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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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Price : $179.00

Features

• 59-inch-by-18-inch bookcase with modern curvilinear design adds style to smaller spaces
• Made from eco-friendly engineered composite wood with genuine wood veneer; certified by the Forest Stewardship Council
• Includes 4 12-inch adjustable shelves with 8 position options; concealed cable management
• 2-minute tool-free assembly; disassembles in seconds for flat storage or transport
• 3-year warranty; available in several color combinations

Amazon.com Review

A fresh take on modular furniture, Legar offers stylish curvilinear designs crafted of eco-friendly materials that assemble and rearrange with unparalleled ease. In just three minutes or less with no tools, screws, or bolts needed, individual components lock snugly together to become sturdy, stable office and home pieces that will provide many years of high-quality service. Legar’s Select line is made of engineered composite wood with solid-wood surface veneers. Engineered wood, manmade from small wood pieces and adhesives, has several environmental advantages: large panels of wood can be made from small-diameter trees; the use of wood scraps and wood with defects reduces waste; and engineered products are often stronger and less prone to warping from humidity than solid timber. Plus, all the wood Legar uses is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.

This 59-inch-by-18-inch bookcase says a very hip goodbye to standard right angles with its sweeping contoured edges and whimsical puzzle-like design. The unit comes with four 12-inch-wide shelves and eight position options, spaced 6-3/8 inches apart, for either easy customizing or adding extra shelves (sold separately). Four cutouts in back provide concealed cable management, and an oversized top shelf with a back rail makes a nice display spot. Available in a range of colors, from a sophisticated wheat and ebony combination with ash and oak veneers to fun red and black to green and white or pink and white duos for kids’ rooms, this bookcase requires only two minutes to assemble and a few seconds to disassemble. Its compact size also makes it great for all kinds of small-space storage like kitchens and bathrooms. Go ahead–move it around as much as needed! Legar furniture is backed by a three-year warranty. –Kara Karll

Interior design buildings housing high-end fabric, furniture, and home accessories are considered number one on the interior designers’ shopping list of decorator-only showrooms. The Decoration and Design Building in New York City–better known as the D&D Building, and the Pacific Design Center–also known as the Blue Whale in Los Angeles, California have broken the cardinal rule of designers only admission. Despite the grumbling of a variety of interior designers–most of whom make their money from markup commissions on the fabrics, furniture, and home accessories sold to their clients–are other trade-only showrooms destined to follow?

The fabrics, furniture, and home accessories in these fortresses of design are expensive, custom-made, and oftentimes unique, one-off pieces. The showrooms are glitzy and meant to intimidate the general public. However, they are extremely designer-friendly. They are well-laid out, provide all manner of tips and clues for interior designers to easily make fabric, furniture, and home accessory selections and coordinate their clients’ projects. Fabric samples and furniture and home accessory brochures for less portable items are available for the designers’ client presentation boards.

Although the merchandise here is expensive, the price you see is not what the professional designer gets. You, the client, see the retail prices; while the designer pays the wholesale price and charges the client the difference as a commission. This is what could be termed “high-end discount shopping in style.”

Yes, the secret is out. You, mr. and ms. ordinary homeowner have been running from one garage sale, flea market, swap meet, thrift shop to the other looking for bargains, while designers have been discount shopping in style.

The fact is, some of these exclusive showrooms have for many years had sales open to the public at least once a year. If you’ve been lucky enough to be on the right mailing list, you may have received an invitation. Occasionally, designers will tell some of their clients about the sales. Designers and shopkeepers often stock up at these annual sales on things they frequently use. The discounts are deep.

Now that the secret is out, these are resources to you, the general public do-it-yourself decorator. There are no organizations to belong to, no degrees to obtain. In other words, you don’t have to be a member of a private club with a secret handshake and a code word to get in.

Connie LeGendre empowers homeowners designing their interiors through e-courses and newsletters. Do-it-yourself homeowners are encouraged to ask questions about their projects when signed up for a Free, downloadable e-course “7 New Secrets to Unleashing the Designer in You” at http://www.interiordesignclinic.com A trained architect and interior designer, fifteen years teaching and running her design business with high-end clients demanding cost-effective and unique solutions, Ms LeGendre brings that considerable background to her online tips, information, solutions, and Q&A website. The mission is to help translate financially out-of-reach design into affordable creations for anyone who wants to do it themselves.

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