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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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