Monthly Archives: August 2008

What You Need To Help Organize Your Interior Decorating Ideas

Here are the items that you need to help organize your interior decorating ideas and to complete your interior decorating project file:   Pens and Paper – There’s nothing more frustrating than finding a perfect paint or carpet and not being able to write down the particulars for ordering them. Have several pens and pencils [...]

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Organizing Your Interior Decorating Ideas

When you’re getting ready to begin a decorating or remodeling project it’s a great idea to get everything together. And keep it together! Any building, remodeling, or decorating project will be easier if you get organized before you start with an interior decorating project file. Your interior decorating project file will hold everything you’ll need to coordinate [...]

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The 6 Basic Elements Of Interior Design

There are 6 basic elements used in all aspects of interior design and decorating.   If you correctly incorporate all or most of these elements you will have created a beautiful and functional room.  Balance There are two types of balance – symmetrical and asymmetrical.  Perfect symmetry is like the human body – two eyes, two [...]

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Interior Decorating Using Cool Earth Tones

Cool earth tones are a range of colors achieved by mixing white, or pigments from the cool side of the spectrum such as blue and green, with the basic earth colors. Think of cool stone and slate floors, or the washed creams, gray, and pale sand of a seashore on a winter morning, to get the [...]

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Interior Decorating – Getting Ideas

The easiest way to find your interior decorating style is to start collecting ideas. Flip through interior decorating magazines or home improvement websites and collect pictures of things that catch your eye like a particular sofa style, a really cool lamp, a wall color, window treatments, a fabric, or maybe just the feeling that the [...]

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