Professional Home Decorating Is In the DetailsWritten by Lisa Spaulding
Home decorating. For countless people all across globe, these two words bring out an inner turmoil that leaves them frustrated and longing. I don’t even know how many times I’ve heard men and women complain, “My house looks like I just threw a bunch of stuff into each room. It doesn’t look professional. It doesn’t seem to flow or blend. It’s just there.” This is an all-too-common problem. You’ll be glad to know, however, that there is a simple solution to this home decorating woe.One thing most interior designers quickly learn is that home decorating is all about details. Almost anyone can choose flooring and furniture for a room. Furniture usually comes in groupings… that’s simple enough. Flooring? A good, basic choice is something neutral that coordinates with furniture and wall colors. But if you only toss kitchen furniture into a room and stop there, you’ll have a very lonely, plain, boring area. What will bring this room (any room for that matter) to life are details. Home decorating need not be a struggle. Have some fun when decorating your room. For example, when deciding on what to use in your kitchen, choose a theme. If you like fruit or dragonflies, use that as a basis to decorate. Your furniture and flooring do not need to contain elements of your theme. Remember: Home decorating is in details… not basics. If you choose a fruits & vegetables theme for your kitchen, you can add some beautiful placemats and napkin rings to your table. Choose something unique - perhaps placemats in odd shapes or sizes that have a border, which coordinates with your theme. Then, to continue your home decorating plan, add drink coasters or serving bowls in a like style. Dinner plates or platters in solid colors work well to mix and match with whatever theme you choose, and they keep your room from being overrun with fruits & veggies. Don’t think plates and platters have to stay on table, however. Use your imagination when doing your home decorating. Plates and platters also make wonderful wall art. Simply use plate holders that can be found at most discount department stores. Serving bowls work well for flowers, greenery, or other types of arrangements.
| | Do You Need A Day Off? Six Great Ideas! 2004-08-30Written by eRix
How to take a day off?! 2004-08-30Every beginning webmaster’s dream is to have a successful website right off bat. This successful site would enable us to pay bills, feed kids, and then pay for that dream get-away or high-ticket item we set up as a benefit of our financial goals. But every webmaster knows that to have a successful website, it is a commitment that knows no other. The love affair between perfectly laid out front-page and total disregard for time and proper rest, begets most fundamental laws of logic. How can a human being survive on two hours of sleep? How can a human being remember so many passwords and IDs? How can a human being convince somebody to buy something, when every thing you say has already been said? Logic rests that you will become like all of other mediocre webmasters unless you can find one attribute that sets you apart from rest. How can a stay-at-home webmaster even think about competing with corporate web machines? Basically, you buy a laptop computer with wireless internet capabilities, attach it to your lap, and then build and promote your website(s) twenty-two hours a day; that leaves approximately 2 hours for proper rest, nutrition, and family inter-action. This webmaster schedule is not a joke. It happens to millions of us, every day! Seven days a week! Inside is this tremendous feeling that if you take one day off from promoting your website, then traffic you build will come to a halt, sales will fall, and bills do not get paid. Every World Wide Web Entrepreneur has had to have had this feeling before.
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