A Small Room With the Wrong Things

A small space is a big decorating challenge. You need to make every single item in your room functional and work for the room. Small rooms can look stuffed and cluttered if you have a lot of knick-knacks and items you collect around. If you want to show off your collection of figurines, get a small yet tall corner cabinet to put them in. It will allow you to use valuable space and also have a lovely decor item.

Mirrors are another big plus in a small room. They will actually make your room look larger and work best when you use two to three mirrors scattered around a room. Make sure of your wall space. It's for more than just hanging art and photos on. You can use your wall space for shelving, tall plants and more.

Get rid of big bulky furniture. Nothing can overpower a small room like a huge sofa or a chair that just doesn't belong. Small pieces with delicate lines look best in small rooms. A futon will do the work of a sofa plus turn into a great bed for overnight guests when the need arises. You can also use a tall armoire in your living room and have a hide-away place for your television set and get rid of your DVD's that are laying around or stacked on a television stand.

Use these tips and make your small space a cozy instead of confining room to relax in!

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Blooming Spring Decor

Ready for your room to bloom with the passion and color of Spring? It's easy to bring a beautiful spring day into your room. Just use these steps and you'll be enjoying a whole new room for not a lot of money spent.

First of all consider the colors of spring. Blue skies, new green grass, the bright colors of flowers and even rich earth tones from the melting of winter snows leaving the ground moist. Then look around your room and look for ways to bring those colors into your room. You obviously don't want to paint your walls and ceiling sky blue, however you can bring that color into your room in subtle ways that will lend a beautiful aura of spring to your room. Use sky blue as an undertone color in your room, as on pillows or distressed picture frames. You can also use it on a thrown on a sofa or in your sheers for your window treatments.

Bring the beautiful greens of spring in your room through the placement of pillows and add plants to your room. Tulips bulbs in pots will bloom for several weeks and then you'll have beautiful green tendrils in place of bright tulips the rest of the time. Put several pots of flowers around your room, not only are they beautiful, psychological studies show that numerous bright flowers in a room is a mood lifter for most people. Then think grass or rather ground covering. In your home it will be floor covering, add an area rug with bright accents to emulate the beauty of spring.

With those few tips, you can have the beauty of spring to enjoy indoors this spring and beyond!

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Elements of Relaxation

In your daily life do you feel that you're hurried and rushed and never have time to slow down and escape your daily life? Make yourself a cozy home with all the elements of relaxation. There are three main elements to creating a relaxing room and they are easy to do once you know what they are.

First of all, go for soft colors. Get rid of anything too bright or too loud. Replace those blazing red picture frames on your wall with something softer and more relaxing such as a distressed wood in off white or a soft pastel or light brown. Then turn your attention to your window treatments. Update your window treatments to reflect a feeling that is cozy by the use thick panels and sheers in light colors.

Next, turn your attention to your lighting in the room. Bright lights do not promote relaxation and are out. Make your lighting soft and subtle, yet not dark. A light with a dimmer switch is a good way to create just the mood you want in your room. Another route that give off a beautiful shimmer in your room is to have candles or decorative yet functional oil lamps in use around the room.

Last but not least, get rid of the clutter. If you haven't used an item in the past week, put it up. If make yourself a "three or less" rule on your table tops. That is, no more than three items on any table in your room. This will eliminate the clutter factor pretty quickly and leave you with a cozy room you'll enjoy spending time in unwinding and relaxing in.

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Designing a Serene, Calming Room

After a hard day's work, you don't want to come home to a room that will keep you stressed and tense. Sometimes all you need to do is a little rearranging of your furnishings or add a functional piece or two to make your living room a serene and calm place to relax.

If you're living room is full of loud colors or stark contrasts, that may be the reason you can't relax. Studies have shown that colors really do have a psychological effect on the human brain and can cause mood swings from anger to peaceful feelings depending on the colors that the person is exposed to.

Painting your room may not be an option at this time, however you can lesson the contrasting colors in your room by utilizing throws for your furniture and matching your window treatments to the throws. Also, endeavor to make your room more comfortable through the use of softening items such as big, cushy pillows.

Plants will bring a sense of serenity to your room and if you don't have time or patience to keep a living plant at its best, consider a silk plant or two. They aren't the same cheaply wrapped pieces of wire you might remember. Silk plants of today are hard to distinguish from the real thing in a lot of cases. Add a fern or a stately rubber tree plant to your room. A tall plant in a corner or small wall space with a plant on a plant stand is a great way to use up unused space and create continuity in your room.

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Correcting Bad Decor Mistakes

Think your decor is bad? We have collected some of the most serious offenders of bad decor and offered up solution on how to fix the situation.

The Packrat Decor is one that many people have encountered. There is a mish-mash of everything in this home. From the early American Bachelor style couch to the newly acquired area rug that was supposed to bring the room together but it doesn't because it matches nothing else in the room.

Fix: The fix for a Packrat decor is to remove some of items and replace them with other items that are functional and match the decor of the room. A good way to start would be to center on one piece - such as the area rug - and design outward. Keeping the same general color schemes along the way.

The Nervous Decor is another one your have probably been in. Have you ever been in a room that made you nervous? You were probably in a Nervous Decor Room; it's a room so busy and cluttered that it can actually make you nervous.

Fix: Everything can usually be kept in this room, it just needs to be organized. Shelves around the walls in several places will not only break up the monotony of the room, they will allow the pieces in the room to be displayed without making the room feel cluttered.

And those are just a couple of ways you can correct bad decor mistakes with just a little moving around of items and the addition of a piece or two to the room itself.

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