Hosting Sports Events? Save Your Floors! September 26, 2011
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Is your home the gathering place for family and friends to watch sports? The energy and excitement can be really fun, but clean up is a different story.
Do you want to have a fun party while keeping your floors nice? The best starting place comes before you select your flooring. Tile, laminate or stain-resistant carpeting will reduce the pressure to keep everything from spilling or falling.
If you’re not scheduled to replace your flooring soon and want to protect what you have, there are a number of things you can do to keep the excitement of the event going while still protecting your floors.
One approach is to choose snacks that lead to minimal damage. Pretzels work better than greasy chips. Cheese slices are better than drippy dips. Avoid beverages in dark colors that are harder to remove.
Another option is to provide the primary food choices in the kitchen. Set up a buffet with all the fixings for sandwiches. Choose smaller rolls so that the meal is easily handled with one hand and stick to sturdy plates so that food stays in place.
Your final option: grab a beach towel or two and tuck it under the coffee table and in front of chairs or sofas and sectionals. You can serve whatever you want and you don’t have to worry about the floor. You may get some laughs, but when the party’s done, just grab those towels and toss them in the wash, confident that your home is ready for the next event.
Using Red September 12, 2011
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Do you love red? If you want to showcase red or any other color in a room, you may get some good ideas from this space.
The first secret is to keep your favorite color under control. What would happen if every chair was red? It might work but it would lose the sophistication that this dining room demonstrates.
Next, let the color pop by keeping everything else in the room neutral. Start with the flooring, a lovely light 24”porcelain tile. Although it has some personality, it happily takes a second place to the color in the space. Choosing neutral flooring opens up your decorating possibilities as this room shows.
Finally, by making sure that both dark and light elements balance in the room, red is allowed to be simply a color rather than a contrast element. By choosing the exact same red hue for every element, the color becomes a style statement as well as an accent. It also stays consistent with the minimalist approach to the room. Every factor is equally important in this space that almost reads as a sculpture.
Strange as it may seem, this three-color space leaves the door open for variety in entertaining. Almost any other color would work in this space, providing opportunities to experiment with dishes and table linens. Consider a table runner with some of this red striped with blues and purples. From there, the owner can expand the color palette for the evening, or just stay in the red/white/black direction and keep the look sophisticated and simple.
Traditional Wood Flooring September 5, 2011
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Are you planning on making some changes in the interior décor of your home? If your answer to this question is ‘yes,’ have you given a thought to getting new flooring for your home? This is one of the many ways through which you can bring new life into your existing home décor, but the issue becomes what flooring to choose.
Some of your family members, friends or colleagues might be giving you different suggestions. One may be advising you to tear up the existing carpet and install tile, while another says eco-friendly flooring is the way to go. You are really at a loss. One thing you are sure of—you love traditional décor and you require traditional flooring that will last.
Do you know that wood flooring is the most popular of the traditional style floorings? Although in the past, it was considered to be very expensive to get natural timber flooring for your home coupled with the time consumption attached to it. All that is in the past. Presently, you can conveniently buy and have wood flooring installed in your traditional home and the best of it is the fact that it comes very economically and easily. Having natural timber veneered wood does not require any form of finishing or sanding and has been confirmed to last for a long time, even with minimal maintenance. This makes it the perfect choice for your traditional home décor.
Once installed, you can accent your wood floors with beautiful rugs and it will go with most any color walls and upholstered furnishings you own or purchase in the future.
