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4 Trends to Take Muted Interiors from Drab to Dreamy in 2024


While neutral tones continue to be popular this year among home DIYers, bold and colorful surroundings also are trending right now.

Styles on the Horizon for Your Home in 2023


With travel returning to normal, there’s a renewed interest in seeing the world but you don’t have to go far to bring the beautiful details of faraway destinations into your home’s spaces.

How to Be a Nurturing Plant Parent in 3 Easy Steps


Plants add color, life and vibrancy to your home's indoor and outdoor spaces and can even improve indoor air quality. However, if you are new to plant ownership, you may be wondering how to make your foliage thrive. Here are three tips for healthier plants:

Home Interior Design Tips on Decorating your Space with Wall Art


How to Decorate your Space with Wall Pictures If a room in your house lacks character, by simply placing some fine art prints on the walls can actually make quite an impact. Wall pictures are a necessary accessory in your home and are great to tie in with the room's style and color accent.

Home Decor Accessories - How to Create a New Look in a Room


Apart from complimenting your newly painted walls with soft furnishings and effective flooring, home decor accessories in a room are just as equally important. Accessories ranging from flowers in a contemporary vase to art pictures hanging on your walls, all add the finishing touches to any room.

Home Decorating Tips - How to Change a Rooms Dimension using Wall Pictures


The Basic Role of Pictures Wall art plays an important role in interior design as it helps create the ambience of a room. By cleverly placing wall pictures in certain ways, you can change and create a new look and feel in a room.

Decorate Like You See in Magazines & Books?


Have you ever wondered why interior designers place slippers on the ottoman in magazine photos? They do it to make the staged setting look as if it's a lived-in room. Pictures and illustrations in decorating books, magazines, and other advertisements are designed to sell a product or an idea.

Your Heritage and Personal Decorating Style


Ethnic traditions, customs, and attitudes carry forward our family values. Paying tribute to family heritage and tradition also gives our children a strong sense of family ties.

Decorate Your Home for Joy Using Design Psychology


What Is Design Psychology?Design Psychology exceeds "traditional" interior design practice by considering the effects of design elements on our five senses, as well as our emotions. Rather than decorating to impress or to follow a certain style, you can choose specific lighting, color, patterns, and other design elements to support your happiness and well-being.

How to Decorate Spaces for People


When it comes to decorating your home, forget about the empty, lifeless rooms you see in interior design magazines and books. Instead, you should concentrate on designing all of the rooms in your home as backdrops for the people who will be living in those spaces.

Dont Hire Someone to Steal Your Joy: Decorate Your Home Yourself!


In researching what makes people happy, I discovered that "Planning" makes us happy. Therefore, why should a homemaker turn over planning to an interior designer who creates homes to make money and impress others? Furthermore, most designers ignore the important outcome of creating a home, which is to support the emotional well-being of the residents.

Decorate Yourself Happy: How to Decorate For Everyday Pleasure/Joy


Because psychologists relate true happiness to joyous occurrences happening frequently, decorating your home to promote everyday pleasure makes sense. If you're planning a home makeover, provide for the cumulative total of all the little pleasure moments.

Decorating with Brains


Did I get your attention? Sorry, I just couldn't resist!When I was a little girl, we called them "brains". We would gather them into huge piles and either throw them into the woods or throw them at each other.

7 Tips for Decorating Your Childs Room


If you're not sure where to start or how best to tackle updatingyour child's bedroom, you're not alone. In a lot of families, thebaby nursery takes a lot of planning and decorating time butthere's often less thought and energy put into decorating thesame child's room as they grow older.

Safely Decorating Your Kids Bedroom


? Wall Decorations:Never place a wall hanging, picture, poster, or any other decoration on the wall within the baby's reach. Remember that once the baby is able to stand and reach up these things can be hazards.

Decorating on a Budget - 15 Easy Steps


Many years ago I was told that the least expensive way to redecorate is to rearrange what you have. It was one of the best decorating suggestions I've ever had-not to mention the one that can be the most fun to implement.

Home Decorating: Planning Lightning


When you are choosing a bathroom light fixtures or lightning for any room in your home, the first thing to take into account is how that room will be used and, thus, the type of lightning you will need. Light is very important in a room, because it affects colors and makes them seem lighter or darker.

Kitchen Decorating Is Easy To Do


Kitchen decor themes can turn a dull kitchen into a beautiful living space. Being the central gathering place for family and friends, the right theme can make any occasion a memorable event.

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07/19/2024
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07/19/2024
13 Breezy Homes Embracing Coastal Interior Design
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07/18/2024
7 Offices Prioritize Community + Collaboration Through Design
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Uncover Intrigue At ATLAS Inside The National Gallery Prague
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07/11/2024
This NYC Office Is Full Of Eco-Elegance
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Behind the Renovation of a Historic Entertainment Hub in Chicago
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WilmerHale's New Office Design Reflects a Shift in Its Culture
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06/27/2024
How 3Eleven Honors Manhattan's Little-Known History
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A Modern Hub for Life Sciences Rises from a 1920's New York Gem
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Step Inside This Madison Avenue Duplex Full Of Color + Texture
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This Youth Mental-Health Campus is Designed to Heal
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Inside a Refreshed Children’s Hospital Named for a Baseball Star
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Embrace Nature In This Home On The Hills of Lake Michigan
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Milanese Elegance Meets New York Boldness in This Chic Home
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Plunge Into This Patterned Swimming Pool In Seattle
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Tiny Marvels: Unveiling High Design in Snug Spaces
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06/03/2024
Visit This Quirky Amsterdam Home Adorned With Modern Art
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This Architectural Gem Enticed New York Transplants to Call Connecticut Home
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AvroKO Turns to Warm Brutalism for the Jay Hotel
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05/17/2024
Rockwell Group Updates a Historic Hotel in Boca Raton
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