My homedecorating blog

Feng Shui is a Chinese style of decorating helps in making your house a home. Its benefits are manifold and here are some tips on incorporating Feng Shui in your home decoration.

Dried flowers are a strict no-no in Feng Shui. You need to use only fresh flowers in the house for attracting positive energy. One more interesting thing is that NEVER keep the bathroom door and the toilet lid open! It seems that doing this helps to retain and earn wealth. If you keep the lid open you are flushing out your wealth by your own hands!

So bring in the positive energy today!

I have many friends who are not happy with the job done by their interior decorator. I suggest all of them to do one thing- do an online course to become an interior designer yourself!

There are several free and paid courses that you can take up and use the knowledge in decorating your home. What is the need of a decorator if you can do it yourself? You need to have an eye for detail and be sincere enough to follow the course till the end.

This will give you the required knowledge and equip you to decorate your house easily, what say?

Dinner times are family times. That is when we all get together around the dining table and discuss about how the day passed.

But isn’t it sometimes irritating when you need to get up in the middle of your meal for taking some spoons for the soup? If your dining table would have drawers or a small shelf for storing these eating tools or spice shakers, wouldn’t it be great?

Whenever you buy or order a dining table as a part of your home decoration, ensure that it has at least some capacity for below-the-top storage. You will thank me for this!

When we are decorating our home, we are anyway making lots of changes and improvements. One such improvement is installing solar panels on the rooftop.

These solar panels work using the energy of the sun and are very handy when there is a power outage. If you wish to cut down your power bills even after home decoration, a solar based water heater is the best option. This way you can illuminate your home with new lighting fixtures and get hot water for your bath in the same costs as before!

I am happy with my solar heater, wish to try?

Home decoration usually involves buying new furniture, getting rid of old clutter and expenses too. Wouldn’t it be great if we could makeover our home in an eco-friendly way?

Green home decoration implies the use of non-toxic and durable materials and recycled products such as reusable furnishings and leftovers. Some ‘green’ materials that you can opt for are bamboo, cork and eucalyptus as they are renewable. When you use cork, you don’t need to cut trees, which is heartening. There are many choices for a green flooring too.

You must have the innate desire for an eco-friendly interior, that’s it!

The grass is greener on the other side of the fence. People residing in a quaint country side home often wish to have a feel of the big city life right in their home. This is now possible thanks to home decoration.

If you really love the city skyline, you can create a similar effect by a mural or some wonderful paint color scheme. In case you are attracted by the flashing lights and billboards in the city, you can hang framed posters of the popular Broadway productions. Remember to display these on a strategic location and install spotlights for prominence.

When you decorate your home with some personal and some professional help, you are proud of your house, and it is perfectly natural.

But problems never come invited! There might be some minor fixing that needs to be done in plumbing and lighting or painting and polishing even after you have finished decorating your house. I would suggest that all home-owners should attend classes that teach you the basics of plumbing and painting. It is easy to learn and comes with practice.

It helps you to save on a technician’s cost and satisfies you that you could fix something all on your own!

I always get excited whenever we decide to redo our home. But how do I plan my spending limit?

It is simple. You need to decide which room should look the best after a home decoration job. Now list the rooms in a descending order of importance. For example, I want my living room to be the best followed by my bedroom and so on. Once you are sure with this, it is easy to allocate funds for each room.

In my case, the highest expenses would be for the living room and the lowest would be for the guest bedroom, since it is not used often.

In these times of slowdown, it is important that we save money. That does not mean you should not decorate your house at all.

If you have the ability in your back pocket, you must go for it. But will the interior decorator understand your preferences? It is YOUR home and you are the best person to tell what your requirements are. Making a ‘To-Do’ list of the improvement needed is indeed helpful. The Internet is the best resource for finding about decoration materials and ideas but your effort is needed.

All the hard work you do for your dream home is bound to pay off!

So you have decided to decorate your home with the help of an interior designer, great! There are lots of them around who are trained to decorate homes and offices and other spaces.

Before you actually approach a decorator, make a list of all the changes that YOU want in your house. This includes urgent changes such as replacing the old electric wiring and other requirements for making the most of the available space. Once you are clear with this list, you can communicate the same with the interior decorator.

This will ensure a smooth flow of ideas between the two of you and result in something amazing!