Interior Decoration

Interior decoration is one of the parts of the architecture. Architecture is an art of man at first devoted to the erection of tombs and temples which was changed to take care of comfort by providing with habitations. Interior decoration is the art of decorating a house or a room to make it attractive, easy to use and functions well with the existing architecture. The main aim of interior decoration is to provide comfort for the room by applying wallpaper, painting walls and other surfaces, choosing right furniture and fittings, such as light fittings, floor plans and providing other decorations for the area such as paintings, sculptures and carpets. The real aim of interior decoration is as remote from mere imitation as it is from mere eccentricity no other than the creation of a beautiful and fitting home. In a fine sense interior decoration is one of the creative arts.

In addition to home interior decoration involves cabinet making, room layout etc and host of other design parameters that go in to making a home. The objective or the aim of home interior decoration is to functionally improve the home and make it reflect the taste and personality of the dweller at the same time. Innovative home interior decoration ideas, which cost less but at the same time giving the impression of an ornate design scheme are in vogue for new career professionals and newly married couples. The new trend of life-styling has given home interior decoration industry a boost. Focus has changed to harmony and function compared to uniqueness and good looking. Interior decoration has changed more drastically over the past fifteen years. Keeping track of new trends is essential for interior designer.

Interior decorating is done professionally by interior decorators. It is considered as a design field. Interior design involves influencing the integrity of the interior space as well as the creation of a lifestyle experience through the study of human behavior.

A theme is needed for interior decoration. A theme is a consistent idea used throughout the room to create a feeling of completeness. These themes follow period styles. It is not necessary to be consistent with a specific period of style allowing the mixing of pieces from different periods. Every element should contribute to form or function or both and also maintain a consistent standard of quality and combine to create the desired design.

The interior color of the house determines the moods of visitors and the family residing in that house. Interior decoration is all about making the house to home and office into a wonderful workplace. Working environment in office comes when there are appropriate interiors and living environment in a house comes from serene and cozy home like surroundings. Before people used to decorate their homes but nowadays decorating offices has also come into great practice. The main idea of decorating homes is to make it a proper and better dwelling place. Pooja rooms for the Gods are present in most of the Hindu houses. Before living inside the house it has to be furnished. The furnishing should be beautiful and comfortable so that it affects the people inside the house favorably for the quick recovery from fatigue of mind and body, for happiness, for wider and higher interests and for a fuller and comfortable mode of living.

Interior decoration is in an emphatic and peculiar sense an art of selection and arrangement. It is clear that this art require dexterity of hand or skill in craftsmanship for its successful practice, but rather skill in selection and arrangement. For an interior decorator a taste of beauty, order, congruity, proportion, symmetry and excellence is necessary. Interior decoration is a very broad category depending on the owner's decorating preferences. It includes everything from the colors of the walls to the plants placed in a room for ambience.