Interior designing is an art which can be done by the person having enough aesthetic sense. the students pursing B.Sc., Home science and Nutrition and Dietetics were having the course paper Principles Resource Management and Interior Designing can refer the slides for their academic purposes.

1. S. PREETHI
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
NUTRITION & DIETETICS
BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE,
TRICHY.
1. Accessories – selection, types, use and care of accessories
2. Traditional and Modern – Art, Objects, Pictures
3. Flower arrangement – principles, types and steps in
preparing flower arrangement

2. Accessorie
s

3. Accessories
– A noted designer has called
accessories:
– The small items that add utility
and comfort in a room…vases,
plants, throw pillows and pictures.
– Functional accessories:
– Lamps, ashtrays, waste baskets
– Decorative accessories:
– Pictures, sculpture, collections

4. Selecting
Accessories
– How can you unify
accessories?
– Color
– Period
– Material
– Formal/informal
– Proportions

5. Categories of
Accessories
– Lighting
– Wall hangings
– Table Tops
– Collectibles
– Sculpture
– Flowers and plants
– Party or holiday decorations

6. Accessories
– Types of pictures:
– Oil painting, water color, etchings, lithographs, photographs, needle
work
– Collector’s items:
– Posters
– How should you select a picture?
– Select one you enjoy.

7. Accessories
– Where should you hang
photographs?
– Intimate rooms
– Hallways
– A bare wall is…
– Better than a wall with the
wrong scale or type of wall
hanging.

8. Accessorie
s
– Tabletop accessories:
– Ashtrays, vases, candles, clocks,
bottles, carvings
– Where should you observe your
tabletop display when arranging it?
– From above and all sides

9. Accessorie
s
– Collectibles…
– Stamps, postcards, beer cans,
Chinese porcelain
– Places for plants…
– Hung from ceiling, placed on
window sill, tables, shelves,
stepladders, library steps,
pedestals, glass shelves, floor

10. Roles of
Accessories
– Emphasize focal point
– Give the room balance
– Emphasize the foreground or
background
– Orchestrate colors, patterns,
textures
– Act as a personal expression

11. Fireplace
– Hang a picture over the
fireplace
– Arrange objects on the
mantle
– Place interesting accessories
around the fireplace
– Frame the sides with
bookcases
– Place a gas log in the
fireplace

12. Painting
s
– To call attention to a large piece of
furniture?
– Put something on it, beside it, or over
it
– How do you emphasize a painting?
– Place it where it will attract attention
– Have direct light shine on it
– How do you emphasize a wall?
– Paint the wall a bright color or
wallpaper it
– Arrange accessories on it

13. Furniture
– To achieve balance in a
room…
– Art work can balance heavy
furniture on the opposite
side of the room
– Repeat patterns or colors (in
pillows, drapes, etc.) on the
opposite side of the room

14. Contrasts in
Interior Design
– Plain surfaces : Patterned accessories
– Patterned areas : Plain accessories
– Shiny textures: Dull textures
– Soft textures: Hard textures
– A room full of straight lines: Curved lines
– A calm room: Bright and bold accessories
– A wild room: Quiet and understated
accessories

15. Examples of Wall
Hangings
– Photographs
– Collages
– Posters
– Etchings, lithographs
– Maps
– Weavings
– Baskets
– Mirrors
– Fabric wall hangings

16. Guidelines for wall groupings…
– Consider the scale, proportion, and balance.
– The wall arrangement and the furniture beneath should seem
like a unit.
– Remember the golden mean
– Hang a large picture on an important wall at eye level.
– Keep an imaginary line around the outside of a grouping of
pictures, so that the arrangement will have unity.
– Usually use one more than one dominant grouping or picture in
a room

17. Guidelines for wall groupings…
– Hang pictures of moderate size so that the lower edges are even with the
lower edge of the largest picture near them.
– If furniture is arranged for formal balance, the pictures could be hunt in
formal balance.
– Straight lines can be relieved by curved lines.
– Uneven numbers are more desirable than even numbers and will be less
tiring.
– Avoid hanging pictures against figured wall paper unless the pictures are
matted or the subject is strong enough to hold its own against the wall
paper.
– Make a trial grouping of your wall arrangement on the floor.

18. Traditional
and Modern
– Art,
Objects and
Pictures

19.  ART - drawings , paintings,
prints, photographs, wall
hangings & sculptures add
personality of the room if
artistically chosen &
intelligently placed.
 Art work is chosen to
reflect the occupants taste &
interest.

20.  In terms of home
enrichment art works should
be chosen to evoke special
response with appropriate
framing & meritoriously
displayed.
 Original work of art is
rather an investment both in
terms of pleasure & value.

21. Traditional Vs. Modern Art
Traditional Modern

22.  Rooms are more appealing :
centers of interest.
 It is usually safe to select
themes & colors that keep with the
spirit of the room.
 Landscapes, Sea scapes, street
scenes, flower prints & still-life
pictures are all popular choices for
traditional rooms.

23.  They can be used in formal/informal
settings depending on their interpretation
and color.
 The textures & colors of the frame
used & mat : emphasis the picture, but
they should also be in harmony with the
other elements of the room.
 The law of area - proportion in
mounting pictures is vitally important to
establish beautiful effect.
 More interesting to group several
pictures than to use only one.

24. Traditional Vs. Modern Pictures
Traditional Modern

25. Traditional Vs. Modern Objects
Traditional Modern

26. Traditional Vs. Modern Objects
Traditional Modern

27. Traditional Vs. Modern Objects
Traditional Modern

28. Traditional Vs. Modern Objects
Traditional Modern

29. Traditional Vs. Modern Objects
Traditional Modern

30. Flower
Arrangemen
t

31. Beautiful and attractive home.
 Residential/commercial areas - decorating
with accessories : important role.
 Arranging flowers - liveliness to the room.
 No interior decoration completes without
the presence of a few flowers in a room.
 They add beauty & Charm to one’s
residential life.
 Today arranging flowers - fascinating
hobby to many house wives & it is a
specialized art.

32.  The arrangement of fresh flowers & foliage brings nature
indoors
 A good flower arrangement - convert a dull corner into a
lively, beautiful place
 It is to present a centre of interest in any event organized.
 Its purpose should be to bring in cheerfulness
 As fresh flowers are changed almost daily, a new detail is
added to the interior on a regular basis
 It is to express ones personality and aesthetic taste through
flower arrangement

33. Principles
Design
Balance
Scale
Rhythm
Emphasis
Harmony
& Unity
Colour
Environmen
t

34. PRINCIPLES – DESIGN & BALANCE
Structural pattern of floral
arrangement
Outline – clear & pleasing
No mechanisms should be
visible
Emphasizes on the use of materials
in a floral arrangement - stability to
the arrangement
Good balance - buds & smaller
flowers are placed on the top and
sides, larger & brighter flowers in
the centre of the design

35. PRINCIPLES – SCALE & RHYTHM
Proportions of different components
of the floral arrangement : base,
container, flower and foliage
The arrangement - at least one & a
half times the size of its container.
Texture, shape & colour must also
be proportionate
Emphasizes on directing the
viewer's eye along the main line
of arrangement
It is obtained by continuity of
line by balancing of curves and
lines
There should be movement,
flow of energy & life

36. PRINCIPLES – EMPHASIS & HARMONY, UNITY
Central portion of the floral
arrangement - flowers & foliage -
emphasized
Most important thing
This principle takes care of the
appropriate use of flowers & its
colours for the occasion
Colour, texture, sizes & shapes all
play an important role in building
harmony

37. PRINCIPLES – COLOUR & ENVIRONMENT
Colour - endless combinations,
contrasts : stimulating & variety
Contrasting ferns - enhance an
arrangement
Red & orange - create warmth
Blues & green - receding effect
The arrangement - fits into the
environment to be displayed
It also means planning the
design & taking the room &
background into consideration
where it is placed

41.  The element of line
dominates the art of arranging
flowers
 Very few flowers are used.
 They contribute height and
linear emphasis to the
arrangement
 These types of arrangement
are normally used in smaller
rooms
E.g, gladiolus and astromaria

42.  When large mass of
flowers are used, these
arrangements are called
mass arrangement
 These flowers are
usually round and big with
single stem and solid head.
E.g, Gerbera, Anthodium
etc.,

43.  These are mass
arrangements using the
element of line as the
dominant element of art
used
 This arrangement is also
called as “Hogarth curve”

44.  This is the easiest one to
arrange
 The height and the width
may be on the right or on
the left
 The focal point is at the
base
 A flat container is often
used

45.  A rhythmic arrangement
with a figures ‘s’ sometimes
the figure ‘s’ comes to the
point below the vase

46.  It is a curved arrangement
The centre of interest is
lowered half the interest
 A round bowl is ideal for this
arrangement

47.  Flowers - alternatively arranged in
different fashion
Floating in a pond/tank - lotus & water lily
 Arrangement - shallow bowls & trays with
flowers whose stems are short
 The largest, highest & most attractive
flowers can be allowed to float in the centre
with others grown around
 The flowers should not completely cover
up the water
 Flowers of different colors may be used
in this type of arrangement

48.  Also called as “miniature
arrangement”
 It does not exceed 5 inches in
any dimensions
 These type of small
arrangements - food trays, on small
end tables or in children’s play
house
 All diminutive arrangement
depend largely upon containers
 A shell, ash tray or egg-cup may
serve as a container

49.  Flowers can also be
added to foliage
arrangement
 Interesting foliage
arrangement - combining
2/3 varieties of leaves
which are of different size
& shape

50.  The materials –
summer/autumn & hung head
downward until they are
thoroughly dry
 Dry arrangement with seed
pods, stalks of wheat,
sunflowers, caster seeds,
cotton, date palm & the tops
of corn, stalks are useful
 Dry everlasting flowers :
statice

51.  Fruits & vegetables are not
normally combined in the same
arrangement
 Foliage is employed in most
fruits or vegetable arrangements to
give height & to supply variety
 A special stem holder in its own
cup stand be used for the leaves
 It can be hidden by fruits or
vegetables

52.  Persons - allergic to fresh
flowers
 No time/money to procure
& arrange living flowers
 The artificial substitutes
provide the cheerful, colorful
accents that their homes
need

53. • Beauty – mass arrangement
• Large amount of plant material
• Balance & proportion b/w
container & flowers
• Flowers – multi-colored mass
effect
• Attractive – light/bright colors in
a vase
Traditional
• Ike-bana arrangement
• Ike: arrange
• Bana: flowers
• Heaven, Man & Earth or
• Shin, Soe & Hikae
Oriental • Breaks the rules of
traditional arrangement
• Oriental arrangement fits
modern arrangement
Modern

54. Steps in Flower
arrangement - Design
Techniques
– Step 1
– Select a design shape

55. Design Techniques
– Step 2
– Select appropriate container,
– Cut floral form,
– Attach to container
– Step 3
– Set container and foam in water for 20 minutes
– Step 4
– Select fern or other filler and arrange in foam to
cover foam and extend at least 1 ½ times width of
container

56. Design Techniques
– Step 2
– Select appropriate container,
– Cut floral form,
– Attach to container.
– Step 3
– Set container and foam in water for 20
minutes.
– Step 4
– Select fern or other filler and arrange in foam
to cover foam and extend at least 1 ½ times
width of container.

57. Design Techniques
– Step 5
– Insert flower to make arrangement
desired height
– Step 6
– Insert more flowers to make design
outline & focal point
– Step 7
– Add other flowers as needed to make
arrangement

58. Design Techniques
 Step 8
Arrange filler flowers such
as baby’s breath to give a
completed appearance