Thursday, April 7, 2011

House Decorating Ideas

Use unique decor pieces to give your home a customized look.


Decorating a home is a personal and creative experience. Enhance rooms with colors, patterns, fabrics and furniture that reflect your interests and showcase your personality. If you are decorating on a budget, instantly update a room with a fresh coat of paint. Jazz up a neutral space with color-rich textiles such as curtains, decorative pillows and towels. Does this Spark an idea?


Theme Decorating


Enhance any room in your home with a charming decor theme. Decorating with a theme makes it simple to create a cohesive, color-coordinated look. Choose a theme that reflects your interests, such as woodland for a nature lover. Decorate a soft, brown leather couch with a forest green throw blanket featuring pine cone designs. Hang paintings of mallard ducks and deer in rustic wood frames. Display wrought iron bird statues on bookcases and side tables.


Shabby Chic Decor


Decorate your home with a vintage-inspired shabby chic style, which incorporates both casual and elegant elements. Paint bedroom walls a whisper-soft pink or pastel green shade to set the tone. Enhance a white canopy bed with a white cotton quilt featuring pink and green rose patterns. Suspend an antique crystal chandelier from the center of the room. Hang a black-and-white photograph-filled burnished gold frame from a pink satin ribbon.


Color Combinations


Pick a favorite color combination and decorate a room around it. If you love the beach, choose a turquoise and sunny yellow color duo. Enhance bathroom walls with soft turquoise paint and hang a yellow shower curtain from seashell-shaped hooks. If you prefer an exotic look, decorate with a spicy deep red, burnt orange and gold color palette. Paint living room walls a rich orange shade and decorate a neutral-hued couch with red, orange and gold-patterned pillows.


Seasonal Decor


Give your home a festive flair by using seasonal decor items. Create a spring-inspired tablescape by placing silverware in colorful seed packets; display a fork, spoon and knife set by each place setting. Set dried and pressed flowers on pastel-hued plates, and place a clear glass dessert plate on top. Celebrate autumn with gold vases filled with branches of colorful fall leaves; use a vase as a dining room table centerpiece and one as coffee table decor.

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