Instant Home Decorating Tips

The following home decorating tips show you ways to surround yourself with the things you love most because that is a big part of creating a comfortable home.

Sometimes the small things make the most impact to your interior and are all that it takes to ignite your creative energy.

It is good to have guidelines and rules to observe when you are about to embark on a decorating journey, but remember when you are comfortable you can be confident and decorating your home is something you cannot fail because it is a reflection of you.

So let your creativity and these home decorating tips guide you to creating a beautiful home for comfortable living.

• Breathe new life into tired upholstery and create a new look with slipcovers for relative little to low expense.
• Leave the arm covers off. Keep them with the rest of your color samples so you can have them ready when you shop.
• Bamboo side chairs are an inexpensive solution for extra accent seating, and can be painted for added funk.
• Side tables are a must in your seating arrangements to provide a place to set drinks, books and a place for lighting.
• Intrigued by wallpaper but not sure you are willing to make the commitment, wallpaper inside your bedroom closet, or for the more adventurous of us, paper the wall behind the bed. It will seem like a headboard and use the remaining paper for drawer liners.
• Bring in a piece of furniture intended for the outside to use indoors.
• Replace a boring bathroom mirror with one of your taste and style. Break apart the matching mirror that came with your bedroom dresser with a beautifully framed mirror.

• Change the hardware on your bedroom dresser. Different style knobs for each drawer would be fun.
• Home decorating tips for an instant update and new look in the kitchen is to replace the drawer and cabinet pulls. Replace just two knobs on a dresser or entertainment center for a custom look.
• Use spray paint to turn a chandelier from the thrift shop white, or the take the old builder's grade brass chandelier that came with the house into a funky color for use in a teenager's bedroom.

Take pages from a black and white photography book and frame in identical black frames to hang in a group, or display as a gallery wall like in the museums.

• Place your odd number of accessories in an imaginary triangle of high, medium and low for added interest when creating a table scape.
• Art that is hung too high appears to be floating and doesn't relate to anything. Hang art 5 - 10" above your furniture.
• Update your silk flower arrangements otherwise they become stale looking and just collect dust. Even better home decorating tips are few natural and fresh stems for a simple and inexpensive arrangement.
• Edit your accessories. Organize accessories by color and group similar objects together for greater impact.

The TV has been around for a long time, don't worry about hiding it.

• Keep coffee table accessories organized on a pretty tray, it makes it easier to clear for entertaining too.
• Limit the pairs of items you use in a room.
• Remove the jackets to your books for display in bookshelves for a cleaner look Display some of the books in your collection (the ones with the prettiest dust jackets) face forward on your shelves like in the bookstores.

Show pictorial coffee table books open to your favorite page.

• Use books not just in a bookcase but as a decorative accent. Stack on tables, the seat of an occasional chair and footstools. Lift a vase or other collectibles for added height in a table scape.
• Layer pillows of different textures for luxury and a good quality throw for luxury and added warmth.

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