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Often people take inspiration for their homes from celebrities and home make-over programs. In fact in a recent survey done by the BBC, over half of people who were doing up their home, looked at what the rich and famous were doing in theirs first. 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 depth it adds that is so intriguing.” She added that lots of rooms that suffer from a lack of space or light can really be enhanced by using a simple, clean colour scheme.

Wearstler lastly commented that any room which looks untidy or messy, even when their is no clutter, really needs the colour scheme simplifying and more whites and blacks being injected into it. “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”.

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