There is a remedy for rooms that make you claustrophobic. The antidote for cramped or windowless spaces is to paint a continuous landscape mural on every wall and the ceiling, to trick the eye into believing you are outside with lots of room to run in every direction. Perspective drawing of your favorite landscape is all you need to turn your room into a relaxing, beautiful environment.
Covering your wall with a beautiful detailed mural can be the key to any fantasy room. If you can bring it alive in your art, or if you can hire the right person to do that, you have the opportunity to bring your fantasy to life.
A wall mural is a way to bring the outdoors inside, using artistic inspiration. It does not have to be perfectly realistic, either. Letting the imagination run wild can be the key to some very interesting artistic creations which can inspire you and those who share the room with you.
A room mural is perfect for children, adults and elders. Teenagers and convalescents will find room murals to be especially helpful when they lack the mobility they crave. The mural gives them the feeling of being outside, roaming freely. Adventure landscapes spark children’s imaginations. Office workers can become more inventive and industrious when they are treated to inspiring views.
When choosing furniture for a room with picture painted walls, be sure to pick items that will enhance rather than cover or clash with the painted scenes. For instance: If your room is painted to look like a desert, then large embroidered pillows and low laying ottomans would give the d?cor the feel of a Bedouin tent. If your room is painted to look like rolling hills covered in vineyards, then using furniture you’d find in a winery garden would fit the scene.
The Flower Growth Chart is a beautiful addition to your child’s bedroom decor, as well as a practical way to keep track of her/his growth. Kids love to see tangible proof of their progress in life, and here is one way to give them a sense of accomplishment. “Look how much you grew! It must be all those organic vegetables you ate. Good job!” What kid wouldn’t love to hear that?
The chart is heavily laminated, and easily marked. Just stand your child in front of the flower’s stem, and mark it at the height of his or her head. You can use an erasable marker, a permanent one, or a sticker to mark each growth spurt.
The chart comes with butterfly stickers to mark the ages, and 9 extra stickers to use at your discretion. The chart folds into a gift box, and stretches up to 5 feet tall when extended and hung on the wall.
The gift box can be used to store the chart as a keep sake when your child out grows it.
The Flower Growth Chart is so pretty, and so colorful, that regardless of whether you use it for measurement, it will make your child’s room a cheerful happy place.
This makes a great gift, and is affordable enough to buy for more than one child.
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Here’s a great idea for a kid’s room. Not only is it a fun decor theme, it is educational too. These illustrated alphabet stickers show both the capital and lowercase letters, and a picture of something that will remind your child of the sound the letter makes. Your child will learn to read faster and more fluently, if these stickers are the first thing s/he sees upon waking and the last thing s/he sees before falling asleep. Perfect for making them feel grown up and offering them stimulating challenges, they are also colorful art pieces.
The stickers come in a variety of sizes from 2 inches by 1 inch and 1/4 up to 9 inches by 12 inches and 1/4. The best feature, is that these stickers can be peeled off and moved as many times as you like, without damaging them or the wall. How’s that for a no-risk experiment in kid’s room decor?
A few ideas for creative decor themes:
Get more than one set, and spell each child’s name over his/her bed.
Spell out sentences or phrases that inspire your child to read. Change the text before s/he comes home from school or kindergarten, or preschool, and make a game of sounding out each new arrangement.
Place them in alphabetical order, and make a game of looking up words in the dictionary. Every time s/he forgets the order of the alphabet, s/he need only look up and see it on the wall.
These sticker sets make great gifts, and are so affordable that you can get more than one set.
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Feng Shui or Fengshui is the ancient Chinese art of home and office decor. Today people from all over the world are discovering the benefits of this Asian wisdom. The system used to create a pleasant and peaceful home, and a productive prosperous work environment, is one that understands the flow and balance of energy in a given space. This energy is called Chi, and is considered vital for health on every level: physical, mental, spiritual, and economical.
To achieve a balance of energies from the five elements, water, wood, fire, earth, and metal, one must have them each proportionally represented in a room.
To be sure that Chi flows at the right pace and in best pathways, without stagnating or overwhelming any particular place in a room or home, refer to the above mentioned article.
With a little bit of knowledge, you can improve the well being of occupants in any space using the Feng Shui principles. Not only does it work to improve your health, it also improves your relationships and makes your decor more beautiful.
The art of stamping has been improving the look of people’s homes for hundreds and even thousands of years. Stamping allows you to create a consistent design over a large area. Whether you use the same colors to create an identical repeating image, or whether you use a different color each time, your pattern will look cohesive if you use a stamp.
Stamps can be made from many materials, including natural latex, wood, and potatoes.
The easiest do-it-yourself stamp is made from a potato, cut open to expose a flat surface. After drawing the design on the flat surface of the potato, use a craft knife to cut away any area you don’t want to show up in your image. The remaining material should form the shape of your flat image of choice. Dab that surface in ink or paint, and you have a stamp that is reusable and biodegradable.
Now you are ready to personalize your home decor. Stamps make good border designs on floors, along the perimeter of ceilings, the backs of chairs, the perimeter of tables, the tops of walls, and fabric for curtains, bedspreads, pillow covers, furniture slip covers, and anyplace you’d like to create beautiful designs. If you use the same stamps on the furniture, curtains, bedspread, the tops of the walls, and the perimeter of the floor, you create harmonious room decor.
