Updated: October 1, 2020 When you walk into a room, without thinking, your eyes automatically search for something or somewhere to land. That “landing spot” is called the focal point. The focal point is where your eye is drawn to and where you make your first impression of the room. Typically focal points catch…
There are a number of factors that go into a well decorated room with furniture being one of the key factors in that equation. Furniture needs to be methodically picked out and placed taking the room’s elements, focal point and design style in mind. Violating any of these principles using furniture incorrectly can make…
Updated: October 25, 2020 Is Your Home Messy Right Now? Be honest! If you’re like most of us, we are NOT visitor ready. i.e. We secretly hope that friends don’t ring the doorbell without notice. And if they call us that they are on their way over, we run madly around the main floor scurrying…
What does your front entrance way say about your home? Is it entrance table stacked full of mail, books from school? It the floor full of shoes scattered all over and everyone is tripping over the kids’ backpacks? Entryways are the first impression that your home makes when visitors step into your home. They set…
Updated: October 26, 2020 10 Gold Faucets Ideas for Your Next Bathroom It seems like only yesterday that we were replacing our dated gold faucets for polished chrome or brushed pewter. But gold is back better and classier than ever. Check out these gold faucet ideas for your next bathroom renovation. What a refreshing breath…
Updated: October 10, 2020 How To Re-Design Your Family Bathroom Upgrading a bathroom definitely is high on the list of renovations that increase the value to your home. But not only will a bathroom reno increase your property value, it will morning rush hours easier as the kids are getting ready to rush off to…
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Updated: May 31, 2021 I know of one woman who’s husband had painted their living room 3 times in a row because she hated the paint color on her wall that she had selected from paint chips. She hated the third color that was just painted on the wall and thus that is what brought…
A reader asked me for help because she thought she ruined her house. She had read one of my blog posts about curb appeal and asked me what she should do. She has a house with light to mid-brown bricks and dark brown shutters & garage doors. She had just installed a jet black roof…
Whether you’re decorating to stay or staging to sell, your front curb appeal says alot about your house. Your curb appeal can make a positive or negative statement. Landscaping can have a HUGE impact on what your house looks like. Overgrown shrubs or trees and unkempt gardens gives the impression that the inside of the…
Entryway Makeover Reveal Week 6 is finally here and time for my entryway makeover reveal! A few weeks ago I happily discovered Linda from Calling It Home where she bi-annually runs an amazing One Room Challenge for designers/bloggers to choose one room of their home to redesign in six weeks. We check in every week…
Master Bedroom & En-suite makeover: Adding the Glam In the fall of 2015, I joined almost 200 Designers/Bloggers in the One Room Challenge hosted by Linda of Calling It Home where we have 6 weeks to transform a room of our choice from boring to stunning! I picked our Master Bedroom & En-suite because it…