Home Decorating Tips
Editors note: With these home decorating tips, You can decorate your home in any style on a budget. The secret is using what you have, what you can find, and what is readily available at thrift shops, yard sales, and flea markets. If you don't thrift shop, get over yourself and try it! There is a world of furniture and accessories to recycle! PCH
French Country Kitchen Decor & Design Tips
By Kristi Cole
The most captivating room in a French country home is often the kitchen because it serves as the social gathering point for good food and conversation with friends and family. You can add this rustic charm to your kitchen by focusing on the colors, fabrics, furniture and decor. Bringing these characteristics into the design of your French country kitchen is easier than you may think. Many hillside houses in the southern region of France are fairly small and so are their kitchens. Their French owners focus on warm colors and maximizing available space with functional earthy furniture and old-age accessories.
Choosing Home Decorating Color Schemes
Because colors have tremendous emotional impact, understanding how color affects human beings can help you create a harmonious, joyful home, even in hard times. But studies have also shown that color elicits physiological responses, as well. For instance, the color red stimulates the body by raising the breathing rate, blood pressure, and heart rate, while light blue and dark green have the opposite effect.
Other Physiological Color Responses
Imagine you're driving by a green field of grass, punctuated by yellow wild flowers. . .
A Man's Guide to Home Decor
There are still a few men out there who cannot understand a woman's need to decorate (and redecorate) their home. And a woman's love of shopping for furniture? That gives most men a sharp pain - usually in the area of their wallet. But as a thrift shop power shopper myself, I can tell the men in the audience that home decor is a sport! Really! Just think of home decorating in terms of "guy stuff"!
You know that little flutter in the stomach when you see a fully-restored, cherry red, vintage muscle car? Complete with air-brushed flames? Chrome everywhere? Well, women can get the same flutter . . .