I am really stating to obsess over wallpaper. Wallpaper is no longer plain and boring. It’s now an art form. The sophistication it adds to any room is priceless. I especially like when wallpaper is added to one wall to give it texture and of course a focal point. Take a look at some delicious eye candy below…….
photos from: Ideal Home
**Don’t forget to enter your chance to win my House Beautiful The Home Book Giveaway. Deadline is May 18th!**
Ok, it’s time for a new giveaway. The prize is House Beautiful’s very own, “The Home Book”.
With 465 pages, this book is filled with photos and tips that take you through the steps of designing your home. The first section focuses on understanding your home (i.e. the site, the architecture and the layout of your home). The next section discusses the elements of your home (i.e. ambience, color, lighting, fabric, walls and ceilings). Finally, the last section is all about designing your home. This book also shows you amazing photos of every room of the home from the entryway to the bedroom and how you can transform it into your space. Another plus, throughout the book you get the “Designer's Top Ten” by some of the industry’s well-known interior designers.
I think The Home Book’s motto says it best “EVERYONE HAS A BEAUTIFUL HOME IN THEM” It is truly a MUST HAVE BOOK!
So what do you have to do to win this awesome book? Simply leave a comment about what area(s) of your home you need help with.
Would you like to increase your chances of winning? Please do one or more of the following (Note: leave a separate comment and email address per entry):
Remember you must leave a separate comment and your email address per entry or it will not count. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only. The deadline for the giveaway is midnight EST, May 18th. A winner will be selected via random.org!
GOOD LUCK!
5/19/2009 THE POLL IS OFFICIALLY CLOSE!
CONGRATULATIONS quelleheure4!
Ok, this is too hot for words! Interior Designer Jonathan Adler decorated this home using Barbie as the inspiration. It is ultra feminine, the color selection is superb, just overall—FABULOUS!
Love it!
Jonathan Adler’s 15 Fabulous Design Tips**
1. Mix and match with panache. Don’t be tentative with patterns. If you keep your color scheme restrained, you can approach patterns with wild abandon.
2. When in doubt, repeat, repeat, repeat your patterns.
3. Don’t fit in. Scale is the most under-considered piece of the decorating puzzle. Put a Gothic throne in a studio apartment.
4. Paint your floors white. You’ll feel carefree.
5. Orange is the poppiest color and the answer to most decorating conundrums. Lacquer your front door orange. Pique your neighbor’s curiosity.
6. Layer, layer, layer. Unexpected touches are the soul of the MAXIMALIST HOME: A painting hung on a bookcase, a chandelier in a closet, a brass lion’s-head door knocker in a modern apartment.
7. If you’re a clean modernist, try white grass-cloth for a little warmth.
8. Chocolate brown and baby blue are perfect together. They’re uptown, they’re downtown, they’re classic and fashion forward.
9. Replace white walls with unexpected neutrals like camel, olive, or baby blue.
10. Put regal furniture in your bathroom.
11. When in doubt, add mirrors for extra glamour, put a piece of mirror on top of a cabinet to make it sparkle or in a niche to create the illusion of depth.
12. Primary colors are happy colors – use them abundantly.
13. Let go of coordinating colors. Colors can’t clash. However, when in doubt - brown is your foundation. Brown with red is innately chic.
14. Go for grandeur with a giant chandelier.
15. Make your own – Personal style means having a space that’s comfy but filled with stuff that has meaning to you. It should hold things created and inspired by passionate people. Personal style should make you happy and happiness is chic.
**from pointclickhome
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