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Often people decorate a room and they only think about the visual aspect of the room but the parts of the room you can feel are just as important. This part of the room is the texture. Decorating your home with texture makes you want to reach out and touch even if it is an area you cannot reach, such as the ceiling. Even a fabric with a flower pattern can give the illusion of texture but when you actually touch it is smooth. Some textures, such as wood trim surrounding the edges of your room can be seen and felt.
All of the elements in all rooms are textured. The key to decorating with texture is to make sure that all the elements are not the same texture, such as having smooth surfaces everywhere. By starting at the top of your room and working your way down you can give each element in your room texture.
Ceilings
Ceilings in many homes are smooth white, and boring, surfaces. This is an easy place to add texture for a big impact. Physical texture can be added by spraying plaster on the ceiling. Plaster is a permanent way of adding texture to your ceiling.
Plaster can be molded in different ways for unique textures. Plaster can be used to make moldings, domes and medallions. Although the shape of the plaster is permanent, the plaster can be painted for different effects.
Another way to add visual texture to your ceiling for a lot less money than plaster and can be changed as often as you’d like is by painting your ceiling. You can use color and painting techniques to give a similar look to your ceiling as the more expensive plaster.
Walls
 Another room element that it is easy to add texture to is the walls of the room. Similar to ceilings, walls can also use plaster, such as crown moldings. Log cabins that are not finished on the inside have a natural texture when you can see the logs.
Paint, just as on the ceiling, can give the affect of visual texture. Wallpaper can often give a visual texture as well, though some wallpaper actually has a physical texture that you can run your hand across.
A plain wall can also be turned into a work of art by adding trim. Trim is easy to work with and can be painted as your room changes. Trim can also be added to a plain door to spice it up.
Another way to spice up a plain wall is with the window coverings. This is a cheap textural change and a very easy change to do. This is such an easy change that you could change your window coverings each season if you liked. The curtains or shades can also be textured in various ways or you could add two or three textures to one window through the fabrics used.
Furniture
Decorating your home with texture is most common in the furniture people choose to place in their room. The furniture itself is often textured. A carved wood table is great for physical texture. People run their hands across the carved arm of chairs they are sitting in.
The fabric that covers your furniture can give both a visual and physical texture. A floral print may look rough while the fabric is actually smooth or you could have a solid fabric that when you touch it you realize it is physically and not visually textured.
Accessories
Don’t forget your accessories! This is perhaps the easiest change and the most cost effective too. Your lamps are textured, whether they are wood, plastic or metal. Artwork is a great way to add both physical and visual texture to your room.
One of the least expensive ways to add texture to a plain couch, chair or ottoman is by throwing a bulky cable knit throw over the back. Not only does this add visual texture when you walk in the room but it provides great physical texture when you curl up on the couch with it.
Flooring
 The final place to add texture to your room, and one of the first places people look when they walk into a room is the flooring. A wide variety of ways to use texture can be found in current flooring products. By looking at each type of flooring available you are actually picking a different physical and visual texture for your floor. From area rugs to vinyl, each offers you a unique feel and look.
The varieties of carpet alone hold many options in texture. You can choose berber, plush, as well as many sculpted varieties. You may want the feel and look of carpet in your bedroom and the texture of hardwood with an area rug in your living room.
Decorating your room with texture is an easy way to change the interior design of your room. Experiment with texture in your rooms to see how easy it can be to transform a room just by changing the texture!
Article Supplied By:
M. Kaye Hash, Co-owner and photographer of the nature photography and Eco-friendly gifts website www.naturesthumbprint.com. She is a contributing editor and co-webmaster at www.mccallsfloormart.com. Melissa has a degree in Art History from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has been writing and taking pictures since she was young. Melissa is also an avid animal lover and she raises four dogs of her own.
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