Summer Spruce Up! If you want to add a little (or a lot) of punch to your room, create a feature wall! If your room does not have a real focal point, a feature wall will create one. You can do this quite easily and economically by painting or wallpapering one wall only in the [...]
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Feature Wall
Posted in Colour Wheel, Colour Schemes: A Series, Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Series:Choosing Paint Colour, tagged Accent walls, Feature Wall, Paper just one wall on July 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Shopping for Lighting Options
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Shopping with Leslie, Uncategorized, tagged a great table lamp, Finding table lamps, table lamp shopping on April 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What ever Happened to Great Table Lamps? Way back when, you could buy nice, big, decorative table lamps easily. Furniture stores were filled with them, there were lots of chain stores that specialized in lighting only, not just ones that are few and far between, even in densely packed urban areas. Now all you see [...]
More Solving Drapery Panel Problems
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Drapery Panel Problems, tagged length or size for draperies using clip rings, using grommets on February 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Answers to Various Drapery Questions Everyone seems to want to know how to hang flat, store bought drapery panels so that they don’t look like flat, store bought drapery panels!!! I gave you some advice/instructions in previous articles (see category ” Drapery Panel Problems”) and here are some more! Using Clip Rings on a Decorative [...]
KITCHEN RENOVATION TIPS
Posted in About Renovations, Decorating Dilemmas, tagged Kitchen renovation tips on February 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
THINGS THAT I bet you never Thought OF So you have joined the DIY kitchen renovation crowd! How hard can it be, you thought! OOOPS! First of all you need a detailed plan, not a sketch on a napkin! That is the first major mistake and the one that is most often made. Get some [...]
Solving Ready Made Drapery Panels Problems
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Drapery Panel Problems, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged customize ready made panels. solve problems with ready made panels on March 29, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Lookin’ Good with Ready Mades So you found some curtain panels that you like and put them up and you are NOT happy with them. They really look amateurish, sloppy, or just not right, and you don’t know what to do to fix them. Here are some of the reasons that they don’t look/hang properly [...]
More About Converting Rod Pocket Panels
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Drapery Panel Problems, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged convert rod pocket panels to pleated panels, do it yourself, hang rod pocket panels on rings, pleating tape, shirring tape on March 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Easy Sew Pleats and Gathers Rod Pocket Panels can be converted to pleats or gathers another way. This one is for those of you with access to a sewing machine and really basic sewing skills. At the Fabric Store, ask for pleating tape or shirring (gathering) tape. Then have them show you the appropriate hooks [...]
Tired of Brown Already?
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, tagged green decorating, tired of decorating with brown on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
2010 Spring Colours That Are Not Brown! For the last few years, everything has been brown and turquoise, with hits of lime green for the adventurous types. There has been not that much out there to relieve this trend. A new trend started last year that reflected our interest in ‘going green’. We have been [...]
Some Useful Decorating Rules
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, tagged drapery fullness and length, height of pictures, proportions for furniture & colour, size of accent tables and area rugs, some general rules for decorating on March 8, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Rules Rule!! It is always helpful to have some guidelines when you are decorating a room. What size? What height? How much? What proportion? These are common questions that decorators are asked. The answers to these questions can make all the difference in the success of your decorating project. Proportion of furniture: It seems rather [...]
Turn Rod Pocket Panels into Real Pinch Pleats
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Drapery Panel Problems, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged Make ready made panels into pinch pleated drapes on March 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Pile on the Pleats You can turn rod pocket panels into real pinch pleats, rather than fake it as I have described in “Easy Drapery Project“. You do need a sewing machine and some really basic sewing skills. As long as you are able to do some basic measuring and can sew a short seam [...]
Easy Drapery Project For Flat Panels
Posted in Decor Tips, Decorating Dilemmas, Drapery Panel Problems, Make it Yourself Decor Ideas, tagged hang flat panels on hooks below the rod, turn flat panels into faux pinch pleats. No sewing drapery panel project on January 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Get a pleated look from a flat panel Hang Rod Pocket (Flat) Panels to Look Like Pinch Pleats This ‘Decorating on a Dime’ project is dead easy and has an amazing effect. Give your flat panels the illusion of being pleated drapes. I am not crazy about rod pocket curtains/draperies in many cases, but they are [...]
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