Redecorating Your Home by Adding Textures to Rooms

Decorating with texture can drastically change your room, from your ceilings to your floors. Texture is not just about the visual aspect of a room; texture in a room makes you want to walk around and feel the different aspects. Some texture can only be seen but when you look at it you get the idea that is textured, such as a smooth fabric with a flower pattern. Other textures you can actually feel as well as see such as the trim around a door or window.

All of the elements of your room can be textured. Let's start at the top and work our way down for ideas on how to add texture to all or some areas of your room.

Ceilings do not have to be smooth white surfaces. Changing the texture of a ceiling can change a room. Ceilings can be sprayed with plaster to give a physical texture but because they will not be touched they can be painted in ways that give off a visual texture without it being a physical change. Plaster is more permanent but by using paint you can change the visual texture as often as you can paint your ceiling.

Your walls are another way to add texture to your room. Texture can be added to walls much the same way as ceilings. The more permanent option of plaster can be added, while paint and wallpaper can dramatically change the texture in a room. Texture can also be found in the architecture of your home. A log home or logs running across your ceiling add a dramatic visual as well as physical texture.

Your walls can look good plain if you add texture to your window and door trim as well as the doors themselves and the window coverings. Trim can add a definite pop to a dull room and a plain door can make it really dull. Trim can be painted or changed and a plain door that you cannot afford to change out can be transformed with paint. Window coverings are another way to give a cheap textural change to a room and can be changed more often than other elements.

The fabric on your furniture, as well as the furniture itself, can have both physical and visual texture. A floral print on a chair can have a visual texture while the fabric itself is smooth and a carved wood table gives both a visual texture you can see and a physical texture you can feel.

Don't forget your accessories when you think about texture. A bulky cable knit throw on a plain couch can really add to a room.

Floors are the final area in which you can use your décor to add texture to your room. Current flooring products offer you a very wide variety of ways to use texture. Each different type of flooring itself offers a new texture for your floor. Carpet, vinyl, laminate, wood, or area rugs all offer a different look and feel.

Carpet comes in berber, plush, and sculpted varieties, as well as others. All of these can add a different look to your floor. Carpet in a bedroom and hardwood or laminate in a living room can give you a different feeling visually and physically as you walk from one room to the other. Adding an area rug, such as those found at AreaRugsbyMcCalls.com, can add texture and depth to a dining room with laminate floors as well as adding warmth to what may have previously been a cold room.

As you can see, texture is an easy way to change the interior design of your room. You can even keep the same décor but change the way it looks completely by changing the texture on the floors or walls. Experiment with texture to see how easily you can change the way you decorate your home.