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Celebrities are undeniable fashion and style icons, and this spills over into interior design as well. In actual fact, a survey was recently done by the Better Home Exhibition that revealed celebrities were among the top sources of inspiration for people updating their own homes. In reality of course, most celebrities employ professional designers to consult on the hottest trends and rarely do the work themselves.

An interior designer to some of Hollywood’s biggest stars has told one newspaper that people wanting to create an impressive room can structure their design around a centerpiece, such as a piece of white  bedroom furniture. Usually this is quite a large piece such as big white wardrobes, and it can afford to be as it is a neutral colour. If you did the same with a red or green centre piece for example, it would dictate the colour scheme of the rest of the room.

Kelly Wearstler told the Daily Mail that a big, bold centrepiece can provide inspiration and ideas for the rest of a room’s design, such as the bedside table or curtain design, and said that she loves the use of white and black to create contrast.More designers are waking up the potential of using the contrasts of black and white in multiple rooms and in New York it is one of the cities hottest looks right now.

She told the newspaper: “I love black and white as it feels a little edgy and it works in any type of design. It’s the textures and materials that make it interesting.” She added that rooms suffering from a lack of depth can really be enhanced by clean and sharp colours.

The last point from Wearstler was that a room can often become “confused” when it is over-designed and keeping the colour clean prevents this happening. “It’s not a simple thing to get right, but if you’re strict with the colors you use, you can pull off a very sleek look”.

It is a general term which can be used to refer to a person or even an article which is more stylish rather than fashionable and where the style reflects quality as opposed to newness. You will hear a lot about this type of furniture etc nowadays and it is first and foremost a fairly casual style of decorating mainly created in pastels and sometimes using antique accessories.It conjures of the idea of old lace tablecloths, light white wardrobes and soft comfortable sofas.

Shabby chic is really no particular style, but it balances out elegant pieces with both old and new combined. If you prefer bold colours then more than likely this is not for you. Usually soft whites, muted grey and pale pinks, blues and greens are the favourite shades that are used. People buy new old fashioned looking material and sometimes stain them to give the appearance of age and this they do by using tea! The overall effect is then a pattern that looks a soft creamy white instead of stark white, that just would not look right.

Often the use of floral, striped and checked fabrics are combined to achieve a warm and inviting look. It is however best to keep the colour background the same, for instance white or cream. Then try to select a colour to repeat in every pattern fabric to get the right effect. Almost any piece of white bedroom furniture will suit a shabby chic interior design. Sometimes you may have a piece which can either be sprayed or painted white then sanded at the corners and roughed up a bit in order to give the appearance of age.Painting furniture white, will completely change it from dark and heavy to light, fresh and summery.

What completes the look of shabby chic is the appearance of chunky large “sink in” sofas and chairs that are warm and welcoming and make you feel very much at home. In the bedroom, white or rustic beside tables will finish a Shabby Chic look perfectly

When you purchase furniture you really cannot go far wrong if you go for white!

The popularity of white furniture, such as bedroom furniture has increased a lot in recent times. People seem to be reverting more to the minimalist look and the clean feeling that comes with it. When it comes to furnishing our homes the choice is endless. White furniture can be found in dining tables and chairs, wardrobes, dressers, bookcases and much more. You can even get white bedside tables now

You will find that the most used colour in interior design is white. This is so particularly in bathrooms and kitchens where cleaning and most importantly, the preparation of food is carried out. This is mainly due to hygiene and of course it makes sense that dirt shows up significantly on white and therefore surfaces are more readily kept germ free.

It is said that technically this is not really a colour as such, it is in fact a neutral.

It was Sir Isaac Newton experimenting in 1666, using a small hole in a window shade that admitted a ray of sunshine into a dark room, where a glass prism was placed in such a position that enabled the light to pass through it. He found that the ray of light was refracted when it passed through the prism and spread a beam of multicoloured light in all the colours of the rainbow which appeared as white on the wall beyond.

Newton’s conclusion was that white sunlight was a mixture of different types of light, each one being a single pure colour and that each colour was bent at different degrees, violet by the most and red the least.

So it was found that white light in fact does contain all the colours within it, they are simply not visible as they are being reflected.

I have seen some wonderful interior designs that are entirely white with just the addition of one or maybe two other colours introduced into the design. So don’t dismiss the use of white painted furniture in your decor because white interiors, especially it seems white dining room furniture, tends to have a very calming effect and help you relax and feel at home.