Articles about Interior Design

Psychological Effects of Color in Interior Design

The purpose of colors is not only to beautify your interior but also to elicit psychological effects. Colors communicate, pass information, and evoke emotional responses. If you look around, you will notice that colors play an essential role in everyday life. For instance, a colorful playground spurs the feeling of youthfulness and joy. Also, traffic controls make use of colors to communicate and pass information to road users. In this piece, we’ll take a thoughtful look at the psychological effects of color in interior design.

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Types of Window Shades: Pros and Cons

Worried about extreme high temperatures during the summer? Curtains have been around for ages. Then came window shades of another kind. Window shades, or window blinds, do a better job of keeping heat from entering a room—which prices from cheap to expensive. In this article, we will discuss the different types of window shades, and their pros and cons. 

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Today’s Top 5 Best Kitchen Flooring Options

If you are considering a remodel of your kitchen you have a lot to think about. You’ll need to choose the new design of your kitchen, storage solutions, a fresh color scheme, and perhaps even replace old appliances with more efficient modern ones. Yes, there are many choices when doing a kitchen remodel, but evaluating the best kitchen flooring options may be the most important decision of them all.

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5 Tips for Creating Your Dream Bedroom

So you’ve decided that you want to redo your bedroom. You want something different and you’re tired of coming home to the same old stuff every day. Or maybe you just spent too long in here in 2020 and 2022 is right around the corner. Read on to learn five great tips for creating your dream bedroom.

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Creating your dream bedroom isn’t as hard (or expensive) as you might think. | Photo by Jean van der Meulen
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How to Build the Ultimate Game Room

More than ever, our homes are having to multitask. We’re working from them, and they’re places where we socialize with family and friends virtually, as well as in person. They’re the places we shop from, and now more than ever, our homes are where we entertain ourselves. In this piece, we want to give you some inspiring ideas to help you build the ultimate game room. 

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4 Things to Consider When Thinking of Remodeling Your Living Room

If you’ve considered remodeling your living room, there are a few points to consider before moving forward with the project. This remodel needs to be insightful and practical to get the most out of the investment and effort. Before beginning, consider some details that affect the outcome and the process of remodeling. With some research and planning, you’ll successfully create an updated and useful space you’ll enjoy for years to come.

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Because your living room is used so frequently, special thought should go into its design. | Photo by Luis Martinez
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2021 Home Staging Trends

Preparing your home for sale is a serious task. It involves several steps and may take away some of your time, but it’s worth it. It can help you find a buyer much faster, but also get a better deal. But the question that bothers sellers the most is – how to make a home attractive for the potential buyer? An important factor centers on current home staging trends.

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Minimalist interior design is most often the best choice for staging a home to sell. | Photo by Francesca Tosolini
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4 Ways to Decorate Your Walls with Portraits

Artwork, portraits, and paintings can transform not just the bare walls of your home, but they also add personality. The way you decorate your walls can deliver the “Wow!” factor to any room by becoming the focal point that draws the eye. Portraits and art talk about your interests and the important people in your life.

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Today’s 5 Top Bathroom Remodeling Ideas

Your home is a huge investment. You want to ensure it fetches the highest price in the market when you finally decide to sell it. As such, you need it in the best state possible so that generally means renovations. Buyers look at a property’s entirety before buying it but certain areas attract more scrutiny than others. With that in mind, here are five amazing bathroom remodeling ideas to help you get started!

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5 Kitchen Design Ideas for a Small Counter Space

The kitchen is one part of the home that should always be incredibly functional and efficient. Everyone wants their kitchen to look good, but sometimes, you have to face space restrictions when trying to fit everything that you need. When designing a kitchen, having things that provide a certain amount of utility but look good at the same time is all that you need. Below you’ll find five kitchen design ideas that do exactly that.

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Awesome Interior Design Ideas for Kids

If you are building or remodeling your home, what do you do with your kid’s rooms? Sure, you could let them design it but it’s even better to give them some interior design ideas for kids that they can choose from.

There are lots of home improvement concepts out there. Giving your kids a space of their own will help them feel secure in their space. With that in mind, read on to learn about some great ideas you can implement to suit your kids.

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What Exactly Is a Murphy Bed?

Murphy bed is a special kind of bed that was invented in the 1900s by William Lawrence Murphy who lived in a cramped apartment and did not have any space for entertaining. Moreover, at that time, social etiquette required that a self-respecting woman should never enter a man’s bedroom. Murphy was particularly keen on a beautiful opera singer. So, he decided to hide his bed and put it up against the wall to make room for a parlor where he could entertain his friends and lady, he also disguised the bed so that it would not be obvious to the guests.

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Thinking About Making Furniture from Pallets?

Are you curious about making furniture from pallets? As a basic wooden frame to transport and load goods through ships, forklifts, and trucks, you can transform simple pallets into lots of things. Here’s a wood pallet bar you can buy on Etsy. From armoires to coffee tables or even picture frames, there’s a lot you could easily make. By reusing and turning old pallets into furniture, you can keep them out of the waste stream.

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DIYers love to make something new out of something old… in this case pallets!
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