Archive for the 'Quick Tips' Category

Home Decor Design Tips: All about Autumn — part 4.

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Sometimes simple is the best possible way to go.  Sometimes, you can make something truly beautiful out of items you would never think about using – and they are normal, every day household items, at that.  For example, today’s tip for indoor autumnal decor revolves around olive jars.  This is a simple piece involving a [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Wall Hangings 101 — part 2.

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Subtitle: A Room with a View
Windows can be a major problem. They can be too small, they can look out on something unpleasant or, at the very least, boring. Your house or apartment may have too few windows, or none at all in a room where you’d really like to have one. You do not [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Wall Hangings 101 — part 1.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

One of the best ways to change the look of any room is with different types of wall hangings and decor. Most people think about hanging art and pictures on the wall when they consider doing this, but that is only one option, out of a great many. It all depends on the style and [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Country Living on a Budget — part 6.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Well, my little interior decorators, this is it: the last installment on country living. The last essential key for making your country-style decor complete is pottery: earthenware, antique crockery, pottery with character. Dot some bowls, kettles, plates, cups, et cetera, around your living room, on end tables and knick knack shelves and you can’t go [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Wall decor made EZ.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Just because you want to redecorate doesn’t mean that you have to spend an arm and a leg on wallpaper and/or paint. Think about stenciling your walls. There are all kinds of hand-stencils available, or for a really innovative experience, you can go entirely freeform. Stenciling your walls is unique and inventive, and you’re almost [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Illuminating lamps.

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Lamps are everything. They do more than simply provide illumination – they can illuminate a room. Bed room, living room, family room, foyer – if you are looking to redecorate but do not have a lot of money to spend (and who does right now?), then a lamp could be your new best friend. Ikea, [...]

Home Decor Design Tips: Throw Pillows

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

One of the easiest home decor design tips to implement are throw pillows. They may not seem very important, but they are a terrific way to tie a room together, and you can do so without spending very much money at all. Throw pillows can add splashes of color to an otherwise monochromatic [...]

Dress up your bathroom

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Get rid of any clutter that you don’t need in there!
Get new cabinets or paint your existing ones!
Get some new towels and throw away those old ones or keep them for use and only bring them out when you need them. Have ’show’ ones on display on a rack or some other such device.
Get a [...]

Changing the Colour of your Room

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Creating colour patterns in your room is extremely easy. All you need to do is find your favourite colours, make sure they match together and away you go. You could even have blank white or cream walls and have the accessories and furniture in the colour you love. This way if you ever change your [...]

Make small look large!

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

If you are one of the many people who have small rooms in your home, you may be wondering how to make them larger. Well there are many ways to make a small room look larger, here is how:
The first thing to do is to use light colours rather than dark.
The next thing to do [...]