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Micro-Velvet Curtain

Here is a great way to add luxury while keeping the room’s temperature stable. Velvet curtains feel so soft with their plush pile, and they add a sense romance to the room. If you enjoy the finer things in life, consider velvet curtains.

As you can see from the picture, they do not darken the mood of the room, even though they do block the light. This makes them ideal for bedrooms and living-rooms where you watch movies. They would also be fantastic on a canopy bed, especially if you are going for the fairy princes with privacy decor in light pink, or the sophisticated couple in sage green, or the “on fire” love nest in hot pink.

The white velvet would be a perfect way to add texture to a white on white decor theme. Adding texture is important in a monochrome room, as it prevents the room from looking flat and lifeless.

The curtains measure 58 by 84 inches, and they have a nicely tailored pocket to slide the hanging rod through, providing a  clean finished look.

Here’s an idea for the ultimate romantic room: Combine the light pink and sage green velvet curtains, and fill the room with pink flowers on green stems. You will want to write ballads in this room!

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Redi White Fan Shaped Window Shade for Arch

The white shade is shaped like a paper fan and will create an elegant understated look that will not dominate the room. It will add atmosphere and an Asian flavor without demanding attention. The pleats are a perfect way to add texture in a white on white decor theme, and therefore avoid the flat look you get when a monochrome room lacks texture.

This 36 by 72 inches window shade is so easy to install, you can stick it on instantly when you need privacy or to block the light. The shade can be trimmed down to fit even a window that is 36 inches wide, or left as is for a window that is 72 inches wide. It comes with a self adhesive holder for windowsill mounting, and can be installed in seconds. The shade is made of durable paper, and can be easily removed. This is an economical way to shade a half circle shaped window.

Here’s a suggestion: Use this fan shaped shade on the window, and then add a few Asian accent pieces around the room. Try a Japanese theme, with an iron tea pot and Raku glazed ceramic cups. Add a floral arrangement of cherry blossoms on long thin branches, and throw in a white porcelain Neko cat for luck.

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Magnolia Window Film by Artscape

The Magnolia design window film by Artscape is the best solution for your budget. Create the elegant beauty of stained glass, without staining your wallet, or altering your windows themselves. This is absolutely lovely, and will remove the need for drapes.

Here you have a 24 by 36 inch panel that repeats its design like wall paper so that you can add panels on top, bottom, left, and right, as one seamless design. It can be trimmed to fit any shape and repeated to fit any size. The film is self adhering without the use of adhesives, so even after years in place you can just peel it off with no residue or damage.

The film is translucent, but not transparent. Like stained glass, it provides privacy while allowing light to enter. The cheerful soothing colors will improve the look of any window, and give you something to hide behind in the shower, at your front door, or anywhere you’d like to enjoy the feel of looking out at nature with sunlight streaming through petals.

The film filters out UV rays, and will not fall apart in heat, cold, or steam.

The design itself is so pretty, it provides the perfect solution for windows that look out onto ugly views. With this film, there could be a junk yard outside your window, and you’d never know it. Instant country garden! Excellent decor idea.

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Practical Kitchen Decor Tips

A kitchen where delicious food is created, is a kitchen where the cook feels good about life. What things make you feel good about life? Bring those elements into your kitchen decor.

If romance inspires you to create gorgeous meals, then hang photos of your loved one on the kitchen wall, and train garlands of edible flowers to creep from your windowsill planter box, in through the window, and around it. Place candles around the kitchen, and use romantic lighting when you cook. Your cooking then becomes an offering of devotion, seduction, and admiration.

If your cooking is your connection to your heritage or your ancestors, decorate your kitchen with your ethnic art. Frame one of your favorite ancestral photos, and hang it on the wall.
You can also place old hand written recipes in layers to cover the kitchen table, and then cover that with a sheet of clear glass. This makes a rustically charming decor focal point, or a classically elegant one if you write the recipes in calligraphy. Your guests will ooh and ahh over this creative design.

If you want to cook healthful meals, hang a picture of yourself doing a realistic activity that can only be done with a strong healthy body (relative to your own circumstances), and a focused mind. If you have a family, hang photos of them showing off their health and strength too. For instance, a photo of your child proudly displaying a school assignment that earned a high grade, or flexing her/his biceps and smiling with white teeth, shows the rewards for eating healthful foods. Hang colorful charts depicting the ratio of proteins to carbohydrates that you need, and hang pretty pictures of beautiful organic fruits and vegetables. These will give you an appetite for what is good for you, instead of tempting you to eat junk food. Natural produce comes in all colors (even blue - for blueberries), so you can make a gorgeous rainbow on your wall.

Planning Storage Areas in Your Room Design

When you design a room, first think about how you will stash everything up and out of your way. After you’ve figured out how much utility space you really need, you can then work on how to make it look attractive. Most people make the mistake of trying to figure out where they’ll put their stuff, only after they’ve decorated and become attached to an inflexible design. The function should dictate the form.

Your inspired decor theme will be visually lost if the room is drowning in clutter and the floors choked with objects. No one wants to bend over a zillion times to move things, so most people just avoid cleaning their floors when there is too much on them. Shelves, storage cabinets, and hanging baskets help you to keep things off the floor.

Interior Design Through Pillows

Everyone loves pillows, whether they are arranged in a row on a couch, or heaped on the floor in a pile, whether they are used one at a time, or layered and grouped, pillows are great decorations. Pillows can be stamped with fabric paint, quilted, appliqu?d, sewn with ruffles, printed with photographs, or beaded to make them really stand out.

Pillows come in all shapes and sizes. When combined, they are an art instillation in and of themselves. The benefit of this kind of art is that it is so comfortable for everyday use.  A heap of pillows is fun to jump into, sprawl out on, build forts with, offer to guests to make them more comfortable, support aching backs with, rest your head on, elevate your feet with, and of course, have a pillow fight with.

Many modern day artists work in fabric to create unique signature pillows. These don’t have to be extremely expensive, as they are often designed by the artist and then mass produced to lower costs. Some artists work with a certain style or theme that runs through their cushioned creations, so you can combine pillows that have different designs while retaining the same look and feel.

Pillows can have tassels, fringes, fur, laces, or buttons. The possibilities are virtually endless. That means you can use different elements to create a unified look without giving up on variety. Try a collection of pillows that share the same shape and fabric but come in a multitude of colors; or why not a mix of different pillows in pure white, showing off different textures and trimmings?

Don’t think just beds and couches either. Pillows come in all sizes. Some are large enough to be used as chairs or beds, while some are tiny and have pockets for teeth that the tooth faerie will come for. Play around and adds elements of luxury and comfort in various rooms.

Rose Fairy Shelf with Folding Boxes

Here’s the ultimate in beautiful furniture to delight your little one. The cloth rose, buds, and leaves on winding vines are such a lovely touch added to this set of two drawers and two shelves. Look at the pretty color combo and the well placed use of prints and solids. This is a design masterpiece that will make any room look beautiful. The perfect accent piece for a simple room, or the ideal companion for the wealth of baby and children’s room decor items made by HABA, with German quality manufacturing.

The set includes the two folding fabric drawers which measure 36 inches by 29 inches by 26 inches. The structure is built from birch plywood, beech wood, and the fabric is cotton and polyester. The whole thing stands 47 inches tall, is 16 inches wide and 16 inches deep.

The color scheme is bright and cheerful with out being garish. The lime green and rosy pink combination is reminiscent of a garden in the spring time, when new growth buds and stretches upward, just like your Bundle of Joy. The touch of sky blue is the perfect accent to give it all the optimism of a clear sky on a perfect day.

You’ll want one of these for your own room!

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Flower Garland

This is a lovely decor idea. Take this 69 inch garland of soft fabric flowers on a soft fabric leafy vine, and drape it over a window frame or door frame; wind it around the back of a chair, or up the leg of a table. Get four and wind each one around the posts of a four poster bed. They are so affordable, you can buy as many as you like and do the whole room! The wonderful quality of cloth makes the decor immanently touchable and inviting. The greenery and symphony of colorful flowers are a wonderful way to bring the beauty of a country garden into your baby or child’s room. The joyful ambiance will sooth you, and the pallet of color will pop out at you as you enter the room.

Even if the room was previously painted all in white, it will look tastefully and plentifully decorated when you use these flower garlands. Try a green bamboo wood floor, or a green carpet to maintain the illusion of a mother nature taking over the room, and the vines will look right at home, as if they grew out of the “vegetation” on the floor.  Add a few fairies, or butterflies, and voila! An enchanted idyllic world welcomes your child.

This makes a great gift.

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