Brighten Your Kitchen Decor With The Flair Of A Professional Home Decorator

Posted by admin | kitchen design | Tuesday 10 November 2009 6:30 am

A beautifully decorated home is a real joy, and one of the key elements to properly decorating your home is to put a good face on your windows. There are dozens of possibilities available for choosing the perfect curtains for your kitchen.

Kitchen curtains come in as many shapes and sizes as the homes they fill. Many homemakers hire high paid interior decorators to customize their home. While these decorators can make a home stylish, they cannot capture the unique aspects of the personalities that populate the home.

Decorating a home is easy. Choosing the personal touches that customize a home is as easy as purchasing items that appeal to the occupants of the home. Tailored, pleated, insulated and lined, tiered, ruffled, lace, sheer, and door panel curtains are the most common and popular styles of kitchen curtains available. Tailored curtains are straight lined, classically long curtains. Insulated kitchen curtains are a common favorite.

Tiered kitchen curtains are short curtains, making them ideal for little windows. For larger windows, tiered curtains can be stacked to create the illusion of fullness or to combine complimentary colors.

Pleated curtains contain the same simple elegance as tailored curtains, but because of their pleats, they hang in a wavy fashion instead of straight. For a beautiful accent to windows without blocking out much light, sheer and lace curtains are ideal.

Door panel curtains are specifically made to accommodate this unique problem. Curtains can easily be customized to match any room’s décor. Solid color panels chosen from a patterned curtain can emphasis a particularly appealing aspect of that pattern, creating a very lovely window treatment.

Decorate Your Home Like a Pro with These Easy Steps

Posted by admin | Home Design | Tuesday 3 November 2009 5:52 am

You’ve moved into your new home, unpacked the boxes, arranged and rearranged the furniture, hung a few things on the walls. There are decorator magazines, home decorating shows, web sites, retailers, great books with very good instructions.  Visiting model homes again will help.

Start with one room you love in a magazine or model home.  We’ll call it your dream room.  If you can go to the model home to feel and study the space or the room you will get the best results.

The pizzazz is the accessories.  This is often what many people love most about the model homes or magazine pictures that inspire them.  The details, the little things we all love to collect and buy when we shop.  In the room you love, what kind of lamps are there?  Are there several things grouped on the coffee table?

Is there one large picture over the sofa or is there an arrangement of black and white photos in different size frames?  What color is the matting and how much space from the photo to the frame?  Draw a sketch of the picture arrangement and the sizes in your notebook.

You don’t have to break the bank now to create your room. Go to the paint store and select the paint chips you think best match your dream room.  Buy the paint and paint the room.

If you copy your dream room exactly makes sure you have the right privacy and exposure considerations covered.  Your dream room may have been more airy with a shade and drapery panels on large wood poles.  Arrange your furniture for conversation, TV watching, family fun, reading, eating or homework keeping in mind your dream room.  Was all the furniture lined up on one side of the room?