How to save nerves and money, choosing the furniture, lighting fixtures and finishing materials for at home? Designers from Tallbox gives some practical advice.

Internet: looking for a prototype. Your task: to find an object, shape and style that you are completely satisfied. How to choose the furniture? It’s easy!

Before you drive in the search box the name of the object, add a line to the top of the word “elite.” Wallpaper, sofas, plumbing – all elite. Do not be afraid to choose the most expensive and fashionable, Italian and German. With these words, helpers you can find things with a competent design, even among the hundreds of thousands of ordinary designs. Then you can always buy similar products at more affordable prices.

Understand what you like, pick up a collection and be sure to print out photos. They will help the consultant in the shop for you to choose a similar product.Sort the pictures! The problem becomes more complicated if you need more than one bed, and the atmosphere of an entire room. Create a folder “living”, break it down into “furniture”, “light” and “materials”. Luxury Bed: find, save, do not forget to sign the title. Next, a chair, chandelier, floor lamp, wall lamp, bookcase, coffee table and everything else. The same with the folder “materials”: you put it in the floors, curtains, wallpaper, paint colors, etc.

Sorting and storage of pictures, there are many online services. In contrast to the folder on your home computer, Internet Archive will be always at your fingertips. We like pinterest.com – he is “himself” remember where you found this or that picture.

The next step – to drop too much. Print your photos, add them together and remove the items that you have time to “fall out of love.” Group together similar pictures of 6 – 9 on a single sheet: so you can quickly orient themselves in their listings, while in the store. Be sure to sign the names of the models and provide shops, where the selected items and materials were presented.

The goods – to the interior. In the search string can clog not only the specific item (sofa, chair), but the whole room environment, such as “design room”, “an interior hallway,” etc. On interiors are usually easier to identify “your” style of the room.

You do not need to search all information in the network – can be armed with scissors, glue, paper, A3 and make cuttings from interior magazines. One of my colleague, is enraged by this attitude to the periodicals. Keep magazines or their nerves and money – a solution for you.

Go to the shops. Do not stare at the beautifully appointed “puppet” show rooms. Rather, look, but be adamant. Show the manager that you made a collage and ask you to show something similar to your dream. You will be surprised, but in most cases all your items can be found in one large store. If the goods are not presented in the main exhibition, the catalog will be found in the factories with which the salon.

Put next to the interior of your dreams selected samples of textiles and wallpaper, make photos and evaluate the results.

Smart goes twice. Do not rush to buy everything that you have chosen. Ask the price of wallpaper, look at the curtains. Ask the managers of the samples (probes paint, flooring and tile samples, catalogs, fabrics, etc.). Put them together and build a family council – a decision will be forthcoming. Now you can go to the store and make a sensible purchase.

Quick advice. But what if you do not have time to excision of applications from magazines and search for “high-end sofa of your dreams” on the Internet? And even in the store you do not want to go twice … There is a way – trust the designer. Many professionals, even the most “glamorous” and the well-known, there is such a service as “Quick Design” consultation. Usually it takes 3-4 hours of time, is inexpensive.

You can order not only to express a consultation, but also a complete project, with planning decisions (including the electrical wiring), visualization, and advice on the choice of furniture.

The designer acts as a good therapist: puts “diagnosis” (choose a style with you) and make recommendations (picks up the pieces of furniture, fixtures and finishing materials). At the same time you are ready to get planning solution that will allow well-arrange the furniture in the room. The result – beautiful interior, plus save time and mental energy. Agree, it’s not so little. This is interior design from Tallbox studio for interior design.