Principles of Design: Harmony

Harmony
Harmony was created in this olioboard with beach and water. This was created using lots of blues and water pictures.

Principles of Design: Proportion and Scale

Proportion
This olioboard shows proportion by the different sized items throughout the room that don't fit.


Scale
This olioboard shows scale with the items all being small for such a big room.

Kitchen Design

The kitchen I designed is for a family living in a subarb area.
I used the U-Shaped kitchen.

Bedroom Design

Design Your Home to Sell: Fast and For the Right Price

The goal of staging a home is to make the home look appealing to potential buyers. You do this in order to sell your home faster. There are many ways to stage a home to make it more appealing. This article will give you some tips on how to stage your home to make it sell.
Tips:
1) Get rid of the clutter in your house. Take out all the items that don't need to be there. This makes the buyer think there is a lot of space to put their own things in.














2) Paint your walls a neutral color. If your walls right now are bright pinks or greens, paint them a more neutral color, like tan. Bold colors will reduce the offers that people put on your home.




3) Get rid of the odor in your house. Do this by baking cookies to give the aroma of baking in the house. This gives the buyer a homey feel.











4) Move all the furniture away from the walls in your house. Keeping the furniture away from the walls make the room look more roomey and larger.


 
5) Clear the closet in the rooms. If the closet is organized it looks like there is much more storage space.


These tips can all be used to stage your home. They will help your home sell faster and for the right price.

 

Housing Styles: Accesories

Gabled Roof

• A gabled roof is the triangular section of a wall formed by the end of a pointed roof. 

Gambrel Roof

• A roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope having a steeper pitch. 

Hipped Roof

• A roof with slopes on all four sides. 

Saltbox Roof

• A long, pitched roof that slopes downwards to the back.

Mansard Roof

• A roof having two slopes on both sides.

Bay Window

• A set of two or more windows that protrude from the wall. 

Casement Window

• A window that opens by swinging inward or outward, like a door.

Clapboards

• Long, narrow boards overlapping to cover the outer walls

Dormer

• A vertical window in the roof. 

Eaves

• The portion of the roof that projects beyond the wall.

Fanlight

• A semicircular or arched window above the door.

Palladian Window

• A three part window featuring a large arched center and flanking rectangular sidelights.

Pediment

• A triangular crown used over doors, windows, or porches. 

Portico

• A large porch, usually with a pedimented roof supported by columns.

Rafter

• A roof beam sloping from the ridge to the wall.

Sidelight

• Windows on both sides of a door.

Turret

• A small tower, often at the corner of a building. 

Housing Styles

Tudor Home

• This house is classified as a tudor home because of the steeply pitched roofs, the chimney, the gables, and half timber.

Neo-Classical Home

• This house is classified as a neo-classical home because of the giant pillars in the front, the porch above the pillars, and the very formal look to the home.

Queen Anne Home

• This house is classified as a Queen Anne home because of the turrets, the long porch, the bay window above the gable, and the elaborate trim.

Bungalow Home

• This house is classified as a bungalow home because of the long, low pitched roof and the gable dormer. 

Ranch Home

• This house is classified as a ranch style home because of the porch, the attached garage, the windows in front, and because of the single story. 

Prairie Home

• This house is classified as a prairie style home because of the horizontal lines dominating the house and the narrow bricks.

Spanish Colonial Revival

• This house is classified as a spanish colonial revival home because of the flat roof with red tiles, the arched entryways, and the decorative balcony. 

International School Home

• This house is classified as an International School home because of the glass windows throughout, the functional and geometrical shape of the house. 

Cape Cod House

• This house is classified as a Cape Cod house because of the large, central chimney, the gabled dormers, and shaded facade. 

Colonial Revival- Dutch

• This house is classified as a Colonial Revival Dutch because of the gambrel roof and the front shed dormer. 

Neo-Eclectic

• This house is classified as a neo-electic because of the palladian window, decorated by front gables.