5 Tips for Your West Coast Designed Homes
When you are thinking of redecorating your house, one look to consider is West Coast Design. West Coast interior designs are very hot right now because of their emphasis on the natural and environmentally-friendly living spaces. If you are planning on using this aesthetic as an inspiration, here are a few points to remember:
1. West [...]
Part Two of the Homes and Gardens Survey
Last week, I provided an overview of Better Homes and Gardens market research. This research suggested that Americans want smaller, greener homes. Today, I will provide more detail on some of the other research results.
Home Offices
Last week we noted that respondents were looking for more organized space. A big component of this is that respondents [...]
Hot New Trend Alert: Urban Decay
We’ve discussed it several times before on this site: the hot new trend in home decorating is not new – it’s using recycled, freecycled and reclaimed items in your home decor. One of the reasons this trend started was because of the recession. With everyone cutting back, going glam seems insensitive and tacky. Even with [...]
Four Tips to Rid Your House of Stuff
You probably feel it: that horrible sinking feeling when you look in your closets and basements and realize that you have too much stuff.
The good news is that you aren’t alone. Statistics Canada says that every Canadian has nearly three square feet of stuff in storage. Americans are even worse – they have double that [...]
Hottest New Home Decorating Trend: Vintage Grain Sacks
With the recession, people have been moving away from polished and uber-modern materials and towards country, vintage and handmade decorating materials. The warmth of these materials helps comfort people in times of hardship.
As part of this trend, the hot new decorating material this year is – crazy as it sounds – vintage grain sacks.
Vintage grain [...]
Three Tips to Detox from Design Mania
If you are thinking about renovating or decorating your home, you are probably overwhelmed by the options you have. A kitchen, for starters, could be designed with many different ideas in mind: modern, country, vintage 50s, Scandinavian, etc.
When you start looking for design ideas, you inevitably feel pressured to put the latest and greatest things [...]
Decorating with Plasma Screen Televisions
The hot item this Christmas was HD plasma screen TVs – everyone wanted one. What else can do justice to the Olympics or the lastest Blu-Rays?
But these new televisions do present a problem for home decorating. The standard attitude toward televisions in home decor was that they should never be the focal point of a [...]



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