An interior created by a designer certainly implies a full-scale replanning, finishing work, and specially selected furniture. But the element that gives an interior its finished individuality, quite deservedly, is considered to be the details and accessories.
If you are your own designer, treat the details with complete seriousness. What is the general principle? The created interior should be perceived like a painting, in which every stroke, every brushstroke contributes to the creation of the whole canvas.
As in any process concerning decoration and adornment, taste is especially important here — and taste implies moderation and appropriateness. What does that mean? The diversity of possibilities in interior decoration leads some amateurs, and even professional designers, to try to use everything, all at once, and as much as possible. The result is not just bad taste, but something resembling a little shop where things have appeared by chance and are piled up in disorder. Moreover, do not get carried away with eclecticism: in an apartment furnished in a high-tech or modern style, baroque statues, Masonic porcelain, and an inlaid little table are not quite appropriate. Ethnic motifs, panels, and curtains made of natural materials, on the other hand, will fit in perfectly.
What can be interesting when decorating an interior with various accessories? First, the simplest thing: decorating the walls, paintings. Oil paintings and tempera works, watercolor miniatures, engravings. You can use metal items, embossing (chasing), or woodwork with elements of dried plants. The main thing is to weave them into the overall canvas of the interior, to enliven it, but not to clash with it. Something new and interesting: buy special stickers — wall decals in the form of patterns, vector drawings, or figurines. They should be applied to a smooth painted surface or simply plain wallpaper, preferably in light tones. Another possibility is decorating the walls with paintings made by an artist-designer specifically for your interior. As a rule, they are simple, abstract, but the color and arrangement of details in them are impeccably chosen.
Another way to diversify an interior has recently appeared: functional objects. Thus, a heating radiator can be a glowing color panel, with or without a pattern, or a marble fireplace adorned with cast elements. Mirrors, too, can be used not so much for reflecting one's own appearance as as an unusual detail designed as a visual puzzle.
Vases — floor and table, glass, ceramic, metal, plastic — should be considered the most convenient detail of an interior. As a rule, it is hard to make a mistake here, since they are mobile and can create an unrepeatable color scheme. Choose several completely different ones — and fill an empty corner of the room with them. Or place a single vase with tall dried plants near a smooth wall and thereby delimit the open space.
Flowers, of course, can bring any interior to life. You can visually narrow a room by twining the walls with ivy, and make it seem taller by placing trailing plants in planters on the walls. The large dark leaves of a monstera look striking in a light interior; a composition of cacti and succulents is good in a high-tech interior, especially on glass stands.
A decoration such as a screen, with or without a pattern, looks very curious and lively. Visually dividing the space, it is also an additional artistic detail — and a portable one at that.
And finally, any textile details — curtains, rugs, napkins — are an invariable feeling of coziness. It is believed that this is precisely the stroke called the "woman's touch". And therefore, even if the apartment belongs to a single man, it makes sense to bring a drop of warmth into the interior.
Whatever you buy for your apartment — a figurine, a casket, or other trinkets — always try to remember that it should be not just a pretty little thing, but part of a single whole, a detail of your interior.
