Room decorating How-To’s & ideas
The star of the show, choosing a focal point is one of the most important design decisions you need to make for any room design. But it’s especially important in the room that’s the hub of most homes – the living room. Find the perfect match for your home with this list of living room…
A place to relax and be with family and friends, the living room is one of the most important spaces in your home. Find all the inspiration you need to create a visually stunning and homey area with these living room wall decor ideas.
The living room dining room combo is a common floor plan for many average-sized houses. But it can be a bit tricky to figure out the best furniture arrangement for this room interior design, especially if you don’t have a lot of space. Which is why we put together some L-shaped living room layout ideas…
Mirrors are one of my favorite ways to enhance the ambiance of a room. Whether you’re looking for mirror decorating tips or just want to see some pictures, this guide on how to decorate with mirrors will help you add some beautiful mirrors to your home design.
Black rooms have a reputation for being gloomy and claustrophobic but they don’t have to be! These room decor ideas show you how to decorate a black room using paint, texture, pattern, black trim and even black ceilings to create an elegant and sophisticated space.
Whether you’ve just moved into a new house or you’re looking for inviting ideas for a house you’ve lived in for a while, these questions and tips for how to make a house a home will help you create that homey feeling.
Find some easy ideas and decorating tips for tying together rooms in your house that will make your home look cohesive. Sometimes it can be hard to decorate your house so you are happy with it. Fortunately, there are lots of easy ways to re-arrange your decor that will help create the atmosphere and flow…
Want to freshen up your room decor without spending a lot of money? Learn how to accessorize your home on a budget by re-purposing what you already own. Well, it’s fall. Which means the season of hosting dinners and spending time with family is almost here. To keep things looking fresh, it seems like I…
Making over your living room doesn’t have to be a long and expensive process. With these quick and easy living room updates, you can change your room’s look in a couple of hours without spending a ton of money.
Every once in a while, I get a question from someone who is in the middle of re-decorating a room, has an idea of what she wants, but is afraid to go ahead with it because she thinks she is breaking “the decorating rules”. I hear statements like “I love that gold framed mirror but my other accessories…
Have a boring, boxy room that needs something to make it look better? Adding architectural details (like moldings) is one of the easiest ways to add interest to a boring room.
For many people, picking patterns for a room makeover is scary. Trying to figure out which ones go together and what will look too busy is tricky…unless you know our simple process that teaches you how to mix and match patterns so they look good.
Whether you’re decorating your first home or you’re a makeover queen, these interior design principles still apply. They help your home decor look cohesive and pulled together and are helpful even if you don’t like to follow decorating rules.
Confused about what the different interior decorating styles are and what decor elements fit in each of them? Let the Interior Decorating Styles Matrix help you find the styles that match your decorating preferences.
If you have small rooms in your house or apartment, you know it can be tricky to decorate them so they don’t look crowded. Whether you are decorating your living room, office or bedroom, these ideas on how to make a small room look bigger will help it feel like you have more space than…
If you need to work from home, these home office setup ideas will help you decide how to setup a home office that you’ll actually want to work in. With so many people starting to work from home these, learning how to setup a home office has suddenly become a popular topic. Since I made…
Now that I’m planning a mini home office refresh, I’ve been spending a lot of time searching for small home office interior design ideas. From closet offices to home office nooks to built-in desks (and more), here’s all the inspiration I’ve found for my home office makeover.
Whether you are doing a complete home remodel or just looking to refresh a room, these interior design ideas will give you some easy ways to create a custom look…just like a designer would.
Just because you live in a small house doesn’t mean you can’t have a home library. It just means making the most of some unused space in another room like your home office or living room. Get some inspiration for cozy reading rooms with these these small home library design ideas. I have loved reading…
If you live in a house like mine where the bedrooms aren’t very large, learning how to make the most of the space you have is definitely a priority. Which is why these small bedroom space saving design ideas (that I used for redesigning my guest bedroom) are so helpful.
When you’re trying to decorate on a budget, it can be difficult to afford everything you want. Which is where DIY projects like these ones for making your home look more expensive and these furniture makeovers can really help. However, new purchases are still a necessity for most makeovers, and that’s where these ways to…
With an open concept house like mine, the living room is where I spend most of my relax time. So it’s important to me that that I have a room that both looks good and is comfortable to be in. Over the years of re-arranging my living room furniture (I do that a lot!), I’ve…
Paint comes in so many colors that it can be hard to pick the right one. Eliminate the confusion with these simple tips for choosing paint colors.
If you are re-decorating, chances are you may be struggling with how to pick colors for your room. Help is on the way! Find out how to choose a color scheme in 5 easy steps that anyone can do.
Creating a beautiful, cohesive look for your home isn’t hard to do if you use this one simple decorating technique – a whole house color scheme!
If you are trying to figure out what your decorating style is, this simple 5 step process will show you how to figure it out, and make interior design decisions so much easier.
You may recall that way back in January, I started redoing my den. It has been a sometimes fun and sometimes frustrating process ever since. In the hope that you will benefit from what I have learned, I’m sharing my experiences – both good and bad! Throughout my life, I have moved many times and I never had any trouble…
The decorating stage of a room makeover is the most fun and often the most frustrating part of the process. Fun because you get to see all of your planning and ideas come together…frustrating because it doesn’t always work out according to the plan 🙂 You can minimize the frustration part by doing all of…
Welcome to part 2 of our 3 part series on how to create a room you love. This week’s post is on designing your room makeover. This is probably the most “technical” part of the room makeover process since it involves drawing a floor plan…but it really isn’t as hard as it seems once you…
Having just completed the One Room Challenge (you can see all of the rooms that I have made over for it), I thought this would be a great time to share my process for doing room makeovers. I have done a lot of them over the years. It seems like as soon as I get…