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Interior Design, Interior Decorating & Interior Styling: What’s The Difference?

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Many people nowadays are familiar with the terms interior design, interior decorating, and interior styling, but only a few understand what they imply. These three terms appear to be pretty similar, however, there are several differences that distinguish them completely. If you want to design your home from a professional but you don’t know that exactly which service is preferable or convenient to you then, first you should know the exact meaning of these services, you have to understand it and then you can prefer what you want specifically. What Is Interior Design? Interior designing is one of the most creative, exciting, and extraordinary professions. Interior design is the consolidation of art, science, and technology that manipulates colors, forms, textures, visuals, space, and light to enhance the quality of human life. In another way, interior design means understanding the human behavior to create esthetically pleasing as well as functional spaces which will add meaning in...

BASIC PAINTING PROCESS

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  In India, however, we do not paint our homes ourselves. We simply hire a painter and assign all decision-making to him. To be honest, learning about the painting process can only help you understand what is expected from your painter in earlier days. But now you get so much information via the internet. Before starting the process you all should know i.e for every different wall treatment the process might change ex: If you want to paint on a textured wall, repaint on an existing wall, or if it is dampness on the wall. For every work there is a reason, so let's see the purpose of the painting  To hide defects in the surface to be painted, such as cracks, holes, patches, inaccurate levels, and unsightly offsets. To enhance the positive features such as offsets, windows, and so on.  To protect and strengthen the surface against the elements as described above and by applying a coat of paint that prevents normal cracking, peeling, staining, and dusting, etc. ...

HISTORY OF 20th CENTURY INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNITURE — PART 2

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Contribution of Eileen Gray Eileen Gray's early lacquered furniture had both Art Deco and Chinese influences. She progressed to elegant functionalism later on her sofas and tables, in particular, are highly original.                                   Eileen Gray                      A Retrospective of the Enigmatic Eileen Gray Following WWII, two distinct trends emerged in France: one promoting traditional historic styles for mass consumption, and the other promoting hi-tech and Scandinavian fashion for a niche market. Furniture development in England    Art nouveau and art deco, which emerged on the continent, was never fully embraced in England. Designers like Mockintosh, Mackmurdo, Webb, Shaw, and Voysey were working on a modern, simple style of domestic furniture in the spirit of the Art and Crafts movement without fearing the m...

HISTORY OF 20th CENTURY INTERIOR DECORATION AND FURNITURE — PART 1

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History Of 20th Century - Part 1 The 19th century had exhausted all the vocabulary of the old design, and creative people in all fields were searching for a new design continent like Columbus. What they sensibly did was dump what they had consumed, go back to the basics, and learn about different ways. There was also another application involved. The Clear Cut in the Past The design of the 20th-century furniture marks a clean break with the past. Something that never happened, even when civilization took over another civilization. Accepting the Industrial Revolution People understood the importance of the machine and acknowledged the increasing value of the machine and the dependence of the final effects of mass manufacturing on a good initial design suited to the machine and not to the craftsman. Then, from the late 19th century, the idea of simplicity and the superiority of feature over shape had spread. Influences of Social and Technology Changes There have also been major...