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Warm Up Your Home for The Holiday Season

Christmas Season is just around the corner and it’s time to start warming up your home to be cozy and inviting, getting you and your guests through the cold winter weather. Christmas decorations always bring joy, and shopping for them is always fun, but let’s be honest – it’s easy to overdo it with the color red!

Why is that bad?

When decorating your home, it’s important to choose the right colors to set the right mood. Psychologists have proven that the color red, speeds up our heart rate and raises our blood pressure to the extent that too much of it is actually harmful to people with high blood pressure. Moreover, did you notice that most fast food restaurants choose Red as their primary color? That’s because with the fast heart rate comes a big appetite! Yes, color is THAT important.

Here’s what we can add to the table

With this information in mind, we would naturally recommend for you to use the red color around the kitchen and dining areas; but lower its intensity in areas where you want to focus and relax, like the home office, bedrooms, and living areas.

The good news is that Green, the second favorite holiday color, is great for those other areas!

Green has the opposite effect on the human body. It slows down the heart rate and is considered the most calming color for the eye, especially when used as the main color for decorating. It promotes comfort and encourages socializing and unwinding. It’s a great color to consider when decorating a living room, a family room or even an office space!

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To complete your home’s overall warm look, use deep tones of orange and yellow to make your home more warming and welcoming in the winter.

Happy Holidays to you and your loved ones!

Crystal chandeliers come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Deciding and selecting the perfect chandelier for your home may prove to be a very tedious task. Although most people go for shiny brass multi-arms with faux candle socket and flame-shaped bulbs, you can always choose your own unique chandelier in order to make it fit perfectly into your home. 

The first important thing that you need to do before your chandelier-hunting activity is to measure the dimensions of the room where the chandelier will be placed. Add the width and the length of the room in feet and then convert it to inches. The number you will get in inches will be near to the about diameter of the chandelier. 

The second consideration is the placement of the chandelier. It should be placed in the ceiling in such a manner that the light is equally distributed in the area. In order to avoid accidents, the roughly estimated gap between the table and the chandelier should be 30 inches. 

To maximize wall art decors, it is advisable to use recessed lights. For dining and for special occasions, a dimmer light can create a preset level 

Two or three low-voltage pendants can be used, in cases where your table is long and narrow. This will distribute light properly. 

Finding the right chandelier will do wonders for the beauty and style of your home. In the past, chandeliers were designed for the usage of the wealthy and the powerful. It is believed that to build an impressive and complete home structure, there is a need to find the perfect chandelier that is capable of creating its own unique and elegant beauty.

Well everybody, I am back with another really inexpensive idea. This week I want to tell you how to have beautiful, lighted wall sconces, without any electricity at all. Cute Huh?

Start with the battery operated push on lights, that you can purchase at any department store. You can find them in packs of 6 or 8 for as little as ten dollars. Mount them on the wall where you would like your sconces, next figure out your lampshade. You could cut an old lamp shade in half, turn it upside down and secure it to the wall. That is a great idea, but use your imagination, like we discussed last week you could also cut a wicker basket in half, that is really cute. BUT, what about a straw hat, this one is my favorite to date.

Though the possibilities are endless. Let me know if you come up with something really unique. Remember, the only limit you have is your own imagination. To secure the basket or lampshades, I like to use cup hooks down the side and screwed directly into the wall. To secure things like straw hats, I prefer to use a staple gun. If you have an idea but are unsure of how to secure it or have any other problems, contact me, I bet we can figure it out.