Premhouse.com JAKARTA | Choosing a look for your apartment takes time and patience. The personal touches you incorporate into the interior design allow your apartment to stand out from the endless lines of mass-produced blocks.
While you may have some ideas, most of us don’t have a designer’s eye that can pinpoint exactly where that new artwork should go and how big a rug should be. That’s where interior design bloggers can help. As sources of color and theme ideas, the bloggers listed below are a sample of different ways to create that chic professionally designed look for your apartment without an overbearing designer in your home.
Apartment Therapy
The group of contributors in apartmenttherapy.com touches on the more personalized elements of interior design. Creating interesting statement pieces in a home that can reflect the owner in a relatively cheap and definitely effective way.
The group of contributors in apartmenttherapy.com touches on the more personalized elements of interior design. Creating interesting statement pieces in a home that can reflect the owner in a relatively cheap and definitely effective way.
The most interesting aspect of the blog is its advice on how to reuse and reinvent worn household items that may have had their day. With a lot of the world “going green”, the temptation to make use of what you already have in your apartment is a cost-effective and environmentally friendly design approach. It also gives you an excuse to keep those personal mementos that might otherwise be put into storage or the garbage.
As one of the better interior design blogs circling the web, apartmenttherapy.com stands apart from the rest by presenting a very interactive and accessible online forum. Interior design newbies can ask questions specifically related to their own homes and receive prompt, informative feedback.
Apartment dwellers are also encouraged to do the work themselves to leave a lasting sense of accomplishment and pride when showing their newly designed homes to others. This is a highly recommended site if you’re looking for homemade solutions to your design problems.
Kelly Green
As an interior decorator, Kelly Green kellygreeninteriors.com showcases more quirky additions to your apartment that directly reflect her own style and design direction. When following her blog you will encounter very specific decorating suggestions that make for the perfect “statement piece” to your apartment, not necessarily a way to completely overhaul your living space.
If you’re interested in being presented with a visual guide to what is available, then this blog is for you. Readers can scroll through the changes Green is making to her own home as inspiration with examples of fabric patterns and color pallets showcased throughout her minimal text entries.
As her tagline suggests, this is a “little blog to delight and inspire” so it’s not expected to do all the work for you. It should be used as a starting point. Once you have decided on an overall theme for your apartment or room, come back to take advantage of pop pieces that will start a conversation with your visitors and guests.
Small Place Style
For those of you who have a much smaller space to work with, it’s worth checking out Small Place Style’s blog smallplacestyle.blogspot.com that focuses primarily on making the most out of what you’ve got.That may just be adding an ornamental light hanging or sprucing your small lounge space up for a holiday period but the images on the blog can provide small inspirations.
The main problem here is that the blog consists solely of images which if it’s your first time reinventing your apartment, then you might require more direction than this blog can provide. It is worth checking out some of the blogger’s favorite links however as you may come across something more to your style.
Happy Designing
Source: Design Muse for Apartments
Photo illustration courtesy of juanreyes.co
Kelly Green
As an interior decorator, Kelly Green kellygreeninteriors.com showcases more quirky additions to your apartment that directly reflect her own style and design direction. When following her blog you will encounter very specific decorating suggestions that make for the perfect “statement piece” to your apartment, not necessarily a way to completely overhaul your living space.
If you’re interested in being presented with a visual guide to what is available, then this blog is for you. Readers can scroll through the changes Green is making to her own home as inspiration with examples of fabric patterns and color pallets showcased throughout her minimal text entries.
As her tagline suggests, this is a “little blog to delight and inspire” so it’s not expected to do all the work for you. It should be used as a starting point. Once you have decided on an overall theme for your apartment or room, come back to take advantage of pop pieces that will start a conversation with your visitors and guests.
Small Place Style
For those of you who have a much smaller space to work with, it’s worth checking out Small Place Style’s blog smallplacestyle.blogspot.com that focuses primarily on making the most out of what you’ve got.That may just be adding an ornamental light hanging or sprucing your small lounge space up for a holiday period but the images on the blog can provide small inspirations.
The main problem here is that the blog consists solely of images which if it’s your first time reinventing your apartment, then you might require more direction than this blog can provide. It is worth checking out some of the blogger’s favorite links however as you may come across something more to your style.
Happy Designing
Source: Design Muse for Apartments
Photo illustration courtesy of juanreyes.co
