If you’re at a loss for how to style your room, these 5 tips will get your creative juices flowing. This is about making small commitments to spark inspiration so you can get unstuck and back to loving your room again NOW.
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Minh Pham
5 Tricks to Make a Small Room Look Bigger
Small rooms can be tough to decorate and arrange. Finding furniture, choosing paint, and editing your choices make it harder. Often small rooms have architectural features that can make the room feel smaller. If you’re feeling a little claustrophobic lately, here’s 5 easy and affordable changes to help.
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Matthew Izzo Home
Demilune Tables: Why Every Small or Tricky Room Needs One
A common complaint I hear from clients is that they struggle to find furniture to fit in tight spots like entry ways, or near a pass-through doorway, or in small bedrooms. These areas are often narrow or small and larger, rectangular furniture won’t fit. The answer is a demilune table. Here’s why.
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Ivan Samkov
Free Yourself from Paint Color Anxiety: How to Choose the Perfect Wall Color for Your Painting Project
Does the process of picking a paint color for your walls make you want to run and hide? Do you feel like there’s just too many choices and too many mistakes to be made? Let me show you my top 4 favorite – fool proof- ways to pick paint colors for any room in your home. It’s way easier than you think!
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Dominika Roseclay
7 Tips to create the perfect Home Office
Many people choose to work remotely because it adds convenience to their life. However, many individuals do not prefer to work from home even if their profession allows them the privilege. The major reason is that People struggle to concentrate on work at home and their productivity declines. Here’s 7 ways to increase the quality of you work and create the perfect home office.
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Nathan Oakley
Does My Home Look Timeless? 5 Ways to Know for Sure.
A timeless looking home isn’t hard to achieve when you understand these 5 core things that are true for every design style no matter what. You can apply this advice to small or big rooms. When you cross check your decorating decisions with each of these 5 criteria, you’ll save money, time and avoid unnecessary and discouraging disappointments.
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Curved Furniture and Angled Walls, a Perfect Fit?
The curved furniture trend is hot this year. But, for small and tricky rooms with angled walls it could be the very best solution to get maximum seating, optimal flow and superior function. Let’s explore a shared living room and dining room where every piece of furniture has rounded curves.
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Tips for designing a warm minimalist home
While the number one rule of minimalism is less is more, it doesn’t mean you need to live in emptiness. With a mixture of decluttering and soothing colour palettes, wide-open spaces and geometric shapes, minimalism is a design approach that can lend itself to a warm home.
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5 Fixes for the empty space above your window [Infographic]
You’re on the last leg of your makeover. You’ve agonized over ironing your new curtains; you’ve steamed them, so they hang perfectly. As you step down from the ladder to soak in all your hard work, you notice it… The empty space between the window and the ceiling. You don’t love it. Here’s 5 ways to fix it.
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When is it a Good Idea to Ditch the Sofa in an Awkward Living Room?
Living rooms with multiple doorways can be tough to arrange. If the room is narrow or long, that makes it even harder. Have you ever thought of using only chairs to arrange your awkward, small living room? A layout like this can be very versatile and functional.
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Remember These 5 Things to Avoid Decorating Overwhelm
Decorating overwhelm often creeps up after moving to a new home or renovating your existing house. Both involve making lots of decisions and interacting with lots of different people. Here’s 5 fun ways to avoid feeling overwhelmed so you can make excellent decorating decisions.
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How to Have a New Traditional, Blue Christmas for 2021!
This ‘new traditional’ way to incorporate blue into holiday décor is all about mixing it with other colors. If you’re on the fence as to what colors you should incorporate this year, let me show you how to have a new traditional, blue Christmas for 2021!
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5 Steps to Create a Functional & Aesthetic Small Home Office
Spending a lot of time in a room that doesn’t support what you need to do your job is a frustrating endeavor. It’s so important to understand what you need to make a work from home set up work for you. If you don’t know exactly how to create a functional and aesthetic small home office space, here’s 5 super useful tips for planning your layout so you can create a space you’ll want to be in.
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3 Amazing Ways to Layout a 9’ x 10’ Bedroom with an Angled Wall and a Bumped-in Closet
Small bedrooms can be very challenging. But finding furniture with the right dimensions that will also fit nicely into a room that’s less than 10’ square is even more challenging. Add an angled wall, a bumped-out closet, and an off-center window and you have a super tricky room to lay out. Here’s how to make a small bedroom with multiple challenges work!
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Products and Purposes for Awkward, Empty Spaces in Small Rooms
What do you do with that empty space in the corner of your room or along a short wall? It's too small for a large piece of furniture, but it's big enough to look awkward without anything there. I have 9 suggestions to make this empty space practical and purposeful. Let me show you how.
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My 11 Biggest Peeves About Decorating Small and Awkward Rooms
It’s important to consider the placement of furniture and décor in small or awkward rooms. Some things that work in bigger spaces will overwhelm a smaller space. Proper planning of furniture size and placement is important for any size room, but it can mean success or failure in a smaller room. Here’s what to do.
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L Shaped Living & Dining Room: The Biggest Decorating Mistake I Ever Made and How I Fixed It!
The ‘L’ shaped living and dining room. It’s a challenge to say the least. The issue is that there’s always going to be an awkward corner that bends at 90 degrees. That corner makes this shared space difficult to layout because it feels like separate spaces even though it’s not. There’s no wall or architectural feature to show where one room ends and the other begins. Got a room like this? Let me show you what I learned.
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Small Space Ideas From Around The World
It’s been somewhat remarkable to witness the rise of small-space living over the years. It can partially be chalked up to our ever-more-crowded cities, and the simple fact that most people in big urban areas sacrifice space for location. It may not always be an ideal situation, but the idea of making the most of it, and turning a small space into a delightful one, can bring a certain charm to it.
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How to Arrange An Awkward 10 x 12 Living Room with a Corner Fireplace and a TV
Narrow living rooms can have challenges for furniture placement. Add in doorways and furniture and it can sometimes feel like a game of Tetris trying to make it all fit. When you have a narrow living room with an angled fireplace and 4 doorways, it’s all about the pathways.
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8 Ways to Maximize a Small Galley Kitchen
Galley kitchens can be super efficient and charming but in most, the charm can be overshadowed by a lack of storage, feeling cramped, and not having entertaining space. Here’s 8 ways to maximize a small galley kitchen so you can make it feel 5 times bigger.
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