What I suggest is to visit rooms in person, look at magazine pictures, and take from them the individual parts you like, the color, the feeling you get, that great fabric or the unique piece of furniture. To look through your eyes, your feelings and your mind and then put all those parts together to form your own whole. The process takes time but is worth the work. Jessica Hall , designer, of Jessica Hall Associates in San Francisco, says there's no reason to be afraid of using highly pigmented colors in small spaces. Highly pigmented colors or saturated colors allow the corners and perimeters of a room to disappear.
Light bounces off the edge of a room more slowly, expanding the feeling of size a space gives off.
Hall also suggests keeping records. As you make decisions, document your choices, both by written and visual means. If you don't keep a written and pictorial record of your decisions, you end up making up your mind over and over about the same thing. This not only gets in the way of a complete theme, it also can cost a lot more money and stress. In a successful project, one good decision builds on another.