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  • Interior Decorating and Home Decor With Native American Indian Art  By : Clint Leung
    Interior decorating with today's natural styles and how Native American art could fit in.
  • Interior Decorating and Home Decor With Inuit Art from the Arctic North  By : Clint Leung
    Interior Decorating with Inuit art from the Arctic region of Canada.
  • Revitalize your Interior Walls  By : smgenie
    Tired of the same boring beige or off-white colors of your interior walls? Here are some tips on how to choose a perfect color for your home, and give your walls a designer finish.
  • The allure of historical wall tapestries  By : Godfrey Bazalgette
    Explores the growing appreciation of historical tapestry wall hangings as both art and as a home decor option.
  • 20th Century Home Decorating Guide  By :
    The custom of appropriate and harmonious treatment of home decorating, interior decorations and suitable furniture, seems to have been in a great measure abandoned during the present century, owing perhaps to the indifference of architects of the time to this subsidiary but necessary portion of their work, or perhaps to a desire for economy, which preferred the cheapness of painted and artificially grained pine-wood, with decorative effects produced by wall papers, to the mor...
  • Decorating with coat racks and vintage clothing  By : Mark Scott
    Looking for a totally unique accent for your home? You can combine coat racks and vintage clothing to create truly memorable accents that show off your creativity. Find out what kind of coat racks work best with what types of vintage clothing to create just the effect you want.
  • Dramatic Powder Room Makeovers  By : Jeanette Joy Fisher
    Your guest bathroom, or powder room, presents a great place to start with your home makeover. This small room takes less money and effort to decorate than your larger rooms. Plus, you get a chance to develop you personal home interior design skills without committing to a huge project.
  • Heart of the Home - Faux Finishes For Kitchen Cabinetry  By : Jay Dorman
    Faux finished cabinets are finding a welcome home in today's kitchens. From the most timeworn distressed looks to high-end lacquered finishes, a decorative painter can add just the right touch from his artist's pallet to create the exact design and style most appropriate for your dream kitchen.
  • Choosing the Right Wallpaper  By : Ryan Fyfe
    There is literally thousands of different colors, different patterns even different types of wallpaper. How do you know which color, or which pattern will suit it’s surroundings the best? Read on, and you will have a good idea!

    Color / Pattern - This for the most part is a personal chose; However there are simple things you can do to choose a color/pattern that will actually work. If you like the hot pink wallpaper and the rest of your house is done in marble...
  • Principles of Interior Design  By : Kathy Iven
    Whether you are working with existing furnishings and fabrics or “starting from scratch” with an empty room, you should always use the elements and principles of design as a guide in choosing everything.
  • Elements of Interior Design  By : Kathy Iven
    Whether you are working with existing furnishings and fabrics or “starting from scratch” with an empty room, you should always use the elements and principles of design as a guide in choosing everything. The elements are your tools or raw materials, much like paints are the basics to a painter. The elements of design include space, line, form, color, and texture.
  • Create a Jewel Box of a Powder Room with Venetian Plasters  By : Jay Dorman
    Oh yes, it’s the tiniest room in our home – and the one that all our guests see, eventually. It holds such potential allure and such realized dread. We want that critical bit of real estate to make a good impression, we want it to be original, we want it to be sexy even – but how? Easy! Let your imagination run free! Be wildly creative! Be daring! A fantasy faux finish is perfect for grabbing everyone’s attention and setting the tone and attitude when those special guests enter that necessary little room.
  • Interior Decorating Themes – What’s Your Decorating Style?  By : Kathy Iven
    There are a variety of decorating themes from formal to informal and everything in between. Which one best describes your decorating style?
  • Blinds give your home a new lease on life  By : Rachael Cansino
    Blinds can tranform your house like you would not beleive. There are many tricks that can be used to make more use of them and the end result's can be amazing.
  • A Sampler of Faux Finish Techniques  By : Jay Dorman
    While Grandma’s quilts showed off a sample of her pretty bits of fabric and her skill with many different fancy needle stitches – imagine what she could have done with a pot of glaze and a sponge. That’s right. As artistic and skilled as Grandma was she probably would be right at home with faux finish paints, too.
  • Feng Shui Colors for the Bedroom  By : FengShuiByTroy
    Don’t overdo the bright colors in your bedroom. Bright colors are alive and moving, so the more bright colors that are used, the harder it will be to stay asleep. This also applies to plants and especially water.
  • Unique Home Decor - Thinking Outside the Box  By : D Fowler
    Home accents and surroundings today offer much more opportunity for self expression. Don’t be afraid to try something different. Artisan crafted products truly create the ability to make one’s castle their own.
  • Inexpensive bedroom decorating tips  By : Roger King
    Your bedroom should be a place where you can 'get away from it all. Doing a bedroom-decorating project adds to your individual taste and a key thought. Above all things, you want it to be at ease. Think of your bedroom as a retreat, and let your imagination go!
  • Bedroom decorating tips  By : Roger King
    Your bedroom should be a place where you can 'get away from it all. Doing a bedroom-decorating project adds to your individual taste and a key thought. Above all things, you want it to be at ease. Think of your bedroom as a retreat, and let your imagination go!
  • Kitchen remodeling and design ideas  By : Roger King
    The kitchen is the one room where members of a family can be found eating, working, talking on the phone or just hanging out with friends. The kitchen has always been the nerve center of the family, and never has the kitchen remodeling more important than it is today.
  • Bunk beds are frequently used as a child's first regular bed  By : Roger King
    If you are looking to buy a bunk bed, the chances are that it is not for you to sleep on unless you are a college student, for instance. It will probably be for your child.
  • Replacing your bathroom accessories  By : Roger King
    Updating the Look of Your Bath is Quick & Simple. No matter the type of accessory; it needs to be fastened securely to the wall.
  • Choose bathroom fixtures to complement your bathroom project  By : Roger King
    Each fixture should be carefully selected to best meet the needs of the intended users. It should also be located in the bath or toilet room in a location that facilitates its use.
  • There is a multitude of lighting applications for your bathroom  By : Roger King
    There are three general types of bathroom lighting; general lighting provides overall illumination; task lighting provides light for a specific task, like reading, homework, and computer work.
  • Try using bathroom mirrors in your bathroom to reflect objects of interest  By : Roger King
    One of the most important functions of bathroom mirrors is to reflect light, both natural and artificial. When reflecting a window, mirrors can bring the outdoors in
  • Bookcases and storage systems  By : Roger King
    Bookcases are one of the most accessible and commonly built projects. Whether you want to buy modern or rather classic, fancy or rather cheap bookshelves.
  • Kitchen cookware and accessories  By : Roger King
    Stainless steel cookware should be washed in hot, soapy water or a warm ammonia and water solution, thoroughly rinsed and immediately dried to avoid water spots.
  • Floor lamps for the home and office  By : Roger King
    Most regular torchiere floor lamps use halogen bulbs that burn at temperatures exceeding 1,200 degrees hot enough to fry an egg in 30 seconds!
  • Entertainment centers  By : Roger King
    In modern America entertainment centers are seen in most homes. Your home audio and video equipment make up the bulk of the home theater experience, but it's the entertainment center that makes the room.
  • Decorating your kids rooms with colors  By : Roger King
    Whether you're a first-time parent or a veteran, decorating kid's rooms is not child's play. It's a quite complex process where an adult has to incorporate all the safety features and blend them with childlike fantasy.

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