Home Decor

When it's time to furnish your home, you want to get it right the first time: most of us don't have the luxury to toss out all our purchases in a couple of years and start from scratch. So how do you know if that couch or lamp is going to stand the test of time?

"Look for something that is built well, like good quality tables that are a little bit older and not mass manufactured," says Claren Pappo, an Interior Design instructor at ...

It goes without saying that simple, functional design is the hallmark of most luxurious furniture. Whether you’re out to make your home look decent and attractive, luxurious furniture, coupled with a delicate touch of perfection will always produce astonishing results.

The interiors don’t say it all. In fact, it would be worthwhile to start decorations from outside your home rather than from the interior. Your well-kept garden and the neatly-cut grass ...

Sometimes the most difficult part of decorating is getting started; deciding where and how to begin can be overwhelming. Fortunately, the basics of room design can be broken down into three simple rules of thumb that make decorating any room as easy as 1-2-3. Use these rules to tackle your home one room at a time as your budget allows. It usually makes sense to begin with the rooms you use for entertaining, such as the living room, dining room or family ...

One of the fundamental principles of design is that form should follow function. Simple enough. In all likelihood, this rule may apply more to one space in your home than to any other - the kitchen, which just might be the most important and busiest room of all. Some have even referred to it as the heart of the home. And while I, as a designer, am always personally dedicated to what's "pretty," the way a design works to help better one's use of ...

It’s difficult to make your place look and feel like home when you’re not the owner. Your personal reasoning says the necessary time and money to remodel would be a wasted investment because of how few years you will continue to live there; however, no matter how little time you’re actually planning to live in a place, home is meant to be a place of rest. Spacious rooms are rare in apartment floor plans, but there are tricks to making your place look ...