Decorate Your Home

Your home's interior is an expression of you. The color, styles, accessories and textures used to decorate your home reveals unique qualities about your personality and ultimately reflects on you in a positive or negative way.
So you are decorating your home and have no idea what to do or how to do it, where to start or what direction you should go. Guess what? You are not alone! And I am here to help.
Decorating a home can be exhausting and if you don't have the skills and abilities in your back pocket you need some decorating help. Professional interior designers and decorators typically have decorating tips, tricks and ideas to get your end result faster and with less cost and frustration, but hiring a designer or interior decorator can be costly.


Steps

1. Choose a style that you like (contemporary/modern, country, french country, victorian etc.).
2. Decide on a wall color to fit the whole look of the room. For victorian, a rosy pink, or an off-white, country can be anywhere from blue and yellow, to pink and white.
3. Select furniture. If your furniture already matches your style, then consider yourself lucky. If your furniture looks unpleasant, purchase some slip covers, they come in all different styles and patterns.
4. Buy cheap rugs and draperies. You can save a lot of money by purchasing solid color rugs and draperies that are in your colors, and places like Wal-Mart carry them.
5. Find artwork. It isn't as expensive as you may think. You can buy from a retail or craft store, or photocopy images from a book, and frame them.
6. Alter the things you already have. A black lamp may not go with a nautical theme, so what do you do? Paint it, using spray paint or textured paints, found in arts and crafts stores. Clocks, coat racks, vases(using glass paint) shelves, bookends, even baskets and furniture can be transformed by paint.
Tips

• Toss some pillows and a blanket on your couch, to give your guests a comfortable feeling when they walk through your door.
• Want to paint a design, but don't have the painting genie? Use stencils and stamps instead.
• Choose lighting in harmony with the mood. Bright for modern and dim for classic.
• Use a higher number of weak light sources instead of a lesser number of strong light sources.


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