Category: Interior Design

Quick Hacks to Spruce Up Your Home

Quick Hacks to Spruce Up Your Home

Posted on by Rebecca

No matter how much you love your home sometimes you just want a change.  Wanting a change doesn’t mean you have to embark on a big renovation project it can be as simple as rearranging the furniture to make the room feel more cozy.  Here are some quick hacks to spruce up your home and completely change the look.  These are all easy to do without spending a fortune.

Change the look of the door

The front door is the first thing that people see when they come to your home and this is the easiest way to make a good impression.  You can repaint your door in an afternoon and give your home a more welcoming appearance.  You can add a welcome mat or simply change or add a door knocker.

Create a conversation area

It is pretty common to place the furniture around the perimeter of the room, but instead you can create a conversation area in your living room.  You see this all the time in hotel lobbies, arrange the furniture in a “H” shaped pattern.  You can place two arm chairs beside each other facing the sofa with your coffee table in the middle .  When you are entertaining it is far easier to have a conversation comfortably.

Let the light in

Natural light is always the most flattering, not only that it will save you a fortune in utility costs at the same time.  It is bright and invigorating and it is time to get rid of those heavy, dark and expensive draperies.

Add some mirrors

If you have smaller rooms then placing mirrors strategically can make the room look bigger.  Mirrors also reflect light making the rooms brighter as well, if you put them across from the windows they can bounce light and make the room look larger.  Here is how to make your room look bigger.

Make your rugs proportional

If you have ever seen a living room rug that was too big or too small for the room, it looks odd.  You can avoid this by making sure that the legs of your furniture fit inside the rug.  That conversation area you created, make sure that the front legs of the chairs and the front of the sofa all fit on the area rug.  If the rug is big then you can hide some of it under the furniture.  This will make the rug look proportional to the room and it won’t leave edges hanging out for people to trip over.

Southwestern Area Rugs: The Core of Southwestern Decor

Posted on by toxich72

Growing up, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience of having carpeted floors and walking, playing games, sleeping on and resting on their padded, textured surface. Clean southwestern rugs have almost always seemed to make a room more comfortable, especially when I have the unrestricted freedom of taking off my socks and feeling the texture and padding underfoot. So for me, well placed, comfortable southwestern rugs and carpeting make a room more interesting and warm than those with only wood flooring, or some other type of hard flooring. Despite the stinging discomfort of rug rash, a good rug can take the edge off a dropped object, or slow down an unruly ping pong ball that would have otherwise rolled all the way across the room.  I have dropped countless glasses, game controllers and toys that could have otherwise broken if they didn’t fall on southwestern area rugs from Southwestern Rugs Depot. Whereas, mats provide a good destination for feet to enter and to exit, southwestern rugs invite us to stay.

Southwestern Rugs Are Vital

They make homes more comfortable and add a better overall experience to the home. Some people like their rooms with a little less baggage. Lighting plays an important part in a room, but the “rug oasis” or if there are more, rug “oasis”, are great guides for where you want people to be distributed in a room, as once people enter, it seems obvious, that people will want to be near the most comfortable part of a room with hard flooring. This could be used to one’s advantage, by placing the said oasis near sofas or chairs, or even in places to deter others from trafficking places where one would not desire them to be. I would argue, that the advantages of the rug oasis outweigh those of only hard surface flooring and that a comfortable southwestern rug can make a visit experience more comfortable and interesting.