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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Interior design is a form of art which makes places beautiful and useful, people thinks, interior design is just to make places beautiful, but this is not true, interior design makes place beautiful as well as useful.
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<p> <strong>Interior design</strong> is a form of art which makes places beautiful and useful, people thinks, interior design is just to make places beautiful, but this is not true, interior design makes place beautiful as well as useful.</p>
<p>Home Sweet Home, that’s old saying and have you ever think what these words say, home have everything you need, home provide you things which you need in different times. if it don’t have everything you u<span id="more-369"></span>se in everyday life and doesn’t have pleasant environment your life will be painful. That’s the key of <strong>interior design</strong>, giving pleasant and beautiful environment while making it as useful as possible.</p>
<p><strong>Interior design</strong> gives you inner satisfaction, the people who lives in beautiful houses or work in beautiful offices know this satisfaction, this gives your soul a happiness which cant be explain in words, whenever you come back to home from somewhere, the first step you put inside your house gives you pleasure, when you think about your room, your bathroom, your kitchen or whatever you have in your house you feel pleasure inside and this way your days and night are more happy, you work better your relationship with your friends and relatives better and your life becomes more and more pleasant and at the other hand your home can be a horrible dream if it doesn’t have everything you like in your living style.</p>
<p>Home environment plays very important role in your life or if I say home environment can ruin your life or at the other hand make it successful than its not wrong, peoples lifestyle change with environment, you have seen many people who are not very rich, but because they work in 5 star hotel or in organization where environment is very luxury, their lifestyle shows this very well, even though they are not very rich, but they live like rich people, there environment make them to change their lifestyle.</p>
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<p>InteriorDesignTalk.com is an interior design consulting firm, at <a target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.interiordesigntalk.com">http://www.interiordesigntalk.com</a> you will find many easy and useful tips of interior designing.</p></p>
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		<title>Colour Me Brightly! Understanding Light in Interior Design. Part IV: Conclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call “Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design,” I draw on my experience in London’s interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This fourth article concludes my series.
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<p> Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call “Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design,” I draw on my experience in London’s interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This fourth article concludes my series.</p>
<p>Linear light patterns can focus on either the horizontal or the vertical metric<span id="more-359"></span>s of a room. A given wall-light technique can create an immersing halo effect, if the interior designer uses concentrated super-bright light at high level that gradually fades out towards the base. Some <a rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalinteriordesign.com/">London Interior Design</a> consultancies specialise in choosing continuous sources, such as a miniature tungsten rack for a soft light or overlapping fluorescents for a cooler light. This is an effect that works very well in contemporary interior designs, where light can be concealed between the wall and the ceiling in a crevice in order to take the place of the traditional cornice.</p>
<p>The best method of illumination for interior designers to use when creating patterns will depend on the interior, and also on the direction of windows (natural light in London can be very seasonal). A smoothly plastered wall can jump into existence with a dappled arc wave from closed-offset down-lighters but if the interior design feature lies in the texture and in the structure or hue of the wall, then a more uniform spray of light will emphasise the wall’s best perspectives. A splashback tile solution at the rear of a shower or bath is a good interior design choice for the arc wave effect, as is a Venetian blind in a London kitchen. A wood-panelled hall or study is often a compelling interior design feature, and accordingly it would be better lit with an even light that does not detract from the feel of the wood.</p>
<p>Shifting from instant to instant and from a London dawn to a dappled full seasonal moonrise, the impacts of illumination and shadow are phenomena we almost disregard. But London’s top interior designers know that patterns of light can actually transform our emotions with respect to the interior forms that engulf us. By bringing to life walls, floors and ceilings with light-focused interior designs, pattern-making is yet another realm of illumination that can brighten our spaces and enhance our quality of life.</p>
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		<title>How Interior Design Consultancies Use Lighting &#8211; Artificial and Natural Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Interior design consultancies understand light in all its forms. In London, lighting is crucial to interior design consultancies that need to create stunning results. In this, the eighth and final article in my series which I call “DeLIGHTed by Design,” I continue to draw on my experience working with some of London’s Top Interior [...]]]></description>
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<p> Interior design consultancies understand light in all its forms. In London, lighting is crucial to interior design consultancies that need to create stunning results. In this, the eighth and final article in my series which I call “DeLIGHTed by Design,” I continue to draw on my experience working with some of <strong><a rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalinteriordesign.com/">London’s Top Interior Deign Consultanc<span id="more-365"></span>ies</a></strong> to explain this exciting area.</p>
<p>When most schoolchildren are asked to think of the countryside, they often imagine the hot, shimmering flicker of a bonfire on a crisp autumn evening or the comforting flare of a scented candle. But how is an interior design consultancy to re-interpret these fabulously earthy and atmospheric scenes for, say, an elegant central London flat? The answer is artificial light.</p>
<p>Interior design consultancies recognise that artificial light is available in many different shades. It is similar to the situation with paint, where buckets that are labelled “white” can actually contain a multitude of different tones. Interior design consultancies employ colour professionals who know that the cool white light of an energy-efficient bulb creates an entirely different effect from the warm yellow-orange tones of a tungsten filament. In London, low-voltage halogen options are often used in darker flats where there is a need to add light during the daytime. Interior design consultancies will install dimmer switches that allow homeowners to reduce the brightness of halogens at night, causing them to adopt a more husky yellow-red glow that is akin to an ancient lantern or oil lamp. By contrast, lamplight is too yellow for most interior design consultancies to include for daytime use, and indeed it can lead to sleepiness or lethargy at work (one of the reasons it is almost never seen in London offices). But at night, tungsten lamps become much more warm and welcoming.</p>
<p>Some interior design consultancies have a love-hate relationship with fluorescent lighting options. These fixtures often emit various shades of white, ranging from a very cool, almost daylight tone, which can be quite crisp, to a warm, rosy streetlight glow. Some interior design consultancies love fluorescent lights for London kitchens, where they illuminate workspaces but save on electricity bills. However, other interior design consultancies stay well away from fluorescent options because their colour does not change as they are dimmed. Fluorescents merely become less bright under such conditions, which can contribute to an unattractively dull, and almost grey, lighting effect.</p>
<p>That brings me to the end of my series &#8220;DeLIGHTed by Design.&#8221; Thank you for letting me share with you about how London interior design consultancies create fabulous lighting schemes!</p>
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		<title>Colour Me Brightly! Understanding Light in Interior Design. Part II: Perforations and Glass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call “Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design,” I draw on my experience in London’s interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This second article talks about how to create [...]]]></description>
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<p> Professional interior designers are expertly trained in the use of lighting features to create breathtaking results. In this four-part series which I call “Colour Me Brightly: Understanding Light in Interior Design,” I draw on my experience in London’s interior design community to explain this fascinating subject. This second article talks about how to create patterns using illuminated materials.</p>
<p>Any perforated textile, when lit fro<span id="more-360"></span>m the back or from the inside, will speckle adjacent forms with pattern, from point strips and pirouettes to constellations and dazzling laser specks. The professional interior designer can use the trim of a window covering to create fabulous banding across a shiny floor covering in the London summer. Some interior design firms love to use ornamental metal lanterns to paint fiery asteroids on walls and furniture, while light projected through a sculpted screen can create magnificent abstract outlines in expressive contemporary interior design schemes. A factory-inspired metal stairwell with perforated treads – of the type often reinterpreted for ultra-modern interior design schemes – can throw tiny checkmarks of light onto local furniture when exposed to a bright London sky in springtime. A fabulous option with a wooden staircase would require the interior designer to specify a grit-washed tread, to deliberately throw stunning shadows from the rail onto the adjacent wall. Abstract wire-mesh sculptures by local London artists can engender powerful interior design emotions, with the pattern even becoming more important than the object itself! Interior designers can expressively use perspective to distort the pattern from complete realism, when lit front-on, to Baconesque abstract enchantment when illuminated at an acute angle. The same effect can be created by using mirrors to refocus natural light from bay windows in some of the more luxurious London residences.</p>
<p>Glass is another popular tool for patterns. A frosted glass table can be lit from above with a halogen downlighter to cast intricate outlines of reflected light onto the ceiling, and the interior designer can even use positioning to cause refracted light to splash abstract patterns onto the floor underneath the table. I have seen some <a rel="external nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.globalinteriordesign.com/">London Interior Design</a> consultancies deliberately illuminate trophy-style glassware on display shelves from the front so that the etching on the glass throws deep shadows that recapitulate a core design theme.</p>
<p>In the next (third) article in this series called “Colour Me Brightly!” I will reveal another secret of London’s interior design community: how to create patterns with opaque objects.</p>
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