Decorating Styles

Decorating that wasted space in your home.  How is that done?  Look around your home, where is your wasted spaces?  How small or how big are they?  What decorating style do you use in your home?  What is your decorating style?  Or is your home decorated in miss-matched items and decor.  Lets work together lets help each other with our ideas on decorating that wasted space in our home.  My decorating style is Modern Antique.  Some of my furniture is antique that I am refinishing to give that new modern look to.  I love candles, and wrought iron and wood decorations, my color theme is  burgundy, black and gold.  I also have a lot of miss-matched items that don't go with my decor, but my fiance Al is having a hard time parting with, I definitely need help in incorporating these items in a good spot.

Well here is a place in the entrance of my kitchen where I had a wasted space that I totally love now.  It was easy and cheap to decorate.  What do you think?

Now here's a spot I need help with, its an empty space above our walk in closet.  Measurements are as follows it is 103" wide, 27" tall from the brown wood casing and 22" deep.  Now remember it's above our walk-in closet to it is about 7 feet high.  Our room is decorated in black and gold.  I am so looking forward to your ideas and suggestions and when I complete this space I will post my picture for you to see how your suggestions and ideas worked out.

I am also looking forward to helping you all as well!!!  To post your pictures please e-mail them to me at decoratingstyles@gmail.com so I may post them for you.

Happy Decorating,

Toula

Well I have been waiting for you all to help me out but apparently with Christmas around the corner you have been too busy.  But I will be patiently waiting for you all to help after the holidays.

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a most happy New Year!!!

Toula

Update:  Al and I are now married!!!  I am now ready to resume my decorating for our home.  Would really like the help of my readers to decorated that empty space I mentioned above,  I am looking for your help!

Happy Decorating,

Toula

Hidden Treasures 1

I’m sure you may have heard the saying, ‘a treasure in your own backyard’.  Well let’s take it a bit further, like for instance in your attic, basement, garage or in storage somewhere…covered with decades of dust and spider webs. You have jewels within reach yet you don’t recognize it because they may be disguised as something other than the gems they really are. Take the blinders off and take a look, a really good look!

For years I had the notion that if it was filthy then it was junk. Man was I wrong…way wrong! Much of the beautiful  pieces in our home are caste offs of others.  In our guest room we had a mattress but no headboard for the bed well guess what it has one now.  We had a dining-room table that was standing on its side hiding in the garage and with one look I thought that would make an excellent headboard for our guest-room. Well with an open mind and eyes, recognition of the potential, some T.L. C. and elbow grease, you’d be amazed at the transformation.

Opportunity often presents itself as work. It doesn’t necessarily mean your work, sweat and toil. Neglected things need to be refreshed  and beautified.  Do it yourself if that is your thing.  Or find somebody to do it for you who knows what they are doing.