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Our awareness and concern to our home has become significantly important to most of us. Here are some guides, helpful tips, advice and information to pick up that offers simple and creative ideas for your home, like how to perform simple maintenance on household appliances, care for furniture, clean appliances and remove any sort of stains, what’s the latest interior design, what paint to choose. These are bright ideas that don’t take a lot of money, you just need little imagination in decorating, organizing, remodeling, gardening, landscaping, housekeeping with tips on cleaning, including how to hire a housekeeper or cleaning service, housecleaning tools and equipments, clean the stove, virtually anything in your home and for every part of our home. Anything that offers simple but creative, and help us in the solution of our household concerns.



Tuesday, June 17, 2008

DECORATING TIPS


Nothing is more frustrating, that to be out shopping, when you spot a picture, bedspread, or accessory that you love but are not sure if it will match in your home. Here is a tip that may help you shop more effectively:

Don’ be afraid to cut snippets of fabrics, from wherever you can. Under a sofa, inside a seam etc.

Once you have accumulated all your samples, including carpet, paint, wallpaper, fabrics etc., place them in a small picture album (the kind used for Grandchildren) these are small enough to fit in most purses and can be carried easily while shopping. The next time you see something you like, just pull out your small album with the samples, and you can be sure if the color matches.

Create an “Eight Step Sheet” for each room in your home. As most of you have learned by now, I recommend the completion of eight steps for each decorated room in your home. You will see in the new article “Mommy I want….”, I address the fiction rooms and list the completion of each step to help you understand each element. You can do the same. List on your check sheet the following steps:

  1. Flooring

  2. Walls—Trim—Molding

  3. Furniture

  4. Window Treatments, Bedding ensembles, Accent pillows

  5. Lighting

  6. Artwork

  7. Accessories

  8. Floral/Greenery

Create a miniature color board for visualization and shopping. Another technique I have used over the years, when I’m shopping for a model or customers project, is to staple a small clipping of wallpapers, paint, fabrics etc. to the inside of a manilla folder. Grouping each room together in a small area. This allows you to have a quick reference guide for all the areas you are working on. This is especially helpful to someone who is building a new home or decorating several rooms at one time. Of course this does not fit into a purse, but if you are out looking for specific items for your home, it’s an easy thing to carry around.

I hope you enjoy what’s left of your summer, and we will look forward to cooler days ahead. Be sure to check out the new articles and tips on the website! Until next month……….

HAPPY DECORATING!

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