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How to Decorate Your Home in new Stylish Trends

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If you want to decorate your home in new stylish trends there are only a few little touches you need to make. Trends are what they are – fashion statements that do eventually go away.

Classic Cornish ware is in vogue. These are blue and white storage jars that look like large cookie jars b us you can put anything anthem. There is also a service in the U.K. called tggreen that will personalize what goes on these jars with words like cookies, crayons or whatever you like.

If you are going to redo your floors and can’t afford expensive slate tiles then look no further than the Camaro vinyl flooring collection. This company makes vinyl that looks like wood, stone, slate and marble.

Coat stands have had a face lift as well. A company called Peg makes them in fluorescent plastic. The hooks are not hooks but disks that stick out from the center of the trunk of the tree. These are gentler on your clothing when you hang it on a hook.

To show how ecologically correct you are buy a rug made in eco-friendly rubber bands. They come in all kinds of different rainbow colors. Best of all these rugs, which are very gay and happy looking are slip-proof and water-proof. RugSale.com is a great site to purchase a new rug from. They have a huge selection. You can find a RugSale promo code from Promo-Codes.com to get a discount and save some money.

Retro toys of any kind are also quite fashionable nowadays as well. Think of those little dogs that would react to iPods or old style robots.

When it comes throws for your couches or chairs then start thinking spots. Throws that have big spots on them are the best.

One of the coolest chairs to own is the Conran 111 Navy chair. These are plastic chairs that come in primary colors. Each is made from 111 recycled plastic coke bottles. The new chair comes in six colours with a scratch-resistant finish. The original chair was made in aluminum.

Another hot recycled item are the Studiomold lamps. These are lamps with a base made out of crushed and twisted coke bottles and then coated with black rubber to create a base for lamps.

To show your guests you are fashion conscious buy the new day calendar by Persephone Books that features reproductions of famous end papers. End papers are the pages of vintage books that have patterns. Each end paper is noted with the name of the famous novel that was the end papers first starring appearance to the public.

Decorating With an Accent Wall

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An accent wall is a great way to transform the look of the room; all it happens to be is one wall in your space that is painted a specific color. You can easily do this yourself
with your chosen accent color paint, a roller and masking tape.
The idea behind the accent wall is that it is markedly more interesting than the other walls in the room. This makes this wall a focal point. Usually the wall is painted a darker, more intense color than the other walls. In fact it is usually the only colored wall in the room. However sometimes it is a wall that is merely darker than others – for instance it might be a dark purple wall in room where the other walls are painted a very light lilac. As it is the first wall to be seen before a room is entered it is also usually nicely decorated with art, mirrors, shelves, moldings or other types of visual interesting touches.

The other purpose of an accent wall is to anchor or define a separate area within a larger space. This can, for example, help define a small area of a room as a reading or sewing area or as an area for watching television or sewing. These types of walls also happen to be near areas of a room that are used a lot. They tend to be near a bed, fireplace, entertainment center or bookcase. Sometimes the accent wall is actually used to frame the television, which is like the contemporary hearth of the home complete with its high definition flickering light. Traditionally accent walls have been used to frame fireplaces with the color of choice being a deep crimson or tomato red. Dark red accented walls go well with touches of black or gold elsewhere in the room as well.

Paint is not the only tool used to make an accent wall. Sometimes they are made of tiles or mirrors. Still the trend in 2011 is to make an accent orange a bright burnt orange.
Other popular colors for accent walls are a burnt crimson, celadon, dark green, olive green and plum.

One nice idea is to reflect the color of the accent wall in other details of your décor. For instance if your accent wall is a bright orange then maybe have orange drapery ties or orange pillows to compliment the look and tie it all together.