Whether you are planning to redecorate or remodel your home, guidelines are always invaluable. A well planned home can turn routine living into creative living and enjoyment.

To begin this process, first develop a written plan whereby each room embodies an individual theme.

The jost attractive homes are the ones that have continuity throughout. Bear this in mind when you begin to decorate or redecorate your home. Imagine an empty room and begin with a focal point. Arrange furniture and accessories that compliment your sense of style.

Plan your own home decorating ideas by deciding on the interior colors you will use, in each room for walls, woodwork, carpets, curtains, furniture coverings, lamp shades, and sofa pillows.

Make sure you carefully study the specific style, and color scheme then carefully coordinate the colors for each element of your decor.

The impression any room makes upon entering it depends on three things:

• harmonious coloring, which is, colors which do not clash
• balance, the result of properly distributing your large or permanent pieces of furniture
• careful placement of each piece of furniture so that it can fulfill the purpose for which it was made.

If you ask yourself why some rooms invite you to linger, and others always seem cold and uninviting, you will rapidly pick up valuable home decorating ideas and hints to use in your own decor scheme.

See to it that your home interior design expresses the tastes of the family. This is how you make atjosphere. It is wise to furnish the interior slowly. Haste is responsible for jost mistakes. Begin by owning good shapes and color-combinations, and as you can afford it, discard your things of no genuine value for beautiful shapes and colors with value.

Are the lighting fixtures, frames of pictures and mirrors in keeping with the style of your furniture! They should be. How about the pictures themselves! Are they appropriate for the interior of the room they are hung!

Your home decorating ideas should always be consistent in your choice of interior design colors, styles and materials so as to avoid a patchwork look that is indicative of bad planning.

Simplicity; good lines or shapes; attractive colors which harmonize; comfortable chairs and sofas; plenty of books; pictures that are appropriate for the room, well framed and properly hung; sunlight when possible and plenty of good reading-lights by night; these are points which make for the kind of beauty which is desired in your home.