If you were to make a list of things to consider when redesigning a room in your home, most people start off with the big issues. The top two are general style (such as classic, rustic, modern), and color schemes. It's easy to overlook the important role that texture plays in interior decor, but it … [Read more...]
Wicker’s Place in Mid-Century Modernism Decor
Worldly influences are part of mid-century modernism when it comes to architecture, interior design and furniture. Some styles can verge on retro or vintage while others are strikingly futuristic. Within a design period that encompassed the mid-1930s through the mid-1960s, and with its core lying … [Read more...]
Finding Wicker’s Place In Colonial American Decor
Colonial American decor began with the first settlers’ design tastes. From the early 1600s through much of the 1700s, this period was noted for a diversity that was inherent with the origins and heritage of each settlement population. Within this nearly 200-year span, there were additional … [Read more...]
Green Your Bathroom With Luxurious Indoor Plants
Your bathroom can be one of the best rooms in your home to be in. Or it can be bland, boring and strictly functional. Or maybe yours is somewhere in between, with a few rather random decorative extras to take the sterile edge off it. Perhaps it seems like a waste to spend money on the bathroom when … [Read more...]
Defining Art Deco Spaces With Wicker
The lure of Art Deco is as popular now as it was when it burst on the American scene in the early 20th century. With its decadent roots in Paris, it was known as Style Modern and would not receive the more familiar name until the late 1960s. While geometrics, glitz and glamour claimed center stage … [Read more...]
What Makes Furniture Classic?
The taste in home decor today is very much contemporary. Yet the designs and styles of some of our best loved items of classic furniture are anything but new. Some have been around for hundreds of years. Classic wicker furniture just keeps on going, generation after generation. What is it that gives … [Read more...]
Window Treatments That Work With Wicker
Choosing window treatments for a room, especially one furnished with wicker, can pose problems for some home designers. Beyond a theme and a color palette for the space, it becomes a matter of designs to set a mood and to complement the beauty of rattan and bamboo cane framing or the texturing of … [Read more...]
Accenting Asian Spaces with Wicker
Decorating Asian style is as much about simplicity as it is creating a serene and beautiful view in every room. The ebb and flow in vertical and horizontal pieces can project both balance and spirit. Shapes, ranging from chair backs to vases and plants, should all blend into the landscape. Bamboo … [Read more...]
Blending Wicker With British Colonial Elegance
As England made its global mark around the world beginning in the 16th Century, a distinctive style evolved. Known as British Colonial, it is one that maintains a relaxed refinement with obvious adaptations to a culturally rich life far away from home. There is a mix of light colors in draperies and … [Read more...]
Making The Eclectic Decor Look Work
Any decorator will tell you that the secret of good interiors is good coordination. If you are starting from scratch, getting coordinated shouldn't be too difficult. You can seek out pieces in the same style, or make it easy for yourself by buying matching sets of furniture. This isn't always how it … [Read more...]
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