Now I realize that this is only a one hour course.
And in that one hour you will learn a lot
about how to pull together a well-designed room.
But for those of you who are anxious and looking for a way to
make a big impact in your space right now,
in this lecture is definitely for you.
I am going to show you how adding just three elements
to a room will make it look instantly more polished,
pulled together, and frankly, just downright better.
I use these three elements all of the time in my work.
Either in staging homes for sale or with clients who don't
have a lot of money to spend and are just looking to refresh their space.
Are you ready to hear what these three elements are? I know you are.
So here they are.
A rug, drapes and greenery.
Let me now show you what a big impact these three elements have on a room.
Take a look at this dining room I put together in room sketcher.
It's not too bad, right?
We have a farmhouse style dining table,
a nice coordinating buffet,
a console table opposite the buffet,
a pretty iron chandelier.
And we even have some artwork over the buffet,
which is nicely proportioned.
But watch what happens when we add each of these three elements one at a time.
Watch how we will take this room from good to great.
First, let's add a rug.
I'm going to pull the blue out of the painting and choose blue gray rug.
By adding this rug, we have just grounded
that dining table and added texture and interest to the wood floors.
In a later lecture,
you will learn how to choose the perfect size rug for any room in your home.
Now let's go ahead and add some drapes.
We have a nice size window.
But when those and rooms always look better with curtains or drapes,
for many reasons, it softens the edges of the window.
It adds texture to the walls.
It allows you to repeat other colors that you have in the room,
which is always a good thing to do with color.
And it also allows you to adjust lighting and privacy in a room.
So I'm going to go ahead and add in some light gray drapes which reflect
the colors we see in the picture and in the undertones of the rug.
Wow, what a difference that makes doesn't it?
Instantly, we have softened the entire look of
the room and we have added some depth to our walls.
Later in the course, you will learn how to choose the right height drapes and also
how to take inexpensive off-the-shelf drapes and make them look custom.
Ok.
The room is looking good,
but I am not done yet.
I always, I repeat.
I always add greenery to a room,
whether it's real or foe.
Although I prefer real if possible,
greenery simply always mix a room looked better.
So because I also like formal symmetry,
I am going to add some matching trees to each corner of
the room and a vase of tulips to the buffet to the left of the picture.
Look at how much interest in color these items add to our dining room.
Did you notice that I chose yellow tulips to
reflect the yellow that we see in the painting.
Again, look for a way to repeat color throughout the room as this is very important.
Now let's once again look at where we started.
And now let's look at how much more beautiful this room looks by simply adding a rug,
drapes, and some greenery.
You too can do this with your own spaces.
I challenge you.
Take any room in your home apart from your kitchen and try this out in one of your rooms.
I am sure that you will love the results.
I hope you found this lecture helpful and easy to follow.