The bedroom is often used as an escape from everyday life. While the largest amount of time spent is a bedroom is for sleeping, it is still nice to create a stylish and decorative bedroom. Color can be used to brighten up a boring, neutral room or color can be used to create a calming atmosphere in a bedroom. Adding color to your bedroom is also a great way to display your personality in your home decor.

How to Add Color to a Bedroom

If you are looking to temporarily add color to your bedroom, consider adding colorful accessories to your bedroom. If your walls, flooring and furniture are all in a neutral color, consider bright colorful throw pillows, bold bedding or perhaps an abstract area rug. It is not a requirement to paint the walls or furniture when adding color to your room. Adding bright accessories to a neutral colored bedroom makes a very large impact on the overall space.

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Contemporay area rugs are a great way to add style to your home as well as preserve the life of your carpet. Contemproary area rugs are available in an assortment of styles, sizes, textures and colors to accomodate several styles of home decor. Check out the area rugs below from Domestic Modern.

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Domestic Modern is an online shopping destination featuring a fashion forward collection of contemporary and modern area rugs. Our passion for modern design has led us far beyond the walls of our Seattle office in search of the very best products and designers across the country.

Domestic Modern offer free shipping everyday on all orders! Check out some of our favorite Domestic Modern area rugs below!

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Are you looking for a unique wall covering for your contemporary home?  Wall flats are a unique and afforable option for adding style and glam to your home. These dimensional tiles are great for adding a touch of your personality to any bedroom or living room. While they are often advertised in white or neutral tones, these wall flats can also be painted to add a touch of color to a neutral colored room.  The wall flats are sold at Inhabit living in sets of 10 which usually covers about 22 square feet. (more…)

Adding fresh style and new designs to your home can be challenging to say the least; with such a wide range of modern and ‘different’ features now available it can be difficult to say which is right for you. Creating a modern home for you and your family is a great way to be confident and house-proud when entertaining guests and visitors, so if you are looking to create a desirable, contemporary home then you may find some of the following tips and ideas useful!

Little Things make All the Difference!

Small features can have a surprisingly huge impact on the overall appearance of your home; dashes of contemporary design can be added all over the house in unexpected areas! Designer kitchen taps for example, are hugely stylish and can independently set a theme or feel for the entire kitchen. Other smaller features such as contemporary candle holders (with candles that match the rooms colour scheme), light switches, lamps and even door handles can be surprisingly effective when you are looking to create a predetermined look. (more…)

When considering home decorating ideas for your home office, color and furniture selection. These two elements of design are key to a successful decorating project. The home office is a very important space in the home. If you work from home, you will spend a great deal of time in this space. People are most productive when they are comfortable. Creating a comfortable home office does not have to take away from the overall decor of the home office. Decorating a home office with modern office furniture and bright colors are two ways to create a relaxing and stylish working environment.

Selecting Modern Office Furniture

Home office furniturecan be very expensive. This is no different from any furniture purchased for any other room of your home. The nicer the furniture, the “bigger” the price tag it carries. Modern home office furniture can be a lot less expensive than traditional home office furniture. This is because modern home office furntiure is usually smaller and made of acrylic, stainless steel and other inexpensive materials. Although modern office furntiure can be less expensive than traditional office furniture, it usually provides a comparable level of comfort.

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Small Loft Apartments: Stylish Contemporary Decorating Ideas

While loft apartments are considered very stylish and contemporary living quarters, decorating a loft apartment can prove very challenging. Some of the challenges of decorating a loft apartment are exposed elements such as exposed pipes and unusual floor plans. Although the task is challenging, decorating a small loft apartment is a lot easier than you think.

Using splashes of color, small contemporary furniture and learning to divide your apartment are all factors to consider when decorating a small loft apartment. When selecting wall colors remember than lighter colors create the illusion of a larger space. Decorating a small apartment with dark walls is not the best option if looking to make the best of a smaller space.

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Clutter Free Front Entry Decorating Ideas

Whether entering through the front or the back, the first rooms your guests see is your entry way. It is very easy to accumulate lots of “stuff” in these areas creating an eyesore. There are ways to enhance a minimalist feel in your entry way and produce a stylish and neat entry way.

When deocorating an entry way, try to consider pieces that are stylish and useful to eliminate unnecessary items. There are several smaller tables perfect for an entry way that can both provide storage for miscellanous items while adding style and class to your home. If looking to add bits of color and personality, consider a colorful accent wall, decorative wall art or large floor vase. When decorating an front entry, remember, less is more! There is no need to crowd this small area with knick knacks.

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Little Crown Interiors is a California Nursery designer. Known for working with stars such as Laila Ali, the elite designers offer new parents lots of nursery ideas  inspiration through their online protfolio and blog.

A very popular nursery theme for baby boys is the safari theme. Check out this stylish Safari nursery designed by Little Crown Interiors.

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Painted rugs are becoming more and more popular in homes today.  Deciding on a rug that completely agrees with every aspect of your home’s style of decor can be a bit challenging.  This is especially try if decorating with flair or a unique style.  Step outside of the norm and create a unique painted rug for your home.

A painted rug can be created with the use of a stencil or by free hand.  Rugs featuring a more intricate or detailed pattern would likely turn out better if a stencil is used.  Designs such as dots or spots may be very easy to do free-handed.  If painting your own rug is a bit intimidated, consider purchasing a custom hand painted rug.  These rugs instantly add pizazz and style to any room.

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Wooden shutters are often regarded as pretty old-fashioned and dated. They aren’t exactly the most inspiring form of window treatments, but after you’ve read this post, you will certainly think otherwise, as I am going to present to you five contemporary uses for these lovely shutters.

1. Bed Headboard

You can get many highly extravagant bed headboards, especially as it’s currently highly fashionable to have an eccentric headboard. Yet you needn’t spend tons of money to be a part of this interesting trend. You can create your very own eccentric headboard by using wooden shutters. Simply measure the width of your bed, and decide how high you wish your headboard to be. Get your hands on some wooden shutters, old or new, and glue them together using wood glue. If you went for old shutters they may need a drop of paint to spruce them up. The fun part is deciding what color and what shape you want the headboard to be. You could have the shutters in the same color, in different shades of the same color, or in a combination of contrasting colors. The shape can also vary from a traditional rectangle to an eye catching semi- star shape.

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