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Affordable Luxury: Creating a High-End Look with Budget-Friendly Benchtops

Creating an elegant and luxurious kitchen in your home doesn’t have to cost a fortune. With the right materials and design, you can create the look of luxury without breaking the bank. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to pick out budget-friendly benchtops that will add sophistication and high-end style to your kitchen space at a fraction of normal costs. Whether you choose marble or granite countertops or opt for engineered stone options instead, follow our tips and tricks on maximizing beauty with minimal expense!

Wall Decor Ideas for Boosting Blank Spaces

Wall art and wall decor has a place in every room. Your creativity is the only limit to decorating your walls, and you certainly shouldn’t leave them blank, because truly there are so many simple decorating ideas that anyone can do. So, to get you started, here are some amazing ideas for filling those blank spaces and walls. Why? Because wall art brings out character, creates a fresh look and sets any mood you desire, with pops of your favorite colors. In essence it makes your house a home. Okay, lets fill those walls!

How To Choose A Kitchen Sink - A Quick Guide

Although homeowners seem to know quite a bit about fancy stoves, and shiny cookware, they often have a harder time when it comes to selecting the right kitchen sink. It is one of the most important fixtures in a home and can be both stylish and functional. While selecting a kitchen sink that works for your home, there are many things to consider such as color, material, style, usage, and space in your kitchen. This guide will help you learn how to choose the best kitchen sink, style-wise, function-wise and practicality-wise.  Okay, lets get started, that new kitchen sink is calling your name, but which one is it?

6 Tips To Help Your AC Unit Blend With Your Interior Decor

If you live in a climate with hot summers, then air conditioning units are certainly something you are familiar with. While of course many homes and offices have central air conditioning, this is not always the budget friendly or practical solution for cooling a space, nor possible if the space is a rental. So hello to individual AC units, whether they be wall mounted or are placed in a window come the hot summer months. Many people choose air conditioning from Design Air or other reputable brands to both cool and heat their homes, and air conditioners available in today's market are a better than ever for residential and commercial purposes. Therefore, the only choice we have in many cases is to figure out how to make that wall mounted unit stick out just a bit less!

If you are like me, and love to put a lot of effort into designing and decorating your home, these AC units are huge eyesores, and you can't help but think about what the options might be, or dream about getting rid of them altogether! The reality is, we do need, and are grateful for, the AC, but isn't there a way to minimize that sore thumb feeling and help them stick out just a bit less?

The answer is yes! Let me help you with a few simple tips, so keep on reading!

How To Design A Timeless Kid's Room

Thinking about how to design a timeless look for your child's room but not sure how to go about it? First, let me congratulate you for realizing that truly, a child's room need not look like Disneyland nor be a combination of bright colors and busyness. I'd say leave that look for the play center at the mall, and instead envelop your child, for years to come, in a feeling of calmness and stability which can quite simply be achieved by starting with the choices you make in furniture, wall color and decorative items. And generally speaking, when you design a room based on neutral or muted colors, the room can easily transition to meet the aesthetic needs of your child as they grow. Of course, you'll need to back that up with amazing parenting that includes lots of reading and cuddle sessions, so designing a child's room that you love spending time in too is also a plus.

Okay, lets take a look at some basic tips for how to design a timeless kid's room, using the amazing style and product selection from Papaya Homewares, an inspiring Australian brand that speaks to my personal aesthetic 100%. (Their fabulous combination of both modern/scandinavian design with an eye on sustainability and natural materials is perfect in my humble opinion.) Now if I can just get a boat headed my way, I'd load it up with their furniture and create my own timeless adult house? Okay, enough about me, lets talk about how you can put together that wonderful room for your child. Ready? let's do it.......

Best Way To Maintain and Clean a Rug at Home

If you have purchased a high-quality rug you will want to take good care of it, and even if you've purchased an inexpensive rug, why be wasteful? A quality rug is an investment that can be passed on to future generations, and certainly this requires proper care. Or maybe you've purchased an antique rug that you treasure and you are wondering how to make sure that rug does not get damaged? The good news is taking care of your rug at home is easier than you think. Whether we are talking about hand loomed or woven woolen rugs or even those gorgeous neutral beige rugs, lets learn how to go about making sure our rugs will stand the test of time! From weekly cleaning, to spot stain removal, to over all deep cleaning, you can learn to do it all. What a great feeling, right? Okay, lets delve into this topic and become experts!

Creative Ways To Add A Personal Touch To Your Home

With the beginning of the Jewish holiday season in less than two weeks, now might be a great time to take a look at your home and add some personal touches for the holidays! Whether you have a budget to upgrade your home, or not, there are so many ways to truly make your living space a place for living. A person's home reflects their personality, sense of style, and even values, and this is why so many homeowners are looking for ways to personalize their space in 2021. In fact, according to People.com report, 70 percent of people in America are planning to redecorate their houses this year so that it fits their personality and makes them feel more happy and comfortable while they're home. If you want to add a personal touch to your home and even create a truly unique space, here are some ideas you might want to consider. If it all seems overwhelming, start small and make a few small changes to just one room.

Designing a Child-Friendly Den

The popularity of ‘dens’ (also called entertainment or family rooms) can be traced back to the 1970s but as reported by Paintzen, they are enjoying a new surge in popularity, with recent world events leading many families to prioritize the entertainment value of their own homes. If you have little kids, a den is a fantastic place for them to spend time since it should ideally contain books, music, crafts supplies, and other items that can entertain kids for hours. If your little ones are old enough to join in, let their ideas count and take advantage of your den designing adventure to teach them vital skills like recycling and upcycling. If you are looking for design and decor ideas to make a special den for your family, keep on reading!

DIY Paper Vase For Spring Makes An Amazing Gift!

When it comes to making a DIY paper vase, there are literally so many ways to go, though for me, the idea of using not successful artwork is a lightbulb moment that happened one evening. I was going to use an abstract pattern to create a vase, and in the same pile as that absract pattern was this sweet landscape that I liked, but didn't love. As a vase however, it is fabulous! And friends, when you are in the groove of making lots of art, a way to use up anything you wouldn't want to see on someone else's wall is like gold! Even when painting on paper the pile starts to get out of control, so pick the ones you aren't loving and then make a wonderful artful vase! While I wouldn't want to give someone my mediocre painting, i would give them my mediocre painting turned into a vase, because it is just so charming! Okay, want to see the painting before I cut it up? Keep on reading......

Instantly Change the Look of Your Room With Wall Stickers!

Ever discovered a trend that was well under way and yet you just picked it up on your radar? That is how I feel about wall stickers, but this trend is here to stay, so no feeling sorry for ourselves! Wall stickers are one of the latest and greatest products that have added an ease and style to home decorating that is simply unmatched with any other product. Yes, wall paper now comes in varieties that are adhesive (no wall paper glue involved) and removable, nonetheless you'll still have to figure out how to apply that wall paper evenly and match the seams for good results. Wall stickers, ahhhh, you can measure for example to evenly space polka dots, but many wall stickers are stand alone elements that you just place in the designated spot, and voila, your room just got a makeover with very minimal effort. Did I mention that wall stickers are budget friendly and just completely exciting, or at least for folks like me who love design?

This month I have been working virtually on a nursery design for some loved ones across the seas, and after pouring over all the options, and even considering wall paper, at the end of the day, wall stickers won out, as they are just irresistible, so easy to apply, and in most cases easy to remove as well. A true win win situation. AND one can very easily have some wall stickers printed using your own art or little doodles, now that is something I'm planning to try, can't wait!

I've raved about how great wall stickers are, now lets get into the nitty gritty of interior design and hash out some of the ways to use wall stickers and why they might just be the design solution to make your home your home.. And shhhhh, I know the idea of wall stickers might sound like something better seen on the inside of a high school locker, so you don't have to tell anyone, but when you see for yourself I know you'll be sold. And since I'm not yet selling wall stickers myself (though thinking I ought to) I really just want you to have a home or a tiny space for yourself that brings you joy and contentment.