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Choosing the Right Table for Your Living Room

Coffee tables, end tables, side tables and library tables are some of the options for the living room or family room. Here, too, you’ll find different sizes, styles and construction, but the quality of your tables isn’t as crucial as it is for upholstered furniture. A table should be sturdy, functional and appealing. Its size…

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How To Choose The Right Sofa for Your Living Room

For many people, the thought of buying a sofa brings on a major anxiety attack. It suggests permanence and being a responsible adult, or is a big pain in the neck as well as a very large expense. It’s a good idea to be sure you really need or want a sofa because this isn’t…

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New Ideas for Decorating an Old Bathroom

Bathrooms can be wonderful little environments, created with just a few elements. You can do wonders with paint, wallpaper, fabric, floor covering and accessories. The bathroom is the one space you can transform with a little ingenuity. A couple of years ago my husband and I took a plain, uninteresting powder room in a condominium…

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How to Decorate your Bedroom with Wallpaper

A wallpaper treatment is often used to create an environment in the bedroom. It’s a great way to change the look of the room with relatively little cost and time. Wallpapering is an easy do-it-yourself project, even if you’ve never done it before. Another option is to wallpaper the ceiling as well, but this isn’t…

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Space-Stretching Techniques for Your Bathrooms

Most of us complain that we don’t have enough space in the bathroom. The first thing you want to do is make the room seem streamlined. This means simple decorating. 1. Walls: White paint makes any room look larger and brighter. Mirror tiles on one wall are practical and room enlarging. 2. Windows: Fabric shades,…

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Decorating Your Child’s Room

If you’re decorating a room to be used as a nursery, keep in mind that babies grow quickly into toddlers, who grow into preschoolers, who grow into school age children, and all along the way the room must change to meet their growing needs. While it’s tempting to decorate the perfect nursery, aside from the…

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Spring Has Sprung

It feels to me like spring has just about arrived. After a wobbly start with frost and fog threatening the crocuses as they peeped out of the soil, it looks like things are finally warming up. Easter is around the corner and the clocks are about to change too – all things bouncy are on…

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Fitted Carpet, Rugs or Wood Flooring?

Way back in the mists of time when the fitted carpet first appeared on the scene, anyone caught with a rug and – oh the shame – their floorboards exposed was seriously out of touch with the decorating trends of the day. Nowadays it is all about ripping up the shag-pile and crossing your fingers…

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Tips for Painting Your Living Room

If you don’t like the colour of the walls in your new home, you have several choices. You can paint, wallpaper, faux finish or panel them. If you love the colour that’s on your walls, work with it. If you want to start with a fresh new colour scheme, painting the room is the easiest…

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Styling Your Home

Don’t be in a hurry and don’t be embarrassed if your house or apartment is filled with empty space for a while. Take your time. I know this is hard for many people who are used to being organized and getting to end results quickly in other areas of their lives. But if you take…

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