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

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Interior design exhibit showcases student project
Western Herald
Exposed is the work of five young women—Carly Zagorski, Riley Walters, Amanda Peck, Renee Gahn and Kimberly Porco– showcasing four years of hard work in the Interior Design Senior Exhibit Exposed, running through March 1. Though a senior thesis is ...


Selling or staying put, 'daylighting' improvements pay off for homeowners
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
While adding a window in the wall of your home may raise practical and design issues, adding a roof window or skylight can be much easier. Roofs are, for the most part, a blank slate, allowing you to install skylights wherever they are needed most.


Interior design trends: Easy seasonal changes refresh and revive your home
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Break out of the winter gloom by making some simple changes to your home with bright, fresh decor. Here are the top trends in interior decorating that capture the optimistic feeling of springtime, without having to spend a lot of time or money.


Designing rooms for children with special needs
Washington Post
While Rodriguez was monitoring Sean's health, she was also tending to her husband, their 12-year-old son, their home and her design business. Like other parents she met in doctors' offices, Rodriguez felt overwhelmed by her new responsibilities.

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Home Design and Decorating Trends for 2012
Patch.com
Ellisville-based interior designer Patrice Munden gives the latest tips for a hip interior as we warm up to the new year. Rich colors like emerald, ruby and amethyst are just some of the visuals that keen observers of interior design will likely see in ...


The 10 Best Interior Design Tumblrs
Complex.com (blog)
Interior design doesn't require too much effort, and what little thought and time is required will make the world of difference in your life. Tumblr can help. If you're an interior design/decorating junkie you can find a very large group of uses who ...


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Vertbaudet Launches New Home Collection Spring/Summer 2012 Catalogue
PR Web (press release)
Children's clothing designer brand Vertbaudet has released its comprehensive supplementary Spring/Summer 2012 Home Collection catalogue. The newly launched catalogue is bursting with fun, stylish and practical interior décor and soft furnishings, ...

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Great Closet Design Ideas That Help You Create Great Business
Closets Daily (blog)
Houzz's answer to that question is that it's the largest collection of interior design and decorating ideas on the Internet, including kitchens and bathrooms....and now CLOSETS. In fact, according to Housman, requests for closet photos is one of their ...


Walk Through Design Inspiration
Patch.com
Magazines, blogs and television shows offer motivation, but nothing beats seeing great design up close and personal. A tour of a design house or model home brings professionally decorated interiors to life. Like test driving a car, touring local design ...


Leading by example: Chrisman senior named Boys & Girls Clubs Youth of the Year
Blue Springs Examiner
Every Wednesday, Wheeler walks 10 children to church and makes sure they get home safely. “The parents trust her – that's the great thing,” Counce-Smith said. Next year, Wheeler will attend Park University, majoring in interior design and psychology.

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