Five Things to Consider When Decorating A Room

accent wallGuest Blogger: Jessica Kane

When it comes to decorating a room, there are many factors that must first be considered before hanging up art pieces or adding decor on the mantle. To enhance the space and allow it to shine, there are several steps to take to ensure that everything flows and works together. For those who are beginning a new decorating project, it’s important to follow a few rules to enhance the style of the room. Read More


Iconic TV Living Rooms – Infographic

Set designers are amazing as to how they create a room to envy by designers and homeowners. Some of the most popular television shows bring us living room designs that keep us transfixed and engaged in the show. In fact, some of these iconic TV living rooms are like characters that play a role in the story. Actors easily fit in and around the sets and these living rooms. You can probably relate to these rooms.

Some of Your Favorite Shows

You may even feel like they are a part of your own home. With these designs and TV living rooms, you can use the design elements to create a similar style. Who wouldn’t want the Married with Children’s comfy sofa or the quirky arrangement of the Friends rooms.  Even Frasier had a skyline view to remember. Or maybe going old school like the Brady Bunch is a fun plan for your living room space. Here are just a few TV living rooms that show us how times have changed. And show us how we engage in our living rooms. For more iconic living rooms, click on the infographic.  Read More


Brighten your Home and Summer with Floral Prints

watercolor-prints-interior-decorating-ideas-1Summer brings about bright and sunny days, beach weather and bouquets of delight. Sometimes it feels like everything is better in summer with the colorful landscape of flowers. Yards and parks are in full bloom. Why not bring the floral concept indoors to create a lighter, summer feeling. Summer time home decor can also get everyone in the mood to celebrate the weather and enjoy this time of year.

Fresh Flowers

Adding fresh flowers is the most immediate way to introduce the floral concept. Whether you can create a bouquet from your backyard beauties or you take a quick trip to your local florist or grocery store, adding fresh flowers to a room brightens the area. And also brings in the Read More


Achieving the Modern Rustic Home Design

Learning how to bring the tradition of rustic home design to a modern look is actually quite easy. It may feel complicated, but if you view some of these tips, you will see how easy it is. Adding a modern rustic design to your home incorporates five different elements. These elements are tone, furniture, design elements, accents and industrial components.

Elements to Create Design

Each of these elements is explained in the following infographic by letsgetcuckoo. Mixing stone and concrete with wood and metals is one way to use these elements to craft the modern rustic design. Using reclaimed wood with older appliances or sleek modern stainless steel appliances will also give you this modern rustic design.

A modern rustic home design takes the rustic or old components to design and incorporates the sleekness of modern design. The result, a blend of old and new and rich and smooth and sleek and tough.  Even layout of a room can vary the design elements. Look up and down when determining how to create your modern rustic look. Exposing duct work in the ceiling can be the very modern style that creates this new modern rustic design look.

 

Rustic Home Design

7 Decorating Ideas to Add Color without Painting

purplebedrooom_smallerGuest Blogger: Heather Roberts

The easiest way you can redecorate your home is by repainting it, but dealing with moving furniture, priming the walls, painting and more will take good bit of effort and work if you are not up for it. Changing the look and feel of a room can be completed with some alternative methods instead. The following ideas will give you some insight as to what you can do to make these changes happen if you are not up for painting the walls: Read More