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Many home design styles have evolved over the years and some are more popular than others. Keep-in-mind that design styles can also be trendy styles. This means that any particular trend can become obsolete in a short period of time. Consider this when choosing styles. Do you want to go out and purchase new styles when the old ones fade? Be sure you really like a particular style before purchasing.
Of course; many people like the home design styles for their look and feeling it gives a room. So, what design style should you choose when decorating your home?
That depends upon your own personal preferences. What do you like when choosing decorating items? Do you like painted furniture, American flags, soft and cozy? There are design styles which will fit your type of home. Look around and see what items you already have displayed.
If you are just starting out, it would be a good idea to go on-line or visit the library to see all the design styles available. Of course, your furniture choices could help with that decision.
Are your furnishings modern, traditional, contemporary or tropical? If so, then you are already tuned into a specific design style. Some styles fit specific regions of the U.S. Coastal areas use the nautical themes while those in the mountains and higher elevations prefer the ‘lodge’ themes.
Are you a world traveler? Or do you like foreign destinations? There are many styles that will fit your ideas. There are Moroccan, Tuscan and other exotic themes for you. These themes can bring the far away destinations right into your home without leaving the room.
If you like the warm and home town feeling then you may be ready for the country style. This is composed of quilts, rough furniture, patriotic, wood, metal and craft look items. There are many styles of country; such as Americana, Swedish, English and French. Choosing one style may be difficult be look at all the styles before finalizing your thoughts.
In Malaysia, there are a variety of reasons why the country draws around 80,000 international students yearly in recent times. Many quality institutes of higher education have set up campuses in Malaysia. And this has attracted many foreign students to further their design studies there.
Living life overseas as an international student is an unforgettable experience. Often, students make a lot of new friends during their time away from home. The more adventurous ones may have seen professional working conditions for themselves – usually through course-related internships or volunteer assignments. And of course, everyone learns to enjoy Malaysian lifestyle and culture.
Affordable lifestyle and education
One of the biggest perks to living in Malaysia is education at affordable rates. Living comfortably in Malaysia is not expensive either. In the World Cost of Living Rankings 2010/2011, Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur – KL, ranks 138 out of 214 countries. This means that it is one of the most affordable cities in Asia Pacific. Kuala Lumpur is the ideal place for first-time students who want to explore living overseas in Asia.
Lifestyle aside, Malaysia is also capable of providing quality education. Design students can gain exposure from various competitions. And also have the chance to work with international design-related companies during their holidays or internships.
With Malaysia’s variety of international schools, there is sure to be one suitable for you. The best schools usually offer a few business modules to complement your design knowledge. So look out for them.
Want to study design in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but have no idea what courses to take yet? Consider these three popular courses:
When talking about intelligent design, we are not talking about the creation of man. Nope, this is more important! The creation of your media and site products.
There are some very basic things about design that one can learn that can vastly improve one’s ability to make appealing and intelligent creations. Some of those things are:
1. Lining Things Up
2. Using Variation
3. Giving Breathing Room
4. Using the Grid
5. The Golden Section
6. Lining Things Up
Things that line up look nice. Things that are all over the place don’t look nice. Of course, one must know rules to know which ones to break, so these rules are only guidelines. In general though, straight or smooth lines are appealing. Jagged and inconsistent lines are less likely to be appealing. A design with many elements lining up and a few elements that don’t can create nice contrast, yet starting with things that line up is a nice easy rule for beginners.
To support these statements, lets look at examples of man-made objects. Roads, desks, walls, buildings, orange juice containers. The forms of all these objects are straight or consistent and any deviation from this norm is considered mildly repulsive. On roads, the matter is quite important to health. There is a merge under construction from the 60 East (that’s how we identify freeways here in California) to the 215 South, where the turn starts at one size circumstance then abruptly veers a few degrees tighter to another sized circumstance. This slight change in curvature results in a driver having to adjust for this change with a slight, and apparently unexpected, turn of the wheel. I say apparently because road barriers prevent a driver from seeing the whole turn going into it and there are a bunch of tire marks etched up the construction barrier right at the point of the change in curvature.
Lets look at desks. Obviously straight and even desks are good for writing, fit against straight walls well and look nice, at least to me. Buildings, like desks are convenient shapes for space efficiency, map drawing, road creation, furniture and room modularity. Sure, curved buildings are beautiful too, yet the curves are often very even, and more often than not, the curve is accompanied by a straight line in another dimension.
OK, orange juice – very nice to ship little square boxes. Long rectangles make a nice canvas for marketing. If the straight lines are not straight, but crumpled or dented, chances are you won’t buy that carton.
All of these are man-made objects that benefit in usability from straight or evenly curved lines. Lets take a look at nature. Trees are basically straight lines. The trunks of a redwood forest all go in one direction with remarkable consistency. (That direction is up, by the way, unless you are on the opposite side of the Earth, in which case it would be down.) Again, this is usability for the tree – a competition in height to get to the sun. Leaves – straight veins out to the tips – same idea, get some (light). Curvature of the earth – smoother than the curvature of an 8 ball. Something to do with gravity which, for existence as we know it, is quite useful.