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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Some of our furniture, fixtures and home decors at home have been passed down to us as heirlooms: divans, grandfather’s clocks, carpets, rocking chairs, chests, and others. More than their price value, these items have accumulated intrinsic and sentimental values as well. Therefore, it is important that we know how to take care and maintain these items in the good condition.

Furniture

Furniture should only be dusted lightly with lint-free cloth. When polishing wooden furniture, make sure it has been dusted before applying quality beeswax or wood furniture polisher. When choosing a polisher for wooden furniture, it is best to check the labels to make sure that you are getting the right polisher for the right wood. Some woods may be more porous than others and therefore, may need a different kind of wood polish. To preserve furniture, it is also best to keep your heirloom and more expensive furniture in rooms with even temperatures. Avoid keeping them in rooms with direct sunlight or in rooms that are vulnerable to various temperature changes as this may easily damage the wood.

Frequent moving of furniture is also one common cause of damage and wear and tear. When moving and rearranging furniture around the house, furniture are better lifted than dragged. For very heavy furniture, buffer or cushion the edges to avoid scratches and dints.

Rugs, Carpets, Tapestries

Rugs, carpets and tapestries require a different method of cleaning and maintenance. Rugs, carpets and tapestries are best moved and handled carefully as their materials and fibers are more easily degraded with time and with temperature compared to wooden furniture. Rugs, tapestries and carpets can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner. However, it has to be done in low setting. Avoid exposure of carpets and expensive rugs to the extreme elements such as extreme heat or humidity and moist or cool areas in your home. When storing rugs and carpets, roll the bottom-side up with wax paper to protect the carpet and rug design from dusts and other insects that gnaw on their material.

When maintained properly according to what they require, furniture, home decors, rugs and carpets can really last long enough for you to pass on to your children and their children. Sometimes, furniture can do more than decorate your homes. They link lives.

JB Anthony is the webmaster of www.fashionandfurniture.com. For fashion and furniture products, jewelry and furniture designs, articles, links, items, item reviews and reports, please visit www.fashionandfurniture.com

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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Mulch is anything that covers the soil for the purpose of preventing weeds, conserving moisture, or moderating the soil temperature. Many materials make good mulch. The ones you choose really depend on what’s locally available, how much you want to spend, the appearance factor and where you plan to put it.

The best mulch materials for gardens and landscapes also feed the worms and add organic matter to the soil as they decompose. Usually, 2- to 4-inch layers are sufficient to do the job, depending on the density of the material. Take a look at the following popular mulches and their uses.

Tree bark: The ubiquitous landscape mulch. Available in shreds or various-sized chunks, bark lasts a long time, depending on the particle size and gives your landscape a finished look. Be sure you’re buying real bark, however, by checking the bag label or asking the seller for the content. Wood chips that are dyed to look like bark are becoming prevalent in some areas.

Wood chips, sawdust and shavings: Although suitable for mulch, these products break down more quickly than bark and compete with your plants for nitrogen as they decompose. If you use these around food and landscape plants, be sure to add an additional nitrogen source such as animal manure or cottonseed meal. Never use materials from chemical- or pressure-treated wood.

Shredded leaves and pine needles: These are among the best sources of free, attractive and nutrient-rich mulch for flowerbeds, fruits and vegetables. Be sure to shred leaves before using to prevent matting in the garden. In fact, it is best to run over fallen leaves with a lawn mower, discharging them into easy-to-rake mounds.

Seed hulls and crop residue: These attractive, locally available, lightweight materials include cocoa bean, buckwheat hulls, ground corncobs and other materials left over from processing an agricultural crop. Use on top of newspaper or other sheet mulch to increase suppression of weeds.

Straw and hay: While these are traditional vegetable garden and strawberry mulches, beware! Hay contains weed seeds that will add to your problems. Straw from grain crops, such as oats and wheat, may contain some crop seeds, but is a better choice as weed-suppressing mulch. Allow the soil to warm up in the spring before putting mulch around tomatoes and other heat-loving crops because straw keeps the soil cool.

Law clippings: Clippings cost nothing and work best in flower and vegetable beds where they decompose quickly. Allow the clippings to dry on the lawn and then rake them up before using. Fresh clippings may mat down and become slimy as they decompose.

Newspaper and cardboard: Use cardboard or several layers of whole newspaper sheets in pathways or around landscape plants to smother weeds. Avoid the colored glossy pages. Cover with a thick layer or loose mulch, such as bark, shredded leaves or straw. Depending on rainfall, you may have to replace newspaper during the growing season.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to Gardening

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Do you like what you have but dont like your room? Heres the solution: pull your rooms together so they look finished and professionally decorated by following these techniques to add the wow to your rooms! (Ive used them in hundreds of homes!).

1. Paint the walls and ceiling a rich, warm neutral color or one of the colors in your rooms fabrics. Your furnishings will immediately look more at home. I call it marrying your architecture to your furnishings.

2. Next, move your seating away from the walls and group it around a fireplace, a view window or any logical focal point.

3. Now, add a generous area rug to accent and unify your entire seating area.

4. Fill any empty looking corners with large plants and soft up-lights. Add a decorative, folding screen for a fuller look.

5. Place your lamps to evenly and softly light your seating area. Use additional lighting to accent your artwork, collections and accessories.

6. Create a focal point on the coffee table by elevating one of your favorite accessories on a stack of several books (sans covers). This will give your treasure more presence. Then add a low, full green plant or a blooming orchid and a couple of large, glowing candles. If you like a fuller look, use a decorative tray or runner underneath.

7. Lastly, be sure to decorate the top half of your room (from the furniture up), with tall plants, window treatments, artwork and that wall color. The room will feel considerably larger, more interesting and most importantly finished!

These few changes will make all the difference so you can start enjoying living in a beautiful home!

Mary L. Brown of One Day Design is an interior re-designer who specializes in quickly transforming rooms using the furniture, accessories, and artwork people already have to give them a professionally decorated look! She’s been featured on FOXTV, NBC and HGTV. Download Marys FREE Top 10 Decorating Mistakes (and How to Avoid or Fix Them!) and sign up for her FREE decorating eNewsletter at http://www/OneDayDesign.com

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Have you ever wondered what goes into decorating a bedroom. If you have ever tried to decorate your own bedroom, then you will agree that it’s not just throwing a bunch of furniture pieces around, painting walls, with colors of your choice, and using other accessories.

Decorating is much more than that. Even if you have arranged the smartest furniture around, you have had the costliest accessories setup, there is a secret which I am going to share with you will “pump life” into your bedroom almost instantly.

Want to learn how?

Here it is, try putting a small flowering plant in your bedroom. Be really choosy about the color of flowers. Following factors can be considered while selecting a flowering plant.

1)Is the plant shade loving? You can find out this easily when you purchase it.

2)Does the color of the flowers create the mood you want it to be in your bedroom?

3)How much maintenance is required?

4)How much direct sunlight the plat will bear. This information directly affect the location of the plant in the bedroom.

5)Is it okay if I hang the plan and it’s pot from ceiling or in window openings?

The greatest benefit of using a flowering plant is the plant keeps changing its appearance depending upon seasonal changes. This can be very creatively used if plants are used in groups. Because of the ever changing mood of the plant the bedroom also has a ever changing look and feel.

Groups of flowering plants that blossom in different seasons is also a great idea. Lot of varieties of indoor flowering plants are available today.

There is one more creative idea to using plantation inside a bedroom. And that’s using a “Bonsai Tree” . A bonsai tree is always crafted by a professional and look very creative. But bonsai trees should never be used in groups. The simple reason is the craftsman of the bonsai tree always crafts it as an individual piece of art. Each bonsai tree piece has its unique importance and beauty.

A special place for the bonsai tree must be created in a bedroom. A bonsai tree with artificial focused lights can create a great visual experience because of the shadows the light will create on the background surface.

The cost of a bonsai tree varies depending upon the craftsmanship,size, breed of the bonsai tree. Thus using plants an greatly enhance the visual and comfort levels of your bedroom.

I hope you have enjoyed this text…

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