If you want to redecorate, you must be thinking about the textiles that you will use in your redecorating scheme.
There are quite a few fabrics that can play a function in a redecoration project, such as carpets, some wall papers, such as flock, furnishings, cushions, lamp shades and wall hangings like tapestries and embroideries.
You can use the textiles in these items to fashion a decoration theme more than any other set of items.
You can buy old furniture, but it is expensive, you can buy old paintings, but they are costly, but textiles can be new yet still convey different atmospheres for little cost.
Think of the fabrics and colours that you would need to convey primitive, Eastern, Hispanic, Victorian or contemporary themes.
Let's say that you would like to decorate your home in a Victorian style.
It is true that it would be good to have some old furniture, but what will really make the style scream 'Victorian' is the textiles.
You have to think of Victorian houses: they were fairly substantial (unless you would like to live in a hovel), and they were drafty.
This meant that the fabrics were weighty to hold back drafts.
You could hang flock wallpaper, have heavy, lined curtains, lamp shades with tassels and weighty bedding with a real eiderdown or patchwork quilt.
The funny thing is that although Victorian fabrics were very heavy, they tried to make them look very feminine, or maybe that was why they tried to make them look more feminine.
However, men provided the earnings and women ran the home in those days, so that may be why too.
Therefore, there were lace edgings, lace trims, tassels, beading, velvet and brocade.
Embroidery exam pieces can sometimes be picked up fairly cheaply, but they are often handed down through families too.
A modern style or theme would have lots of bright and frequently contrasting colours.
An extreme variation of modern style is minimalist with plenty of black and white but with maybe one splash of yellow in a corner somewhere.
This style can be difficult to achieve, can be unsettling, but can be stunning as well.
It is reminiscent of the Sixties.
Some people try to recreate an Eastern or Oriental style, but you have to be cautious because otherwise you will end up with something that no Easterner would recognize.
A bit like Charlie Chan and western style curries.
You will be told to use pictures and figurines of elephants, tigers, dragons, carp and geese or ducks.
This is all very well if you would like to persuade your Western friends that you have an Oriental theme of decoration, but not many Orientals would recognize it.
It is very problematic to get this theme looking authentic unless you are from the Far East or you get an Easterner in to help you.
Jades and silks could form a part of this styles along with some figurines.
Be very cautious of attempting to imitate a style you know nothing about.
There are quite a few fabrics that can play a function in a redecoration project, such as carpets, some wall papers, such as flock, furnishings, cushions, lamp shades and wall hangings like tapestries and embroideries.
You can use the textiles in these items to fashion a decoration theme more than any other set of items.
You can buy old furniture, but it is expensive, you can buy old paintings, but they are costly, but textiles can be new yet still convey different atmospheres for little cost.
Think of the fabrics and colours that you would need to convey primitive, Eastern, Hispanic, Victorian or contemporary themes.
Let's say that you would like to decorate your home in a Victorian style.
It is true that it would be good to have some old furniture, but what will really make the style scream 'Victorian' is the textiles.
You have to think of Victorian houses: they were fairly substantial (unless you would like to live in a hovel), and they were drafty.
This meant that the fabrics were weighty to hold back drafts.
You could hang flock wallpaper, have heavy, lined curtains, lamp shades with tassels and weighty bedding with a real eiderdown or patchwork quilt.
The funny thing is that although Victorian fabrics were very heavy, they tried to make them look very feminine, or maybe that was why they tried to make them look more feminine.
However, men provided the earnings and women ran the home in those days, so that may be why too.
Therefore, there were lace edgings, lace trims, tassels, beading, velvet and brocade.
Embroidery exam pieces can sometimes be picked up fairly cheaply, but they are often handed down through families too.
A modern style or theme would have lots of bright and frequently contrasting colours.
An extreme variation of modern style is minimalist with plenty of black and white but with maybe one splash of yellow in a corner somewhere.
This style can be difficult to achieve, can be unsettling, but can be stunning as well.
It is reminiscent of the Sixties.
Some people try to recreate an Eastern or Oriental style, but you have to be cautious because otherwise you will end up with something that no Easterner would recognize.
A bit like Charlie Chan and western style curries.
You will be told to use pictures and figurines of elephants, tigers, dragons, carp and geese or ducks.
This is all very well if you would like to persuade your Western friends that you have an Oriental theme of decoration, but not many Orientals would recognize it.
It is very problematic to get this theme looking authentic unless you are from the Far East or you get an Easterner in to help you.
Jades and silks could form a part of this styles along with some figurines.
Be very cautious of attempting to imitate a style you know nothing about.