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Cushions: A Low Cost Home Interior Beauty Solution

Thu 08 Mar 2007 - 15:22

Cushions: A Low Cost Home Interior Beauty Solution
By Abas Kamal Bin Sulaiman

You get home everyday to the same home. Is your home interior starting to look boring to you? An interior decorating overhaul can be a costly proposition. However, there is a cost effective way to make your home interior look more comfortable & beautiful.

A low cost beautifying solution is to decorate your home with cushions. Cushions are useful to provide comfortable seating, complement your resting spot, & also bring attention to the space it resides. Even old cushions can be refurbished to give your home a "facelift" or a fresh new look. Change their covers or wrap them in ribbons. Then apply safety pins to their backs. The safety pins should secure the ribbons in place during normal usage.

Various shapes & sizes

Various shapes & sizes of brand new cushions are available for purchase at home appliances stores near you. Start with your home furniture. Plain wooden benches tend to look bland. Use cushions to make them look inviting and appealing. Large cushions will provide good back support for you to lie down in comfortable positions on a hard wooden bench. Small cushions will give the impression that the wooden bench is not for lying down but only for seating. Cushions can also be placed on wooden chairs as to make them more comfortable during seating.

Another tip is to place a pile of cushions of various sizes on a carpet at your favorite home resting spot. Add a mattress & comforters to the combination then you will have a make shift bed at your disposal.

Colors & motives

Colors & motives of cushions will also help you realize an interior decorating theme for any single room.

Your plain old sofa will look more appealing with a few well chosen cushions. Choose a color & motive of cushions that best suits your sofa. Try not to have too much of a contrast in the combination nor make it too visually similar to the original design. The cushions are meant to compliment the sofa rather than to overwhelm its appearance.

A patterned sofa should be combined with plain colored cushions to change its overall appearance. Similar pattern cushions will make the sofa look congested while frustratingly retaining its same old looks.

A variety in texture

Cushions made with different types of material offers many a relaxing experience to your touching senses. It may be used to reflect the ground of an earthy theme when placed on the floor or even braided to give extra panache to an ornately textured Moroccan style room. Alternatively, you can provide new satin cushion covers & give a classy look to your once humble abode.

A numbers game

Placing cushions on a bed will enhance it as a focal point in a bedroom. A few well chosen cushions placed around the bed pillows will be sufficient but you may want to group more of them together to satisfy your comfort level. You may also want to place the cushions in cluttered or stacked arrangements of your preference.

Cushions give you a variety of options to improve your home interiors without you having to spend much money on the occasion. Also, they will come especially useful when you have guests staying over at your home. Have cushions ready as a quick & efficient solution for your guests resting needs. Provide you, your family & welcomed guests with a good cushioning start to a pampering experience in your own home.

Abas Kamal bin Sulaiman is a homemaking enthusiast minus the urge to spend money on expensive interior decorating. He writes on a variety of homemaking based topics. Visit http://abassterinternational.blogspot.com

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