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Tech eases decor woesDaily AztecTumblr can also be used during this stage of the decorating process as it is home to countless blogs dedicated to decorating endeavors. All users need to do is search within an interior design tag or any other specific decor-related term. |
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Jason Grant, Interior Stylist - InterviewThe VineGrant's colourful, keen eye for styling vintage, recycled and contemporary elements has seen his work grace the pages of Australian and International interiors magazines Real Living, Inside Out, Elle Decoration UK and Gourmet Traveller to name just a ... |
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Gerald Ensley: Without a TV, a house is not a homeTallahassee Democrat (blog)This newspaper's bimonthly magazine, Home & Design, came out Wednesday. As usual, it was lovely. The interiors of three Tallahassee homes were featured in full color, and the pictures were beautiful: Living rooms filled with fireplaces, ... |
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If you can dream it, she'll design itWestfair OnlineThey can't sell their homes, so make do with additions and renovations. “Many old houses have poorly designed kitchens. I get calls from people who consulted a kitchen design service,” saying that she takes a more personal view. A common kitchen design ... |
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Home style: Personalize your home collectionsThe Seattle TimesAs you walk through my home, you'll see boxes threaded throughout my displays, helping make my home a reflection of me and what I hold dear. If you're a collector, why not do the same? Here are tips for using collections in everyday decorating to give ...and more » |
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Attention, Class: Show-and-Tell Time With Carleton VarneyNew York TimesWill you give students pointers on the décor of their homes? They will have the opportunity to bring in pictures and plans of their own houses, for a direct one-on-one consultation, as people come in here and pay me for a consultation, which I don't do ... |
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Interior Decorating Featured Article
Beyond Paint: Decorating Walls With Stencils
02/08/12
by George Stevens
Painting walls in various colors is a quick and easy way to decorate any room in your home. But when you're looking for something a bit more artistic and unique, you might try your hand at stenciling.
Stencils come in a variety of forms: Simple geometric shapes to elaborate scenery. Really good stencils can actually reproduce famous paintings and designs too.
A simple room decoration stencil pattern to start with is borders. Stenciling borders can be done in addition to existing wallpaper, or as a replacement. Stenciled borders can be repeated geometric designs, or more detailed repeating patterns such as vines, flowers or leaves. Borders can also be placed at the top of a wall, the bottom, or in dead center for variating effects and design influences.
Stencils allow you to create friezes as well. This is done simply by starting with a strong contrasting color at the top, and carried downward through gradually fading tints until they are lost in the general color of the wall
There once was a pink and silver room belonging to a young girl, where the salmon-pink walls were deepened in color at the top into almost a tint of vermilion which had in it a trace of green. It was, in fact, an addition of spring green dropped into the vermilion and carelessly stirred, so that it should be mixed but not incorporated. Over this shaded and mixed color for the space of three feet was stencilled a fountain-like pattern in cream-white, the arches of the pattern rilled in with almost a lace-work of design. The whole upper part had an effect like carved alabaster and was indescribably light and graceful.
This is an example of very delicate and truly artistic treatment of stencil-work, and one can easily see how it can be used either in simple or elaborate fashion with great effect.
Irregularly placed floating forms of Persian or Arabic design are often admirably stencilled in color upon a painted wall; but in this case the colors should be varied and not too strong. A group of forms floating away from a window-frame or cornice can be done in two shades of the wall color, one of which is positively darker and one lighter than the ground. If to these two shades some delicately contrasting color is occasionally added the effect is not only pleasing, but belongs to a thoroughly good style.
One seldom tires of a good stencilled wall; probably because it is intrinsic, and not applied in the sense of paper or textiles. It carries an air of permanency which discourages change or experiment, but it may take a bit of practice to do well.
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