MAKE A ROOM FEEL NEW AGAIN

Decorating your home, particularly your living area, allows you to combine creativity, elegance and good taste. Make good use of space, accessories and furniture available to you so you can create a living area that is inviting, relaxing, homey and elegant.
One of the easiest ways to bring new and seasonal colors into the home is with professional custom framing. "Changing the matboard and framing of artwork is a nice option to make a room feel new again. Add some matching pillows or accents and suddenly the room is fresh and new," says nationally recognized interior style consultant Barbara Schmidt.
Home design TV shows have really increased people's interest in interior design over the past few years and they've realized the importance of color in the home," says Schmidt,
Schmidt recommends visiting a professional custom framer for a personal consultation and a variety of ideas on bringing new color into the home with custom framing. Professional custom framers nationwide carry a wide selection of matboard colors, great tools, like the Crescent 2006 Color Trends Forecast, and are trained to help customers choose the best colors to accentuate the artwork and their home
Schmidt recommends bringing in layers of colors -- not just a single color. Says Schmidt, "People are more and more sophisticated when it comes to color and decoration. You can't just throw up plain artwork anymore and have it look like it's a finished room. You really need to look at your color scheme and bring complementary or blended colors into your framed art."

Color speaks in different ways, so people should choose colors they are naturally drawn to and that feel right."

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TIPS FOR DECORATING YOUR LIVING ROOM-PART-1

SPACIOUS LOOK WITH THE HELP OF MIRROR
Positioning Mirror at right places creates spacious look even for smaller living room.If space permits add small paintings on both sides of the mirror
SMALL FURNITURE ADDS TO BEAUTY OF LIVING ROOM
Placing small furniture like benches,stools or low center table at proprer places enhances the beauty of room.magazines or flower vases or any show pieces,basket of small plants,bonsai,etc can be placed on them.All this livens up the room considerably.
STATUES FOR ELEGANCE
Place statue at corner tables or on top of center table for elegance and warmth.Statues can be of symbols, deities, objects associated with everyday life.
LAMPS
Another alternative to lamp is the unique lamps place placed in the corner or table top which creates an elegant environment and vitalizes you living are beyond you imagination.As you know colour affects the mood of person.these lamps are not ordinary lamps
. They are unique lamps -- created from polished minerals and stones. These minerals and stones can emit light after exposure to day light or the light from normal light bulbs. When the chemicals in minerals or rocks react to light, this reaction causes the minerals or rocks to glow. The visible light emitted is sometimes very colorful and it is often very different from the normal color of the mineral. These unique Portara lamps will accent your living area.

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TIPS FOR DECORATING YOUR LIVING ROOM

the living area, or drawing room is the receiving room. It's also the room visitors /guests initially see and form a first and lasting impression about the home and theose who live in it.

With a combination of imagination, good taste, statues and lamps, any living area can be transformed into one that exudes elegance and coziness at the same time.

ARRANGING YOUR FURNITURE
Reaarange your furniture around fire place or piano but remember not to compromise free movemnt to the traffic in your living or drawing room.Ensure it has uncluttered look.
Give room arm and casual look.Don’t place Sofa directly against wall instead keep some gap and place some lamp or plant in the space.
CREATE WARMTH WITH COLOURS
Be cautious in coosing colours because they can be irritating too.colours affect the mood of people-they can be relaxing,inviting,soothing,irritatingetc.Green and Blue is known for relaxing and have anumber of shades too.colours give spacious or congested look to the room . Read more!

HOME DECORATION IDEAS

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