Bring A Room To Life With Texture

•Decorating Homes With Glass
Decorating with glass does not need to be expensive or cliché. Today’s decorative glass goes far beyond colored glass bottles, mirrors, and walls made from glass blocks. At one time glass was considered as cold and static. Today’s decorators have learned how to blend glass with color and light to create mood and bring life to a room. A new glass, UltraGlas, can be shaped into textured sheets and panels with raised designs. It is used in everything from tabletops and windows to mirrors...

•What Is Old Is New Again
One of the most dramatic and social aspects of home design is the ability to bring the past to life in our home environments. There are many reasons for this phenomenon. Families want to recreate the good memories from their childhood. Homeowners want to recreate a sophistication and elegance that creates an aura of wealth and prestige, and others lack creativity and artistic talent so they use template design themes in their home. Enter any new house on the Parade of Homes tour and...

•Decorating With Light
Decorating with light is difficult. Light reflects and refracts in different rooms. It behaves differently in a room of wood and glass than it does in a room with fabrics and artwork. This is why a chandelier that looks absolutely perfect in a friend’s house, or in the bosses house, looses its effect in your home. This is also a problem faced by people who move into a new home. The new homeowners viewed the home and fell in love with it. The central chandelier set of the entrance and...

•Using Lighting To Create The Perfect Room
Many home design magazines have perfect rooms that express the best of today’s home trends and designs. People spend hundreds of dollars on home decorating magazines piecing together a collage that will transform their home into a showplace. After spending ten to fifty thousand dollars, most homeowners give up and settle for second best. This is unfortunate, because with a few designer tricks, any home can be turned into a showplace. The first trick to creating a magazine quality room in...

•5 Summer Decorating Tips For Any Home
In the past people decorated their home and it remained static for years, until it was time to repaint and buy more linen. Now, homeowners are leaving behind the old ideas of home decorating and creating different styles for different times of the year. It is now possible to give a home a one week face lift every season, without breaking the budget. Summer decorating adds freshness to a home. It brightens the colors and opens the rooms up to light and color. The best thing about a face lift...

•How To Incorporate New Trends Into Your Home
Another year has gone. The industry trade shows are over, and the home improvement shows are starting. Every new year introduces new design trends, and 2007 is no different. This year has truly introduces some innovative ideas that combine Oriental and retro styles, effervescent colors, and patterns that are guaranteed to create a strong emotional impact on anyone who enters the room. Forget buying a $5 000 chair to impress your boss. This year’s theme is about renewing the ‘hearth and home’...

•Creating The Functional Den
Successful home decorating is a balance between a room’s visual appeal and its function. Next to the kitchen and laundry room, the den is the most functional room in the house. Homeowners use the den for everything from a home office to a family room. The first thing the homeowner needs to ask is not how they should decorate their den, but how the room is to be used. Start by sitting down with a piece of paper. On one side write what you want. On the other side, write what you need. When the...

•Ceiling Treatments
Many of today's larger homes have wide expanses of white and off white ceilings that overwhelm the room and destroy the decorating style. This is most apparent in homes with ten-foot ceilings, and cathedral ceilings. Most home decorators are unable to see beyond the smooth white or stucco decorated ceiling. While stucco decorations are popular, and can be quite artistic when done properly by a professional, their only aesthetic aspect is the relief. For hundreds of years, decorating did...

•Decorating With Wrought Iron
Wrought iron has a beautiful, almost ethereal, element that transcends home décor styles and environments, time and tradition. Today’s manufacturers have listened to public demand, hired artists, and created furniture and accents that lets homeowners seamlessly weave wrought iron through any home, any color scheme, and any price range. Unlike other design products, like glass, wrought iron is not the privilege of the wealthy. The average homeowner does not need to resort to a cheap...

•It s Easy To Warm Up To Concrete Fireplace Surrounds
If you are lucky enough to have a home with a fireplace you know how it quickly becomes the welcoming gathering place for the family on chilly evenings. But don't take your old fireplace for granted. There are some wonderful new ideas that can make a stunning change to any fireplace. Or sure you can change the mantel or add a decorative fireplace screen, but let me tell you about some changes that can have a real visual impact on your home. If you don't have a fireplace or you are planning...