October 2007

Tips for Decorating Your Baby’s Nursery

by admin October 26, 2007 Bedroom Decorating

Decorating your child’s nursery is an exciting experience. Your little bundle of joy will finally be in your arms soon, and you want to make sure his or her new home is absolutely perfect. The biggest shock for a child is coming from the warmth and comfort of your stomach into the vastness of the world. Creating a home that is both safe and comfortable is your top priority when decorating your nursery. Colors are especially important in designing a nursery. Although babies are said to see in black and white at first, bright colors will soon attract their attention [...]

How to Hang Artwork

by admin October 26, 2007 DIY Projects

The Lo-Down on Hanging Art Attractively & Effectively Puzzled about how to hang your pictures, paintings and other wall art objects for maximum impact and attractiveness in your home? Take heart. While choices in styles and types of art vary widely, the “rules” for hanging them are few and sensible. If you know the rules for hanging art at the right height and in the correct manner, your home can look like a chic art gallery and have a definitive interior decorator feel with very little effort! Here are a few tips to help you hang your art correctly: The [...]

Proper Size for Artwork & Accessories

by admin October 26, 2007 DIY Projects

Understanding Scale When Purchasing Artwork and Accessories for Your Home Although your unique personal preferences may want to take precedence over basic logic, understanding scale is essential when you select artwork and accessories for your home. Choosing accents that fit properly into a room without getting lost or overwhelming the eye can be trickier than it seems. Here are a few points to consider when choosing the ideal artwork and accessories to enhance your living space: What is the shape of the area where you will be adding artwork or accessories?

Decorating a Mis-Matched Dining Room

by admin October 25, 2007 Budget Decorating

The first time you rent your very own apartment or house, friends and relatives often either give you hand me down essentials or they go out and buy you some of the basic necessities to get started with. And while this is very nice, welcome, and useful, most of us end up with a variety of home decor items that don’t match. As the years pass and we collect decorating accents and accessories from various sales, flea markets, and other friends or family members though, sometimes it can seem as if nothing we have matches at all. And the dining [...]

Choosing Wool Carpet for your Home

by admin October 25, 2007 Decorating floors

The Beauty (and Pitfalls) of Choosing Wool Carpet for your Home Wool carpet is very gorgeous, durable, and luxurious and feels great underfoot. It also comes in wonderful, subtle shades as yet unmatched in synthetic fibers simply because wool accepts a wider range of colored dyes better than any other material. Made from hair shorn from sheep, then spun, woven or twisted into carpet, wool survives longer and looks better than any other carpet material on earth. If you doubt this, just look at the antique Oriental rugs sold by antiques dealers and displayed in museums—some are 200 years old [...]

Practical Ways to Decorate Your Fireplace Mantel

by admin October 25, 2007 Budget Decorating

Okay, you’ve got this gorgeous fireplace mantel that’s everything you ever wanted a mantel to be. Now how do you plan to decorate it? Style preferences aside, there is a formula professional decorators use for arranging items on a fireplace mantel that gets great results every time. Known to the trade as “three plus one” the formula calls for placing three related objects of similar size at one end of the mantelpiece. These objects don’t have to be the exact same height, but shouldn’t be strikingly disparate in size, either. For example, using three silver candlesticks 10, 14 and 16 [...]

Easy Fabric Wall Panels

by admin October 25, 2007 Budget Decorating

Easy Fabric Wall Panels: A Great Way to Add Color and Personality to ‘No Paint’ Apartments If you’re renting an apartment the owner won’t allow you to paint, but the color of the walls just isn’t what you want, don’t give up. You can change the look of “no-paint” walls in a couple of hours using fabric wall panels that are inexpensive, easy-to-make and a snap to install. Begin by measuring the length of the wall or walls you want to change, and dividing that measurement so that the resulting number of panels are each no wider than about two [...]

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