Where Do I Begin ?
To decorate successfully, you first must determine your needs, desired goals and establish a budget before you can accomplish creating the perfect setting for your lifestyle.
Some questions to help you get started.
- How long do you plan to stay in your present home?
- What is your lifestyle... do you entertain guests? go to bed early? love to cook? hate to clean?
- What do you do in each room ?
- Are you planning to start a family, or do you have children? What are their ages?
- How much space do you need for leisure activities (office, study, sewing, reading, TV)?
- Is there enough sleeping space?
- Do you have enough storage space?
- What's your decoration style?
- Count your rooms and list multi-purpose uses (example, homework, bills, computer).
- Make notes about what furniture you currently own, what you like and what you dislike. What will stay and what will go?
- Have you considered a color scheme, or do you have a favorite color?
- List color of any pieces of furniture, fabrics or finds that would be a good start to develop a color scheme.
- How much do you want to spend?