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When a chill hits the air and the leaves start changing colors, you can be sure that fall has arrived. Enjoy the beauty of fall while staying warm and cozy by bringing those gorgeous colors into your living room.
1. Place a fall-themed table runner on your coffee table. These can be found wherever home goods are sold, usually at a fairly low price.
2. Place miniature pumpkins and gourds in a ceramic bowl on your coffee table.
3. Place medium pumpkins on end tables or shelves.
4. Drape a cozy mohair throw blanket on the back of a chair or sofa. Look for throws in fall colors such as rust, brown, yellow or red. Choose a color that will complement your current color scheme.
5. Choose throw pillows that carry the same color scheme as the throw blanket, and place them at the ends of your couch. The combination of the two will seem inviting to sink down and cozy up in comfort.
6. Place candles with fall colors throughout your living room. For an added touch, choose scents that are reminiscent of fall, such as apple, pumpkin and spice. Burning candles will give off a warm glow and gorgeous scent.
7. Hang a fall foliage wreath on a wall or door.
These are a few ideas of how to decorate your living area this fall.
The lotus flower is a symbol of peace, purity and perfection and a lotus tealight candle holder is a perfect representation. Nothing can describe the ethereal glow that is cast when the beautiful lotus flower is lit with one tealight candle in its center.
Spread healing, purifying fire energy with this lotus tea light candleholder. Excellent for the center of your home, as well as for the bedroom, this candleholder radiates peaceful and uplifting energy.
As a wonderful home accent, our tealight candle holder makes a beautiful wedding favor and your guest will treasure for years to come. This unique tealight holder is available in silver and gold.
The nice and sunny days are almost over. Kids are going back to school, the leaves are changing colors and falling from the trees, and us people who love changing our home decor with the season, cannot wait to switch our focus from outside to inside.
It is the time to make a new vignette with piled books and accents in the warm colors of fall.
Layers are important this season. Therefore, bring out your chunky wool throw and roll out a few sheepskin area rugs over your hardwood floor in the bedroom and the living area. Also cover your entryway floor with area rugs to make tiles more inviting.
Place a unique wicker basket by the fireplace.
As for the front door fill up beautiful urns with fall foliage to create stunning seasonal looks.
Use your imagination and create your own winter cocoon just in time for the coming season.
The bedroom is for rest, relaxation, intimacy, rejuvenation, and fun… the place where we can recreate ourselves. We have a few ideas of how to turn it into a relaxing getaway.
1. One of the biggest inhibitor of promoting relaxation in a bedroom is unnecessary clutter, and one of the biggest problem areas is in the wardrobe
closet. Remove items that are damaged or haven’t been worn in two years and have a yard sale or donate them to charity.
In general, the more stuff you have in the room, the smaller and more confining the room will appear.
Eliminate from the room all reminders that you have children; your bedroom is about you and your partner. Move those mementos to another special place in your home.
Our homes have become as crowded as our lives and often our bedrooms do double duty as home offices, but all experts definitely agree that you should get the office and computer out of the bedroom.
2. Make the bed. Your skin will be in contact with your linens for six to eight hours every night. Choose good quality and muted colors rather than bright colors for your bedding. You want the room to be relaxing and romantic. Good colors for a bedroom include dark maroon, beige, mauve, sage green and muted yellow. Fluffy bed pillows, comforters and decorative throw pillows will create a luring bed.
3. Decoration should be simple but in the same time it has to show your personality. Stick with colors, textures and images that are meaningful and relaxing to you.
4. Your focal point could be a large piece of decorative furniture or you could build your design around a beautiful wall art.
5. Cover the windows in heavy draperies of one solid color. The color of the draperies should complement the bedding, but not be of the same pattern as the bedding, therefore solid colored draperies work best.
6. Place candles around the room. This will ensure a relaxed setting and add to the luxurious feel of the room.
I hope these few tips help put you on the right track in creating your dream bedroom.
The desire to incorporate basic elements of nature into interior design is still very prevalent.
Being inspired by nature doesn’t mean that you have to choose neutral tones when it comes to decorating your home.
Get inspired by exotic birds or a tropical forest and add bright tones to highlight a sofa with these modern decorative pillows. Asian-inspired mango accent pieces such as mango wood vases are beautiful and will create a focus point in any corner of your room. Use tall vases to emphasize high ceilings.
Create a cozy corner with a small table that holds bottles of wine and hand painted wine glasses or martini glasses.
Add an exotic touch to your living room with a zebra print either in your decorative throws, pillows or area rugs.
For more ideas, check out our collection of tea light holders that come in lotus, daffodils and rose shapes.
Throws are the perfect thing to cozy up with when you are feeling a little chilly. Just wrap yourself in a 100% cotton throw or mohair throw and curl up with a good book, a favorite movie, cup of tea or a glass of wine.
Throws can also be used as a finishing touch to a room. Over a sofa or across the back of a chair it will make a great accent to your decor.
At homedecorbylulu.com we carry a variety of unique throws in different colors and textures.
The added bonus of decorating with throws is that you can change your throws with the seasons, choosing strong colors and textures for winter, and light bright ones for the warmer days of summer.
They make excellent gifts for any occasion and especially for the hard to buy person in your life.
Looking for that special accent to make your party decorations complete? Need a great housewarming or holiday gift for family and friends? Then you will love these hand blown martini glasses from the Fantezia Collection. Each piece in this collection is hand blown and hand painted so no two pieces are alike. These martini glasses are an exquisite addition to any table setting. To maintain the integrity of the piece, we do recommend hand washing. Each piece or the entire collection would make an elegant gift any time of year.
After a long cold winter, the spring is an amazing time when everything comes to life. The first flowers of spring and the songs of the returning birds are welcome for the spirit. I love this season, is the season when I was born. My favorite flowers are tulips and freesias.
But nothing reminds me of spring like this beautiful hand blown and hand painted glass vase from the Fantezia Collection.
The Fantezia Collection is a line of mouth blown and hand decorated glass, produced in the European country of Romania. Each piece is created one at a time in several stages, therefore no two are alike. Not only is the creative process time consuming, it is also demanding. Each glass is a piece of art created by a worker best described as an artisan.
This unique collection contains a wide variety of pieces to meet your decorating and entertainment needs. It has been our most popular line over the years.
Like the chameleon, the colors of this line change and adapt to any home decor theme making this line very unique. This hand blown art glass rose bowl is a real beauty that would make a unique gift for your love ones. It could also be use as a tea light holder. This vase will hold dozens of blooms from your garden.
Today, people of all walks of life are learning to appreciate a good wine. Some of us even take classes for wine knowledge, making and wine tasting. Because he is that special person in your life, you already know him so well and know what he likes and dislikes.
If he is one of these people that appreciates a good wine served in quality wine glasses, you came to the right place. These beautiful hand blown and hand painted wine glasses are perfect for Valentines Day, or enjoy them with any other occasion.