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Inviting and Casual Interior Design Style Tips

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The days of having a formal lounge and dining, separate from our casual family room really are becoming a rarity. Instead, people are opting to live a more relaxed casual lifestyle and desire their homes reflect this. How can you archive a more inviting and casual interior? There are a lot of elements that make up a casual interior ranging from furniture layout, selection, fabric, print, texture to colour and well so much in-between.

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How To Choose The Best Art For Your Home

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The right piece of art can really increase the visual interest of any space.  Have you ever walked into a room and been captured by a unique piece of art that took your breath away?  I love rooms like that, people love rooms like that we all want to have rooms like that.  Let’s talk through how you, can get a room

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Let us do the leg work for you. We can recommend, order, deliver and have art professionally hung and stylish decorator pieces in place to compliment your company’s vision, create an environment that motivates staff and impresses clients. Access our 10 years of interior design experience to achieve all of the above effortlessly and to budget.

 

What you get:

  • Access to over 17 years of design experience
  • Personalised service – we come to you
  • A Digital Moodboard showing how your new space could look
  • All the details are handled, we will order the art and decorator accessories and arrange delivery to your office
  • Art is professionally hung
  • Office is styled by our Interior Designer
  • A new look interior office that comes within budget

 

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We are Your Decorator, so the first thing we want to do when we arrive at your office is get to know you, gain an understanding of your company and the space in question and we do this by gleaning a client brief. We will take notes, measure and assess your space.

We will then go back to our office and use the information we gathered at our appointment with you to begin to put together your Digital Moodboard. This is a document that will have our recommendations on it, of what we believe is the best styling solution, based on the information you have told us.

We then make a time with you to present your Digital Moodboard. It is very important that we go through and discuss our ideas with you so that we can explain our thinking behind the recommendations and more importantly it also gives us the opportunity to get feedback from you and make changes as needed.

Once you are happy with your Digital Moodboard and the proposed styling direction we implement it for you, art and decorator accessories are ordered, once it all arrives we come to your office with our professional art installer and style your office for you.

 

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Have you ever worked in an office that is bland and uninviting to you, other staff and visitors alike?

We all have.  Today I wanted to chat about what are some easy improvements that can be made to office spaces that will make them more inviting to all users and still align with the company brand and image and be professional

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How To Hang Art

Originally published 2013. Updated January 2025 

What size art for where and how should I hang it? How can I create a show-stopping gallery of art as a feature? What height should my art be placed at on a wall? These questions and more are often asked of me when I’m on a consult so today I thought I would write a blog post to help you all with your art displaying and hanging.  I’ve also had some help from the professionals along the way too.

If you have been working with My Decorator, your designer will have a specific height in mind for the piece as it will be in relation to the furniture that is sitting below it, or near it.  Interior Designers often create groupings in a room, and art is part of this visual group.  Often ensuring art hung above a lounge or hall table will still relate to the room and not be so high that it is no longer relevant to the overall look they are wanting to achieve for you.  

I would also recommend opting to use our professional art installer that will professionally hang your art for you.  If you are working with My Decorator this can be arranged to happen on Styling Day, when your designer will be in the room with the art installer to recommend ideal placement and height too.  

If you don’t have a designer assisting you, as a guide always hang your art around eye level.  Eye level when standing and seated, so it’s a little lower than what we would consider standing eye level height.  Meaning that the middle of the picture should be at 1450mm from the ground.  See the formula below, that Maxwell Ryan from Apartment Therapy uses to achieve this, he also says (or has heard on the grapevine) it is the formula that art galleries and museums use too.

What size art should you choose?

As a general guide choose a piece of art, or grouping of art that is narrower than the item it is sitting above.  However you want to also consider scale, you don’t want to hang a small a4 piece of art above a 3 seater lounge for example you want to coordinate the visual scale of the art with that of the lounge.  You also want to consider visual weight too, if you have a light coloured lounge, we wouldn’t recommend a dark piece of art.  Lastly you want to take into consideration other pattern and print in the room and tie this in, along with colour scheme too.

 

 

Step by Step Guide to Hanging Your Art

A. Measure from the floor up your wall to 1450mm high and lightly mark

B. Measure artwork height and divide by 2 (this gives you the center)

C. Measure top of your picture to the tightened wire (a small amount)

D. Subtract (C) “tight wire” amount from (B) 1/2 height amount for the “to the hook” amount. This will tell you how far above 1450mm your hook should go

E. Lightly mark wall just above 1450mm with the “to the hook” amount

Example:

A. Picture is 508mm tall

B. Middle is at 254mm (this mid point should rest at 1450mm)

C. Wire comes to 50mm below the top 

D. 254mm – 50mm = 203mm

E. Lightly mark 203mm above your first mark OR 1651mm on the wall

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1450mm + 1/2 picture height minus pin to top of picture = where to place hook

How to Create a Gallery Wall

Consider grouping your art together for more impact rather than scattering the pieces on various walls around the room.

When creating a gallery of art select art that is similar in colour scheme so that it looks harmonious to the eye when it is hanging on the wall.  Choose lots of different size pieces of art to make up your gallery and group the art so that they are evenly spaced but look visually appealing.  You can also add  three dimensional items to the mix to create more interest for the eye as well.

Be careful with the scale of your art.  If you have high ceilings and large rooms you can hang larger art in your space.  

Below are some tips that I have put together for clients in the past that you also may find helpful.  I find the below 3M picture hanger works well as the hook is at the top meaning no matter where your canvas string or D ring is you won’t see your 3M picture hanger sticking over the top of your art work.

 

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3M Picture Hanging Strips, these are ideal for use when hanging a gallery wall.

 

 

 

Art can certainly add personality to a home, but the most successful interiors come from understanding how all the elements of your home work together.

Whether you’re considering introducing more art to your home, refreshing existing spaces, or creating a clearer vision for your home as a whole, it helps to begin with a plan.

A Design Consultation is the ideal first step.

Together, we can look at how you live throughout your home, identify what is and isn’t working, and create a clear direction that supports your lifestyle, preferences and future goals.

Sometimes the biggest transformation doesn’t come from adding more. It comes from understanding what your home truly needs.

If you’re ready to create a home that feels more cohesive, functional and reflective of the way you live, click the Book a Consultation button below.

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Sydney Fashion Week 2013 & what’s in store for Interiors

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Sydney Fashion Week was held in April 2013 and showcased the fabulous new fashion trends that we are not only going to see on fashionista’s but also in our Interiors. See this you tube clip for an overview.  I find that fashion always leads the way and influences what will be happening in Interior trends by about 2 years.

Fashion designers that showed their new ranges at Sydney Fashion Week 2013 were Aurelio Costarella, Whitney Eve, Toni Maticevski, Collette Dinnigan, Blesse’d are the meek, Carl Kapp, An ode to no one, Nana Judy, Akira and more.

Trends that are coming to your wardrobe and our interiors are:  Metallics; Brights in aquas, red violets, pinks, oranges; Warm based neutrals in varying tones of beige; 1920’s art inspired wasabi green, bisque, tapioca, chartreuse and still some remnants of greys.

So how is this going to translate into interiors?  I think interiors will steer away from the grey colourings with the steel metals to warm metallics like golds and warm based neutrals along with murky muted 1920 colours through to the brights that we have been seeing in fashion for the last year.  Interiors may also see the vintage and pastels theme continue.  Maybe the below mood board will give you a feel for what I predict we will see in our interiors in the next one to two years here in Australia.  What are your thoughts, would love to see your comments below.