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... Read More

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. Above all, accessories... Read More

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. The role wall pictures... Read More

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.But what's... Read More

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. Our roots make us what we are, and showing respect for ancestral traditions gives the interior of your home a special individuality.Vernacular HeritageRegional... Read More

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... Read More

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. Here are a few... Read More

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... Read More

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.When people rate their happiness, it is the ratio of pleasant to unpleasant emotions and... Read More

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.I know what you are probably thinking, "That must have hurt!"... Read More

In The News:


Bavarian Born Beauty Nina Freudenberger's Haus Interior Party in New York
Huffington Post (blog)
... a meeting place between her and clients to go over wallpaper swatches, magazines, design books or the items in the stores for interior decorating ideas. ...


Decorating your deck with container gardens
Orlando Sentinel
For 25 years, interior designer Patricia M. Wheeler has been meeting clients in showrooms, helping them select furniture, ...


Fixes for 3 common home decorating mistakes
Seattle Times
An interior designer offers her solutions. By Mary Madden One of the mysteries of space — we're talking real-world living space, not the cosmos — is that ...

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The Consumerist (blog)

10 State Taxes That May Be Coming Your Way
The Consumerist (blog)
*Interior decorating -- Oregon, Colorado and New Jersey want to tack on anywhere from 2 to 6 percent in taxes on pro interior decorator services. ...


Home Front: Design ideas from Jura Koncius and Terri Sapienza with interior ...
Washington Post
Temporary bedroom help: I've put off decorating my bedroom because it needs major structural updates in every aspect -- floor, walls, ceiling. ...


Avoid decorating faux pas by featuring your space properly
Kansas City Star
(Reach Mary Madden, an interior designer at Madden-McFarland Interiors, 1903 W. 135th St. in Leawood, at mary@maddenmcfarland.com.)

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An interiors dialogue with House Beautiful's new editor
Washington Post
Despite 25 years of experience in the design business, Turner is the first to tell you that he's no pro when it comes to decorating. "I'm not a designer, ...


How to Think Like an Interior Designer
ShelterPop (blog)
Interior decorators cannot begin planning a project until they know the budget, and you shouldn't either. You'll need to be more specific at this point in ...


Storefronts: Changes in Portland's retail landscape
OregonLive.com
The shop will continue to specialize in handmade Mediterranean textiles, interior decorating items, skin and bath products, and more. ...


Flat Rock designs historic fundraiser
Spartanburg Herald Journal
Galen Reuther, president of Historic Flat Rock, is keeping close tabs on the interior decorating that's going on inside the mansion. ...

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