictated by the Japanese fixation on simplicity and approach to Japanese design flowing interior. Furniture placement and display follows prescribed rules of fluidity.
The central theme can be furniture grouping, a simple pebble dry garden, an open fireplace, or perhaps a shrine. Always, keep in mind that serenity cannot be achieved where there is a clutter. Keep the lines and appointments of these focal points cleanly defined.
Asian Interior Decorating. Less is more
Japanese furnishing overload is definitely out of the question. Don’t be afraid to allow for lots of open space if the area you are decorating in the Japanese style happens to be large. Should your space be confined, rejoice in the fact a huge investment in furnishings isn’t mandatory. Many items are and should be multi-functional. A futon is a good example. Rolled up and set on end the futon is a decorative piece which might be flipped down on edge for seating or a foot-rest, then find itself rolled out as an exercise mat. Should you be inclined that same futon can be a great place when an afternoon nap is in order?
Quality is a key to all your selections. Concentrate your search on the appeal and evidence of fine workmanship, like in the Imari Japenese Porcelain. If budget is limited, enforce that limit on quantities not quality and your project will pull together nicely. Come to understand minimalism and learn your personal lesson how less really can mean more.
Centuries in the making; a lengthy future awaits
There is nothing new about a Japan interior room design features. It has been slowly and tastefully evolving over the centuries. There have been improvements in the materials and processes but the basics have been graciously preserved.
As our world becomes increasingly chaotic, the place of peace and order which Japanese decoration creates inside the home will do nothing but grow in importance.
Mediterranean style, allure, charm, grace, seductiveness should be enough adjectives to describe the coastal style of countries occupying the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea where this decorating style originates.
Moorish influence, the demands of it’s climate, available materials and maturity over time have set the tone for this design and decoration that has spread outward from the region..
With oil paintings you could get easily with a Mediterranean-themed room. As a much loved regional decorating theme, especially in Spain and Tuscany for the tradition it represents, Mediterranean will always have an important place.
Beyond, it is being altered by the popularity of other decoration themes having shared similarities.
Mediterranean Design
Mediterranean will remain an influence for sure as several themes merge into a new form.
Already, in America, its purity has been lost in a blur of influences and mutations of such as
Wall Texture
Walls are predominately textured. It is what gives that pre-requisite aged appearance.
An over-all application of neutral sand paint supplies a good base. It’s easier than working with tinted sand paint at a later stage. There are prepared burnished wall texture Venetian plaster paints on the market that provide lots of texture. These can be used when working with color accents.
Include plaster moldings, cornices and columns when ever you can.
Oh the color
The sea and the sky and the warmth of the earth. Lavender wall textures, and creamy yellow make a whimsical appearance in this mixture. White is always making an appearance.
You will no doubt be using lots of accessories –brightly colorful to muted earthy and aged metallic– in your creation.
That’s not a warning to exercise caution and agonized pre-meditation in your selection of wall paint. Most walls will exhibit atoned or maybe even a wash effect by mixing some degree of white into all your color choices.
By applying some of these same paints at full strength, boldness can be added to appropriate spaces later as your overall project begins to take shape.
can be good choices to initiate the scene.
Color Accents
Incorporate brilliant mosaic tile designs into rich orange/red terra cotta or brick tiled floors. You can choose to continue the motif by applying the mosaics to the wall in the place of base mold, inlay them around door frames and be sure to make use of mosaic tiles for the kitchen or bathroom back splash.
Select a foyer, hall or alcove to try a toweled on red or lavender burnished plaster paint application for a dramatic affect.
Furniture and accessories
Furniture may be elegantly crafted from fine hardwoods or simple rustic designs of common woods. Either way, pieces are low and heavy set and often include accents of tile, iron or marble. Lots of furniture on the market carries a Mediterranean tag but that is as close as it comes to having the authentic scale and quality of the real thing. These are usually in the showrooms of mass marketers.
Find what you need in specialty shops.
Glass, iron and terra cotta have been decorating basics for centuries. The appeal of these works that you’ll want to use in abundance is in knowing the materials used, the production techniques required and workmanship employed are time honored traditions that can’t be changed. It can still be captured!
Hang wall tapestry from mounted wrought iron architectural pieces. Wrought iron grills can also be wall mounted to create the illusion of a window, above doorways to accentuate an entrance or to each side of a mirror to add interest and old world charm. Go back to some of those base paints to color in bulkheads or selected short walls.
Pottery has important application. Either in natural terra cotta or colorfully finished, over sized pots and vases in classic shapes add drama, form and color. Continue enhancing the allure with iron and wood wine racks in the dinning room. Add tapestry runners on side tables and top the one on the dinning table with a cast iron candle holder for quite, romantic dinners. Burnished brass urns, an indoor faux stone water fountain, and of course a thick relief, plastered fireplace hearth are “musts” if you can work them in.
Some Final Mediterranean Inspiration for Home Decoration
What you want to accomplish is a point of interest, a touch that impresses, a subtle surprise at every turn. If there is one decorating theme with the abundance of choice and style to make that happen this is it.
As you sit to work your plan be carried away to lunch at an estate winery near the Mediterranean coast. It is to be in a small, almost enclosed courtyard hidden behind an aged sunflower yellow stucco wall.
From the stone pathway you can only catch short glimpses of the setting through grilled windows as you approach the heavy, weathered wooden door way. The door is adorned with cast iron florets and above is a slope of clay roofing tiles (These are just some decorating ideas for sloped walls). Lying seductively behind is the romance of your own finished home.
Minimalist design
Opening up to Minimalist decorating
Minimalist decorating is often confused to be an approach adequately dealt with within the concepts of modern decorating and design. It is much more. Minimalism can be quite modern or it can be retro. What it is, is one manifestation of a total way of thinking. A way of viewing our world in general and then, our inner space in particular.
If you are like most people, you probably find yourself puzzling for a way to understand the values of Minimalist interior decorating. To acquire an appreciation of it’s point. Without living the lifestyle or possessing a pre-disposition for prescribing to the theories, it is a difficult thing to do. Where other decorating forms work to create a state of mind, Minimalism is a state of mind.
An oasis of order
Born out of a post World War II Minimalist movement in other art forms where a distillation to the essentials resulted in a “works-that-were because they existed” philosophy.
The new approach to Minimalism maintains order but, is more relaxed. This has resulted in a broadening of the appeal. This decorating form will always have a place among those who view their home as an oasis of order in a world of chaos and clutter.
Getting started
Minimalist interiors don’t necessarily mean everything is stripped down. It means everything serves a specific function. Aesthetically, you will notice emphasis placed on a building’s envelope by reducing dividing walls to create open floor plans. Not always are structural changes your option or desire but, if you have a space whose openness lends itself to Minimalist decorating you have a head start. If not, you will want to work toward creating a Minimalist illusion and feel by applying the main elements to what you have – an open feel, clean lines, order and wasting not on needless adornments.
Minimalist detractors might like to say you are creating a decorating wasteland but your goal is to create a space appropriate to the way you want to live. The result can be very rewarding personally and widely appealing; even to those detractors. It is a long known fact simple living leads to a more relaxed and tranquil life. After all, isn’t that a worthwhile accomplishment?
Use of colour
Get rid of some of the standard notions usually applied to the use of colour in decorating. In Minimalist decorating, there isn’t an attempt to create drama through the power of colour. Wall colours are white based cool teals, greens and coral for example and a predominance of use of the purist of white. This highly reflective, neutral palette allows light to do it’s work. There is a space making effect when light plays upon smooth white walls. Architectural features are more visible and centre stage is given over to better emphasize objects you’ll use in decoration.
Less texture
Consider this. One survey of condo buyers shows that those persons who chose texture to be their favourite decorating element, the absence of textured relief was their favourite aspect of Minimalist decorating.
Texture is something that can block the way of Minimalist sophistication. Most fabrics are sleek and smooth yet soft to the touch. Fabric window treatments are non-existent, neither are windows trimmed out; favoured are 90 degree plastered corner beads. Wood flooring is butt joined plank, flawlessly smooth and shiny. Base mouldings are linear, used for the function of covering the wall to floor gap, not for the purpose of being noticed for it’s profile design. Kitchen cabinetry is lacquered to a super high shine and topped with polished granite.
Where texture does appear it is because function requires. Rectangular patterned area rugs and grainy leather upholstery come to mind.
Accessory use, form and function
Let the flow of space and light create much of your decoration without the confusion of ornamentation.
Pure simplicity is your conscience keeping the focus on an absence of clutter. Collections of hung artwork are not needed where one or two impressively perfect pieces will help not detract from the architecture of a particular room. Look for strong geometric shapes and asymmetry. Chrome used in furniture construction can be enhanced by the addition of a single, heavy, chrome ball form. Electronic equipment components selected for their quality and leading edge design can be set up to be artistic accessory pieces which exemplify the dual use or functional criteria.
Be selective and show a respect of space. The lines of your favourite piece of furniture when given enough space in which to value it, will multiply in decorating worth. Stay disciplined and those things you value won’t be lost in an over crowded home.
You see! The space doesn’t have to be architect designed to achieve the desirable minimalist look.
Mexican Interior Decoration, South of the Border Style
Viva la Mexico! Nothing inspires a fun and exciting whirlwind of thoughts quite like a trip to another country, especially one that is adjacent to your own and known for its exciting use of color, tradition-filled people and use of inexpensive and plentiful materials to make beautiful but affordable artwork and supplies.
Mexican culture was also heavily influenced by both its natural Indian ancestry and Spanish influences which creates a great range of indigenous styles. Having this long and exciting history to draw upon allows Mexican artists to use Aztec, Spanish, Villa or Serf motifs and styles that are all drastically different and yet all typically Mexican. And best of all no matter how exotic you get it won’t break the bank since exchange rates and low cost of production insures reasonable prices for Mexican goods.
Typical items that help set a Mexican theme include blankets, pottery, hand-made wicker and thatch items, kiva ladders, ponchos Mexican-themed artwork but due to the rich nature of Mexico’s past more exotic Aztec and pyramid-themed items can also be used.
As for wall colors and textures one almost has to decide which of the various aspects of Mexican culture they wish to represent as ranges from stone and plaster up to classic Spanish style villa finishes all can be used with or without paint depending on the look desired.
The most common look associated with Mexican décor however is the stucco and wood beam look that is also popularized in many southwest décor themes and usually uses pale shades of white and yellow or reddish tints with unfinished woods.
Other more interesting variations may use lighter shades of orange, red, yellow and even blue with salmon being a particularly popular choice due to the wide range of accents that can be brought to bear against it. Trim is normally white or bare / bleached woods and use of niches and stone accent works over windows and in walls is common in higher end variations of the theme.
Another common element in Mexican-themed designs is the use of inexpensive hand-crafted “Mexican tiles” which typically use bright colors and simple patterns to invoke a relaxing and fun atmosphere with a few imperfections and variations that lend a touch of humanity over the more sterile picture-perfect tiles that are stamped out of machines these days by the millions.
In fact a key attribute of Mexican design is the imperfections that hand crafted elements bring – whether it is the blanket being used as a throw or table cover, subtle changes in colors and printing on tiles or variations in the painted stucco walls or furnishings Mexican décor has at its foundation a relaxing lack of adherence to rules.
In kitchens black wrought-iron and hand-hammered copper pots with Mexican tiles and bright colorful paint help set the tone that this is a fun room designed for the whole family. White trim and use of unexpected items like horse blankets or ponchos as window treatments can help add spice while lighting fixtures should provide bright airy feelings without being too high-tech or ostentatious.
Using low-powered DC track lighting is one approach, or more traditional Spanish-influence chandeliers may fit in better with your design theme. Sinks are best fitted with nickel or unpolished brass fixtures that are of high quality but simple design, and can either be porcelain or stainless but not detract too much from the overall theme.
Living areas can be quite eclectic with a Mexican décor – using items such as an oxcart of chicken coop as an end or coffee table for instance lends a touch of whimsy and country style as well as creates a focal point.
Old rusted metal signs and folk-art pieces scattered about amidst leather-bound books and pieces of wall art ensure there is plenty to capture one’s interest while simple wooden or stained concrete floors with hand-woven rugs set a western theme and ensure your guests know this is a room to be lived in and not a showplace in which they will fear to tread.
Many higher-end Mexican homes feature a breakfast nook which they call a ‘Antecomedor’ which is typically a small room next to the kitchen where informal meals or snacks are eaten or where overflow from a busy kitchen might be placed during busy periods. Different from formal dining areas it is normally set up as a cozy and charming room, often with access to the outdoors via a porch or swing-open ‘French’ style doors.
Due to these rooms occurring in higher-end homes only a more fancy decorating style is typically used in Antecomedors, beginning with vivid yellows and crèmes or salmon’s. Higher-end wrought iron table and chairs with padded upholstery seats and elegant crystal ware is not out of place here, so long as the overall feeling of the room supports it.
Colorful themed prints with rustic wood frames or palm and rope with large plants or bowls of fresh fruits and avocados can help finish out such a room and may create such a fun place to eat that more formal dining areas will fall into disuse!
Mexican ‘hacienda’ style follows the more high-end Spanish villas rich culture which often features flowing fountains, plastered brick walls and open-air porches with heavy wooden beams providing shade from the noon-day sun. This style is often embellished to break away plaster from the bricks and give an ‘old world’ quality that is almost Moorish and more subdued then typical Mexican styles with more muted color choices and higher-end fixtures and furnishings.
The hacienda style is especially suited to bedrooms where the rich pampered feeling of oversized beds and overstuffed pillows with large arches and light and airy architecture can make for a refreshing space to sleep and recuperate.
Bathrooms (baños) are also an excellent room in which to use Mexican décor – with the popularity of using furniture as washstands in bathrooms now reaching an all-time high it is often easy to forget that this tend comes from the traditional hacienda and Spanish influence where wash basins in bedrooms were the bathrooms.
And of course one must not forget the Aztec and Mayan themes that can be used in bathrooms, bedrooms and living spaces. With its rich jungle palettes and heavy reliance on stone, weapons and antiquities to help set a theme of almost Grecian splendor in a somewhat barbaric setting where human sacrifice and slavery resided hand-in-hand with some of the greatest mathematicians of the old-world these variants can be well suited to clients and people with a more mystical bent.
No matter which of the many variants of Mexican culture you choose to employ, or mix thereof a Mexican themed décor is sure to provide both comfort and relaxing spaces at a cost that should be well within most people’s budgets.
Mediterranean design
Mediterranean style, allure, charm, grace, seductiveness should be enough adjectives to describe the coastal style of countries occupying the northern side of the Mediterranean Sea where this decorating style originates.
Moorish influence, the demands of it’s climate, available materials and maturity over time have set the tone for this design and decoration that has spread outward from the region..
With oil paintings you could get easily with a Mediterranean-themed room. As a much loved regional decorating theme, especially in Spain and Tuscany for the tradition it represents, Mediterranean will always have an important place.
Beyond, it is being altered by the popularity of other decoration themes having shared similarities.
Mediterranean will remain an influence for sure as several themes merge into a new form.
Already, in America, its purity has been lost in a blur of influences and mutations of such as
Wall Texture
Walls are predominately textured. It is what gives that pre-requisite aged appearance.
An over-all application of neutral sand paint supplies a good base. It’s easier than working with tinted sand paint at a later stage. There are prepared burnished wall texture Venetian plaster paints on the market that provide lots of texture. These can be used when working with color accents.
Include plaster moldings, cornices and columns when ever you can.
Oh the color
The sea and the sky and the warmth of the earth. Lavender wall textures, and creamy yellow make a whimsical appearance in this mixture. White is always making an appearance.
You will no doubt be using lots of accessories –brightly colorful to muted earthy and aged metallic– in your creation.
That’s not a warning to exercise caution and agonized pre-meditation in your selection of wall paint. Most walls will exhibit atoned or maybe even a wash effect by mixing some degree of white into all your color choices.
By applying some of these same paints at full strength, boldness can be added to appropriate spaces later as your overall project begins to take shape.
can be good choices to initiate the scene.
Color Accents
Incorporate brilliant mosaic tile designs into rich orange/red terra cotta or brick tiled floors. You can choose to continue the motif by applying the mosaics to the wall in the place of base mold, inlay them around door frames and be sure to make use of mosaic tiles for the kitchen or bathroom back splash.
Select a foyer, hall or alcove to try a toweled on red or lavender burnished plaster paint application for a dramatic affect.
Furniture and accessories
Furniture may be elegantly crafted from fine hardwoods or simple rustic designs of common woods. Either way, pieces are low and heavy set and often include accents of tile, iron or marble. Lots of furniture on the market carries a Mediterranean tag but that is as close as it comes to having the authentic scale and quality of the real thing. These are usually in the showrooms of mass marketers.
Find what you need in specialty shops.
Glass, iron and terra cotta have been decorating basics for centuries. The appeal of these works that you’ll want to use in abundance is in knowing the materials used, the production techniques required and workmanship employed are time honored traditions that can’t be changed. It can still be captured!
Hang wall tapestry from mounted wrought iron architectural pieces. Wrought iron grills can also be wall mounted to create the illusion of a window, above doorways to accentuate an entrance or to each side of a mirror to add interest and old world charm. Go back to some of those base paints to color in bulkheads or selected short walls.
Pottery has important application. Either in natural terra cotta or colorfully finished, over sized pots and vases in classic shapes add drama, form and color. Continue enhancing the allure with iron and wood wine racks in the dining room. Add tapestry runners on side tables and top the one on the dining table with a cast iron candle holder for quite, romantic dinners. Burnished brass urns, an indoor faux stone water fountain, and of course a thick relief, plastered fireplace hearth are “musts” if you can work them in.
Some Final Mediterranean Inspiration for Home Decoration
What you want to accomplish is a point of interest, a touch that impresses, a subtle surprise at every turn. If there is one decorating theme with the abundance of choice and style to make that happen this is it.
As you sit to work your plan be carried away to lunch at an estate winery near the Mediterranean coast. It is to be in a small, almost enclosed courtyard hidden behind an aged sunflower yellow stucco wall.
From the stone pathway you can only catch short glimpses of the setting through grilled windows as you approach the heavy, weathered wooden door way. The door is adorned with cast iron florets and above is a slope of clay roofing tiles (These are just some decorating ideas for sloped walls). Lying seductively behind is the romance of your own finished home.
Decorating in the Moroccan style; a trend or fixture
We’re always looking for new and interesting ways to express ourselves through the way we decorate our homes. The search has led to north Africa. Spun out of the success of Santa Fe and Southwestern styling, Moroccan decorating is a hot item in America.
It is perhaps too early to tell about permanence but, similarities with other long standing design successes such as Mediterranean, Tuscan, Mexican Colonial, and Southwestern tend to indicate Moroccan decorating in it’s present form or deviation, should be with us for an extended visit.
Why Moroccan
Morocco really is an intricate mosaic. At the bridgehead of Europe and Africa and the crossroads where east fades into west, exotic, mysterious Morocco is uncovered in it’s design and decoration.
In case you are in need of stimulation to delve into the possibilities Moroccan decorating offers, pause upon names of such locales as Casablanca, Tangier, Rabat and Marrakesh to arouse some imagery.
Get ready for rich vibrant colors. Prepare for excess.
Plan to submit to the intrigue of the styles and cultures.
Moroccan Interior Design Colors
Long on coastal seas, backed into desert and baked under a relentless sun, Moroccans take inspiration from the colors their geography provides.
Hot, vibrant oranges and reds are refreshed by deep blues and sparkling greens of the sea. Ochre mountain ranges, silvery moonlit desert-scapes and golden sands. Colors in abundance as you’ve never used before.
Deep blue for example isn’t reserved for accents. It can provide the dramatic backdrop for an entire room arrangement of darkened wood furnishings, terra cotta tile, and accenting multi-colored oriental rugs. Adornments of jewel-like glass works, bold patterned fabrics in sea and sand inspired colors draped from the walls and for oversized pillows.
Remember you’ve been for warned to prepare for excess.
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