The 1950’s was an incredible period for interior design, a period which today many of us still love and enjoy. With some ideas of how to decorate, or even tweak your home, you can enjoy the stylish and gracious living which we all associate with this era.
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AMAZING SOLUTIONS FOR A MULTI-CHILD BEDROOM
While one bedroom for more than one child might not be optimal, sometimes it’s just a case of making the best out of a situation. It can be fun for young kids to grow up sharing a bedroom with their beloved sibling, although it can become more problematic as they age and develop stronger differences in their personalities.
Easter is round the
corner and for many of us that means it’s time to get the family round, have a
sit-down meal and a good ole get-together.
With Christmas
traditionally being the time to spruce up the home for guests more and more of
us are beginning to introduce stylish spring touches for other occasions
throughout the year and in this new post, we’ll go through some easy
Easter décor tips for your home.
Well! you would never have imagined it would you!
Moroccan mixed with shabby chic! surely not!
Those two styles are at opposite ends of the decorating spectrum, so how the hell are they going to fuse together!..well just look above! That moroccan rug mixed with eastern glassware and those roses! well it looks like this idea could definitely work with a few of the right touches!
Those two styles are at opposite ends of the decorating spectrum, so how the hell are they going to fuse together!..well just look above! That moroccan rug mixed with eastern glassware and those roses! well it looks like this idea could definitely work with a few of the right touches!
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Your living room is the place where all the family can gather. It’s the room most often seen by visitors and guests to your home too. It’s where you entertain and where you relax. It’s the room you have your conversations in and the room where you can just veg out in front of the TV. The living room is used more often than any other room in the house. This means it needs to be comfortable, well-equipped, and perfect for social gatherings.
Your living room is the place where all the family can gather. It’s the room most often seen by visitors and guests to your home too. It’s where you entertain and where you relax. It’s the room you have your conversations in and the room where you can just veg out in front of the TV. The living room is used more often than any other room in the house. This means it needs to be comfortable, well-equipped, and perfect for social gatherings.
To make sure your living room makes the right impression each and every time, keep the decor fresh. Repainting usually comes round every couple of years in this room. It suffers the most wear and tear because it is used by so many people so often. This season’s hot colours are duck egg blues and cherry reds. You can use wallpaper or a more vibrant shade from your colour palette for a feature wall.
SOURCEThe furniture is important to your room. It doesn’t just provide the comfortable seating and social circle for your friends and family. It also creates the character, and expresses your tastes. You want something that is high quality to last, but also to look good for your home. Browse through the catalogues of makers like Multiyork to see what style most suits you and your home.
Many seating arrangements in the living room are set up to face the TV. If your television is important in the home, then you might choose to purchase a good quality cabinet for it to stand upon. If your living room space is less formal and more comfortable, why not use a wall bracket to mount it on? That way you have gained some extra floor space for additional seating.

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Wall art can create splashes of colour and style for your living room. Pick larger pieces for big walls to create a big impact. Look for art that shares the colour tones of your palette. Swirls are very popular at the moment. Try to find something on a white background, or that include some white lines. This helps it blend in beautifully with white doors and skirting boards. 
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Painting your ceiling every couple of years brings back the brightness and can help lighten the room. Instead of a ceiling rose, why not have some spot lights installed? These can be cheaper to run as well. Using four or six could help light darker corners of the room. What about some wall lights? These will shine light up toward your newly painted ceiling, reflecting brightness back into the room.
Rugs, curtains and cushions are great because they can be changed or cleaned cheaply and easily. Have them all match your strong colour from your palette this season. This helps them all tie into the room beautifully, creating a very stylish look.
Rugs, curtains and cushions are great because they can be changed or cleaned cheaply and easily. Have them all match your strong colour from your palette this season. This helps them all tie into the room beautifully, creating a very stylish look.
Square rugs are best for a square room. A rectangular shape works well in a long or L shape room. Cushions should be full of texture, and can be mixed and matched. Finally, keep your curtains simple unless they hang in one of your feature walls. You can pick big patterns or stripes to mix it up. Love your living room today.
Bean Bags are hitting the home interior market by storm, cheaper than buying an armchair or Settee, they can be hung up out of the way or stored in a cupboard when not in use. Gone are the days when sitting on a bean bag was so uncomfortable...that you had obviously drawn the short straw at family get togethers...these new guys to hit the market are strong contenders for interior lovers everywhere!
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They come in all sorts of colours and designs to suit the trendiest decor down to the country cottage style...kids love them, Dad's fall asleep on them and Mother's read children bedtime stories on them.
Here are some of my favourite styles...

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They even sell Bean Bag Settee's! if you want to make that extra committment!
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So as you can see, you can pick them up in all sorts of shapes and sizes these days..
In my opinion they are the coolest comfiest home accessory at the moment...
And perfect for snugling next to the fire in the coming cooler seasons.
Are you a fan of the Bean Bag?
Have you bought one for your Kids Bedroom?
Do you lust after one Yourself?
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They come in all sorts of colours and designs to suit the trendiest decor down to the country cottage style...kids love them, Dad's fall asleep on them and Mother's read children bedtime stories on them.
Here are some of my favourite styles...

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They even sell Bean Bag Settee's! if you want to make that extra committment!
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So as you can see, you can pick them up in all sorts of shapes and sizes these days..
In my opinion they are the coolest comfiest home accessory at the moment...
And perfect for snugling next to the fire in the coming cooler seasons.
Are you a fan of the Bean Bag?
Have you bought one for your Kids Bedroom?
Do you lust after one Yourself?
We are a bit inbetween styles at the moment...the MOVE that we have been planning for ages has had a bit of a set back and for now we are just going to stay here...although it not being the best situation, as we have no downstairs loo and Freddy is still sleeping in the 'all singing - all dancing' bed in the dining room...we are going slightly mad, but at least we are going slighty mad together!
We have a new car, which has enabled us to get out and about together. It has been adapted for Freddy's needs and is more safe for me to drive his scooter and wheelchair in and out of, rather than me running myself over everytime...which is all good, as there was a risk of Freddy's only carer ending up in a bed next to him in the dining room and us both being bed bound!
...Anyways...as to the style of the house...well imagine two peeps intent on moving, packing up half of their belongings...buying some new stuff for their new house...then house falling through, and them getting depressed!...thus leaving house in total pandamonium! Yep! your've got it! That's us right now!...so Thank Heavens for the new car!...We are getting out as much as we can to escape the mess that we have now created here!
And to top it all! Freddy now wants a more modern style of living and I don't!
Stupid me really for agreeing that I did in order to start the ball rolling with the move!
My Idea was a pared back look, getting rid of most of the kitsch and sticking to our old style of French shabby chic...kinda like this...
Which is a back to basics approach as this is our old house back in 2008...
less kitsch and more French Chic!
Whereas Freddy is thinking more this kinda thing!
Found on tiptoebutterfly.blogspot.com.au
RUSTIC RANCH....HELP I AM SCARED!
He wants this kind of style with more modern pieces and he keeps picking up things that are teal in colour!...all I can say is that it is going to end very very badly indeedy!
KEEP TUNED IN TO SEE WHO WINS!
what interior style do you like best?

We have a new car, which has enabled us to get out and about together. It has been adapted for Freddy's needs and is more safe for me to drive his scooter and wheelchair in and out of, rather than me running myself over everytime...which is all good, as there was a risk of Freddy's only carer ending up in a bed next to him in the dining room and us both being bed bound!
...Anyways...as to the style of the house...well imagine two peeps intent on moving, packing up half of their belongings...buying some new stuff for their new house...then house falling through, and them getting depressed!...thus leaving house in total pandamonium! Yep! your've got it! That's us right now!...so Thank Heavens for the new car!...We are getting out as much as we can to escape the mess that we have now created here!
And to top it all! Freddy now wants a more modern style of living and I don't!
Stupid me really for agreeing that I did in order to start the ball rolling with the move!
My Idea was a pared back look, getting rid of most of the kitsch and sticking to our old style of French shabby chic...kinda like this...
Which is a back to basics approach as this is our old house back in 2008...
less kitsch and more French Chic!
Whereas Freddy is thinking more this kinda thing!
Found on tiptoebutterfly.blogspot.com.au
RUSTIC RANCH....HELP I AM SCARED!
He wants this kind of style with more modern pieces and he keeps picking up things that are teal in colour!...all I can say is that it is going to end very very badly indeedy!
KEEP TUNED IN TO SEE WHO WINS!
what interior style do you like best?

With our pending move, I have been looking at a lot of new ways to decorate....and something that tempts me very much is all this open plan living milarkie, the thought of having a kitchen and living area all in an open space really appeals to me...especially as well, that my hubby is in a wheelchair now, permanently!...so getting around for him will be so much easier, no nasty doors to tackle!
Are you fan of Open Plan Living and Laminated Fooring?
Do share your decorating Loves with us!
I have also been having a look around for laminate flooring hoping desperately to find a place that has it already, but also checking out the latest trends in colours...I suppose I would pick a lighter flooring as I am a fan of the white wall look, so bleached floors seem so much more apealing to me...
Decorating with our pretty french enamel and english rose pictures is something that I am looking forwards too...overcluttering this cottage is going to be a thing of the past for the Happy Harris's! We are hoping to find a bright and light home and decorate with a few pretty things...you know, so that you can see them...not so that they are all buried behind a cornucopia of clutter!
They more clutter I get rid of the better I am feeling...my head does not seem to be so fuggled!
I have started to imagine myself in a whitewashed studio creating and making items for our new home...new fresh ideas that have come from a de-fuggled brain!
Oh yes I am loving the idea of open planned, white walls and the laminated flooring look!
I just hope we can find that place sooner rather than later!Are you fan of Open Plan Living and Laminated Fooring?
Do share your decorating Loves with us!

Well here we finally are....yes I have been decorating my bedroom now since January...It's taken me an age, because someday's I have been too busy, someday's I have been too tired and someday's I just couldn't be bothered...but at last I can now show you the pictures of the finished result!

I had been looking for the perfect wallpaper for a while, usually I like plain white walls but I wanted to try something a bit different for a change...so when I saw this Peeling Planks wallpaper by Clarke and Clarke I just had to have it!
This bedroom is to be my very own, as now we have all changed again and my Hubby has his artist studio and bed in the dining room...the actual moving of furniture all about the place has really worn me out...I think that is why it has taken me so long to decorate the bedroom, It's like I have moved house...only we are still living in it!
I also hung the wallpaper horizontal rather than verticle, as I like the beach hut feel to it. This is my first attempt at wallpapering a whole room and although it was challenging, (there are lots of mistakes! don't look too hard!) I did it, so if you are thinking of wallpapering yourselves, try it! If I can do it, I am sure you can too!

My next room to decorate will be the spare bedroom, I have bought lots of things for it, and have it all planned out in my head...I am aiming for a guest/craft room style in there...thing is I have put so many unwanted things in there, I'm going to have to clear it all before I begin...but i will keep you posted.
PS...if you are thinking of buying this wallpaper, it is not as brown as it looks in some of the pictures, ...my photo editing suite insisted on bringing out the brown more, instead of the lovely pale blues in some of the pictures...best colour representation is pic2, pic4 and pic6.
Have you tried wallpapering? how did it go?
Bye for now,
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Décor is the
most exciting part of giving your bathroom a makeover simply due to the fact
that you have full responsibility of colours and a theme. Being creative is an
understatement, you want to be able to boast to the world about your unique
designs.
Essentially,
it all comes down to colour; what mood do you want to create? What image of
yourself, your home, your life do you want to project to others? Consider your
bathroom as a blank canvas – here are some creative colour schemes to get you
thinking.
A hue of
blue and mellow yellow
No doubt the
first image that springs to mind with blue and yellow are the lush golden
beaches of the Caribbean that stretch as far as the eye can see, gently lapped
by enticing blue waves.
Sandy-coloured
floorboards or a sheet of golden vinyl give way to blue tiles creeping up the
wall before transforming into lighter paint shades for the sky. It’s calm,
relaxing and creates that perfect setting that holiday brochures desperately
strive to achieve.
Lilac &
lime – not a crime
This retro
feel brings together two unusually matched colours that complement each other
with the soft, pastel lilac balancing out the striking vibrant shades of
lime.
You may find
lime toilets and basins hard to come by, but that doesn’t stop you applying the
lesser popular colours to the bathroom walls and ceiling. A modern 3-to-1 wall
paint job in favour of lilac with lilac patterned on the lime wall maintains the
vintage feel with being too overbalanced.
Orange
fades & shades
Peachy orange
is a popular choice for bathrooms, but you can take this further and enhance all
the oranges under the sun to create a bathroom of many colours, from just one
colour.
Orange tiles,
particularly smaller options that run alongside a bath, represent a batch of
delicately crafted terracotta ceramics while spotlights beaming down onto light
orange paintwork and finishes at night create a peaceful sunset glow. Even some
wooden bathroom furniture can be perceived as dark orange shades.
Cream,
green & all to be seen
Not quite the
vibrant lime as before, but a pleasant leafy green to accompany a slightly
off-white cream, mirroring sunlight seeping between rainforest canopies alive
with the sound of splashing water in your bathroom.
Cream walls
are especially brought to life with a creative method of stencilled leaf
patterns and colourful tropical petals. There will be no plain wall space that
makes the room feel bare, instead a botanical design unique to your bathroom
only.
For more
creative ideas and inspiration, visit The Bath House Online today. Our
online store hosts a fantastic range of affordable bathroom products and
accessories fit for bathrooms of any size, style and design.
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