Interior
Design
Complete guide on how to design and furnish your home
Lefosse Angelica
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DEDICATION
I dedicate this book to the people who are the pillars of my life.
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My Mother, my Father, Pasquale, Elena , Tommaso
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Many believe that to make a room "BEAUTIFUL", or more generally a house, it is necessary to purchase expensive furnishings, install construction details with fine finishes, or adorn the house with sumptuous and expensive decorations. I can assure you, from personal experience, that this is absolutely wrong, in fact, reading this book, you will understand that a few things in the right place are enough to create comfortable and functional environments furnished with personal taste. I state, however, that this book is not an Interior Designer course, to become one you must attend a suitable and certified school, but it is an excellent guide full of suggestions that will lead you step by step to the optimal design of your home, starting from the basics of a furnishing project up to the choice of style, colors and accessories that come closest to your tastes. I deliberately put the word BEAUTIFUL in quotes to make you dwell on the fact that beauty is very subjective, each person has their own tastes and opinions, so what you like is not always liked by another person.
I understand that with this premise you might think:
But if I bought a house with my partner, which style should we choose?
Or
How do I know if the interior designer that I would like to contact has my same taste in furniture?
At work I often experience contrasts of styles that also go against my personal tastes, but you must understand that when you decide to renovate a house where more people will live, it is mandatory first of all to find a furnishing style that will satisfy everyone . This is in fact the task of the interior designer to be, in addition to a designer, also a mediator between the clients, he must put aside his own personal taste to cope with that of the customers as they will be the ones who will live in that house.
1. THE TECHNICAL DRAWING
Before starting to move or buy various furniture and furnishings, we must study where and how to position them in the various rooms of the home. We can decide this thanks to the resized floor plan of the house, created using a representation scale, which will help us to bring the entire house plan on a sheet, on which we will then place our furnishings as we see fit.
STAIRS OF REPRESENTATION
The scale of representation is the numerical relationship between the dimensions of the drawing on the sheet and those of the real object.
The most used stairs in the field of interior design are the following called reduction stairs:
SCALE | MEASURE REAL | MEASURE DRAWING |
1:50 | 1 m | 2 cm |
1:100 | 1m | 1 cm |
1:200 | 1m | 0,50 cm |
The scale of truth is used to draw an object with real dimensions.
SCALE | MEASURE REAL | MEASURE DRAWING |
1:1 | 1cm | 1cm |
Once you have decided which stair to use, proceed with the Relief of the house.
The Architectural Relief
The architectural survey is the collection of essential data to reconstruct the shape of an architectural work through the detailed study of the structural dimensions and materials of which it is composed.
The architectural survey has several stages, but I will focus on the technical one, that is measuring the house or the environment chosen to furnish with the most suitable measuring instruments (tape measure, electronic meter, etc.)
First you need to draw by hand on a sheet the plan of the chosen environment by inserting all the construction details such as perimeter walls, windows, interior walls, pillars, etc., after which it will be necessary to measure the dimensions of the latter and report them on the plan drawn previously.
Do not forget to also measure the diagonals are necessary to determine the exact geometry of the rooms, they are measured starting from one corner of the room to end in the opposite corner.
These measurements are called triangulations and are mainly used in environments that do not have straight walls or where there are many architectural details.
See figure 1
Figure 1
Once you have taken all the dimensions you will have to recreate the plan again on a new sheet but this time in Scale, the most used for an entire house is 1: 100 while if you need to furnish a single room I recommend using 1:50 .
2. THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS OF THE HOUSE
Any construction erected by man with a residential or working function consists of different architectural elements with different functions, some are load-bearing such as beams, pillars, floors, load-bearing walls, and must not be tampered with at all, others can be modified without causing damage to the building , such as partitions, doors, windows, stairs.
To modify the interior, the interior designer only has skills in the non-load-bearing ones, but if it is necessary to intervene on load-bearing walls, it will be necessary to contact a qualified technician (architect, engineer, surveyor).
The floor
The floor is made up of several layers: the attic, the substrate and the flooring.
The latter is the layer that most interests us, and I dare say, one of the most important elements of the house because it is present in all environments and it is what will decide the type of tone (warm or cold) that we would like to give to the house.
The floor can be covered with different materials the most used are:
Wood, marble, porcelain stoneware, terracotta, resins.
Wood is a material used for homes since ancient times, for flooring it is used as parquet or wooden planks side by side following the type of installation that is preferred, the most common are the deck ship, herringbone, squared, straight laying, inlaid with particular designs.
Parquet is a type of floor whose costs vary depending on the type of wood you choose, it will create a warm and elegant environment but it is a very delicate material that you will always have to take care of with detergents specially created for parquet.
It can be used in almost all styles of furniture as long as you choose the most suitable color tone and grain for the chosen style.
Marble is a type of highly prized material found in nature, depending on the substances it is made of, it can have different colors and veins. Originally a large slab is cut which will be further cut into the desired shape and laid, then it will be smoothed to give it clarity. As for wood, marble, being a natural material, is very delicate so it must be treated with specific detergents.
