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Affordable interior design for your home

Buying a house is one thing. Making a house a home is another thing altogether. One need only watch a few minutes from the plethora of television shows devoted to interior design to know just what a difference styling ones interior can really make. Working on the interior design of your home has all kinds of benefits, including:

  • Making your home a personal haven for you
  • Solving spatial or storage challenges particular to your house or possessions
  • Helps to use your home as you’d like to
  • Adds value to your home over and above the cost of doing the work

The television programmes can make it look easy, but can you really have the same impact in your own home? The My Unique Home [ http://www.myuniquehome.co.uk ] website think you really can, and offers a range of services without having to pay a for a celebrity interior designer.

Learn interior design yourself

On top of having an inspiration section on their website, My Unique Home offer a range of interior design courses to suit any level of aspiring designer. These include ‘evening design classes’ which cover topics such as ‘Your layout’, ‘Colour Schemes’, ‘Lighting and technology’ and ‘Project management’. They also offer a 1-day interior design course, kids design workshops, and a design your own home course too.

Get a professional interior design for less than you’d expect

My Unique Home also offer an online and professional interior design service for much less than you might assume. Communicating with the designer via email, Skype and phone and supplying them with details of your space, layout, possessions look and feel preferences and a designer will work remotely and create mood boards, design layouts that are personal to your taste and your home as well as suggesting suppliers. Here is an outline of their remote interior design service:

1. You explain the function of the room and its dimensions, plus the number of windows and which direction they face. Draw a simple plan of the room, showing doors plus architectural details.

2. Choose a style.

3. Do you wish to retain any furnishings? Simply list with swatches or accurate colour references.

4. Describe your lifestyle in this room. Casual or formal, perhaps. Maybe it’s a space for children, pets or other something else?

5. Outline any definite preferences or dislikes in terms of style, colour or pattern.

6. List all the elements you wish to replace, such as paint, flooring, wallpaper, upholstery fabric, curtains etc. and specify loose or fitted covers.

7. Give an indication of your budget.

8. Include a few colour snapshots of the current room.

Simply send the above information and, for only £40 per room, they will send a mood board with 1 2D & 1 3D drawing, samples of suggested fabrics, wallpaper, paint and flooring, plus a shopping list with suppliers. And all this personalised interior design work can be turned around in between 10-15 days.

Suddenly having the house of your dreams, and a home worthy of a visit from the television cameras, is an option for us all.

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