Stenciled designs are a great way to liven up your interior decor.
They are so versatile, you can stencil nearly anything. You can stencil wool floors, hardboard, walls, ceilings, furniture, and even fabric.
To create a stencil, lay a photocopy of the pattern you wish to cut out, over the sheet of acetate, and tape it down so that it won't shift. Using a craft knife, cut through the photocopy of the design, and through the acetate backing, along the outlines of the shapes you wish to create with the stencil. Then when you lay your stencil over the surface you wish to decorate, dab the paint in the cut out area with the end of the paint brush. When you lift the stencil, you'll have a perfect design, every time!
Use this technique to make attractive borders around room ceilings, the perimeter of the floor, the backs of chairs, curtain ends, window and door frames, and anywhere you'd like a bit of excitement. Your room decor will be uniquely your own when you add this personal touch. Stenciling is fun for all ages, and there are stencil designs to fit every room in the home. Why not attempt one today?
Posted on July 23, 2010 by The Decorator
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Simple in design, durable and extremely comfortable, the Key West Aluminum Outdoor Premium Deep Seating Patio Set is a hugely popular answer to outdoor deck and patio seating. The simple elegance of the design matches with nearly any exterior finish, presenting a soothing sense to the eye. Reversible cushions allow you to change the appearance in a trice and the cushions tie onto the frame as well, meaning they will stay in place in the event of high winds. The reversible colors are slate blue and grey on one side and slate blue with grey swirls on the other, giving an added dimension to the overall decor. The grey charcoal finish is superbly durable and weather proof and will maintain its appearance for long years to come.
Two club chairs, a Love Seat and the coffee table pictured over here comprise the set itself. Elegant and informal, this set can bring a relaxed and comfortable ambiance to any outdoor setting, yet yet possess the added benefit of extreme durability over the years. The grey structural color of the metal is an aluminum-based structure whose lifetime would be in decades and not just years. Flat arm rests are wide enough for comfort, yet yet simple and minimalist in design. This is a truly gorgeous set of patio and deck furnishings.
For details and pricing, click over here.
Posted on July 06, 2010 by The Decorator
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Your bed can become a volcano if you do a bit of creative decor.
Start with a bed that has a head board but no foot board. Paint the whole bed black. Upholster the head board with bright red satin in the shape of lava flowing down and out ward to spread over the base from a single spot on the top surface of the headboard. This will make a nice back rest when stuffed. The river of glowing hot lava is continued with the bedding.
Cover the bed in matching red satin sheets, pillow cases, comforter cover, and bead spread to look like the continuation of the lava flow coming from the volcano's vent, and add a few black throw pillows to look like chunks of cooled hardened lava that broke off. The bed skirt could be either red or black, depending on how old you want the lower lava flow to look. A red satin skirt over a black frame would give the impression of layered stratigraphy and help to create the lava falls spilling onto the floor.
A red curvy area rug at the side or foot of the bed would continue that lava theme, making it appear to pool. Surround the rug with black bean bag chairs to look like cooled hardened lava rock formations.
For added effect, paint the wall over the top of the head board to look like a rising plume of smoke and ash.
If your volcano is underwater, add lots of bubbles to the painting of rising ash plumes. If you are really ambitious, you can attach a shelf to the back of the headboard and sit a bubble machine on it, hidden under the top surface, just behind the place you've made to look like the vent point. The bubble machine should always be operated with an adult present.
The lava bed is one of the easier theme beds to design and create.
Posted on June 17, 2010 by The Decorator
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Your child will love this safari table and four matching animal chairs. High quality Russian Birch wood painted with friendly looking African animals of the savanna (zebra, elephant, lion & giraffe) are so cute and inviting, your child will want to eat, drink, create artwork,? practice writing, and assemble puzzles over here for years. This set of table and chairs? creates a fun decor theme for turning your child's room into an imaginary land of adventure. The variety of chairs creates a love of our planet earth's diversity of species. Since the four chairs are different yet harmoniously combined in a set, your child learns that differences should be celebrated, and that different types of animals are needed to make up an eco system, just as different types of people are needed to make up a team, or a society.
The set's dimensions are:
Table: 29 in. L x 19 in. W x 17 in. H
Chairs: Approx. 20 in. H
Click for more details and price
Posted on June 13, 2010 by The Decorator
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Are you going bankrupt trying to buy a matching dining room set? There's no need! By mixing and adapting disparate designs, we can create a cohesive and attractive dining room decor scheme that you adore. It just requires a bit of thought and a few tools.
Four different chairs can feel like a set if painted the very same color, and stenciled with the very same designs. Use the very same stencil to ring the edge of the table with a border design, and viola! You have a matching set of chairs and table (even if you got each piece at a separate garage sale). This can also be done with rubber stamp art. Painting the furniture all the very same color and then using ink or paint in a contrasting color to stamp the very same design on each piece of furniture will unify the decor theme.
Using the very same fabric to cover or upholster the chairs, and then using that fabric as a border on the table cloth and runners for the china cabinet will create a consistent theme as well. The eye will be drawn to the commonality of the color and texture, rather than the difference in the shape of each chair.
Remember that your dining room is where you eat and converse with friends and family, so dining room decor should not impede easy access, cleaning, or comfort. It is more crucial to have each chair be user friendly, than to have them match perfectly.
Posted on June 11, 2010 by The Decorator
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over here is a lovely and complete dinette set of simple elegance and durable and very strong construction. The lightweight lines offer a lightness to the overall look that allows the home's other features to stand out. The gorgeous wood finishing of the top and of the seats themselves provide a natural look which is always somewhat appealing in dinettes and offer extremely easy cleaning and maintaining. The durable iron base of both chairs and table make for an incredibly sturdy set, destined for a long and enduring future.
The set comes quickly in packaging and is easily assembled, offering a nearly immediately-available and comfortable-looking setting especially effective on wood floors. The “Dirty Oak” finish, so called owing to the coloration of the lacquer, is finely grained like all Oak wood and is perhaps the most durable material imaginable for an item in this price range. Gorgeous, light and airy, this beautiful dinette set makes a splendid eating and entertaining area, casual yet yet pretty.
For details and pricing, click over here.

Posted on May 10, 2010 by The Decorator
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This folding chair is simply perfect. It combines an interesting design, with nice round shapes repeated in the seat, steel legs that are both attractive and durable, and a bold color statement that can fit in marvelously in any designed room.

This about this chair in your study, for example, inviting you or your guest to make yourselves comfortable with a good book under a reading lamp. Or maybe in the kids's room, round and playful and themed into a lively color scheme of base colors. Or, how about the patio? a set of these chairs, folded neatly in your shed for easy storage, then pulled out to offer seating in comfort and style. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination and creativity.
Click for more details and price
Posted on May 03, 2010 by The Decorator
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Designing your office room is always a challenge, even more so when the office isn't is a designated room and has to fit into a living room or a bedroom. While there are many styles that can be applied to the office space, the one that often dominates our vision of a study or an office is the more formal style. Heavy wooden furniture have always been the emblem of a distinguished office, along with huge leather armchairs and shelves stacked with old books.
Well, you may not be able to re-create that fancy Victorian dream office in your home. It requires both space and a hefty budget. What you can do instead, is opt for a more compact office center, encompassing your office requires in one stylish armoire, such as this one by Harwick (available on Amazon):

The elegant simple lines, the dark wood, and the stressed finish with red highlights create a look that simply calls out for you to sit down and write, doesn't it? The shelves and drawers are adjustable, so this unit is extremely functional, as well as beautiful. Add a comfortable office chair and you have the perfect work area that can be easily fit into any room in the home. It looks beautiful whether in use, or shut down to hide the modern contents.
Click for more details and price
Posted on April 02, 2010 by The Decorator
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Everyone loves pillows, whether they are arranged in a row on a couch, or heaped on the floor in a pile, whether they are used one at a time, or layered and grouped, pillows are great decorations. Pillows can be stamped with fabric paint, quilted, appliqu?d, sewn with ruffles, printed with photographs, or beaded to make them really stand out.
Pillows come in all shapes and sizes. When combined, they are an art instillation in and of themselves. The benefit of this sort of art is that it is so comfortable for everyday use.? A heap of pillows is fun to jump into, sprawl out on, build forts with, offer to guests to make them more comfortable, support aching backs with, rest your head on, elevate your feet with, and of course, have a pillow fight with.
Many modern day artists work in fabric to create unique signature pillows. These do not have to be extremely expensive, as they are often designed by the artist and then mass produced to lower costs. Some artists work with a certain style or theme that runs through their cushioned creations, so you can combine pillows that have different designs while retaining the very same look and feel.
Pillows can have tassels, fringes, fur, laces, or buttons. The possibilities are virtually endless. That means you can use different elements to create a unified look without giving up on variety. attempt a collection of pillows that share the very same shape and fabric but come in a multitude of colors; or why not a mix of different pillows in pure white, showing off different textures and trimmings?
do not think just beds and couches either. Pillows come in all sizes. Some are large enough to be used as chairs or beds, while some are tiny and have pockets for teeth that the tooth faerie will come for. Play around and adds elements of luxury and comfort in various rooms.

Posted on March 22, 2010 by The Decorator
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Subdued elegance is the term that comes to mind when looking at this particular piece of furniture.

Produced by Pasons, this is a high quality dining chair, with all the comfort one requires for sitting by the table. The microfiber cover is both functional and extremely pleasant to the touch. The colors are neutral and easy to fit in with any color scheme. They are there, elegant and peaceful, grateful to form a beautiful quiet background to your colorful focal points in the room.
Click for more details and price through Amazon's service

Posted on March 04, 2010 by The Decorator
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The art of stamping has been improving the look of people's homes for hundreds and even thousands of years. Stamping allows you to create a consistent design over a big area. Whether you use the very same colors to create an identical repeating image, or whether you use a dissimilar color each time, your pattern will look cohesive if you use a stamp.
Stamps can be made from many materials, including natural latex, wood, and potatoes.
The easiest do-it-yourself stamp is made from a potato, cut open to expose a flat surface. After drawing the design on the flat surface of the potato, use a craft knife to cut away any area you do not want to display up in your image. The remaining material should form the shape of your flat image of choice. Dab that surface in ink or paint, and you have a stamp that is reusable and biodegradable.
Now you are ready to personalize your interior decor. Stamps make good border designs on floors, along the perimeter of ceilings, the backs of chairs, the perimeter of tables, the tops of walls, and fabric for curtains, bedspreads, pillow covers, furniture slip covers, and anyplace you'd like to create beautiful designs. If you use the very same stamps on the furniture, curtains, bedspread, the tops of the walls, and the perimeter of the floor, you create harmonious room decor.
Posted on February 22, 2010 by The Decorator
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When you have a small space to work with, simple is often better. This dining area set, with a 29.5 x 47.5 inch table and four chairs is a perfect example. Classic modern design, solid wood with a wonderful light maple color finish and light-colored simple cushion seats. It's elegant, simple, and comfortable.

This model is actually quite popular, for this very reason. It fits in nicely in a smaller dining area, and is perfect for a small home. It will gladly take on some fabric, a table runner, or tablecloth, some decorative item on top, and even some decorative cushions for the chairs. Or it can stay as it is, clean, aesthetic and functional.
Click for more details and price
Posted on January 29, 2010 by The Decorator
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Shapes of objects in a room can be viewed as part of a pattern. In this case, those squares in the back of the chairs, along with the general rectangular lines, give this setting a modern geometric feel. Echoed in the rug, and themes in neutral tones that complement the dark mahogany wood, this is a rather formal dining area, suitable for smaller rooms.

The very same furniture could possibly get a softer look, if combined with different colors, and perhaps teamed up with a few soft cushions, however, its very design lends itself best to a formal contemporary style.
If you'd like to learn more about this beautifully designed dining table and chairs set? Click for more details and price

Posted on December 17, 2009 by The Decorator
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What a wonderful addition to your home this set can be. This is an ongoing invitation for friends to come over for a game of cards, poker, a board game, or just for a nice dinner. It's perfect for a group of four and comes in a most elegant style, in solid oak with cherry wood finish with extra-comfortable chairs, this one can easily become your living area's central point.

While it can be used by the entire family, this set is designed with adults in mind. The size and the luxury and the classic American style can be easily matched into any contemporary decor style.
More details and how to buy right over here – note the special delivery conditions

Posted on December 16, 2009 by The Decorator
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Stenciled designs are a great way to liven up your interior decor.
They are so versatile, you can stencil nearly anything. You can stencil wool floors, hardboard, walls, ceilings, furniture, and even fabric.
To create a stencil, lay a photocopy of the pattern you wish to cut out, over the sheet of acetate, and tape it down so that it won't shift. Using a craft knife, cut through the photocopy of the design, and through the acetate backing, along the outlines of the shapes you wish to create with the stencil. Then when you lay your stencil over the surface you wish to decorate, dab the paint in the cut out area with the end of the paint brush. When you lift the stencil, you'll have a perfect design, every time!
Use this technique to make attractive borders around room ceilings, the perimeter of the floor, the backs of chairs, curtain ends, window and door frames, and anywhere you'd like a bit of excitement. Your room decor will be uniquely your own when you add this personal touch. Stenciling is fun for all ages, and there are stencil designs to fit every room in the home. Why not attempt one today?
Posted on November 25, 2009 by The Decorator
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Simple in design, durable and extremely comfortable, the Key West Aluminum Outdoor Premium Deep Seating Patio Set is a hugely popular answer to outdoor deck and patio seating. The simple elegance of the design matches with nearly any exterior finish, presenting a soothing sense to the eye. Reversible cushions allow you to change the appearance in a trice and the cushions tie onto the frame as well, meaning they will stay in place in the event of high winds. The reversible colors are slate blue and grey on one side and slate blue with grey swirls on the other, giving an added dimension to the overall decor. The grey charcoal finish is superbly durable and weather proof and will maintain its appearance for long years to come.
Two club chairs, a Love Seat and the coffee table pictured over here comprise the set itself. Elegant and informal, this set can bring a relaxed and comfortable ambiance to any outdoor setting, yet yet possess the added benefit of extreme durability over the years. The grey structural color of the metal is an aluminum-based structure whose lifetime would be in decades and not just years. Flat arm rests are wide enough for comfort, yet yet simple and minimalist in design. This is a truly gorgeous set of patio and deck furnishings.
For details and pricing, click over here.
Posted on November 08, 2009 by The Decorator
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Your bed can become a volcano if you do a bit of creative decor.
Start with a bed that has a head board but no foot board. Paint the whole bed black. Upholster the head board with bright red satin in the shape of lava flowing down and out ward to spread over the base from a single spot on the top surface of the headboard. This will make a nice back rest when stuffed. The river of glowing hot lava is continued with the bedding.
Cover the bed in matching red satin sheets, pillow cases, comforter cover, and bead spread to look like the continuation of the lava flow coming from the volcano's vent, and add a few black throw pillows to look like chunks of cooled hardened lava that broke off. The bed skirt could be either red or black, depending on how old you want the lower lava flow to look. A red satin skirt over a black frame would give the impression of layered stratigraphy and help to create the lava falls spilling onto the floor.
A red curvy area rug at the side or foot of the bed would continue that lava theme, making it appear to pool. Surround the rug with black bean bag chairs to look like cooled hardened lava rock formations.
For added effect, paint the wall over the top of the head board to look like a rising plume of smoke and ash.
If your volcano is underwater, add lots of bubbles to the painting of rising ash plumes. If you are really ambitious, you can attach a shelf to the back of the headboard and sit a bubble machine on it, hidden under the top surface, just behind the place you've made to look like the vent point. The bubble machine should always be operated with an adult present.
The lava bed is one of the easier theme beds to design and create.
Posted on October 20, 2009 by The Decorator
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Your child will love this safari table and four matching animal chairs. High quality Russian Birch wood painted with friendly looking African animals of the savanna (zebra, elephant, lion & giraffe) are so cute and inviting, your child will want to eat, drink, create artwork,? practice writing, and assemble puzzles over here for years. This set of table and chairs? creates a fun decor theme for turning your child's room into an imaginary land of adventure. The variety of chairs creates a love of our planet earth's diversity of species. Since the four chairs are different yet harmoniously combined in a set, your child learns that differences should be celebrated, and that different types of animals are needed to make up an eco system, just as different types of people are needed to make up a team, or a society.
The set's dimensions are:
Table: 29 in. L x 19 in. W x 17 in. H
Chairs: Approx. 20 in. H
Click for more details and price
Posted on October 16, 2009 by The Decorator
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Are you going bankrupt trying to buy a matching dining room set? There's no need! By mixing and adapting disparate designs, we can create a cohesive and attractive dining room decor scheme that you adore. It just requires a bit of thought and a few tools.
Four different chairs can feel like a set if painted the very same color, and stenciled with the very same designs. Use the very same stencil to ring the edge of the table with a border design, and viola! You have a matching set of chairs and table (even if you got each piece at a separate garage sale). This can also be done with rubber stamp art. Painting the furniture all the very same color and then using ink or paint in a contrasting color to stamp the very same design on each piece of furniture will unify the decor theme.
Using the very same fabric to cover or upholster the chairs, and then using that fabric as a border on the table cloth and runners for the china cabinet will create a consistent theme as well. The eye will be drawn to the commonality of the color and texture, rather than the difference in the shape of each chair.
Remember that your dining room is where you eat and converse with friends and family, so dining room decor should not impede easy access, cleaning, or comfort. It is more crucial to have each chair be user friendly, than to have them match perfectly.
Posted on October 14, 2009 by The Decorator
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This folding chair is simply perfect. It combines an interesting design, with nice round shapes repeated in the seat, steel legs that are both attractive and durable, and a bold color statement that can fit in marvelously in any designed room.

This about this chair in your study, for example, inviting you or your guest to make yourselves comfortable with a good book under a reading lamp. Or maybe in the kids's room, round and playful and themed into a lively color scheme of base colors. Or, how about the patio? a set of these chairs, folded neatly in your shed for easy storage, then pulled out to offer seating in comfort and style. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination and creativity.
Click for more details and price
Posted on September 05, 2009 by The Decorator
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Designing your office room is always a challenge, even more so when the office isn't is a designated room and has to fit into a living room or a bedroom. While there are many styles that can be applied to the office space, the one that often dominates our vision of a study or an office is the more formal style. Heavy wooden furniture have always been the emblem of a distinguished office, along with huge leather armchairs and shelves stacked with old books.
Well, you may not be able to re-create that fancy Victorian dream office in your home. It requires both space and a hefty budget. What you can do instead, is opt for a more compact office center, encompassing your office requires in one stylish armoire, such as this one by Harwick (available on Amazon):

The elegant simple lines, the dark wood, and the stressed finish with red highlights create a look that simply calls out for you to sit down and write, doesn't it? The shelves and drawers are adjustable, so this unit is extremely functional, as well as beautiful. Add a comfortable office chair and you have the perfect work area that can be easily fit into any room in the home. It looks beautiful whether in use, or shut down to hide the modern contents.
Click for more details and price
Posted on August 05, 2009 by The Decorator
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The art of stamping has been improving the look of people's homes for hundreds and even thousands of years. Stamping allows you to create a consistent design over a big area. Whether you use the very same colors to create an identical repeating image, or whether you use a dissimilar color each time, your pattern will look cohesive if you use a stamp.
Stamps can be made from many materials, including natural latex, wood, and potatoes.
The easiest do-it-yourself stamp is made from a potato, cut open to expose a flat surface. After drawing the design on the flat surface of the potato, use a craft knife to cut away any area you do not want to display up in your image. The remaining material should form the shape of your flat image of choice. Dab that surface in ink or paint, and you have a stamp that is reusable and biodegradable.
Now you are ready to personalize your interior decor. Stamps make good border designs on floors, along the perimeter of ceilings, the backs of chairs, the perimeter of tables, the tops of walls, and fabric for curtains, bedspreads, pillow covers, furniture slip covers, and anyplace you'd like to create beautiful designs. If you use the very same stamps on the furniture, curtains, bedspread, the tops of the walls, and the perimeter of the floor, you create harmonious room decor.
Posted on June 27, 2009 by The Decorator
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When you have a small space to work with, simple is often better. This dining area set, with a 29.5 x 47.5 inch table and four chairs is a perfect example. Classic modern design, solid wood with a wonderful light maple color finish and light-colored simple cushion seats. It's elegant, simple, and comfortable.

This model is actually quite popular, for this very reason. It fits in nicely in a smaller dining area, and is perfect for a small home. It will gladly take on some fabric, a table runner, or tablecloth, some decorative item on top, and even some decorative cushions for the chairs. Or it can stay as it is, clean, aesthetic and functional.
Click for more details and price
Posted on June 03, 2009 by The Decorator
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