Home Decorating Tips & Projects

Fall Leaves Beautifully Preserved Without Pressing

You can preserve autumn leaves by pressing and drying them like flowers, or you can preserve color and retain leaves pliable texture by feeding the leaves a mixture of water and glycerine through their stems.

Mix 3/4 cup water with 2 ounces of glycerine in a small jar, cup or vase. Stand fresh colorful leaves in this mixture with stem ends in the solution. Allow the leaves to absorb the glycerine solution for 2-3 days. Stems will turn brown, but leaves will hold their colors - use to make decorative autumn arrangements or table decorations.

Feng Shui Tips for Furniture Arrangement

When decorating your home and placing furniture, you can follow some of Feng Shui’s basic principles to design a smooth flow, good look and comfortable environment. Click for article >

Fireplace Mantel Decor Ideas

Fireplace decorating is more than just what you put on your mantel. It’s the culmination of your personal style that pulls your look together. Click for tips on how to make your fireplace work for you as a style expression in your room decoration plan >.

Flea Markets - Decorator Gold Mines

Tag sales, auctions, flea markets and thrift stores offer bargains to frugal decorators in search of unique accessories or furniture perfect for "make-over" projects. You can find a wealth of craft supplies, too - old tins and bottles, china plates and glassware, magazines for decoupage, ornate picture frames and more - all at your favorite junk shop or seasonal tag sales. Funky Junky Decorating - Shabby Chic DIY by the Thrift Shop Maven!

Make a Pleated Lampshade from Wallpaper Scraps

Jillian Black tells you how to make a pleated wallpaper lampshade using the leftover wallpaper from a decorating project. This technical can add an extra touch of designer elegance to any room.

Faux Finish Painting Sponge painting is great because it is easy, fast, requires little paint and materials, and did I mention it was easy? It can be used on walls, furniture, and accessories, and can give instant facelift to dull objects. - click here to read the full article

Accessories Brighten Your Decor

Home decor accessories play a crucial part in your home decorating. Even if you don't need to repaint your walls, you can still change the look of your room. By rearranging furniture and wall pictures, adding soft light fixtures, flower arrangements and plants, the placement of anarea rug and using different textiles in a room, all help create a new look to reflect you and your personality. Click here to read more

Color Washing - fast way to high style walls

Making your ceiling soar as high as the roof or possibly more. Look to sky not to the floor - get off your behind and turn on your soul. Turn off the Donald, Regis and Phil - Turn up some music and grab a bucket or two. Tell your wife or husband or sweetie pie to be - Lets have some fun and paint some clouds you and me. Cloudwash - A cloud painting kit that has everything your need to in one snappy package.

A roll of masking tape, a bucket, your ipod all charged up and in your pocket... you're ready to go. You can color wash your walls and make a high style statement in your home. Click here to learn how to color wash your walls ...

Home Decorating Resources

Thrift Shop Maven - Squidoo Lens

How to Find Collectible Memorabilia to Resell

Pleated Lampshade Craft Project

Create A Kids Dream Room

Decorating with Accessories

Thrift Store Decorating

Budget Furniture Fixups

Organize Your Kitchen

Small Space Decorating

Warm Up Your Home

Decorating with Art Prints

Color Washed Walls

Surviving a Home Remodel Project

The Best Places to Find Collectibles