Are you looking for some great home decorating ideas? Ideas can be derived from literally anywhere – from food packaging, music videos, films, cartoons, and of course from more conventional sources such as seeing items of furniture and design concepts in magazines, shops or real-life contexts like a friend’s house, hotels, and restaurants.
Creative home decor is an excellent way to showcase your personality through interior design. The only way you can be truly happy in your own home is if the interior design choices reflect your personality, where you can enjoy and be yourself. Our home is the one place where we should always be able to relax, unwind, and play.
What type of Decor Ideas are you looking for?
Ideas by Style
22 French Country Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
What does it take to bring French country decor into your home? Over the years, no matter how many new interior design trends have come
13 Mid-Century Modern Decor Ideas to Bring the Past to the Present
Mid-century modern decor includes its own furniture, colors, lighting, and more. Here is everything you should know about mid-century modern interior design style. What is
21 Bohemian Room Decor Ideas for a Boho Chic Look
Cool, classy and relaxed are words used to describe Bohemian decor. If you think that you exemplify these characteristics, then a breezy Bohemian decor should be your interior
13 Coastal Decor Ideas for a Cozy and Inviting Beach House
Coastal home decorating and interior designing is the magic of bringing all the beach, coastal life, and marine life that you know and love from
Decor Ideas by Room
32 Top Cozy Living Room Ideas and Designs
Decorate & design with the best warm and cozy living room ideas. Snuggle up, light a fire, and relax as you look through my top
Country-Based Decor Ideas
18 Japanese Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
Are you inspired to design your home using Japanese home decor? There are a few words to describe Japanese decor and those are simple, minimalistic, and natural.
11 Spanish Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
Spanish home decor is unique and striking in its rustic style and simplicity. Spanish decor is recreated across the world, and it’s easy to see why
21 Parisian Decor Ideas to Make Your Home Feel Like a French Escape
Say Bonjour to Amazing Parisian Decor! Do you want to know how to go about decorating with Paris décor? If you would like to create
18 Tuscan Decor Ideas to Make Your Home Feel Like an Old Italian Villa
Rich Tuscan home decor will make your home a standout with a look of luxury! Tuscan decor is all about richly-colored furniture and accessories, comfortable
21 Americana Decor Ideas for an All-American Look
Any true blue American will love Americana home decor. Decorating your home in Americana decor is all about using the old stars and stripes everywhere!
21 African Safari Decor Ideas for an Adventure in Your Living Room
Wild and bold prints are the best descriptions for African Safari home decor. The African inspired home decorating style makes use of animal and tribal patterns
21 Moroccan Decor Ideas for a Touch of Exotic Beauty
So you would like to create a lovely home with Moroccan decor. There are several accessories that will make you feel that Moroccan vibe soon
Animal-Based Decor Ideas
Elephant Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
The Biggest Elephant Decor Ideas! HUGE Art for your Walls! Add elephants into your home decor and turn your home into a wisdom-filled, and calming
24 Rooster Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
Cock-a-Doodle-Do to these Great Rooster Decor Ideas. Rooster decor might seem like an unusual choice, but it’s a popular trend that has a proven timelessness
26 Horse Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
Giddy Up with these Amazing Horse Decor Ideas. If you’re crazy about horses then I’m sure you will love to decorate your home with horse
36 Peacock Decor Ideas (Decorating Guide)
Is peacock home decor the right choice for your living room? Your home will definitely be a more colorful and more stylish with these 40
Social Media Trending Decor Ideas
21 Creative Aesthetic Bedroom Ideas for a Giving Makeover
Even though trends come and go, there will always be a place for creative aesthetic bedrooms that we’ve all seen on TikTok, Pinterest, and Tumblr.
16 Aesthetic Room Ideas for Making the Perfect Room
When transforming your bedroom into an aesthetic room, you can go all in and incorporate all of the design and decor features I mentioned in
Pop Culture Decor Ideas
22 Star Wars Home Decor Ideas That Will Make You Feel Like a Jedi Master!
Many Star Wars fans want to bring a piece of the action into their own home with Star Wars home decor, which can be done
How to Decide on a Home Decor Style
The most important thing when looking to be creative in your home decor is to try and explore new things. Stay true to your own personal tastes, and understand that inspiration can occur anywhere, even in the most unexpected of places.
Here on Decor Snob, my goal is to help you find interior design inspiration. Below you will find a growing list of home decor ideas and interior decorating styles.
We are all creative people, to some extent, even if we consider ourselves as being more logical and practical-minded. Applying that creativity and our own personal ideas is how we make our homes our own. That stretches from creating unusual color palettes or quirky room layouts to designing and building your own home furniture. We all portray a home makeover differently in our own minds and use creative skills to create the best home we can.
An interior is not only meant to be beautifully decorated but is supposed to create or evoke a mood or feeling and to reflect the personality of an individual or family living in the home. Before painting and rearranging your furniture, maybe spend some time thinking about your family and how you live. Look through magazines for home decorating ideas to draw or rooms that appeal to you. Maybe take inspiration from your possessions or your hobbies. The decor of your home should evoke comfort and good memories.
Finding Inspiration
For some of us, creative and personal design choices come easily. But others will need a little bit of a push or time seeking inspiration.
If you aren’t coming across any decorating ideas that get your creative cogs turning in your mind, don’t despair. Research is as much about figuring out what you don’t like, as exploring what you do like and can adapt to your own home.
To get your room or home exactly as you’ve dreamed, the research can be the longest, but the most fun, part of a home decoration makeover. By spending time on bringing your ideas to life and paying attention to the finer details, you’ll be able to reap the rewards when your new home reflects your taste perfectly.
Research will also show you products and ideas you never thought possible or were aware that they existed. So make sure you dive into your project with an open mind.
Basic Interior Design Principles
Interior design ideas are more than just the addition of eye-catching fixtures, fittings, and furnishings – you really need to know how to put a room together. Here are some basic principles for you to follow:
Focal point: You need to establish the natural focal point of the room (the first thing to meet the eye as soon as you enter a room). This could be a fireplace, a window, or even a built-in bookcase. If you do not have a natural focal point of the room, try to create one using a dynamic work of art or colored area rug.
Furniture: Determining whether your current furniture is right for the room and the impression you want to make. If the pieces that you currently have do not work or are too big or small for the size of the room, then consider buying new furniture, or alternatively swapping for something else around the house that may be more convenient.
Lighting: Lighting should be chosen for the functions of the space, as well as visual appeal. Accent lighting can improve texture and color, and highlight details within a room.
Furniture arrangement: Draw your room on planning paper first, with accurate measurements. Next, measure your furniture and put cut-out plans of it onto your floor plan, to see how things can fit in different spaces. Generally, you should try to direct the major furniture pieces in the direction of the pivot point, and keep open a main corridor for access to seats, bookshelves, etc. Strive to achieve a balance between tall and short pieces of furniture – this is something that is not easy to represent in your plan unless you consider color-coding your furniture in the plan according to size.
Enjoy using these practical tips for coming up with your own interior design ideas.
How to Collect your Ideas and Inspiration
We all arrange our ideas and inspiration in different ways. Our brains all work differently and we use different tools to help us arrange our interior design inspiration.
Make a Scrapbook or Mood board
One of my favorite ways to play and register what I like is with scrapbooks and mood boards. Scrapbooks are a great way to record anything – notes, lists, pictures, drawings – in one place for reference.
Another method is creating a mood board. Mood boards are a more concentrated collation of colors, prints, and notes, that gives an essence of what you want your room or home to eventually become.
Save Paper, Use Pinterest
If you prefer a keyboard and a mouse over pen and paper, Pinterest is a popular digital tool for collating images onto different “boards”. You’ll notice that I have a Pinterest button on every page of this website, so if you find any ideas you want to keep, just Pin It!
23 Responses
please post some bedrooms and closets..I LOVE your designs!! You are so very inspirational!!!
Thanks, more home decor styles are on the way. It’s so time-consuming finding great photos to showcase.
A rising star for 2017 is blue (which I LOVE). I would love to see some photos that showcase a mix of navy and cobalt to showcase a room. If we want to get even crazier, I would love to see blues mixed with mod geo designs and a splash of warm metallics mixed in. Fantastic blog and fantastic inspiration!
As a new homeowner, your blog has given me so many decorating ideas! Bold design decisions are so hard to make because there are so many what ifs: what if I hate it, will this match my furniture, will this affect my resale value. This article made me realize that this is MY home and it’s a reflection of me and no one else. My favorite decor style is Parisian, but it looks so expensive. How can I incorporate that simple elegance into my home without breaking the budget? Do you know any affordable websites, or perhaps DIY projects that will help me establish a Parisian vibe?
I love the Bohemian and Spanish decor styles! However, I think that the designs where there is an option to modify the design easily are the absolute winners. No one wants to live in the same decor for decades, but changing the whole set of furniture is costly. So my bet is on the Spanish one, because it’s clean and minimalistic, yet colorful, thanks to the cushions and the wallpaper, and changing these cost less than changing the whole design. Do you have any tips for those who like to change the design often?
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I love African Safari Decor so much !
Thanks a lot for sharing this amazing helpful post !
Sure, we have a pages dedicated to Paris Decor styles – https://www.decorsnob.com/paris-decor/ and also French Country Decor – https://www.decorsnob.com/french-country-decor/
The holiday season is coming and most of us are redecorating our homes, I’m looking for some inspiration to redecorate our home. I agree that we should trust our own taste upon finding inspiration with our home decor. I would suggest having a theme so you can avoid mismatching decors which aren’t very pleasing to the eyes. Thanks!
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing!
For me, the best part of your article is when you talked about the importance of exploring new things when looking to be creative in your home decor while maintaining your personal taste. My sister visited me today and told me that my house looks lifeless. Because of this, I felt the motivation to do some renovations by adding some equipment. For me, it is important that the decors that you will buy will complement the overall style of your house. I will make sure to remember all your tips when looking for a home decor.
Now that is the best collection of Ideas for decorating interiors. Definitely would try using some of these.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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To make the house beautiful every single little things plays more vital role. I like your point to be creative while home decor and maintaining your personal taste at the same time. Beautiful images with article and Thanks for the suggestion.
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I personally like Mid-Century Modern decor it looks warm and comfy. Nice blog by the way. Thanks for sharing these great ideas.
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I just love these home decors. Especially the Coastal Decor. The most interesting one is definitely the desk one, And that wall painting is just amazing Such creative post! I absolutely love this idea. Thank you.
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