The eternal hunt for storage space makes fitted storage a must in our homes. Good quality storage units designed to fit specific spaces can greatly increase our ability to win the battle against clutter.
Too much fitted furniture however and we run the risk of achieving the "hotel look" without intending to. Adding beautiful one-offs, be it an inherited antique piece or an ultra modern indulgence, adds balance to personalizes your furniture layout. However, the fact of the matter is that most have acquired along the way a few mediocre items. For sentimental, financial or environmental reason we may not wish to dispose of all of them. A table may have been our first ever furniture acquisition, a mirror may have been a wedding gift and so on and so forth. There are a number of ways of "dealing with unwanted furniture". One can find environmentally and socially acceptable ways of parting company with less than loved furniture quite easily these days. Or should I say with less trouble than one would have encountered 5 years ago?
Then there is the "furniture make-over". When holding on to something in its current state is no longer an option but neither is binning it, that's when a gifted specialist finisher will come up with solutions you might have never dreamed of. Clearly painting furniture is only viable if the piece has no intrinsic value. In some cases however pieces will be transformed to the extent where they become firm favourites thanks to their new look and their (now) interesting history. It looks like specialist paint finishers are set to regain their rightful place in the world of interior design; thanks to humbler pieces of furniture it would seem they are headed back to where they were in the 80s, the decade of the stipple finish, of obsessive marbleing!
With "fussier" furniture it usually pays off to keep things simple. Blocks of colour work extremely well . A couple of pieces combined, in the same colour, often result in a bolder and more pleasing statement than each piece would have made if displayed on its own.
Too much fitted furniture however and we run the risk of achieving the "hotel look" without intending to. Adding beautiful one-offs, be it an inherited antique piece or an ultra modern indulgence, adds balance to personalizes your furniture layout. However, the fact of the matter is that most have acquired along the way a few mediocre items. For sentimental, financial or environmental reason we may not wish to dispose of all of them. A table may have been our first ever furniture acquisition, a mirror may have been a wedding gift and so on and so forth. There are a number of ways of "dealing with unwanted furniture". One can find environmentally and socially acceptable ways of parting company with less than loved furniture quite easily these days. Or should I say with less trouble than one would have encountered 5 years ago?Then there is the "furniture make-over". When holding on to something in its current state is no longer an option but neither is binning it, that's when a gifted specialist finisher will come up with solutions you might have never dreamed of. Clearly painting furniture is only viable if the piece has no intrinsic value. In some cases however pieces will be transformed to the extent where they become firm favourites thanks to their new look and their (now) interesting history. It looks like specialist paint finishers are set to regain their rightful place in the world of interior design; thanks to humbler pieces of furniture it would seem they are headed back to where they were in the 80s, the decade of the stipple finish, of obsessive marbleing!
With "fussier" furniture it usually pays off to keep things simple. Blocks of colour work extremely well . A couple of pieces combined, in the same colour, often result in a bolder and more pleasing statement than each piece would have made if displayed on its own. 
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