Floral Compliments

Wedding invitations in 3 dimension, a friend of mine, Michele Eddins is expanding her designs into these lovely invitations. More exquisite photos below, reveals her lovely accessories, if you are planning a wedding or know someone who is, you owe it to yourself to visit her site. Click on the title of this post to go directly to her site.This tassel can be used as a drapery tie back or an accent on a lamp switch. I feel it would be fun to add it to each plate if you are having a rehearsal dinner, as a gift for bridesmaids, etc.Michele makes lovely chokers and will customize them in your colors.The clutches and purses are a vintage one of kind for a fun yet glamorous touch!!!This lovely decanteur is one of my favorites for your bedroom or bathroom!!!...

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DIY Projects You Will Love (Part 3)

Make glowing gobletsTurn old goblets and trophies into sparkling candle holders. First, clean them well with with metal polish and a clean cloth. Fill with Microwaveable Soy Wax for Containers (by Yaley; $6.99 for 1 lb.; from joann.com).Add a Pre-Waxed Medium Bleached Wick with Wick Clip (by Yaley; $2.99 for six; from joann.com) to make elegant, long-burning votives.More:  Get our step-by-step instructionsHand-printed gift wrapWith simple cookie cutters and paint, you can make your own distinctive wrapping paper.Just dip the cutting edge of a cookie cutter (we used snowflakes and scalloped circles) into white heavy body acrylic paint (sold at art stores in 4-oz. tubs).Stamp the cookie cutter onto a sheet of colorful paper, starting...

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DIY Projects You Will Love (Part 2)

Nature's stained glass Chinese pistache leaves are translucent enough to glow like stained glass when lit from behind. To celebrate their vivid fall beauty indoors, display them on simple glass hurricane candle holders.Gather leaf cuttings from your garden (ginkgo and Japanese maple are other good choices).Press them in a book overnight to keep them from crinkling, then use one or two Glue Dots on the back of each stem, affixing each leaflet to the outside surface of the glass.Turn CD cases into framesCastoff CD cases are the perfect size for creating a quilt-like grid collection of landscape photos.From the book Photocraft: Cool Things to Do with the Pictures You Love: Scan or crop your images to the size of a CD case (5 3/8 in. wide...

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Living Room Feng Shui

How to Activate Your Entire House from the Living RoomNo other room in the house offers the feng shui potential that the living room does. This room is central to family life and to feng shui. When it comes to feng shui, no other room can compare to this particular room. That's because the living room is the ONE room in the house that can be activated according to all nine sectors of the bagua or lo shu square -- making this a very important room, indeed.When you want to affect the feng shui of the entire house, you should begin by applying feng shui enhancements or remedies to the living room. The benefit is that the living room can boost the feng shui of other parts of the house that may have afflictions or are missing or shouldn't have a...

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Design The Perfect Living Room

Millions of people are intrigued with learning how best to decorate their individual homes all around the world.The fundamental aesthetic of your home will be created thanks to the colors you choose for the walls, floor and furnishings.If you pick the wrong furnishings it will not compliment the rest of the room, as well as the entire house. The truth is the furniture you pick is vital for the function of the house. From your bedroom furniture to the coffee table in your living room, you need furniture in order to properly use your home, the way it looks is also very important.With the right furniture you can give your living room and home the feel you wish, you can turn it from boring into eloquent with the right choices. It is your chance...

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Contemporary Living Room Furniture

The living room is one of the most important rooms in the entire house. It not only welcomes guests and visitors, it also serves as the focal point and acts as a showcase for the entire house. In simple terms, the living room is the focal point of a home.Contemporary living room furniture is generally preferred by people who enjoy modern styles of living. Contemporary furniture can be chosen to fit any house, and offers a wide variety of choices that are almost guaranteed to suit any taste, comfort and style. Moreover, it adds a contemporary flair to the living room.Typical characteristics of contemporary living room furniture include modular sofas, abstract lighting sources, pedestal tables, sleek sideboards, etc. Some of the hallmarks of...

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Cheap Living Room Furniture

The word cheap is a rather subjective word, because living room furniture that seems cheap to one person may be considered expensive to another. On the whole, the main reason one opts for cheap living room furniture is because one is on a tight budget, and cannot spend too much on living room furniture.When buying cheap living room furniture, it will usually be secondhand furniture. It will be the furniture one person is selling to buy new living room furniture. So logically, the best place to look for cheap living room furniture will be secondhand shops. It is college students and the first-time buyers who usually buy cheap living room furniture for their home, to make their living room comfortable.Another good place to look for cheap living...

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Creating Amazing Effects With Living Room Lighting

Having the right types of living room lighting can help you to achieve some pretty amazing effects in your home. Whether your goal is to make the area seem larger or more defined, you can do that by putting in the right types of fixtures and using the right types of bulbs. One great thing about this is that not only will you be transforming the ambience of the room, you will also be spicing it up with new and interesting fixtures. The best part though, is the fact that it is extremely inexpensive to do this.Are you aware of all the different types of living room lighting styles that are available for very cheap? You could be after a fancy standalone lamp or something that will sit neatly on a console table, or you might be interested in modern...

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2011 Home Design Color Trends

As a Designer it's so important to be well versed on all upcoming home design and renovation trends - from building trends to paint colors and everything in between. Benjamin Moore's 2011 Color Forecast was released to Architects and Designers last month - and I wanted to share their findings with you.Each year the color expert team at Benjamin Moore declares their predictions for the upcoming year by tracking the more recent social, cultural and political conditions and how they directly impact fashion and design trends. What they discovered was an overwhelming desire for a sense of balance coupled with four underlying themes: The Farm, Order, Escape and Tribe.1. The FarmThere is a major focus on hearth and home for obvious reasons...

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Exposing The Brilliantly Interesting Home Design For Today

It is true that everyone wants to learn about the most interesting home design for today. To be precise, a comfortable relaxing place to call home is definitely our desire especially when we are entertaining visitors or family from afar. It is important to know the environment as well as the mood that you are trying to capture. This knowledge is important to help you make your final choices. Besides that, you need to know that it is at your fingertips to make full use of colors to create the dream palace of your choice. After that, you just need to make it happen. Gather paint chips, fabric swatches and the world is your oyster.Truth to be told, talent and creativity can play a big part in overall decorative schemes. Skillfully planning...

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Home Design - Three Types on Two Story Homes

It is an over simplification to say that there are only three types of two story homes but the vast majority of the mid priced homes follow simple logical patterns that divide homes into three basic types. By asking questions of your customers it is likely that you can guide them to one of these three types making design easier for you and still letting them believe the home has been customer designed just for them.A typical home has either five or six rooms on the first floor; kitchen, breakfast, family room, living room, dining room and sometimes a den. The kitchen and breakfast area are next to each other for obvious reasons and in nearly every case adjacent to the family room. Because kitchen is more enclosed due to cabinets and...

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Sustainable Design in New Home Plans

The purpose of sustainable design is to eliminate negative impact on the environment through sensitive, skillful design. Sustainable design has minimal impact on the environment, requires no non-renewable resources, and relates people with nature. Sustainable design requires forethought in site selection, home building plans, material selection, and project implementation. Some of the considerations to be taken into account include choosing non-toxic materials which are sustainably produced or recycled, and require minimal energy to process; using materials which are longer lasting and of higher durability, to reduce the impact of producing replacements; designing for reuse and recycling; and designing systems on biological lines,...

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Individual Home Design

There are very few things that are closer to our hearts than the houses that we live in. And there are even fewer things that we take a greater interest in than the homes which we personally own. The actual size of the house does not matter really. It is our personal little castle on this earth.It is really hard for us to create a house which mirrors or reflects the personality and traits of its owner where it is consistent to all of its parts and faithful to its chosen style or character and also containing over all the elements of a good design. It is no wonder that in these fast paced days, when our time is filled with so many interests, we sometimes feel like strangers in our own homes.In a larger home we are more likely to draw...

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DIY Projects You Will Love

DIY: Fun weekend crafts and home projects Shadowbox wall vaseTurn a shadow-box frame into a vessel for your favorite things from the garden or flower shop.Flowers or cuttings ― such as these leucadendron blooms ― extend through the opening of a picture mat to create an organic work of 3-dimensional art.Group two or three frames on the wall or use one for a tabletop display. Change the background and cuttings for a new look any time you like.More:  How to make a shadowbox vaseTabletop twigscapeCreate a mini forest for your table from elegant branches and twigs.Here, tree-like twigs edge a stream bed of green pebbles running down the center of a sealed 30-inch piece of redwood.More:  Make tabletop forestsPainted party glasswarePerk...

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Sofa Styles

Sofa Style The style of a sofa is generally determined by three things: the arms, the back, and the legs or skirt. Certain arms and backs connote modern or traditional styles, but the way a sofa is upholstered and trimmed can also great influence its appeal. In addition to a glossary of terms describing backs, arms, seats, and legs, we’ve compiled some of the most classic and well-known styles. English or Club This sofa has a slightly rounded arm set back from the front of the seat, often with a tight seat and slightly rolled back, no skirt, and low, turned legs on castors.Tuxedo In the tuxedo sofa, the arms are as high as the back. It usually has fairly clean lines with straight or slightly flared arms. Some people find a lower arm more comfortable...

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