Articles about Interior Design

How to Make Your Small Space Look Bigger with Design

If your living space seems a bit too “cozy” for your taste, there are ways you can make your small space look bigger. The secret? It’s all about making the right design decisions. From changing the color of the walls to choosing the right window treatments, there are many things you can do to achieve your goal.

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When your curtains all match, and even better, are semi-transparent then your small space will look much bigger.
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Top 5 DIY Ideas to Transform Your Outdoor Space

For long, outdoor space has been recognized for promoting health and happiness. Research has shown that people who live on a property with green and vibrant outdoor spaces enjoy improved general well-being. If you love outdoor space, you try to make your space as beautiful and healthy as possible. Here are 5 enchanting yet super simple DIY ideas to help you transform your outdoor space.

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Flowers always make a great statement about your outdoor space.
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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Family-friendly Living Room

As we build our families, we sometimes scramble to make our homes look appealing while still keeping them practical and functional for our respective families. Sometimes the struggle is real. But never fear, you can overcome it!

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Making a family-friendly living room is simple with these helpful tips!
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8 Foolproof Ways to Upgrade Your Dining Experience at Home

Reviving the beauty of your dining room helps you in reigniting the quality time that you spend with your family. Having a satisfying space where you can enjoy the company of your loved ones with an exceptional dining experience is a highlight of anyone’s week.

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One way to upgrade your dining experience is to enhance the feeling of space with glass tables like this one.
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How to Prolong the Life of Your Furniture

A home’s furnishings say a lot about the home’s owners. From antiques to traditional and modern furniture, they play a very important role in your home’s interior design. Not only are they a useful necessity, but they also have the potential to beautify each living space. In order to prolong the life of your furniture, you must care for it regularly. When you carry out these activities, the wood portions of your furniture will look great and last longer.

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Bringing Modernity into Your Home with a Hint of the Past

Living in current times always calls for a little creativity and adventure. To stand out, you must be willing to try out new things and most importantly those that are exciting. Even with your home, a change once in a while can make you feel re-energized and pumped about getting home. Mid-century modern furniture can help you get there!

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Mid-century modern furniture is largely timeless.
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3 Tips When Adding a Fish Tank to Your Interior Design

A fish tank is a lovely element you can add to your home decor as it literally brings life to your space. Incorporating it into your home is fun and easy. You’ll definitely enjoy setting it up, from choosing the fish to picking the right tank ornament. There are so many ingenious ways to place it in your house, and if you’re lost, here are three helpful tips for including a fish tank in your interior design.

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Beautiful fish in a fish tank add life to any space.
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6 Steps to Make Your House a Home

The fun and feeling of excitement that follows buying or renting a new apartment could quickly fade away if some of your most important expectations about the home are not met or are below the standard you’d imagined. But it isn’t just your individual home taste you should worry about; security should be on top of your list of steps to make your house a home.

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Changing the locks is perhaps the most important way you can make your house a home.
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Make Your House Classy with Indoor Water Features

A home is a place that should be cozy and so intricately designed and schemed that one wishes and desires to go back to that place again and again. It all depends on your own taste, aesthetic sense, vision, splendid and stellar choice of products, and last but not least the amount of investment you can afford to put in to make your house look exceptionally exquisite and classy.

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Interesting Focal Points to Emphasize in Your Home

American homes have changed over the years so it may be time to upgrade and add some interesting focal points to your home’s spaces. Did you know that just under half of all new American homes have fireplaces? Although it may be the go-to feature for many sitting rooms, the fireplace may have had its time. Instead, modernize your home with some of these innovative features.

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Using a modern fireplace creates a great focal point for your main living space.
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Home Design Trends for 2017

Welcome! Home design trends aren’t always easy to spot. Some hang on for years then slowly fade away.

Other trends appear out of nowhere, so hot, then exit just as quickly. Then there are those interior design principles that are permanently good—they will never go out of style because they are simply so strong.

In this article, I’ll cover three types of trends. First, we’ll look at trends that are definitely IN! Next, we’ll hit a few that are out and not likely to return for some time.

Lastly, we’ll hit a few that are currently receiving mixed receptions. Some believe these are smokin’ hot trends while others disagree. Those will ultimately be up to you because, in the end, your home design is truly up to you.

Definitely IN Design Trends

Let’s jump right in! Here are 7 home design trends that are hot in 2017.

IN Trend #1: Mix Multiple Textures

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One trick that great designers fully grasp is mixing multiple textures. Wood, metal, fabric, and stone can be combined in a myriad of ways. When done well, the result is spectacular.
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