Interior Design & Decorating Information

Wall Clocks Tell Time and Decorate!


Clocks can be of any type - they could be wall clocks that not only decorates the walls, but also tells time or a mantel piece resting on one's table etc..

Decorating Frugally


The trend these days is to discover extremely innovative ways to decorate interiors on a budget. The tips provided below are just a few of the many ways one can inexpensively achieve a truly original look for a room.

Decorating A Childs Room


Decorating your child's room should be fun and exciting for all involved. The most important thing to remember when planning or decorating your child's room is to keep the decor age appropriate. You wouldn't want to decorate your 3 year old daughter's room in the same style as your 13 year old daughter's room. That doesn't mean you have to start decorating all over every few years. What it means is that you should strive to create a room that will grow with your little girl /little boy but is age appropriate. Some helpful tips follow.

Decorating a Childs Room - 8 Simple Strategies to Make You Both Happy!


When it comes to decorating a child's room, your approach should be much different from decorating an adult bedroom.

10 Home Decorating Ideas To Quickly Update Any Room


Not all home decorating ideas require a heavy investment of time and money. If you're looking for a few affordable home interior decorating ideas to freshen up a room over a weekend, try these ten:

Finding a Color Scheme - Decorating with What you Have


If you feel helpless when it comes to picking and blending colors, your answer could be as far away as your nearest pillow. Check out this quick way to create a color scheme for your home with our PICK - SEE -LMD method.

How to Decorate Ethnic


FIVE EASY STEPS TO DECORATING ETHNIC

Seven Ways to Emphasize a Decor Style


After searching decorating books, using trial and error decorating, and growing up a little bit, you have finally found the style of decorating that you really love. Your style could be Arts & Crafts, French Country, Asian, or Metro Hip. If you are still searching for your style or want a second opinion on what your general home style really is, try taking the fun style quiz on www.thehomestylist.com.

A Hidden Jewel In Home Decorating, The Powder Room


Typically a small space consisting of just a sink and toilet, you most likely know them by a more common term ?half-bath? or ?guest bath.

Home Interior Decorating


Your house is something special. It?s the place where you live, where you find warmth and safety, shelter and so much more.

Update Your Home Decor Using Colorful Rugs


Retro, checks, black and white...looks like MOD is back. A color explosion - bright tomato red, tangerine, lime green and even yellow - is what?s hot. In Europe, designers are using opt-art checkerboard patterns. The 60?s mod influence that practically defined fall has gone back in time about 40 years and it?s now very much a 20?s thing. Patterns and prints are back in a big way. Color prevails.

Book Shelf Decorating Idea & Tip


If you have book shelves in your home, and lots of books, you've probably discovered that bookends don't always keep everything in order. Sometimes your collection of books on the shelf are just too much for the bookend to hold.

Tuscany Style Decorating Ideas


Earthy colors and natural materials are two basics for the ?old world? style of decorating. To get an idea of the colors we?re talking about, go for a walk outside and take notice of the beautiful colors around you, the blue sky, the golden sun, even the chocolate brown of mud in the springtime. Ok, so you don?t have a view of the blue/green Mediterranean Sea but you?ve seen pictures of it haven?t you? On that walk, stroll through the produce department of your local grocery store and note the dark purple eggplants, the red peppers, yellow lemons, green olives. These are some of the colors you?ll want to consider for your Tuscany decorating. Natural materials will include wood (think rustic, sturdy type furniture), tile (colorful ceramic for wall accents) natural stone for flooring and unpolished metals such as copper, tin, or pewter for accents.

Light Imitating Art - How to Use Lighting as a Decorative Feature


Lighting is often thought of as a necessity, which it is, but not often as part of the decor. This is more the case in residential settings. For years architects in commercial buildings have used lighting to compliment their designs. A good example of this melding of light and art is the Chrysler building in NYC. Most of the original lighting followed the Art Deco style of the building, with many of the fixtures custom made to fit the style.

How to Create a Positive Environment in Your Home With Vastu


Our homes, carefully oriented, have the power to give us comfort and security and to be one of our best investments. We spend a great deal of time and money to accomplish this. However, many of us do not know if we are creating a positive and life-supporting place to live and work. Many people have reported health and financial problems after they had moved into a home or have done home improvements. Unknowingly, we may be doing more harm than good! Vastu Shastra, the architectural science with roots in ancient India, takes into account environmental factors that we may be unaware of yet influence the quality of our lives.

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