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Arranging Furniture, Mixing and Matching Patterns, Picking Colors, Arranging Knickknacks, Hanging Pictures, Hanging Curtains and Drapes, Lighting
Arranging Furniture in a 15 foot wide by 25 foot long Bedroom
In recent years, in many parts of the country, grand houses have been erected, some with very large rooms. A while back, a viewer of this website posted a question about how to arrange furniture in a large master bedroom; … Continue reading →
Arranging Decorative Accessories on a Sofa Table, Buffet, Sideboard, or Credenza
The arranging of knickknacks (decorative accessories) on a sofa table, buffet, sideboard, chest, credenza or even on a fireplace mantel can be an easy task once you know a few different ways of grouping your elements. For this post I … Continue reading →
Step-by-Step Instructions for Hanging a Gallery Wall
The idea of assembling many different kinds of artworks on one wall, or even on all four walls in a room has been around forever. We all have seen photos of the great houses of Europe with walls soo covered … Continue reading →
Interior Decorating Ideas for a Small House, Condominium or Apartment
A lot of people live in small spaces. It might be a first apartment, a starter home, or the cost of housing in a large city might make a person, even with a large paycheck, have to reside in a … Continue reading →
One of my Decorating Posts has been Featured on Redbook Magazine’s website….Redbookmag.com
Hi there Everyone. I’m soo excited. Recently the people at Redbook Magazine got in touch with me because they liked my post titled The Right height of Table Lamp for your End Table, and asked if it could be part … Continue reading →
The color BLUE, the Next Decorating Trend
Recently I was looking through all the different “shelter” magazines at my local super market, and I think I spotted what might be the next interior decorating trend. Every magazine I picked up had the color BLUE, as either the … Continue reading →
Picking Paint Colors for a Small House, Condominium or Apartment
Buying your first home, or moving into your first apartment should be a fun and exciting period in your life. One of the first things that you will most likely want to do is pick new paint colors, and change … Continue reading →
How to Pick the Perfect GRAY PAINT…. A Popular Color choice of the Moment
If you look through interior decorating magazines, go to show houses, or even watch reality shows on TV, you will see gray interiors everywhere. Gray, be it light and silvery or dark and slate toned has taken the place of … Continue reading →
Arranging Furniture in a 12 foot wide by 24 foot long Living Room
If you possibly are the inhabitant of a row house or town house that was built somewhere around 1890, you could now have a living room that measures about 12 feet wide by 24 feet long. Your living room, back … Continue reading →
Matching the Right shaped End Table with a Table Lamp
This post is the second in a series of two articles which covers the pairing of an end table and a table lamp. In the first post for this series, Looking at the Different Shapes of Lamps Bases (click here … Continue reading →
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