When planning to get started with decorating your house, there are a few things you should pay special attention to:

• Choosing the style: one style applied to the entire house provides unity and harmony
• Making sure there is a certain balance in regards to the visual weight within a room
• Choosing focal points for each piece: it could be basically anything you want your visitors to pay most of their attention to
• Choosing the right color palette can easily transform a small room into an appropriate-sized one
• Choosing and mixing patterns provides a more interesting design.

The two terms are often believed to mean the same thing, but the truth could not be more different.

While one needs formal training in order to become an interior designer, the same cannot be stated about the interior decorator, whose mission is to take care of the aesthetics of a cer...