Posts tagged: Home Decorating

Welcome Your Friends To Your Home

Inviting your friends to hang out to your place is surely one of the sweetest gestures to show your love for them. But sometimes their arrival can make you feel somewhat anxious because you’re also thinking how you can make your guests feel right at home in your place. This is actually quite simple than [...]

Thursday August 5th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

Get Lucky with Fengshui Home Decor

Do you feel like you’ve tried it all? English country look, Contemporary, Western, Cottage-type, etc. And yet you feel like you want to trying something else, something more? Why not go for Fengshui decorating style? Personally, at first I didn’t understand why more and more people are becoming fascinated with Fengshui. I thought it was [...]

Tuesday July 20th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off

Decorating Our Home With Family Heirlooms

Most people feel very sentimental when it comes to family heirlooms. Heirlooms allow us to travel back in time and remember significant family members or events that occurred even way before we were born in this world. Decorating our home with family heirlooms gives us the opportunity to deeply treasure family keepsakes and simple souvenirs from [...]

Go Modern with Log Cabin Decor

If you are faced with decorating a log cabin, don’t fret thinking you are stuck with using a predictable country style. Many log home owners are going against the grain and creating beautiful contemporary and even modern décor in this rustic environment. Think of it more as a fun design challenge than a chore. Here [...]

Tuesday June 22nd, 2010 in , , , , , | Comments Off

Are You Prepared for A New Arrival?

With all of the excitement generated by the arrival of a new baby sometimes the there are little details that get forgotten. When thinking about furnishing the baby’s room be sure to make it a nursery you can use as well as baby. For the first several years of your new baby’s life you will [...]

Monday June 21st, 2010 in , , , , , | Comments Off

Create an Outdoor Area You Can Live In

If you have a large, covered outdoor living area, consider adding color and texture with outdoor rugs. We have a large covered porch where we spend hours daily during the warm months. I addressed the outdoor décor as I would the interior. I wanted to create a comfortable living area where the furnishings were such [...]

Area Rug Placement Catastrophe

Today, I had the delight (sarcasm) of placing area rugs under furniture in our living room and dining room. You hear from designers all the rules of how to place a rug for optimal movement and overall design. So last week, I took heed to the “rules”, measured as required and went about finding the [...]

Thursday June 17th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

Accessories that Speak Volumes

There are many ways to create excitement when decorating but you can really Add Pizzazz with Accessories. Think past the usual suspects like throw pillows and vases in common colors and materials and really ramp up the qualifications required of new accessories. Think artistic, handmade and unusual. Hand blown glass pieces add an incredible energy [...]

Wednesday June 16th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

Get High Style on a Low Budget

You know her, you envy her, she’s the one with the beautiful home that just oozes class and style. Not one square inch of her well-appointed space was ignored. You also know how she got it that way—interior designers and her husband’s inflated bank account. Well, don’t throw your hands up and think you can’t [...]

Tuesday June 15th, 2010 in , , , | Comments Off

Empty Nesters: Reclaim Your Home

If you’ve just reclaimed your nest and are on your own after raising the kids forget the Kid Friendly Decor and go wild! This is the time in your life when your home is literally your own again. Sure you’ll miss them, but that doesn’t mean you have to preserve the house in their memory. [...]

Monday June 14th, 2010 in , , , , | Comments Off