Home accessories Leicester

Must-Have Accessories

If you’re in the market for home accessories Leicester is a fantastic place to start. Here’s a run-down of some of the most fashionable and popular types on the market so that you too can get accessorising!

Elegant Lighting

It’s not for nothing that ‘lights, camera, action’ starts with the lighting! Just as in movie sets, all considered spaces require perfect lighting to accentuate the positives and draw you into the room. A well-placed floor-lamp can bring a sense of timeless beauty to any home, and smaller desk lights are the ultimate marriage of functionality and style.

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

Reflection is one of the most eye-catching tools in the interior designers’ arsenal. As well as enhancing the sense of space within the room itself, mirrors also provide a fantastic centrepiece, and can also assist you in dispersing the light—natural and artificial—throughout the area.

Cushion the Blow

‘A chair is still a chair,’ says the famous lyric, ‘even when there’s no one sitting there.’ But a sofa without cushions is just unfinished! Add a splash of colour and comfort to your living-space by selecting from the wide range of options on offer to ensure that your over-arching theme is complemented by even the smallest addition.

Creating the Illusion of Size in Your Home

How many of us can honestly say that we’ve never looked around while sat in a room thinking “if only it didn’t feel so cramped”? Well, here are some handy hints as to how to make your rooms feel bigger than they actually are – exceeding their potential if you like. This article won’t go into de-cluttering as I hope that it goes without saying that the first step is to reduce the amount of ‘things’ occupying your space.

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Get up against the wall!

It’s amazing how much of a difference simply moving your sofa or other piece of large furniture flush against a main wall can make. The clean lines that result combine with the reality of the extra open space to great effect.

Reflect on this great tip

Yes, you’ve guessed it – use mirrors! The choice of styles is endless and can be a fun way of making a statement while also making your room appear larger. Large ceiling to floor mirrors in between two big cabinets or bookcases can make a devastating impact on the size impression of a room.

Furniture that’s light on its feet

Small rooms will not benefit from chunky, old-world furniture. Instead make sure that dining chairs or tables made of light, fresh materials such as Perspex, acrylic and glass. If wood is to be used opt for lighter woods with thin legs and a low surface area.

Trick the eye

Large, bold black and white diagonal floor patterns (perhaps vinyl flooring) not only look impressive, but they send the eye on a dizzying journey that distracts it from the edges of the room, helping to confuse its idea of size. It can also help to make furniture appear smaller and less bulky.

It’ll be all white on the night

White rooms from ceiling to skirting boards always look bigger. It makes it harder to see where walls end and space begins. This effect can be helped by the use of recessed lights as well as (if you can) stepped ceilings and even a sky light.

Dark can work too

The same trick can be applied to darker shades, like grey so long as you stick to the same principle of ceiling to skirting board coverage in the same colour. This visual seamlessness can be enhanced by also painting doors and radiators in the same colour.

So, before you despair at the thought of accepting your lot there are some low cost options from home accessories Leicester to subtle, well chosen paint jobs that can give your house the illusion of space.

The idea of the Mood Board

Never has this expression been more apt than when applied to the idea of the Mood Board. For many, especially those involved in home renovation Leicester, the Mood Board is an essential tool that enables the would be designer present their ideas visually, giving an impressionistic idea as to their vision for your room. It is more about presenting the atmosphere of the design ideas rather than a snapshot and is an incredibly clever way to ensure that a designer is on your wavelength before making a decision. Mood boards are generally concocted over a period of time after several meetings and conversations and provide that essential proof-positive that a designer is taking your requests seriously and listening to your ideas.

If you look at the Mood Board and think, “Wow, that is me down to a T!” then it can be extremely liberating, not to mention stress-saving to hand over the reins, trusting that the designer knows what you want.

What does a Mood Board look like?
A Mood board will probably look like a collage, with scraps of fabric and swatches of paint and perhaps a sample of oak wood flooring – all coming together to show the intended colour scheme. Of course it could well be a digital Mood Board (also known as a ‘Digital Mash-up’), which eliminates the designer’s need to find physical manifestations of his vision and can lead to a more accurate and expansive portrayal of his desired atmosphere. An effective Mood Board will be roughly to scale in that each swatch and sample will take up the same sort of space on the board as it will in the relevant room in proportion to the other samples. This makes it much easier to visualise just how well the fabrics, tones, textures and shades will work together.

Just the beginning
For designers and project managers like Craven & Hargreaves the Mood Board marks the moment at which mutual trust and understanding is achieved and represents the first step on a journey that will end with your dream room or in more expansive projects, your dream house. A Mood Board is a very intensive and highly intuitive tool and so it makes perfect sense to make the most of that connection and retain continuity throughout each step of the process to ensure that that everyone remains on the same page.