What’s Shining in the Redesign 2 Shine World?
Welcome to my blog. I’ve been wanting to write my thoughts for a long time now, so what better time than now? It’s not quite 6:00 am, and I’ve been up for 2 hours already. (Take note, this may happen to you, as you grow older).
I’m hoping that my blogs will inspire you. I expect them to be my musings about design, creative how-tos, and info on items that I’ve bought or seen at some of my favorite shops. By the way, I love to shop, bargain shop to be exact, so I expect there will be a lot of talk about that.
So, to begin, what is redesign? It’s a funny word, that has to be explained. Redesign “revises the appearance or function of something.” As a verb, redesign makes a new design for something. To break it down, redesign takes what you have in your home, and uses it in a new way. Let’s face it, we can’t always dump the sofa we got as a hand-me-down from our parents. So, how can you use it differently so that it’ll feel like you bought a new sofa? Can you change the position? Can you take some chairs from another room to add life or downplay the sofa? As a professional redesigner, I look at the architecture of the room, see what the focal point is, and ask lots of questions about how you use the room. You can try it to.
I had a neighbor recently ask me if she should switch her living room and dining rooms. Her dining room is quite small, and she has large furniture. Her living room is rarely used. So I say yes, switch away. Let your dining room furniture breath in a larger room. The smaller dining room can then become a cozy reading room, or quiet room for conversation. Redesign is all about how you use a room in your home, not how the house was originally designed. What room in your house could be repurposed to be more useful?
Tags: color ideas, design, paint, redesign, shopping, staging
