Proper Care for Bedding
When your sheets need cleaning, are you following the proper procedures? If you aren’t washing you fabrics just right, you might fade their colors or damage the threading that keeps the sheets together. Most pieces of bedding come with care instructions, but if you’ve lost those there are some general rules that may still help you. If you need to care for your linens, here are some general tips that will help you care for them properly. Tips on Cleaning Try to keep the temperature of the water below 104 degrees to avoid fading colors, especially when you’re washing tropical bedding or other sets with patterns. Cool or lukewarm will do in most cases. Sheets also don’t get all that dirty, so the “gentle” cycle is typically good enough for most jobs. You...
Interior Flooring Materials: Bamboo Floors
Written by Bamboo Flooring Facts Are you looking for new flooring materials for your home? Bamboo Flooring are the newest trend in interior floors. They’re eco-friendly, renewable, and recyclable, and can work for those who are looking for sustainable material options for interior design. They are also durable and easy to install, and can be substituted over hardwood floors. You can order two types of bamboo flooring; the ones manufactured with solid pieces of bamboo, or the ones engineered from bamboo grains. Engineered bamboo flooring can come in different woven configurations. Just like other wood flooring materials, you can order them in horizontal, vertical and stranded configurations. Strand bamboo flooring are made from bamboo strands that were tightly...
How Wicker Can Help Your Home
By Wicker Paradise One of the biggest priorities in a home owner’s life is their actual house. Aside from the investment they’ve made in it, their home is where they retire each day after a long day of work to be with family and friends. Fortunately, there are more ways than ever to get more from your home. By utilizing all the many options available with wicker furniture, you don’t even have to spend a lot on getting the type of look you love and plenty of comfort in the process. The easiest way, of course, is to simply purchase new wicker furniture options in order to make a more comfortable, aesthetically pleasing home. Something as simple as a wicker sofa could be all it takes to completely redefine a room as you know it. Plus, there are a number of...
DIY Fixes for Your Home
There are some cost-effective fixes you can apply to your home that will instantly improve the look for potential buyers. These tips are meant for you to do yourself, and they are very inexpensive methods of remodeling without remodeling. Try some of these quick fixes around your home and then judge how much has improved. The smallest jobs in rooms like the kitchen or the bathroom can have resounding effects on the value of your home. Paint When you aim to repaint your home, try to use neutral colors that will compliment the space. You should have a color palette in mind, but there is no need to be as scrutinous as you were when you first painted your home. A new coat of paint revitalizes a room, and the right neutral shade is exactly what you need to make your...
The Top 3 Bedding Designers
By Stephanie Lichtenstein Ramos When it comes to the mandatory components of your home, like most people, you probably demand the best. So you want the best silverware and plate ware, you want the best cars, heck, you probably even want the best dogs. So it’s no surprise that in your bedroom, you’d want the best in bedding too. For most people, this means designer bedding. However, with hundreds of different designers to choose from in this regard, it can be tough knowing which one is worth spending money on. So let’s take a look at the three people seem to agree are the best. First, there is Vera Wang. Many of you may know about this fashion designer as the woman who makes bridal dresses for all the top celebrities. Well, she makes bedding too and it also...
Rustic Door Accessories
Rustic decor tends to attract warmth and feelings of comfort right from the front door. If your home has an overall rustic appearance, adding these details to your door will add to the comfortable appearance of your home. Start the makeover by painting the door in a rustic color like gray reddish-brown. Then work on other aspects of the home, such as the door. Hardware as a rustic accessory Add a smooth black handle, hinges, and (if you like) a peephole. Modern doors often have brass or nickel-plated hardware–this isn’t rustic! Use wrought iron or flat black painted hardware in combination with the door paint colors to make your door beautifully rustic. You can also use 180 grit sandpaper to distress the door and give a worn, well-loved...