Home Décor to Complement a Room with a View
by: Katrina Foulkes-Taylor
Redecorating a room with a great view? Here are some tips!
In this article, we will explore decorating ideas centred on rooms with incredible views. Whether you live in an urban dwelling and have spectacular views of the cityscape, have a beach house with a serene view of the harbour, or a mountain home with a view of layer after layer of rocky or misty mountains, your décor should focus on your masterpiece—the beauty of your outdoors.
Neutral wall colours will help focus eyes straight towards the view. Use touches of complementary colours to stand out in other places such as sofa pillows, throws, and area rugs. A room with big windows or a large patio door will bring in a lot of natural lighting, which your room is going to reflect. Think about how the accent colours you choose will be reflected in the natural lighting.
This room is all about the view, so many homes refrain from adding sheers, curtains, drapes, or shades that hide the beauty. However, large blackout lined drapes that can be pulled across the window will help you conserve heating and cooling costs, since large windows will definitely contribute to the overall temperature of a home interior.
After painting, think about the room’s function. Is this a bedroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, or are there great windows all throughout the house? Start with the functional pieces in the room like beds, sofas, dining room tables; the essentials. The style of home furnishings often mirrors the natural themes created from the view. For example, a mountain retreat may use dark wood tables, leather sofa furniture, and other pieces complementary of rustic décor inspired by mountain nature.
Great views beckon guests into a room, and so consider how your décor accessories can accommodate your guests. Start with the view! Maybe a telescope or binoculars on a tripod will help them see some of the fantastic sights! Extra sofa cushions, pillows, floor cushions, throw rugs, and area rugs create a more welcoming seating area for your company to sit, talk, and gaze on their view.
If you are also decorating a dining room, make sure your dining room table looks inviting while still fitting into the view-inspired room theme. There are many elegant table linens including linen tablecloths, tea towels, linen napkin sets, and seat cushions that can add to the theme. All of these things are available through The House Queen, an online decorating and home goods resource. The Pure Linen placemat with wintery trees would be perfect the dining room with a great view of a city park.
The overall goal is to synchronize the décor so that everything is consistent, and complements the best feature piece of the room: the view!
About The Author
This is a feature article from The House Queen: your go-to resource in home decor. For more helpful decorating information, visit The House Queen website at http://thehousequeen.com.au/ or the House Queen Blog at http://blog.thehousequeen.com.au/.
The House Queen, an online source for home decor, is a family owned business created by Katrina Foulkes-Taylor. In the wide open country of Western Australia, bringing refined taste and style into a home required traveling great distances, time, and money that couldn’t be sacrificed. However, there was a great demand, and The House Queen was born.
Katrina responded to the need by not only supplying products and accessories for the entire home, but by also posting helpful decorating advise from constant study of interior designers, home stagers, home improvement editors, and other experts in the field through her blog and informational articles posted online. The author invites you to visit: http://thehousequeen.com.au
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