Utilising Glassware To Enhance Interior Decorating
Interior design has changed a great deal with each generation and era. What was popular one year was out of fashion the next and key periods in interior design can be identified by the materials that were in vogue at different times. It has often been the case that interior design fashion was influenced by the aristocracy and glassware has always been an important part this. There has long been an association of luxury attached to high quality glass products due to their cost. This, among other reasons, is why glass has been used in every era of interior design and has never lost popularity. But how can glass be used to its best abilities?
Minimising colour scheme. Whilst coloured glasses can look very attractive, it is all too easy to get carried away and mix too many colours of glass vases or glass bowls together for example. This will only ever result in a room looking like Santa’s grotto, and too many colours are hard for the eyes to process all at once. If you limit your colour pallet to just a few colours, but use subtle differences in their shades, you will create and much classier and more professional finish.
Use to improve light. Glass has an amazing ability to scatter light and illuminate wide areas of a room that would otherwise be left in the dark. This works better with thinner and lighter colours of glass but with enough light entering it, darker colours can look great as well. In rooms with low light, you can place some vases or wine-glasses near the window and it will help move the light deeper into the room, and avoid it being concentrated in only one area.
Mix with rough materials. Quite often in interior design it is the materials that are most different which work together best. Due to the fact most glass has a smooth and shiny finish, it works very well in combination with rougher and more opaque colours. A pair of whisky-glasses and decanter set to a background of concrete or brushed steel works really well for example. Or what about using a glass chandelier against an artex ceiling (not that artex looks good)?
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