Is your home refurbishment Leicester project all ready to start, but you find yourself sitting there staring at blank walls unable to decide on a direction? Our little guide aims to show you ten handy tips to free yourself from your creative block and set your imagination in motion.
1: Phone a friend
Everyone has that one friend who’s full of ideas. Sometimes their flow of inspiration can be nauseating but on occasions like this their input can be invaluable, so put your pride in the back seat, make the call and soak up the ideas.
2: Hire a designer
It is something of a myth that designers are the domain of the rich and famous. The input of a designer can be tailored to most budgets and you can’t put a price on the years of experience and of course the passion and dedication to fine design that comes with all good professional designers.
3: Create those boards!
The design equivalent of brainstorming, pin-boards and of course their popular virtual equivalent enabled on sites such as Pinterest not only provide a great visual aid, but help to get your creativity in full flow.
4: Go to open houses
It might feel a little cheeky to arrange an appointment to look around a promising house from an interior design perspective, with no intention to buy, but believe me you won’t be the first to do it! You never know quite when you’ll come across an idea that you can steal for your stalled project.
5: Go window shopping
Have a look around some interior design shops and look for colours, textures, materials and other details that you feel an affinity towards.
6: Use a virtual room
Trial and error is often the best way to reveal the winning formula. Online virtual rooms offer that facility without the expense and blood, sweat and tears!
7: Paint swatches
Paint swatches are neat, but there can be an element of overkill in covering your walls in blocks of different colours and sometimes you can’t see the wood for the trees. There are numerous ways you can restrict your potential choices, for instance by looking at how mood is influenced by colour and the BBC page has a good article and uses a colour wheel.
8: Incorporate some of your interests
Without becoming twee or cluttered it can be a great idea to use your hobbies and interests to guide your design. For instance a bird-watching enthusiast can choose some interesting tiles that feature our feathered friends and nautical folk can introduce some shipping antiques or up cycle a ships wheel for example.
9: Go traveling
If your budget can stretch to a bit of a backpacking trip then surely there can be no better way to find little snippets of cultural influence that can make all the difference to a design project.
10: Go for it
Make a start. You can always tweak your design along the way, but no project can be completed without taking the first step.