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		<title>Bedroom Interior Design Tips &amp; Idea</title>
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Whether you want a contemporary look or a traditional look, there are plenty of options for master bedroom decorating. The first step to bedroom decorating is deciding the color scheme. If you want the room to have an energizing effect then colors like yellow, turquoise or cranberry are perfect choices for bedroom color schemes. Choosing [...]]]></description>
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<p>Whether you want a contemporary look or a traditional look, there are plenty of options for master bedroom decorating. The first step to bedroom decorating is deciding the color scheme. <br />If you want the room to have an energizing effect then colors like yellow, turquoise or cranberry are perfect choices for bedroom color schemes. Choosing Themes Knowing how to theme your bedroom can be a challenge. <br />Another great idea for decorating a bedroom, is using drapes to add a soft touch to the room. Draperies are a great way of how to decorate a bedroom on a budget. <br />A bedroom should be a personal getaway, a sanctuary, which expresses your favorite colors, feelings, and collections. Of all the rooms in your home, the bedroom is the most personal. We spend almost one third of our lives in our bedroom and thus, your bedroom should be a tranquil retreat or a private haven where you are able to get away from it all and relax after a hard day&#8217;s work.<br />Thinking beyond just color, fold a fringed throw and place it under your pillows with fringe cascading toward the floor. Painted green of the walls, dark wood accent furniture pieces and the natural linen fabric combine to give this bedroom design a quality bedroom design feel. For example a dark wood bookcase is a stunning and unexpected backdrop for the bed in this dramatic and somewhat gave a masculine bedroom impression. Chocolate leather or suede sitting chairs complimented by an accent pillow or decorative throw continue the masculine appeal in design.<br />Another important but often overlooked factor of room comfort and the quality of air inside the room. Good fresh air will work wonders for a better nights sleep and can really affect the feel and atmosphere in a space.<br />Well, you&#8217;ll learn about some decorating styles that will help you create the bedroom you want, visit Singapore interior design for more&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Interior Design Without Fulfill Your Requirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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Consider a room, which is beautifully design, but not fulfilling your requirement, what this design called? Design Failure, Interior designing is not for designing home or office just to look beautiful, important factor is to fulfill requirement while keeping it beautiful, so interior designing is to balance both, designing aspect and requirement aspect, if you [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Consider a room, which is beautifully design,</strong> but not fulfilling your requirement, what this design called? <strong>Design Failure</strong>, Interior designing is not for designing home or office just to look beautiful, important factor is to fulfill requirement while keeping it beautiful, so interior designing is to balance both, designing aspect and requirement aspect, <strong>if you just start designing by making room space beautiful,</strong> your client might rejects your design.</p>
<p><strong>First step in the interior designing is to understand the requirement of your client,</strong> its always be a better idea to make questionnaire, put as much detail questions as you can do, sit with your client and observe his personality, invite him or her in your office, <strong>when you think you fully understand client requirement,</strong> now start your drawing, first only draw basic requirement, no fancy curves, nothing, just simple basic design, just put things in better places, measurement aspect and thats all, <strong>when you finish basic design, </strong><strong>now start making your design beautiful.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Imagine, imagine, imagine,</strong> your imagination is <strong>king in interior design</strong>, if you are not good at imagination, you might be fail in interior designing, imagine different colors, lighting, material, curves in mind, <strong>start making it beautiful,</strong> lighting, colors, material, curve, whatever you have in your mind, place it at your canvas, than make a master piece, this will be approve by client guaranteed, because this 100 % fulfill your client requirement and also its beautifully design, <strong>this is the formula of designing,</strong></p>
<p> Understand requirement of client. Making things out of this requirement,  Putting these things at better places. <strong>At final step, start making it beautiful</strong>.
<p>Follow this formula and your design will be a winner design.</p>
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		<title>Singapore Influenced interior design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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The main elements of Country Singapore interior design require a relaxed, down-to-earth interior design style. For a major Asia city, Singapore can be another hub for exciting eclectic style and modern contemporary singapore interior design. You&#8217;ll be able to establish a room&#8217;s rural motif with rustic floors in wooden planks, stone, or ceramic tiles. In [...]]]></description>
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<p>The main elements of Country Singapore interior design require a relaxed, down-to-earth interior design style. For a major Asia city, Singapore can be another hub for exciting eclectic style and modern contemporary singapore interior design. You&#8217;ll be able to establish a room&#8217;s rural motif with rustic floors in wooden planks, stone, or ceramic tiles. In overall color scheme should be concentrated on colors inspired by the Singapore natural features. Including yellow golds, rich reds, and verdant greens in conjunction with blues and terracotta tones.</p>
<p>When deciding Singapore interior design, keep things simple but graceful. Sturdy, large scale wooden furniture is ideal for this provincial design style. Painted furniture pieces are also with regards to the list for an appealing Singapore Country decorating motif. Furniture silhouettes in this fashion are relatively unadorned, but they usually feature soft lines which might be clean rather than too fussy.</p>
<p>Fabric is a wonderful component of Singapore interior design. Small scale printed fabrics are very popular and show repeating patterns of flowers or animals such as roosters and citrus fruit. The bold hues of red, gold, and blue are predominant in these rustically inspired prints. Another fabric commonly noticed in this interior style is toile. Sometimes called by its person&#8217;s name Toile Jieo, toile fabrics and wallpapers usually pair an easy background with repeated scenes of individuals and animals in a very pleasing outdoor setting.</p>
<p>Singapore style kitchen dcor is often the center point and center of the comfortable decorating style in the home. Wooden cabinetry is generally accessorized with wrought iron hardware, and countertops are adorned with woven baskets and vibrant ceramic pieces. A sturdy harvest table for meals might be accented by some painted wooden chairs which has a distressed finish and woven rush seats.</p>
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		<title>Colour Me Brightly! Understanding Light in Interior Design. Part III: Patterns from Opaque Materials</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This third article talks about how to create patterns [...]]]></description>
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<p>Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This third article talks about how to create patterns using opaque materials.</p>
<p>The second way for an interior designer to create light-based patterns involves opaque surfaces, which reflect light back into a room. This pattern creation process is more sophisticated and can be fine-tuned for stunning interior design effects. Light portrayals impact how we understand a surface and its texture. For example, the standard technique often seen in London residences simply involves casting a gentle play of light across a wall. The light brushes the fittings, causing the wall to appear even, flat and two-dimensional. Some top London Interior Designers know that their clients crave more drama and stylistic nuance. In such cases, placing lightwell fillings very close to the wall and angling them downwards can be really striking. Using this technique, interior design consultancies can transform the previous gentle wave into an enunciated designer style, as the photons shave the surface and build to form sturdy optical patterns, including top-level arcs and dramatic textures. A sharper, more laser-like focus will only make the pattern more conspicuous  recreating a look that is popular in many trendy London nightclubs.</p>
<p>The direct counterpoint to this interior design technique involves the use of close-offset uplighting. With this approach, floor-level filaments cause the eye to move up vertical columns of light which dance across the wall to form puddles of dappled reflected light on the ceiling. Professional London interior designers often work alongside colour consultants to make sure that the result has practical relevance as well as aesthetic appeal. In particular, some newer London residences often have uncomfortably low ceilings. Interior designers can use this lighting approach to draw attention to the vertical plane of the wall, thereby counterbalancing the hemmed-in feel of the low ceiling.</p>
<p>In the next and final article in this series called Colour Me Brightly! I will finish by revealing some top lighting tips from Londons interior design community.</p>
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		<title>The one key in interior design – Oriental rugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The one key to improve your home dcor is to buy home appliance. But now you can buy rugs you&#8217;re your home dcor. It can give your home brilliant and colorful. Other people use this to emphasize the beauty of their home. Because oriental rugs come in different colors and designs; there is about a [...]]]></description>
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<p>The one key to improve your home dcor is to buy home appliance. But now you can buy rugs you&#8217;re your home dcor. It can give your home brilliant and colorful. Other people use this to emphasize the beauty of their home. Because oriental rugs come in different colors and designs; there is about a definitely one that is ideal for your home out there. What matters most is the care and maintenance of these oriental rugs. Now, you may be alert of the fact that Oriental rugs are very popular. All the Oriental rugs are cleaned periodically to ensure long life of the rug. Fortunately, the Persian rugs even the oriental rugs are very easy to clean. However, some of the factors have to be considered for successful cleaning of these Persian rugs and oriental rugs. I can give you some way about the different tools and methods used for cleaning the Persian rugs even the oriental rugs.<br /><strong><br /> First Using the Vacuum Cleaner </strong> every user of rugs used the Vacuum Cleaners, it can efficiently clean the dust particles from the rugs right away. The main benefits of using the vacuum cleaners are that you don&#8217;t need to move the rug for cleaning it. Though cleaning the oriental rugs using a vacuum cleaner will be very simple, you be supposed to make sure that you don&#8217;t shove deep into the fiber, as the rug will dress in out. Do not use the beater setting; be sure that the vacuum is in the moderate place to avoid breaking down.</p>
<p><strong>Second Brushing the Rugs</strong>  in brushing oriental rugs you must be gentle. Because if you not, the hair of the rugs is falling down. The natural material of the Oriental rugs will make them look like hair. These hairs rugs need brushing too. You can utilize a comb or a soft brush to make the grains of the rug full again. The rugs should be brushed at any time they are washed and dried.<br /><strong><br /> Third Washing &amp; Drying the Persian Rugs</strong>  You can wash and dry your Oriental rugs by hand. The only thing to pay attention to is not to use any harsh detergents with bleaching agents. We recommend a gentle detergent. Check a small section of the rug before washing it. When it comes to drying the Persian rug, people make a big error by using the dryer. You should always hang dry the Oriental rug below shade for the best results. Sun will bleach the rug.</p>
<p><strong>Fourth Professional Oriental rug Cleaning &amp; Repair Services</strong>  If you are not sure of rug maintenance and care, there are many Oriental rug Cleaning &amp; Repair service providers available out there to help you. These services will be necessary whenever extensive rug cleaning is necessary. Additionally, you can even repair and restore your antique rugs with the help of these professional services. However, only a very few of them are capable of providing real quality services, and only one washes your u rugs by hand. You should make sure that the professional Oriental Rug Cleaning &amp; Repair Service provider of your choice can offer a good quality work. follow me on oriental naisre sgur rugs</p>
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		<title>How Interior Design Consultancies Use Lighting &#8211; The Lighting Toolbox</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Interior design consultancies understand the richness of light in all its forms. In London, lighting is crucial to interior design consultancies that need to create stunning results. In this, the sixth article in my series which I call DeLIGHTed by Design, I continue to draw on my experience working with some of Londons Top Interior [...]]]></description>
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<p>Interior design consultancies understand the richness of light in all its forms. In London, lighting is crucial to interior design consultancies that need to create stunning results. In this, the sixth article in my series which I call DeLIGHTed by Design, I continue to draw on my experience working with some of <strong>Londons Top Interior Design Consultancies</strong> to explain this exciting area.</p>
<p>Six main lighting tools are considered foundational by established interior design consultancies. These are down-lighters, up-lighters, wall-washers, decorative lighting, colour and control. Many London interior design consultancies will preferentially think of these mostly in terms of mood and results  from daring highlights to soft textures  instead of as hardware and installations.</p>
<p>Down-lighters are often set back into a false ceiling, although some interior design consultancies will prefer to install them on walls. These units will direct light downwards, and can be focused by the design team as necessary, perhaps to illuminate the floor or a favourite contoured bookcase. Most interior design consultancies recognise that this type of light is very sharp and will generate somewhat intense shadows, which can be a refreshing contrast to the occasionally dreary London weather. The most popular units are always available in narrow beam designs, which are best for highlighting certain features. Interior design consultancies will sometimes opt for a wide beam model instead. One nice technique that I have seen used in a few London residences is to create an array of shimmering ceiling lights with wide-beam downlighters. This is appropriate when the interior design consultancy wishes to create a more general, ambient light, but with a fabulous designer feel.</p>
<p>Up-lighters wash the ceiling with light, and the ceiling then serves as its own lighting fixture, bouncing relaxing and general illumination back into the living area. Interior design consultancies will use up-lighters to create an engaging feeling of openness and upward motion when the ceiling is painted a dark colour, in which case the reflected lumens will be low. Up-lighters in London are often either free standing or wall-mounted, usually above head-height to eliminate dazzle. One great technique that I once saw used by a well-known London interior design consultancy was to incorporate a fabulous up-lighter that was recessed into the floor as a central feature, creating drama and powerful contrast for a cove and elongated column.</p>
<p>In the next article in this series &#8220;DeLIGHTed by Design,&#8221; I will continue explaining how interior design consultancies rely on the six core lighting tools.</p>
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		<title>Major Benefits of Sliding Interior Doors &#8211; Simple Design and Practicality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent years, sliding interior doors have become very popular for use throughout the house, home and office. Whether as sliding doors between rooms instead of traditional door knob opening doors, as room dividers in an office space, or as wardrobe sliding doors in the bedroom, people are now seeing both the design benefits and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In recent years, sliding interior doors have become very popular for use throughout the house, home and office. Whether as sliding doors between rooms instead of traditional door knob opening doors, as room dividers in an office space, or as wardrobe sliding doors in the bedroom, people are now seeing both the design benefits and practical benefits &#8211; from an interior design and a space saving viewpoint &#8211; of using these doors in both their office and their house.</p>
<p>We often find people are overwhelmed by the vast range of sliding interior doors options on offer. Glass doors, lacquered finish, room dividers &#8211; we could go on. These days, with sliding doors being used throughout the home more and more as wardrobe doors, bedroom doors and kitchen doors, people are getting more quality and selection when making their interior design choices. </p>
<p>Suppliers, mostly, have responded well over the past several years, with new styles and designs continuing to multiply. For sliding doors installation, all good supply companies can provide a fitting service. With the economy being as it is, and people&#8217;s DIY capabilities greatly improved, many are choosing to do-it-themselves nowadays.</p>
<p>The most popular style of sliding interior doors by far are glass sliding doors. They are also extensively used as conservatory doors in the home, allowing more light, ease of access and space wherever they are placed. In bedroom spaces, mirrored interior sliding doors are hugely desired as they give you a chic, dressing-room feel and add a fantastic amount of style and character that no other material can provide.</p>
<p>Sliding doors work perfectly for small spaces as they don&#8217;t take up any of your free space or block foot traffic when they are open. If you are keen to investigate further, why not view some interior sliding door designs online as you&#8217;ll surely find there is plenty to see. </p>
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		<title>Thomas Chippendale &#8211; Work And Styles Influenced The London Interior Design Community</title>
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Thomas Chippendale didnt grow up in London (in fact he was born in Leeds in 1718), but he did move to London at the age of 31, after he had already gained recognition as a premiere furniture maker and cabinetry-focused interior designer. His work and styles influenced the London Interior Design community then, and the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Thomas Chippendale didnt grow up in London (in fact he was born in Leeds in 1718), but he did move to London at the age of 31, after he had already gained recognition as a premiere furniture maker and cabinetry-focused interior designer. His work and styles influenced the London Interior Design community then, and the Chippendale aesthetic continues to extend its impact well beyond London even today.</p>
<p>Chippendales fluent, natural and sophisticated style developed after the promotion of his furniture and interior designs in The Gentleman and the Cabinetmakers Director in 1754. Chippendale continued to make iconic contributions to the field of interior design until 1790. His furniture came to be manufactured as far afield as Philadelphia in the USA.</p>
<p>Chippendale drew on three key interior design inspirations for this work  namely French, Asian and Goth. In the USA, Chippendales work was interpreted as a re-envisionment of the Queen Anne interior design style. His furniture was often heavily ornamentalised on the feet and uppers, with beautiful heritage-inspired scroll tops on taller units. Yellow Birch and Mahogany were often used, undersupport was rarely employed, and the rears of seated furniture were covered with plush fabric or otherwise left as shaped wood, perhaps as tessellated piecework with ornamental sculpting and Asia-inspired cross-strips. To round out his own personal interior design style, Chippendale would also include delightful finials and varnished shellac features.</p>
<p>Enthusiasts and professionals alike were very taken with Chippendales work, lauding him as a master London cabinetmaker and a household name of eighteenth-century furniture-focused interior design.</p>
<p>Harewood House is a popular Leeds tourist attraction, located about 4 hours drive from Central London. The famous building features a magnificent collection of Chippendale library furniture that was originally ordered during the 1760s. The interior design style reflects Chippendales ideals throughout and showcases his focus on both form and function.</p>
<p>Today, Londons interior designers are often called to reconstruct period rooms in traditional mansions or luxury residences. Often Chippendale furniture will play a major role in such interior design concepts. Chippendale-inspired furniture designs such as those of Henrietta Spencer-Churchill may also be ideal for certain settings. However, the fresh lines of many Chippendale pieces also lend themselves to contemporary interior design concepts &#8211; many interior designers will use some of the more extravagant Chippendale pieces to offset some of the more frosty and unforgiving modern furniture elements.</p>
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		<title>Colour Me Brightly! Understanding Light in Interior Design. Part I: Introducing Patterns of Light</title>
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Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This first article is about patterns.
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<p>Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This first article is about patterns.</p>
<p>Ask a London schoolgirl to imagine natural patterns, and she may talk at length of curvaceous seashells, the undulating edge of waves on the shore, the grooves in a gnarled tree trunk. Interior designers know that patterns are all around us. Patterns profoundly influence all interior design schemes, transforming our appreciation of color and texture, adding fluctuations and drifts or promoting harmony and stillness. London Interior Designers will focus on soft, fluid outlines in order to create relaxing patterns. By contrast, bold graphic statements in a wallpaper stencil can be invigorating for a London discotheque or salon. Pattern is a foundational ingredient of interior design, fragmenting overwhelming shapes and plain surfaces while simultaneously lending personality and profundity to a room.</p>
<p>Londons professional interior designers know one big secret: pattern is created not only by fabric and wallpaper. Light also forms any number of patterns through a virtual tussle or rough-and-tumble interaction between light and shadow. Light patterns are foundational to interior design schemes  from snippeted, kinetic and frosted patterns to curvy arcs, spearhead-style lines and theatrical projections of abstract forms.</p>
<p>Patterns of light fall into two main interior design categories. The first is all about objects in the path of light, casting shadows. We draw our inspiration from the natural world where, when sunlight strikes rippling water on Londons famous River Thames, flickering patterns are reflected up into the trees along the waters edge. Similarly, if an artificial light source is directed onto water  perhaps a pool, fountain or babbling artificial brook  active reflections will dapple the surrounding walls and become an interior design feature. Sunlight may shine through the branches of a tree to create moving patterns of light and shade below, and similarly a low-voltage uplight, positioned behind indoor plants, can create beautiful interior design features on the walls and ceilings. This technique can be stunning both inside and outside the building.</p>
<p>In my next article, I turn to patterns that use perforations and glass.</p>
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		<title>Colour Me Brightly! Understanding Light in Interior Design. Part II: Perforations and Glass</title>
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Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This second article talks about how to create patterns [...]]]></description>
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<p>Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design, I draw on my experience in Londons interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This second article talks about how to create patterns using illuminated materials.</p>
<p>Any perforated textile, when lit from the back or from the inside, will speckle adjacent forms with pattern, from point strips and pirouettes to constellations and dazzling laser specks. The professional interior designer can use the trim of a window covering to create fabulous banding across a shiny floor covering in the London summer. Some interior design firms love to use ornamental metal lanterns to paint fiery asteroids on walls and furniture, while light projected through a sculpted screen can create magnificent abstract outlines in expressive contemporary interior design schemes. A factory-inspired metal stairwell with perforated treads  of the type often reinterpreted for ultra-modern interior design schemes  can throw tiny checkmarks of light onto local furniture when exposed to a bright London sky in springtime. A fabulous option with a wooden staircase would require the interior designer to specify a grit-washed tread, to deliberately throw stunning shadows from the rail onto the adjacent wall. Abstract wire-mesh sculptures by local London artists can engender powerful interior design emotions, with the pattern even becoming more important than the object itself! Interior designers can expressively use perspective to distort the pattern from complete realism, when lit front-on, to Baconesque abstract enchantment when illuminated at an acute angle. The same effect can be created by using mirrors to refocus natural light from bay windows in some of the more luxurious London residences.</p>
<p>Glass is another popular tool for patterns. A frosted glass table can be lit from above with a halogen downlighter to cast intricate outlines of reflected light onto the ceiling, and the interior designer can even use positioning to cause refracted light to splash abstract patterns onto the floor underneath the table. I have seen some London Interior Design consultancies deliberately illuminate trophy-style glassware on display shelves from the front so that the etching on the glass throws deep shadows that recapitulate a core design theme.</p>
<p>In the next (third) article in this series called Colour Me Brightly! I will reveal another secret of Londons interior design community: how to create patterns with opaque objects.</p>
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