Timeless Style – Homes
If you’re thinking about buying your dream house or perhaps remodeling your current home, you know what a time-consuming process designing and decorating a home can be. To avoid another remodel a few years down the road, follow these tips from Audi Silver Spring to ensure that your home is timeless:
Accept reality
The first thing you must understand about creating a living area that’s timeless is that you will inevitably be affected by trends. The key to making a current trend timeless is to avoid extremes and choose a trend you really like. Remember that some things are easier to change than others. A room’s timelessness can be extended, for example, with something as simple as a coat of paint or new window coverings. It’s exponentially more difficult to rip out cabinets or replace recessed lamps.
Decorate in context
Unless you custom-designed your home, there are limitations that must be considered in order to give it a timeless look. You can’t, for example, hang a giant chandelier from an 8-foot ceiling. The context of your life must also be taken into consideration. Drastic changes in style may not coincide with your lifestyle. Keep in mind this doesn’t mean you can’t implement elements of extravagant style in certain portions of the house; it just means you should proceed with caution.
Change gradually
You don’t need to do everything at once. Your home is a work in progress. Start with the kitchen and bathrooms. Head to the guest area or living room. Finish with the bedrooms. And who says you have to do the entire kitchen at once? Maybe your cabinets are classic, but your appliances need to be updated. Gradual changes to your home’s interior or exterior will make it less likely you’ll choose extreme trends, and more likely your changes will blend the old with the new in a way that will keep everything tied seamlessly together.
Stay simple
If you’re looking for timelessness in your home’s style, you’re much better off keeping it simple. How simple you want to be depends on your tastes in home fashion. Think of your home like you would your clothes. You looked fabulous in your wedding dress or tuxedo, but you only wore it once. That black dress and conservative suit and tie has looked good over and over and over.
Get what you like
If you don’t like your house’s style, it doesn’t matter how timeless it is. Your likes and dislikes should be the ultimate factor in the difference between a timeless home and one that will be tiresome in a few months. Revisiting the clothes analogy, think about your home as a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. This clothing style has been in fashion for decades, but if you don’t like T-shirts and think jeans are uncomfortable, you’d be foolish to stock up on this "timeless fashion."
It’s your home. Love it for life.