1. If you touch it every day, it should be beautiful from your cabinet knobs to your mail tray to your towels, cusions. Find fun new items at your flee market and consignment stores. A great way to find unique items.
2. Brighten your outlook. On your next grocery run, buy some of your favorite flowers and put them in a vase by the kitchen sink and enjoy their beauty and scent. Makes doing the dishes more enjoyable.
3. Be bold. A splash of color or pattern an end table lacquered in teal, a leopard-print throw for the sofa adds a bit of surprise to any spot in the house. Don't be afraid of adding something different.
4. Start collecting. Whether it's first-edition books, english teacups, or ceramic roosters, a carefully assembled collection expresses your singular style. Just remember to keep it in balance.
5. Edit, edit, edit paring down is what makes a good room great. Embrace the stuff that enhances your life and pair away the stuff
that doesn't. Less is best.
6. Don't let the TV take over the living room. You can hang it amid wall-to-wall bookshelves, so the space looks more like a den than a media room. Alternatively, an antique armoire can double as an entertainment cabinet when the TV is off, close the doors and enjoy your family and friends instead.
7. Use the good stuff. Why should your china gather dust in the cupboard until next Thanksgiving? Pull it out for tonight's Chinese-takeout feast and make an ordinary day feel festive & fun.
8. Create your own gallery even on a shoestring. Stunning art can come in all different forms (from photography to painting to sculpture) and prices. Art brings life to walls and tells a nice story.
9. Sleep in. But if a lazy Saturday morning is impossible to come by, find the next best thing: sheets that make you want to stay in bed all day.
10. Get the picture. You can have photos in your home of : family, friends, pets, and vacations. The fabric of life can be framed and hung on walls. Photographs can turn a house into a home.
