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Furniture Placement 102: Odd Shaped and Unusual Rooms

(cc) image by Christopher Barson/flickr In Furniture Placement 101 I gave some basics about placing furniture that will help you greatly in arranging a room. The rules are simple enough to follow in a normal rectangular room with only one traffic pattern, but what do you do in rooms that are oblong, filled with windows, or L or other oddly shaped rooms? Long Rectangular rooms: Create multiple furniture arrangements in a long room. Have each portion of the room serve a different purpose. You should however avoid splitting the room evenly in two. For example, you can have music or … Continue reading →

Furniture Placement 101

(cc) image by Christopher Barson/flickr I grew up in a home with one basic furniture placement rule. Line up the furniture against the walls, and place a chair by the window. That was it. My parents were much more interested in function that style. Besides with 9 kids in the house, we needed as much floor space as possible, and mom and dad needed a chair to sit in when they were taking turns watching us play outside. As I only have two kids of my own, and am a visual person by nature, I am much more interested in … Continue reading →

Three Furniture Placement Styles

You can change the mood of your room just by rearranging the furniture. But don’t just haphazardly place things any which way until you find something you like. Instead, why not take advantage of one of three distinct styles. These furniture placement ideas work to create a mood or solve a problem in the room. Read on to see the three options and then try them out for yourself. A Room with Focus If your room seems blah and needs focus, then try this style. Find an organizational point. An organizational point is anything that you want your eye to … Continue reading →

How to Pick a Fence

When you are ready to put up a fence, which type do you choose? Fences have two main factors that determine what type they are. These factors are height and how easy it is for you to be able to see through them. Fences today come in all sorts of materials, from wood to vinyl. Take a look at five common fence types and see which one might be right for your home. Picket Fence Picket fences are nice, because they provide a barrier but allow your home to be seen, and allow you to see out. Picket fences are … Continue reading →

Homes Designed to Bring People Closer

One of the best reasons to decorate or design your home is to make it more livable for you and your family or your friends. Oh, there are other reasons to decorate and design a space, for example to show off your creativity, aesthetic and so on. But for most families, home is a place to live, not a showcase, and as such, designing it to bring people closer is a great goal. I first saw the idea of designing a home to bring people closer as a recommendation for organization and de-cluttering. The thought was that if something didn’t … Continue reading →

Do Your Homework

Now you have a firm buyer for your house, you and your spouse can start the fun process of looking for a house or apartment. Hopefully in the meantime you’ve been keeping your eyes on prices in the area you plan to move to and noticing any fluctuations in prices. Even within a suburb or town there can be variations because one part of the suburb or town is seen as less desirable than the other. So investigate the area thoroughly by driving around it. Where houses are uncared for, it tells you something about the attitudes of people living … Continue reading →

Home Editing

How often do you edit? If you are a writer like myself, you edit after every article. You remove excess words. You correct errors. You reorganize and you clean up. The same must be done in our homes regularly. The reasons we must practice home editing is human nature. We live in our space and things get out of order. We purchase new things and add them to what we already have. Before long, our homes get crowded, decorating don’ts just do, and we must clean up and re-arrange to make sense of it all. If you think of your … Continue reading →

Dressing A Daughter’s Room 5

When we last left off, I was talking about the great fabrics that I poked through at an Amish-owned fabric shop in Lancaster, Pa. I was looking for the perfect fabric for my little girl’s room. I wanted something that was current, fresh, fun and would grow with my daughter as she did. To remind you, the fabric choices were: a delicate variegated pink rose pattern, pink outlined flowers on a white background and its opposite white outlines flowers on a pink background, a thin candy strip with two different pink stripes and a white stripe, and an an oddball, … Continue reading →

Dressing a Daughter’s Room 4

Just how do you pick out curtains for a little girl’s room? Hopefully you have been following my adventure. I talked about how we’ve gone about getting ready for custom curtains, including measuring and the different ways that curtains can be hung. We are planning for window curtains and curtains over the closet instead of a door. If you missed any of those previous posts, click here: Dressing a Daughter’s Room, Dressing a Daughter’s Room 2, Dressing a Daughter’s Room 3: Tabs, Rings and More We decided to go with a ring system for the window curtains. For the closet, … Continue reading →

Dressing a Daughter’s Room 3: Tabs, Rings and More

Do you know how to choose curtains? Of course there is the style, color and print, but don’t forget about how you will actually mount those curtains. Following, I’ll talk about some of the different options for the way curtains can be mounted. Each of these options gives a different look and practical considerations. If you missed the earlier posts about dressing a daughter’s room, be sure to check them out. They will give you all of the back story of this project as well as some design tips. Just follow these links: Dressing a Daughter’s Room, Dressing a Daughter’s … Continue reading →