HELE

1. HOME
FURNISHING
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2. Home furnishing help you to make your
dream house come true. Every person wants
their house to be a reflection of themselves, but
don't know how to go about making it real. We
will help them realize their dream of having a
beautiful home.

4. Home furnishings refer to the different
kinds of linen, furniture, fittings, flooring and
the bundle of other accessories used for
decorating and beautifying our homes. It
includes a wide range of bedspreads, furnishing
fabrics, curtains, rugs, carpets, placemats,
cushion covers, table covers, bed spreads, bath
linen and much more.

5. Planning of Home Furnishing
• Creativity - ability to produce new ideas or
things using skill and imagination.
• Art - Creating unique effect of charm in a
house by reflecting refined and cultured taste
of the members.
• Good taste - Set up the home pleasant ,
agreeable, excelling , interesting , satisfying to
ones own needs

6. Objective of Home Furnishing
• Beauty - It is the art of adjusting the space and
equipments to suit the fundamental and cultural
needs of the family and create a pleasant
atmosphere. An awareness of good design and
beauty is an integral part of the individual.
• Expressiveness - the quality which differentiates
one home from another. It reflects markedly the
very personality of the occupants.

7. • Functionalism - To provide comfort , service
and pleasure apart from furniture and
furnishing.
• Furniture must be arranged that it meets the
needs as eating , sleeping , studying, relaxing
of the family. No areas should be
uncomfortable or uninviting ,nor bits and
pieces lying around making movement
difficult.

8. Interior Decoration
It is a creativity which can transform an ordinary
house
• Planning color schemes
• Overcome structural defects
• Judge quality and care of furniture
• Judge good styling , mix and match style harmoniously
• Helps to handle walls and drape windows
• Plan light for efficiency , beauty and aesthetic
satisfaction
• Express individual taste and preference within economic
limitations.

9. Elements and Principles of Design and
Art
Elements Principles
• Line Balance
• Form Proportion
• Texture Emphasis
• Pattern Rhythm
• Light Harmony
• Space
• Color
= (To Attain) Beauty + Expressiveness
+Functionalism

10. Selection of Fabrics
• Style
• Color
• Durability
• Thread Count
• Fade Resisting
• Tailoring
• Form and Fibre.
• Fibre Characteristics: Text Book

11. Carpet
• Gives expensive look
• Quality depends on:
• How it is made ?
• Fibre
• Quality of fibre used.
• Density of pile

12. Types of Carpet
Woven Carpet Bonded Carpet
Tufted Carpet

13. Care of Carpets
• Carpets should be daily cleaned using
vacuum cleaners. Brooms should be used as
well to get rid of hair (esp. pet hair, if you
have cats or any other pets at home).
• Wash your carpets once annually or bi-
annually at laundry facilities. You may choose
to call a specialized company to get an
indoor cleaning for your carpet.

14. • If the carpet gets stained with juice or any
other similar substance, it should be washed
immediately, with no delay, as such stains are
harder to remove if left unwashed.
• Small carpets must be placed at the entrance
of the house as this helps keeping dust away.

15. Carpet - Terms
• Rug - A single piece of floor covering made
with a pattern or a border with fringe.
• Area rug - Smaller rug used to emphasize an
area.

16. • Scatter rug - Very small rug used to
complement room .
• Wall to wall carpet - difficult to clean as it is
difficult to shift, traffic lanes appear.

17. Choice of fabric
• Principles of design
• Personal and family use
• Cost
• Weaving
• Utility
• Beauty
• Comfortable- stain proof
• Colour
• Wear and tear
• Durability
• Quality

18. Pictures
• Select the picture in proportion to size of wall
,large picture for large wall and small picture
for small walls.
• Leave sufficient empty space around the
picture.
• Hang all pictures with the bottom edge in one
line. Irregular hung picture looks unattractive.

19. • Pictures to be often placed over a sofa, table
or fire place.
• Smaller pictures can be grouped together for
greater impact.
• Hung pictures in pleasing proportion to
furnishings and walls –create sense of balance
and unity in interiors.

21. Flower Arrangements
• Arranging flowers gives you a chance to
participate in an art activity, to express
yourself creatively, and to make your home or
room more livable and attractive.
• Flowers are not expensive and are very
refreshing ,colorful and provide a lot of
variety.
• Choose flowers whose color does not clash
with colors of walls, curtains ,sofa.

22. • Select the flower vase of appropriate size.
Small vase for large flowers and tall vase for
small flowers
• Place the arrangements where it can be easily
seen and appreciated
• Keep the size of the arrangement according to
the place it is meant for.

23. Styles in Flower Arrangement
• Modern style: Highly individualistic
composition. No fixed rules and employs
unorthodox materials for making flower
arrangements.

24. • Traditional : Full symmetrical groupings of
mixed flowers displayed in a highly decorated
ornamental vase-colourful, expensive. Large
blooms and deep hues are placed in the
center, pale colors are used as outline .
• Round or oval arrangements depending upon
setting and plant materials

25. • Oriental style - China , Japan , Egypt has been
practiced with great skill for many years.
They are more aesthetic groups of plant
materials. Symbolic presentations of an ideal
harmony which exists between earthly and
eternal life.

26. • IKEBANA -The Japanese Art
Used as constant decorations in
Japanese home. Guest are welcomed and
bought to sit and admire the beauty of
flowers for a moment or two silence.

27. Curtains and Draperies
Curtains and draperies are chameleons. They work
hard at blocking light and sound, heat and cold. They're
also extraordinarily decorative and add enormous
personality to a room.
Drapes are pleated and are more formal.
Curtains are informal and it can be easily made.
Both can make the window more appealing with
extended flows of fabric.

28. Curtains and Draperies
• It changes the apparent size , shape and character
of a room or the architectural awkwardness
• Small rooms look larger if curtains and draperies
blend with and extend the length of walls
• Low rooms look higher if draperies go from ceiling
to floor.
• Drapes and curtains control privacy ,light , heat
and noise.

29. Functions of Curtains and Draperies
• Help in maintaining privacy
• Control heat and light inside the room
• Absorbs and smoothen noise
• Add beauty to the room
• Help modify shape and size of the room
• Curtains hide architectural faults of the room
• Brings coziness to the room

32. Draperies
• Found with glass curtains , large doorways as a
separating part of a room.
• They are heavier and do not necessarily pull
across the opening they cover .
• They are loosely hung.
• Used for decoration purpose

33. Selection of Curtains and Draperies
• Small rooms look large if curtains and draperies
blend with wall.
• Rooms of low ceiling give an appearance of
height if diagonal lines are used on curtains.
• Plain curtains should be used in rooms that have
more patterns in them.eg many pictures and
pattern in furniture.

34. • Plain curtains can be used with plain walls so
as to give a sense of continuity and
spaciousness
• When choosing curtains with patterns ,size of
room ,general color of the furnishing should
be kept in mind. If there are too many
windows ,pattern of curtains should be less
striking .