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Bedroom Decor from The Trendy Home…

Make a Statement…

Elevate your bedroom to new heights with this beautiful Canopy Bed.

Making A Statement...

If privacy is your objective add sheer panels to wrap your bed in gorgeous folds of fabric.

You may find this room beckons you to retire earlier at night when you make your space more than just for sleeping; by pairing a chair and table to create an intimate space to share a night cap or your first cup of coffee.

This look can be easily created with a White Duvet Cover, White shams, and White Curtain panels all from Taylor Linens at The Trendy Bed.com.

Hope you enjoyed this tip and thank you Better Homes and Garden for your beautiful bedroom pictures.

Have a great week and make your home:

Cathy

Planning a Nursery?

I just found out I’m going to be a Grandmother so that sparked in interest in Nurseries again!

Planning a Nursery should be fun, just don’t wait till the last month to do it all.

This is not a “how too”, this is just a great collection of AWESOME nurseries to be inspired and get the imagination going!

Baby Gone MOD!

By avoiding pastels you can create a place that can change easily as baby becomes a toddler.

Simple and Elegant

I don’t know about you but I wish I had a room like this when I was a new Mother, this is beautiful. Nursery with a View, creating a soothing space accommodates both parents and child without sacrificing style.

Lovely Nursery

This crib it beautiful and commands “Look At Me”, beautiful floral carpeting harmonizes with the upholstery and valance.

Decor is the star of this Nursery

Beautiful mixture of pale pink, tan, and sage green along with some dark antique furniture for a beautiful blend of New and Old! This room also is ready for growth going from baby to toddler with ease.

Baby's gone Paisley

I loved the bright colors and that window seat, makes a great Nursery and a beautiful room to grow up in.

Dreamy Nights

Cuddly chenille bedding and a white netting over the crib gives this room a sense of softness. Notice the beautiful leaded glass design for a beautiful finishing touch to a beautifully done nursery.

Cheerful and heavenly!

Cheerful yellows and heavenly blues beam brightly in this Beatrix Potter inspired nursery. With a cloud dusted sky mural covering the ceiling and partway down the walls, this nursery works well for a baby boy or girl.

Storybook Nursery

Another beautiful Nursery using Sage, Mauve, and Cream for a bright cheerful room.

Fill it with TOYS!

I had to pull this picture into my mix because my Son and Daughter-In-Law’s old 1890′s home has walls like these and with using one’s imagination and being creative and most of all having fun I’m sure they will create a Nursery just an wonderful as the one’s I showed today.

I hope you enjoyed my grouping of wonderful Nurseries, I know not all new parents have the resources to create beautiful rooms like these Nurseries, but the most important thing is to have fun putting it together and fill it with LOVE!

I would like to thank Better Homes and Gardens for these great pictures and decorating suggestions – these can all be found on BHG.com

Thank You,

Cathy

Top Ten Decorating Tips

Decorating by Numbers!

Getting your measurements right the first time will make everyone happy! How many times do we do something and then say, “That doesn’t look good!” or it needs to higher, or lower? I know I have done it more than once. I came across this Decorate by Numbers! – Get your measurements right in the House Beautiful magazine and wanted to share it with my readers, Thank you House Beautiful – you are an awesome magazine and great decorating tips and articles.

36 inch wide rectangular table

1. Know your tables: A 36 inch wide rectangular table is perfect for conversation. A Round table with a diameter of 48 inches seats six; a 60 inch round will handle eight standard dinning chairs or 10 ballroom chairs.

48 Inch Round Table

2. How big should an overhead light fixture be? Just add the length and width of the room in feet, and whatever number you come up with is, in inches, your guide for the fixture’s diameter. So a 15-by-20 foot room would need a 35 inch wide chandelier.

3. One gallon of paint will cover about 400 square feet of wall.

Mount Curtains as high as possible to add height to any room.

4. Mount curtains as high as possible to give the room more height, and let them break 1 1/2 inches on the floor.

5. Kitchen island should be about 38 inches high – a little taller than the counter tops to be comfortable for food preparation.

6. Curtains should be 2 1/2 to 3 times the width of the window. So if you’re doing two panels, each should be 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 times the window width.

Curtans - perfect Height and Width.

Purchase a curtain rod that is 20 inches wider than your window so it extends 10 inches on either side. Your window will seem much wider than it really it.

Dining Room Chandelier 36 inches above the table

7. The bottom of a dining-room chandelier should hand 36 inches above the table. This is actually my home and I checked my chandelier and I was 35 7/8″ – got lucky on that one!

8. Install light switches 36 inches above the floor and 1 1/2 to 2 inches to the side of the door trim.

9. For a standard 84″ inch sofa with exposed legs and a tight back, you’ll need 14 yards of plain 54 inch wide fabric. Add two yards for skirt.

10. From Classical times to today, the golden ratio has always been the perfect proportion: 1 to 1.62. At least since the Renaissance, many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio—especially in the form of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio—believing this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing.

Hope you learned something new about decorating, I know I did when I read it.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this blog, what did you take away from it and did it inspire you to make any changes in your home?

Thank You and come visit us also at The Trendy Bed, and remember to make your home:

Cathy Campbell

Wall Art Styles for Your Living Room

The Trendy Home would like to welcome our first guest blog, Reyna Ramli from Arcadian Home Decor.

Wall art is the most common way to breathe life into an empty wall. These simple pieces are easy to install and require almost no maintenance whatsoever, apart from the occasional dusting.

The only real problem, however, is the choice of wall art.

It is said that all art is beautiful – except not all the time. This can’t be truer for wall art, since picking the wrong kind of wall art to go with your living room can actually make things cluttered and tasteless instead.

So what kind of wall art will you add to your living room?

Canvas Wall Art

Paintings are probably the first thing to pop up in most people’s heads when it comes to decorating the walls of a living room – and for good reason too.

‘Design Shuffle: James Rixner Interior Design’ (via)

Canva s opens a wide array of artistic possibilities, all within the confines of a symmetrical rectangle. Mismatching an artistic style with the living room’s décor, however, is a pretty common problem for those who fail to grasp the basics of artistic pairing. Make sure that you have a solid understanding of your living room’s theme before picking out a painting and you should do just fine.

Wall Art Tapestry

Woven cloth has always been a favorite medium of art in many countries, and the exotic air about a tapestry piece will definitely add much to a living room’s design.

‘Fine Art Tapestries Formal Residences Italian Villa Wall Tapestry / Wall Hanging’ (via)

Wall tapestry is something that adds an earthy, tribal feel to a wall – even if the tapestry itself is made from space-age materials. Even the manner by which art is portrayed on woven thread gives it an exotic aura, adding even more to its overall charm. Just make sure that the designs and colors on the tapestry will match well with the other pieces in the living room.

Metal Wall Art

The toughness and solidity of metal gives it an oppressively powerful aura, making it an ideal material for centerpieces meant to draw a person’s full focus.

‘Butterfly Metal Wall Art’ (via)

There are many designs for metal wall art, but the material they are crafted from will never remove that powerful effect. This makes wall art very effective in filling up large chunks of space on the wall; providing a lot of aesthetic benefits even when only one piece sits on the said wall. This is something that you have to remember, lest you congest your living room’s wall with too many metal art pieces.

Abstract Wall Art

Are you fond of being unique? Do you like moving away from convention? Do you like to tickle people’s thoughts with baffling art? Then abstract art is just the thing for you!

‘Design Shuffle: Chris Judy Abstract Wall Art’ (via)

The puzzling interplay of shapes and colors is what defines this particular genre of art, and this puzzling effect can be brought about in your living room with abstract wall art. Abstract art, however, clashes violently with other more conventional styles. It is for this reason that you have to be very careful with how you integrate this particular art style with the rest of your living room.

Keep these art styles in mind and you’ll be able to pick out the right one for the walls of your living room!

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Thank you Reyna and Arcadian Home Decor for this informative blog.

At The Trendy Home our goal is you make your home

Cathy XOXOX