6 Tips for Decorating Your First Home

Moving into your first house is a liberating, landmark life passage. After you've freed yourself of your college futon and your roommate's attempt at fine art, it's time to come up with a plan for turning your empty shell of a house into an inviting home. Here are some suggestions for pulling it off:

1. Clean house at the old place. 

Even before you make an offer on a new place, get ahead of the game by starting this process. This critical first step will not only make your current digs easier to pack up, but it will put you miles ahead during move-in. Be strong and rid yourself of anywhere from 25 percent to 50 percent of your old stuff: wobbly furniture in the attic, faulty appliances in the garage, questionable accessories you received as gifts. This is the perfect time to start over. Pare down your accumulated possessions to the minimal amount. Have a garage sale, auction it off on eBay or donate it to charity. You'll be amazed at what you won't miss.

Modern Interior Finishing

 

The most common and important factor of a modern interior finishing is an even and smooth finishing of ceilings and walls. There are numerous different ways to go about it. Sometimes after the base mud coat is dried light textures can be added. Apart from gloss paint another way to produce a quality finish is by adding the stucco color to the mud.

In case of remodeling and renovating old homes a new and modern finish may not be that easy due to the existing finish. Sometimes the texture of the walls and ceilings are thick and coated and it may take a number of coats of the dry wall mud to smooth the old textures. One of the easiest techniques is to simply use the spray rig or a spray hopper to spray the walls and ceilings with mud and flatten it out with a knock down knife or a flat tool. In case if a new building applying a modern finish is easier to accomplish. The framing of the new building should be checked before hanging the drywall. For any new construction it is essential to have a general idea of the desired texture so that the base can be added from the beginning.