Interactive House Designs

Interior Decorating Ideas

Creativity is the core of interior decorating. You need to let loose your imagination, aesthetic sense, and intelligence, and cull out as many ideas as possible. Interior decorating can be compared to poetry, as both are vast and simply do not seem to have a definite end. You can go on and on and on.

There are several styles of interior decorating. You can browse through them leisurely, compare and contrast their features, advantages and effects, and then select the best option. Broadly speaking, interior-decorating Ideas can be obtained from catalogs, brochures or promotional advertisements released by interior decorators or designers.

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ABC’s of Decorating: F is for faux

Webster’s dictionary defines faux as an “imitation” and comes from the french word for false.  We often hear it applied to animal fur as in a faux fur jacket.  But this word is also used in interior decorating. 

• Faux painting has been popular for many years and is used to replicate tuscan plaster, for example.  The process  can also be used to imitate wood grain, leather, suede etc. and applied to the art of trompe l’oeuil, mural painting and other wall treatments.
• For those of you interested in avoiding the use of animal skins (or the high price tag) there is pleather.  This is a vinyl type fabric that is supposed to look and feel like real leather.  It falls a bit short of the real thing but is a good substitute for an ottoman, bar stools, a headboard etc. where the look o

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How to Amend the Soil in Your Container Garden

We know that you need to feed your plants and amend the soil in your container garden.

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What Can “Garden Writers Today” Do For Me?

“Garden Writers Today” is a website (www.digplantgrow.com) for garden writers (duh) that’s been created to help the garden writing community.

More importantly, it’s been created to help the readers of gardening websites, which is even more important.

They wrote to me and other garden writers across the web asking, “What Can ‘Garden Writers Today’ Do For Me?”

Since the main reason that I keep this blog is for you to help encourage and inspire you to start growing your own food, I pass along this question to you. What can “Garde

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