Five Inexpensive ways to Perk up your Home
I am so ready for Spring! Aren’t you? Since Spring is still a month away, I was thinking of some easy, inexpensive ways to perk up my home. Here are my top 5! Paint an accent wall in one of your rooms. It is a great way to change the way the room looks and feels! Buy a new set of lamps – lighting is amazing and while you are at it, add a mirror to reflect that light – your space will fill much bigger! Add brightly colored pillows to compliment your sofa or bed. Here is a really inexpensive idea – add greenery, nothing will warm up a room like plants and flowers! Finally, add bright...
Read MoreWindows to your World!
Selecting window treatments can be challenging today – do you use shades, shutters, curtains or draperies -Perhaps a combination? Would you like custom treatments or ready-made treatments? The options today are endless, which make choosing all the more difficult. After painting a room, window treatments are one of the most affordable design changes to make a room unique and inviting. Consider some of these tips when selecting window treatments. Compare the style of your window & room with the treatment you are considering. For example don’t use a formal brocade drape in a country...
Read MorePillow Talk
Want to make a quick and inexpensive design change to your living space that will have your friends saying – “wow – what’s new in this room”? Let’s talk pillows, yes, pillow talk! What a great way to completely change the look of a room for a very small investment. The latest trends offer so many choices – choose romance with ruffles, rosettes or chenille pillows; or how about “shaggy chic” lamb’s wool or vintage graphics? Regardless of your personal preferences pillows will add the color, texture and pattern to your home for only a few dollars. EASYdesigns – Interior design made...
Read MoreHalloween Decorating
Boo!! The Holiday season begins with Halloween and what a fun time of year, especially for the kids – with hay rides, pumpkin picking and trying to decide what costume to wear for trick or treat. Decorating for Halloween is starting to rival Christmas these days, especially in neighborhoods with lots of children. Here are some easy tips for decorating your home for Halloween and keeping those decorations up right through Thanksgiving. All you need are lots of pumpkins, gourds, mums and a few really cool Halloween decorations like, skulls, spiders and candles. It is amazing to me...
Read MoreGoing Green with Interior Design
Going green in Interior Design is not a new concept but many people are not sure exactly what it means. Anything that will help support the health of our environment is green so in interior design that means many different choices – buying antiques or gently used furniture, purchasing consumer friendly paints limiting VOC content, using building materials made from recycled materials or “up-cycling old furniture” – which is the subject of today’s post. Up-cycling furniture is salvaging pieces that others may think are no longer usable. A chair that is missing an arm or has a...
Read MoreHelp my Furniture is too Big for my Room!
One of the most common homeowner design mistakes is buying over sized – or undersized – furniture for their home. Have you ever walked into a room and thought it was cavernous even though there was plenty of furniture in the room? Or found that no matter how you’ve placed your furnishings you just can’t move around the room comfortably? When you are buying new furniture be sure you know the dimensions of your room – especially the length of the walls – remember those windows and doors. Take a tape measure when shopping for new furnishings. Furniture proportionate...
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