Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Design tip - The most important part are the corners of a room

Corners of a room form an important part of the decor. While your furniture and the walking space takes most of the visual floor space, an important aspect while doing a layout of the room is to boost corners. So from the very beginning of designing your room, one must always think about different aspects like the lighting of the corner spaces to the furniture pieces, corner walls, art work, plants and what not. Generally we plan this later looking at what space have been left after the furniture. However it should be done vice versa as your lifeless furniture can be brought into life with lively corners.

Some tips:

~ If you have not so big room, don't buy big sized furniture that will eat up your corner spaces.
~ While planning the lighting of the corners, they are plenty of options like focus light from the false ceilings to pendant light in one of the corner to some palette lighting in the corner to a nice table or floor lamp. If not, track focus lights from the adjacent walls/ceiling can work as great as any other option.
~ So once you have your corner light set up nicely, the ambience can be boosted up by adding a nice bamboo palm or Areca palm in one of the corners or may be any other indoor plants. My favourites in living / dining room are Bamboo palm/Areca palm as they are one of the highest oxygen producers. While in bedrooms, it is generally rubber plant, money plant or Peace lily as they provide oxygen during the night. Have two of each plants- one in balcony and one in room so that they can be exchanged for open air for longevity.
~ So now that you have a green corner. What's next? You can have corner shelves where you can put pretty things which highlight your personality. Like your favourite books? Teapots? Sculptures and what not!
~ Why should the walls be left behind? Enhance your corners with identical mirrors on both walls forming corner to enhance the depth. Say these mirrors can form background of your plant corner.
~ Your corner space can act as a wall art gallery. Have both walls forming a corner being used as a continuous canvas or a photo or art wall. It is interesting to converge two planes into one and use it for highlighting the room.
~ If you like nature and draw inspiration from it, you can have a fireplace mantle at the corner and have a water body or small fountain on opposite corner to balance the different forces or elements.

For example, if I define the following corner that I did, it shows the love for nature's elements like water, mud, plants, special love for tea pots, candles, Mr Buddha and hand embroidered Zardozi and moti work curtains. You almost read my personality just now as it is a corner in my living space! So it isn't that difficult. The only difficult part is to know your clients and to know they personal liking/dis-liking based on which I can boost the spaces ;)

A corner space defining the love for the nature




Hope my posts helps you or atleast inspire you to do a little makeover of your corner spaces :-)