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8 Simple Ways to Make Your Home Cozy This Fall

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8 Simple Ways to Make Your Home Cozy This Fall

The crisp morning air, the smell of pumpkins and spice, and the fiery color of changing leaves means that is it finally fall! The autumn brings with it the start of school, along with many fun activities and traditions, but it is also a great time to make your home extra cozy in preparation for the cold months ahead.

A seasonal change in home décor accompanies our changing schedules and mindsets, making our homes feel like a cozy retreat. All it takes is a free afternoon and a few simple changes to bring our homes from easy, breezy summer to comfy and cozy fall….

The Best Kept Secret for Finding Affordable Artwork for Your Home

The Best Kept Secret for Finding Affordable Artwork for Your Home

Today on the blog, we are talking about how to find affordable artwork for your home. Finding the right artwork for your home can be a struggle, often you’re faced with choosing between expensive original or limited works of art or, generic mass-produced artwork from large retailers. However, artists and curators have taken to sites like Etsy to share their collections through a new medium…

Inspiration for a Rustic Modern Home Office

Inspiration for a Rustic Modern Home Office

There is something about rustic and industrial furniture that evokes a masculine feel. But with the farmhouse trend fading, it’s time to update that rustic farmhouse look with a new modern rustic style.

By mixing rustic wood pieces with fresh contemporary pieces in matching wood tones, you can revitalize your home office with a modern design that incorporates rustic charm.

Top 10 Vintage Style Affordable Family-Friendly Rugs Perfect for Your Living Room

Top 10 Vintage Style Affordable Family-Friendly Rugs Perfect for Your Living Room

For this week’s round up, I’ve gathered 10 of my favorite washable family-friendly area rugs to share with you. The best part is that these are large 8x10 size rugs perfect for busy families to relax and play on, in beautiful on trend vintage styles and colors to fit any color scheme for under $300!

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How to Decorate a Child’s Bedroom That Will Grow With Them

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How to Decorate a Child’s Bedroom That Will Grow With Them

Decorating your child’s room or preparing a nursery for your little one can be a fun and exciting time, but it can also be expensive. Kids grow and change so fast, and you definitely don’t want to be redecorating in a year to two just because ballerinas are no longer cool.

Let’s face it, we also don’t want to walk into our child’s bedroom and feel like we are suddenly in the middle of a toy store either. So, how do you decorate a bedroom that feels sophisticated enough to blend in with the rest of your home, all while creating a special and unique retreat for your child?

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12 Ways to Get Your Home Ready for Spring

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12 Ways to Get Your Home Ready for Spring

The first flowers of the year are finally starting to bloom, adding little pops of color to an otherwise dreary landscape. Tiny sprouts of bright green dot the trees and hillsides. A warm breeze and the smell of fresh growth tell you that spring has finally arrived!

Try these 12 easy ways to get your home ready for spring with a fresh new look….

Design Tips for Decorating a Pet-Friendly Home

Design Tips for Decorating a Pet-Friendly Home

We love our pets, but we also want to have a beautiful and stylish home that reflects our unique design sense. But is it possible to have pets in the home without compromising style? Yes! With a little thoughtful consideration, you can have the beautiful and pet-friendly home of your dreams. Here are a few tips to help you get started…

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Design Tips to Elevate Your Space

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Design Tips to Elevate Your Space

The finishing touches in a room are what really bring it to life and help to make your house feel like a home. The beautiful thing about styling and decorative accessories is that they have the power to change the mood of a room and can be easily swapped out throughout the year, or as your style and tastes change. So, if you have all of your foundational pieces and you’re looking to create a more elevated aesthetic with décor, here are a few tips to help you on your way.

Decorate Your Home in These Refreshing Colors for Spring

Decorate Your Home in These Refreshing Colors for Spring

Spring….it’s one of my favorite times of the year to do a little refresh on my home décor. After a long winter, sometimes changing up the feel of my living room is just what I need to re-energize the space. One of the easiest ways to do that is by refreshing my living room’s color scheme for spring.

7 Design Tips for Creating the Ultimate Playroom

7 Design Tips for Creating the Ultimate Playroom

Your children’s playroom can be a source of endless joy and amusement, but it can also be an eye sore. The room can easily become overwhelmed with toys and the inevitable “stuff” that seems to accumulate with having kids. But a playroom doesn’t have to be a mountain of clutter, filled with pieces of crayons, missing Barbie shoes and endless Legos to trip over (ouch!).It can instead be a purposeful extension of your home that functions as a haven for your littles to play and imagine in.

If you’re ready to clean out the clutter and create a beautiful and whimsical space to capture your child’s imagination, we’ve got you covered with 7 tips for designing the ultimate playroom.

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5 Must-See Ways to Decorate Your Walls

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5 Must-See Ways to Decorate Your Walls

The walls……they are the largest part of your room, but most often are merely an after thought when decorating. However, incorporating them into your overall design can have a huge impact on not only how your space looks, but also how it feels. Figuring out what to do with the walls can be a bit overwhelming, so here are 5 amazing ways to decorate your walls that make a big impact.

How to Declutter Your Home in 7 Easy Steps

How to Declutter Your Home in 7 Easy Steps

I don’t know about you, but we have been busy spring cleaning around my house. I just love the feeling I get after everything has been cleaned and decluttered as I stand back and admire my freshly organized home. But getting to that point? It’s not always easy to get motivated to start that daunting task. So, we complied a few tips to make decluttering and reorganizing your home easy breezy and stress-free.

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Top 10 Rules for Decorating a Guest Bedroom

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Top 10 Rules for Decorating a Guest Bedroom

You have that bedroom at the end of the hallway. It has a bed and a way of collecting discarded items from the rest of the house, but your friends called, and they are coming to visit and were hoping to stay with you.

Now is the time to clean out your spare room and transform it into a gracious guest bedroom that seamlessly compliments the rest of your home. After all, you are an amazing hostess.

When you decorate your guest bedroom, it should be calming and comfortable and compliment your design style. Eve if it isn’t used on a daily basis, decorating your guest bedroom should be done with care and consideration. A thoughtful host will leave their guests with a memorable stay.

Here are 10 hard earned rules for decorating a thoughtfully designed guest room that will leave your guests feeling right at home.

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How to Style Extra Seating for Parties

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How to Style Extra Seating for Parties

Design is all about the details and after spending so much time planning and preparing for your dinner party, the last thing you want is to neglect a simple detail that can transform your space and add to the atmosphere. When entertaining or hosting a dinner party, extra seating is a must! After all, you want your guests to be comfortable.

If you already have an occasional chair incorporated into your room design, you probably have it styled to create a lovely vignette, but beautiful as that styling is it lacks the function needed for extra seating at parties.

While function is key, you also want your seating to be pretty and to add something to your overall design. Styling the extra seating at a party is simple and can be accomplished in 3 easy steps.

Seasonal Decorating Style Guide: Our Picks for Cozy Fall Favorites

Seasonal Decorating Style Guide: Our Picks for Cozy Fall Favorites

That crisp and vibrant scent is in the air again, its time for cozy knit sweaters, mugs brimming with warm pumpkin lattes and snuggling up by the fire after picking apples….that’s right, it’s time for a cozy fall y’all!

Nothing says fall quite like flannel plaids, bold berries and rich, warm hues. We have scoured some of our favorite sources for home decor and curated a collection that will delight and make you feel comfy and cozy just in time for fall.

How to Layer Rugs With Modern Farmhouse Style

How to Layer Rugs With Modern Farmhouse Style

While layering rugs can be done with any design style, today we are going to focus specifically on layering rugs to create a modern farmhouse look. Creating warmth through texture, and contrast with a black and white color scheme are the hallmarks of modern farmhouse style that we will rely on to pull off the layered rug look. By layering simple striped or checkered black and white rugs on top of a medium brown jute area rug, a warm, simple and textured farmhouse look is achieved.

How to Choose the Right Window Treatments for Your Space

How to Choose the Right Window Treatments for Your Space

Choosing the right window treatments for your home can be stressful. There are so many options and details that contribute to getting the look just right. When you start the process of choosing window treatments for your home, each room should be considered independently. Meaning, you can choose different window coverings for each room, they do not all have to be exactly the same. However, to ensure a good overall design flow for your house they should be similar in style.

 To get started, there are a few questions that you will want to consider to help you pair down your options for choosing the right window treatments. First, consider your space. Is the room small or large? Are your ceilings low or high? Do you have a lot of windows or just one?

A Guide to the Top 10 Types of Window Treatments

A Guide to the Top 10 Types of Window Treatments

Maybe you are moving to a new place and there are blinds everywhere but you want something that will feel a bit more like home and less like an institution. Or you just bought a new house and you are looking for ideas on how to create a cohesive style for the windows in your new home. The bottom line is there are a lot of types of window treatments out there and knowing where to start to achieve the style you long for can be a bit overwhelming. Here we break down the most common types of window treatment and offer a few ideas you may not have thought of too.

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Bar Cart Styling 101: How To Create a Perfectly Styled Bar Cart

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Bar Cart Styling 101: How To Create a Perfectly Styled Bar Cart

Your bar cart can be sophisticated, rustic, industrial, vintage, bohemian or even whimsical, but it should always be welcoming. Its purpose is functional, but it should also be stunning to look at and something to be admired, a conversation piece. No matter your style, you can use this easy to follow guide to achieve perfect styling for your bar cart.

A Cape Cod Bedroom Makeover

A Cape Cod Bedroom Makeover

Anyone who is familiar with cape cod style homes knows that the upstairs bedrooms can present a little bit of a design challenge, especially when one is used as a master bedroom. Recently, we were working with a local client who had just purchased a traditional brick cape cod style home that was badly in need of updating. Because the whole house was in need of renovating their budget had some major stretching to do and we went for maximum impact with a minimum budget.