According to designer Vicente Wolf the secret to achieve a great room relies heavily on the mixture of furnishing and accents.
- According to him if you put together a space with colour, texture and different arrays of styles then it will be likely that your décor will have a much longer life.
- Your accessories that you will use for decoration will keep your space by getting locked to one time period and accessories also give a room a thematic look.
- Contrast and contradiction help in making the best of both looks to come into view. According to Wolf to achieve such a view something refined should be kept beside something primitive.
- Use elements of the current period with the old period to bring in similarities and contrasts. Look for elements that say the same thing but come from different periods.
- Use different coloured paints and fabrics as they can give a completely new look to a common piece of furniture.
- Always remember that opposites attract. A good example can be of a sleek white Saarinen table which looks wonderful when it is surrounded by dark elaborately carved Anglo-Indian chairs.
- Nothing is more attractive than a dining table set with a perfectly matched silverware and plates. Delicate French Limoges China when mixed with clear glass dishes or Fiesta-ware with Chinese blue and white is a good idea for setting up your dining table.
- Remember that irreverence is appealing. Wolf suggests that Aubusson rug that is laid down on a concrete floor cuts the edge of the concrete and the concrete underscores the softness of the rug.
- Adding an architectural fragments such as a building cornice and mounting it on a wall as if it were a console table gives a contemporary room an antique dimension and adds more weight to featureless space.
- There’s safety in numbers. Group Italian Baroque candle-sticks on a slip glass and brass table. Use at least three candles for decoration.