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Climate of the room

Light, colors, humidity – all these factors create room climate. Not only arrangement of furniture inside the room can impact on the climate of your home. Light, colors and shades can significantly increase attractiveness of any room. Important thing is to combine all these factors in the right way to get expected and satisfying result.

There are also practical rules which have to be respected interior designing. For instance, strong sunlight will fade wood, carpets and fabrics. Placing your furniture around your room you have to think also about how to protect them from sunlight. If strong light is a problem, then consider having shades or sheer drapes fitted at the window to protect that area of the room.

If you have air-conditioning make sure the humidity is set correctly not to affect wooden furniture. Home furniture, especially antique, can be drastically affected by central-heating, and especially humidity. If your heating makes the room excessively dry, then you could use an unobtrusive humidifier. Don’t place furniture too near to radiators, warm air vents or your open fires.

Let’s consider things you have to look out for when arranging furniture. Make sure there is enough space to feel comfortable, is there room for people to move around and are the walkways clear. Be practical when arranging interior plan and try to think about communication when people are seated and if they can easily talk to one another. Try to find the right balance between size of the room and number of furniture units. Make sure the furniture arrangement make the room appear balanced. It means there should be kind of harmony between scale of furniture and the relative positions.

Be practical and consider effects of light, heat and humidity to protect your furniture. Don’t forget about aesthetics, because first of all furniture should look good to please your eye. Be aware of comfort as a result of all the above. Room has to be comfortable to be in, and most of all, your furniture has to be comfortable to sit in. You need to take care when selecting your furniture, so you’ll end up with a comfortable and practical room.

If you want to find more hints and tips on choosing and placing furniture in your rooms please use 3Decorator room planner and inspire yourself before you purchase furniture to your house.

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One Response for "Climate of the room"

  1. cactultibia December 12th, 2009 at 12:23 am

    Interesting blogpost, didn’t thought this would be so interesting when I klicked at the title with link.


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