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Interior design

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Interior design

While door handles may be small objects they form an important part of your home’s interior design.  More Handles are dedicated to making sure you have enough choice to make your home the way you want it to be. Their range of Door Handles, Door Knobs and other Door Furniture is extremely extensive and forms an ever evolving catalogue of choices for your home.

Highlights from the 2010-2011 range include:

Kirkpatrick Door Knob On Backplate

The Kirkpatrick Door Knob makes an elegant statement, with its scrollworked backplate complementing the ornate knob itself. As part of the black antique range of Door furniture available at More Handles it is very suitable for cottages and period style houses, bringing a sense of weight and authenticity to the details of such a home.

Drawer Pull Shell

Drawer pull shells are a great alternative to the usual Knobs and Handles.

This example is finished in brightly polished brass and beautifully fluted to add a touch of class to any drawer front, be it in a kitchen or on fixed furniture. Brass is an excellent material to match with either painted surfaces or bare wood and if kept polished it can add a lovely warm sparkle to any room in your house.

Iris Door Handle Shortplate

The Iris Door handle is one of those designs that one might feel has always existed. The simple shaped extrusion is unobtrusive and yet perfectly designed for easy operation, perfect proportions and a subtlety that means it will fit with almost any contemporary design, from new build comfort, to severe minimalism.

Shakespear Ringturn in Pewter

The Shakespear Ringturn is an example of what is rapidly turning into a new wave of gothic chic products though it is almost unique in its presentation.

The ring turn takes its styling from traditional lift latches but applies this to modern Door Knob mechanics so there is no extra wood work required to fit this product on any standard door.

Equi Door Handle Black Nickel

Black Nickel Door Furniture is an ideal match for any contemporary home. The designs from Carlisle Brass not only feature a deep glossy black finish that complements the white walls of modernist style homes, but the shapes of the handles are particularly elegant, almost severe in their functionality. The Equi is the perfect example of this elegance, with a no frills but balanced design that perfectly complements any surroundings.

More Handles keep up to date with the latest trends and the Door Handles and Door Knobs that you need to make your home as individual as you are. Check out their full range at morehandles.co.uk

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Functionality in Interior Design

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Functionality in Interior Design

When you are looking to start an interior design project for your next room, you will want to make sure that you do not get so carried away with your design project that you make the room uncomfortable and uninhabitable. It is easy to get excited about all of the great finds that you are making and end up purchasing them all. This can lead to be a disaster because the room could end up being so crowded that a person may end up feeling overwhelmed in it. If walking across the room means that you have to make a few twists and turns, you should realize that you have gone overboard.

Functionality is important with interior design because it will give you the ability to make sure that a room is still open and welcoming. It means that everyone will be able to interact within your room, whether it be sitting on furniture and holding a discussion or mingling around, perhaps with a party.

Your future group may wish to all play a game together and you will need room to accommodate this. Functionality means that not only is there enough space for everyone to sit around but enough room for those same people to all stand and interact with each other as well.

This will largely relate to the amount of furniture that you put into a room. Between sofas, armchairs, and just casual seating, you will want to have enough seating in a room to fit a fair amount of people. At the same time, a good rule of thumb would be to have a table for every chair. People always like to have something to drink with them and providing enough space for every chair to have a table to rest a drink on can be important.

Functionality expands to more than just furniture, however. Lighting is another important quality that you will need to allow for when interior designing.

If the room does not have enough light for everyone to see what is going on, it will be much harder to entertain people who come to visit. Having enough lighting is important as well as making sure that the lighting is comfortable and not too harsh or too dim.

An area rug may also be an important form of functionality. Many beautiful spaces have wooden floors and while these can look great, they can become especially cold in the winter months. An area rug can help to solve this problem because the area rug will provide some insulation against this chill, helping to keep the heat in the house and escaping through the floorboards.

When you are planning the layout of a room, always keep in mind that you will need to give the room the space to breathe. If everything is too cramped in the room, none of your guests will feel comfortable in it and they will stop spending time in your space. Giving everyone the feeling of being open, yet cozy, will work wonders, however, and make your room be the greatest destination for all future parties.

Home Design has never been so easy with these gray rugs.