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Saturday, March 5th, 2016
Punches of yellow, red and green can be seen in a neutral backdrop. Featured items are from Hooker Furniture’s Archivist Collection.
Going eco-friendly is the way to go this season of spring. This green design is one that is sure to stay as more and more people are getting involved in making earth a much cleaner place to live in. Nowadays, the paint to use if you consider yourself responsible is a toxic-free paint; green furniture pieces are also the latest craze; and practically every interior design shop is geared towards going green. If you want to begin this revolutionary green movement right inside your home, then consider these spring decorating tips –
Scan and Go
Have a pen and a notepad in hand as you go through every room in your home. Look quickly inside every room and spot the objects that appear to clutter the room. Remove anything that is no longer needed then work your way from there.
Learn to prioritize. You may be tempted to create a long, cumbersome list of things to do, but don’t. Just remove whatever you consider useless then redecorate.
Make a Statement
Your lighting fixtures and cabinetry should be able to help you make a statement during this season. Brushed metal hardware and chandeliers can evoke romantic feelings inside any home. The distressed look in furniture can be carried all throughout your home as a unique theme.
Sunshiny colors are in and are considered as the fashionable color palette for the spring season; however, do not overdo these colors. Just add bright and colorful accent pieces, add a dash or so of wall color, and have it seen in some of your furniture.
Playing with punches of yellow is as easy as adding a glass vase filled with lemons or pots of yellow daffodils. The yellow succulents can be placed in the kitchen where they can serve a double purpose – first as a decor, then as an ingredient in one of ‘em pasta dishes!
Spring’s most popular colors include bright yellow, violet, coral and turquoise.
White accents can also brighten up any room so go ahead and use a white wall as your canvas.
Let the Outdoors Inspire
Just think of mountains, spring beaches and the bluest coastlines and you should be filled with inspiration to dress up your home this spring. Moss green, ocean blue and, yes, just to reiterate, turquoise – are the colors of the year that you should incorporate in your home.
Mixing these bold colors with neutrals is also a surefire way to set up your spring indoors. This is the way to go if you are a tad worried about painting a whole room with bright colors. Paint the walls with pink champagne or violet gray. Have some colorful accent pieces brought in if you chose a neutral backdrop.
Nature will always be a popular theme for spring so go ahead and bring in those natural fabrics. Let them be seen on your area rugs, throw pillows, sofa upholstery, curtains, even your bedding. Sea grass, jute, and wool are just the right kinds of materials that can bring a natural appearance without being too green.
Create Contrast
Creating contrast is as easy as bringing in some metallic accent pieces. Add a framed mirror, some photos in metallic frames, metallic artworks, or metallic lighting fixtures. The master bedroom or living room would surely come to life with these metallic accents added.
Contrast is not solely provided by metallic interior design pieces. Mix colors that come from the same shade, for instance, fuse dark blue with powder blue. Use one color on three walls and the darker one as a statement wall. The darker color could also be used on the accessories that will dot your entire home.
Keep Everything Light and Airy
Lastly, spring decorating is all about the removal of heavy drapes and using sheer instead. Update your home soon, after all, spring is the best season to reinvent the look of your dwelling place.
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016
Check inside the drawers and shelves for pieces of paper that are no longer needed. Featured desk is the Winners Only Home Office Sofa Table/Writing Desk AZL100S.
Have you ever felt powerless when you arrive home and find clutter strewn all over the floor? Doesn’t this feeling escalate when you find that all the other rooms show the exact amount of clutter throughout? Here are some tips that you can follow as you go about with your spring decluttering –
Begin to Declutter
Decide to make this change now – start to declutter your room. Focus on what you need to clean first. Instead of wandering without purpose or cleaning just a bit each time, you can break down the cleaning to phases or to different rooms.
There might be just a little or a lot of decluttering tasks to do but no matter, you still need to stay motivated to finish the task. Throwing paper clutter can be time consuming especially when you haven’t cleaned your desk drawers or shelves for a whole year or so.
Maitland-Smith Kitchen Island 5130-649 is a great organizer inside the busiest room in your home.
Total Declutter
There are some tasks that can affect your entire home but many homeowners find it more effective to walk from room to room then decluttering from there. Rather than being stuck in just a small area, it is best to get about and start cleaning.
So go ahead, pick up that broom and mop and let’s clean up that mess – whether you have a small or a big home.
First, look for those crumpled sheets of paper, those useless tourist brochures or leaflets, and many other printed materials. Those that are no longer needful should be thrown away.
A good mindset to develop if you ever want to declutter your home a hundred-percent this spring is to let go of things that you no longer have a use for. Else, you would just be hoarding a huge amount of garbage that you won’t end up using anyway.
Check out any coupons that you might have collected in the past. See if the dates are already expired and if they still aren’t, ask yourself if you really are ever going to use such coupons. If not, then it’s time to say goodbye to them, too.
Next, it’s time to clean your office space. Dust off from ceiling to the floor. Be sure to clean the desk drawers, coffee table, chairs (especially the upholstered ones), mirrors and many more.
Should you consider keeping a few brochures, then be sure to add a vision board or keeping a household file.
Next to the home office, you could go to the bathroom. This can also be a room for clutter if you do not have the right storage solution installed. If you want to achieve a semblance of order in your bathroom, then be sure to organize items in there.
Decluttering the bathroom can take just 10 minutes. Begin by putting a trash bin right by the bathroom door. Next, toss any of the dirty towels or face cloths into the hamper. Replace them with fresh ones coming from your linen closet.
If you find any laundry items on the floor, remove them and place them inside the hamper as well. Recycle items such as used tissue papers, empty rolls, shampoo bottles, etc.
Decluttering the bedroom can take less than 15 minutes. Begin by dusting the night tables and tossing garbage to the right bins. Put used linen in the hamper and clean up the rest of the dressers. Sweep the bureau’s or dresser’s top part and see if there is also clutter there.
Cleaning the kitchen is paramount because this is the place where foods are prepared. Sweep the countertops, Kitchen Island and the rest of the kitchen floor. The key to a clean room is to put things back to their proper place. Find the right storage space for every little thing that keeps ending up somewhere where it shouldn’t be.
You see, spring decluttering can also be fun. Do this task with your family and observe how the hours slip more quickly.
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2016
Consider livening up the color of your living room by adding colors from nature. Here, touches of orange and yellow give life to the neutral backdrop. (Featured set is from the Belaire Living Room Collection of Jonathan Louis)
So it’s spring once more! We’re pretty certain that you’re ready to freshen up your crib and update your furniture. Spring cleaning does not have to spell a sore body or burnt skin. This may be the case for some but you can make a difference by knowing which chemicals contain questionable ingredients. Just a brief warning, here are some of such cleaning agents –
Danger: Corrosive
To begin with, ammonium chloride is often found in deodorizers and toilet bowl cleaners. These can cause permanent damage to your skin when not handled correctly. It is also highly corrosive to the eyes.
Aliphatic petroleum solvent which is an ingredient in most carpet cleaners can damage the nervous system while crystalline silica (also a popular ingredient in many cleaners) is also filled with carcinogen which can irritate the skin, eyes and lungs.
Lastly, tripropylene glycol monomethyl ether which is found in waxes, floor cleaners and polishes are known to have caused kidney failure and narcosis in some people.
Spring Cleaning Must-Haves
Instead of resorting to those chemical cleaners mentioned above, it is best to have these safe and natural household cleaners.
Spring Cleaning Can Be FUN
Who says spring cleaning has to be a drag? Fun begins when you play some upbeat music. This will keep you energized as you do all those scrubbing and sweeping and wiping. You can also engage the kids to clean up by having pizza after everyone finishes his or her chore.
If the weather is nice, go ahead and open your doors and windows to let in that fresh air. This, of course, will also increase your positive energy.
It is also important to pace yourself as you clean up your home. Most home will not be cleaned up in just one go (at least this is the case if you want some deep cleaning to happen).
Create a checklist to break down the different rooms into sections during the week. You should also break down sections of the room per person along with an estimation of the time it would take to finish each task.
Sort and declutter in major rooms first. Sort out those items that you would like to say goodbye to and those that you can still donate or sell.
Be sure to cover upholstered, especially white furniture, when dusting off surfaces. Featured here is the Huntington House Dining Room Banquette 2403-41.
Spring Cleaning from the Top Down
This is one of the most important tips in spring cleaning. The last thing that you would like to do is to keep sweeping the floor all because you have not properly segregated the cleanup. For instance, it is advisable to clean the air conditioning units and the ceiling first before you even begin to dust the furniture.
Working from the top down will save you a lot of time, resources, and energy.
To this rule there is, of course, an exception. In the case of walls, it is best to have it cleaned from the bottom up and then back down again. Those grimy soap suds would be a lot harder to clean when found on clean walls. The only way to remove them is to work your way up again to remove prior drips.
Another important rule is to dry clean everything before you even begin to wet clean. Remove the dirt so that it won’t result into a muddy mess. This means you must sweep before you mop, dusting all fan blades before you wash them, and vacuuming windows before you wipe them with wet rags.
Spring cleaning also means checking those overlooked surfaces such as door frames and baseboards; search the dirtiest places in your home, and freshen everything up even your furniture.
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