Window Treatments home > Site Information Center > Interior Design

Interior Design

Click here to see our selection of products for your Interior Designs.

To design the interior of any room, it’s best to go over the basics first. Consider what the dimensions of your room are and what the basic shape is. What are the room’s problems? Is it too narrow? Does it have a focal point? What are your room’s assets? Does it have elegant molding, a rustic fireplace?

· Draw out a floor plan, using a ruler to denote doors, windows and floors. Your interior design will depend on anything in the room that is permanently attached to your walls and floors.

· Make a list of the items that you can move around, basically, your furniture.

· Your floor plan can help you visualize where to place furniture, how many furniture pieces will fit into your room and where the traffic paths need to be. But it won't reveal other key details, such as your room's personality and the height of its walls.

· If your room has low ceilings, keep your furniture lines low. Choose sofas and chairs with low backs, unless you're an unusually tall person. For personal comfort, seatback height should be closer to your shoulders than to your waist.

· Warm, dark, matte colors advance space. Use them if you want to make your room feel smaller and cozier. In a room that's overly long and narrow, you can use warm colors on the shorter walls to pull them forward and make the room feel squarer.

· If your room has an awkward shape, or a lot of built-in obstructions, or an off-center focal point, use your furniture arrangements to visually divide your room into a series of more manageable "mini-rooms" within the room.

· Create a clustered seating arrangement in one area of the room, say, around a fireplace. Remember, you don't have to place all your furniture against the walls. Create a separate arrangement – a grouping of plants, a chaise, a desk or a piano – in another area of the room to balance it. Use area rugs to enhance definition.

If your room has a particularly attractive feature, such as a fireplace or picture window, let it be what the eye goes to first by making it the most colorful or elegant feature in the room and/or centering your furniture arrangement around it.