How to Decorate your Home
Determining your style and color scheme are key elements in any room. These will help you set a direction and keep you on track in making choices. You can get interior design ideas from magazines, internet sources, online furniture stores, and from other people’s homes. Make mental notes about what you specifically like and dislike. As you look in furniture stores and online, be sure to make mental notes about the prices of the things you like. This will help you to determine a budget for your project. When you are unsure about what colors will go well with the interiors of your home, you can begin small by experimenting with a pillow, rug, towel, a painting, a tapestry etc in various shades. You can select three to five colors and use articles in these colors to be kept in different rooms of your home. (more…)
Decorating a natural look for your living room is simple, and will bring a fresh contemporary style to your home. Contemporary home decorating style is a sleek and stylish way to add interest to your home. Selecting the right interior paint colors for your home is much easier if you know the psychological effects they can have on you and your family. Natural and modern home interior design make fresh and comfortable. >> by naturalhomemagazine. (more…)
This spring, Kate and Brent Halfwassen plan to build a storage shed with a green roof behind their 1,600-square-foot 1890 Victorian home in Riverwest. Because the roof is level with an adjacent slope and can hold 165 pounds per square foot, it will double as a play space.
“A lot of the homes in Riverwest are like that and can do something similar. Kids could look at it as a tree house and parents as a greenhouse,” Kate Halfwassen says.
Benefits of green roofs include reduced stormwater runoff, better heat insulation and reduced greenhouse gases through the plantings. But the Halfwassens also believe that the garden roof reclaims a slice of the urban landscape and serves up a chance to practice sustainable agriculture in an unlikely spot in an unlikely locale. (more…)
Perfectly manicured, emerald green lawns flanked by floral beds. Acres of granite counter top and gleaming stainless steel appliances. And everywhere you look are surfaces clean enough to eat off — that’s the appeal of the model home.
There’s a reason why model homes look the way they do. Builders know that everything they do to make a house look visually appealing amounts to actual dollars, and often thousands of dollars, added to the sale price. The same principal applies to your home.
Whether you’re planning on selling, or just sprucing up your house to make it more enjoyable to live in, mimicking the ideal appearance of a model home can yield impressive results. Here are some tips and trends to help make your house a showplace: (more…)
A new home improvement product for the bathroom has been released by Décco Bath & Shower Works Corporation. “The Works,” as referred to by inventor Andrew Lethert, replaces shower doors and shower curtains with a unique and versatile architectural frame. The product has received high ratings from various focus groups used to test its appeal.
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