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30 Mantel Decorating Ideas That Bring Style and Warmth to Your Home
A fireplace often serves as a strong focal point in a room, encouraging you to cozy up and while away the hours with company or a good book. Like any element in a home, your hearth should blend into your interior design aesthetic, and decorating the fireplace mantel accordingly is a great place to start. If you’re not quite sure how to begin, let these beautiful mantel decorating ideas spark your creativity. Coastal Details Jennifer Ribek Interior Design; Nickolas Sargent Photography When decorating in a coastal setting, it only makes sense to tap into an ocean aesthetic. Here, Jennifer Ribek Interior Design keeps the fireplace mantel streamlined with two texture-rich…
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20 Savvy Ways To Bring Art Into Your Bathroom
Whether you’re a fan of pop art, prefer impressionist art, or happen to adore abstract art, you might be interested in finding ways to add artistic hints to the various rooms in your home. While it might seem rather obvious how to do that when it comes to your living room, bedroom, or even kitchen, the fact is you might find it a little harder to think of appropriate ways to add touches of creativity to your bathroom. Frankly, while you surely want the space to be just as stylish as every other room in your home, it’s important to remember that a bathroom primarily needs to be functional. That’s…
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Which home improvements bring the best returns? Here’s a look at some factors to think about | Entertainment/Life
CRASH! THUNK! BOOM! The loud clamor jolts me out of my patio chair, where I am trying to write this column. The dogs startle from their naps. “Did you hear that!?” their expressions ask. “I know it sounds like 25 cars and a locomotive slamming into a block wall,” I reassure them, “but it’s just the roofers next door.” We settle back down. A few minutes later, KABOOM! We jump. This scene repeats all morning as the hardworking roofers detach old clay roof tiles and shove them by mounds into a dumpster 15 feet below. It is not peaceful. However, according to a report that is literally in my hand,…
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To get that ‘garden’ look in your home, bring the outdoors in
Comment on this story Comment Designers frequently talk about wanting to “bring the outdoors in” through design. Whether it’s accomplished by adding daylight and greenery to energize a room or choosing floral prints for the walls or upholstery, the goal is to blur the lines between inside and out. But these more obvious decorating choices perhaps miss a critical component: the feeling of being in the garden. Leah O’Connell, a designer in the San Francisco Bay area, recently tried to create this feeling in her cousin’s family home in Richmond. “Everything was done with the light and the garden in mind,” O’Connell says. And although her choices were client-specific, they…
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Bold color schemes bring original features to life in this historic home
Looking for a way to update their historic home in Newton Center, Massachusetts, the owners decided a glamorous, sexy and elegant look would be the way to go. They wanted to restore and enhance the property’s many original features, and a sympathetic interior décor, with added 2020s sass has transformed this into one of the world’s best homes. Before they could even begin to consider the fine design details, however, there were some major obstacles to overcome – namely stripping away the not very complimentary architectural elements that had been added to the house in the 1940s, 80s and 90s. The main culprit and biggest challenge was the old 1980s…
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20 Bathroom Art Ideas That Will Bring Creativity to Your Space
Read McKendree/JBSA We’re thrilled to see more color, pattern, and heirloom pieces fill the homes of design enthusiasts lately, and the bathroom should be no exception to this growing desire for personality-driven homes. While the powder bath has long been considered a “safe place” to experiment with the hues and prints we may not be so comfortable using in our living rooms and sleep spaces, all bathrooms deserve to be considered with such a design-centric mentality. However, that doesn’t mean you have to wallpaper your primary bath or paint it mauve to achieve a more well-collected, inspiring look (though we fully support both of those design decisions). Art can be…
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