Shopping do's & don'ts for your home

You have chosen your paint hues and your decorative wallscapes or wallpaper and now it's time to go shopping to fit out your room with furniture, soft furnishings and decorative pieces. You have decided to style your home or room in a contemporary style. 

This blog is here to help with our do's and don'ts when it comes to shopping. 

Don't 
*Expect to find all your items in one visit, if you try to do this, your likely to have mismatch of colour shades and the overall aesthetic look, will feel rushed and unthought out. 

*Go shopping without measurements and a tape measure. Guess work can result in you having to return unusable purchases and spending cash that could end in wasted time and cash. 

*Think that shopping purely online will help you be,  budget savvy and complete a design in a timely manner. This is particularly important for spatial awareness and the 3 colour room rules.  While dimensions are there to help you make the right purchase, how good are you at visualisation and interpreting measurements?

*If your buying an investment piece, don't buy on impulse especially if you're going for the Bold and Maxamalist look you'll need to give yourself breathing space before you commit.  The other great idea is to shop around to find more affordable or extravagant pieces that could save you enough to invest into some other items for your project. 
 
*Forget to speak with a member of the stores team.  They maybe able to recommend other complimentary contemporary objects and furnishings in addition to the reason why you went in.

*If contemporary is the aesthetic look your wanting to achieve then it's worth looking at who is trending in terms of the most recent contemporary design and establishing where they are exhibiting for example or do they have a concession in a large store or indeed have a pop up store of their own? Design Masters, the TV Show, is a great example of this as a concept as Lia (the winner), won a prize to have a collaboration with NEXT Homeware and design items that are completely unique and contemporary with her style influence.

*Be sure to be clear on what style your hoping to achieve.  If it is contemporary then what is this? Go take a read on the Contemporary interior design Style on our Socials today. 

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