Home Channel Tip #6: Keeping your paintings straight
Occasionally I enjoy the Home Channel. Sometimes it’s a little “girly”, but other times it gives you a little “Useless Knowledge” Anyway, today I saw this little tip: Once you’ve hung your painting using the nail you normally use, place a little Prestik behind the picture frame and stick it to the wall. The nail will support the picture, the Prestik will prevent it from moving. This will help you keep your photos and paintings hanging straight! Of course, you don’t always have to use nails to hang your pictures. For the light ones, I hang them with...
Read MoreUse your wedding photographs
Again, this is common sense. Our wedding photographer took excellent photographs at our wedding, as I mentioned in my article where I reviewed our wedding photographer. But, we just had the photos sitting in the wedding album which we would take out and show people if they hadn’t seen it yet (and if they asked… I promise we weren’t forcing it on people ). But, almost 2 years down the road, we don’t get many requests to see the album, so we finally got around to getting enlargements made of a couple of our wedding photographs, and are hanging them up. All I can say is:...
Read MoreDecorating a study – Color
Here’s a quick little idea when decorating a study. If your study is anything like mine, the colors can be a little drab. Dark wood seems to be quite the rage at the moment, and, with our cream painted walls and dark wood study desk and display cabinet/book shelves, our study is pretty much a black and white room. My tip is: Add some color with an abstract painting. Choose a wall, and get some art that will take up a lot of it. It will be a focal point for your study, as well as a detractor from the lack of colour in your study. Of course, lack of color is not the only reason to put up...
Read MoreDesigner’s eye, first steps, and other stories
Here are this weeks interesting articles. Hope you enjoy them. ::::::::: At The Columbian there’s an article on “Decorating Trends for 2006″. It talks about how “Designing a room has become more about comfort and function, while infusing luxury with playfulness and fun”. It even mentions how the use of “bling” – sparkling things – is making it’s way into the home (probably from a hip-hop star’s fingers and neck?!?). ::::::::: WHIOTV.com tells a story of a little girl who got stuck in a safe at a Home Improvement store in...
Read MoreHome Decorating Tip #9 – Give each room a function
Give each room a function, and make sure that each function can be fulfilled in the room. 2 obvious examples: The lounge needs seating, but also a coffee table for people to put their cups down. Try not to force people to do things they don’t necessarily enjoy doing, like holding a hot cup of coffee until it’s cool enough to drink. You can definitely make your coffee table a feature of the lounge. The bedroom definitely needs a bed to sleep on. But it is really helpful to have a bedside table next to the bed, and even possibly a bedside lamp on top of that… So, things to go...
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