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Window Treatment Tips

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Roller Shades-linen, Chintz, Plastic : May be plain, in printed chintz, in solid colors to match or contrast, with designs from draperies or slip-covers pasted on, or with various colored strips pasted on, or with decalcoanias applied. Seasonal design may be pasted or taped on and later removed. Inexpensive. Uses: for bathrooms, children’s rooms, playrooms, with curtain or drapes. Image credit by flickr.com (wockerjabby) Venetian blinds:   Available in aluminum, steel, plastic and wood in many colors. Tapes may be matching or contrasting colors. Tend to catch dust. Uses: with draperies or curtains or just a valance. Add width to a room because   of horizontal design.  Split bamboo shades: natural color, May roll up and down or install as vertical traverse curtain. Uses: for informal or Chinese motif .For playrooms, summer rooms. Woven wood: Available as shades or traverse curtain. Various colors, but usually used in natural tones, Uses: Modern, formal or informal rooms. Playrooms.

Furniture Periods Chart

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Louise XIV, 1643-1715 (Baroque) Influenced by Renaissance an Chinese: Ornate. Straight lines, heavy carving, recta n gular forms, tortoise shell and ebony inlays, tapestries, velvets.   Decorative use: very elegant drawing rooms. Occasional pieces, large homes, hotels where dignity is desired. For show. Image credit by flickr.com (Silk Road Collection) Louis XV, 1724-1744 (Rococo) Influenced by Louis XIV, Chinese, Mme.Pompadour, Mme.DuBarry: Curved lines, shells, female form, scrolls. Small, graceful. Cabriole legs, inlays. Decorative use: Feminime rooms. Fastidious elegance with oriental rugs. Louis XVI, 1774-1793 (Classic) Influenced by Marie Antoinette, Riesener, the English, Italian Renaissance: Straight, few long curves. Dainty, small, light, Fluted and reed legs. Garlands, urns, wreaths medallions, cupid’s bow, lover’s knots. Rectangular and ovals. Delicate damasks, brocades, satins. Cherubs, lovebirds, flowers. Decorative uses: Any room, particularly bedrooms. Feminime rooms wi

How to create a garden for parties

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A project of gardens thought everything for the fun: relaxation area, colorful flowers and plants and many ideas (all to copy) in order to organize the most popular feasts fun! Image credit by flickr.com (Maia C) Private garden can become the perfect place for the holidays with friends or family. Rule number one: color at will! Here are the ideas economic and easy to copy to organize in your garden an unforgettable feast! Base of the project, the garden is large and is first defined the hedge that circumscribes the ground. Driveway: garden provides a difficulty in more: a gentle slope. In order to circumvent the obstacle is designed an avenue in gravel. Garden furniture : such as furnishings are selected of the pallets in wood, adorned with colorful pillows. Economic Idea but of great effect. The green project of the green provides a wide lawn, but also many of the flowers of different colors that make the garden more lively! Garden finished : The final result is a colorful garden, w

Garden Concept

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The aesthetic character of the garden is connected especially to two elements: the choice of plant species with selection of the best specimens and the distribution of crops according to an initial design that, including the choice of the site, the exposure or the ease of irrigation, represents the time typically architectural or design. Image credit by flickr.com (Dave Catchpole) In this planning the crops are distributed so that the garden, in all seasons, offers a pleasant aspect and flourishing, presenting itself as a nature in small, according to the idea that the beautiful can be isolated and highlighted by man by means of a choice between the shapes most beautiful present in nature. It is precisely the living element, the plants conveniently choices, which make the garden a work of art completely different from the others: the durability, stability, the effect, quality characteristics of the architecture, painting, sculpture are absent from the art of the gardens, subject to co

Bathroom decorations

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Bathrooms can be made interesting and colorful, warmer and larger appearance. Colored tile and fixtures, and decorative materials are available for almost any effect  murals, glass, mirrored, chrome, tile, steel, linoleum, etc. Image credit by flickr.com (juhansonin) Walls and ceilings may be painted,papered, or covered with a washable material-linoleum, tile or glass. (Wallpaper should not be used in areas subject to constant splash). Effective wallpapers include large floral designs, undersea flora and fauna, stripes, metallic design, etc. Window curtains may match shower curtains. Floors usually are tile and walls half tile and half plaster. Linoleum-covered walls and floor are not only attractive but excellent for soundproofing. Some of the new plasticized plywoods developed for torpedo boats and airplane during the war are providing new finishes for bathrooms. Other equipment may include besides the medicine chest and hamper, a vanatorium, radio, ressed shelves, or a knick knack s

Kitchen Cabinet Arrangement

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Upper cabinets to the left in the direction of the dining room should hold clean dishes, and drawers in cabinets below should hold table silver and clean dish towels. Upper cabinets to the right may hold “kitchen dishes” or food supplies, if the mixing center adjoins the sink center to the right. Under the sink. Hidden by ventilated doors, is space for supplies used at the sink, like soap, cleaning powder and dish drainer.  Image credit by flickr.com (reebob) The doors may hold racks for wet dish towels or a small covered garbage container with a wall rack attachment. A heat unit under the sink to dry towels is also helpful. The stove center should be adjacent to the sink center, near the mixing center, and the convenient to the dining room or dining area of the kitchen. If possible, there’s should be counters on either side of the stove finished with heat-proof surfaces for placing hot dishes. The mixing and storage center is most convenient is located near the outside door. It inclu

Nursery

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First need of the nursery are a crib, with a firm mattress, chifferobe for baby’ clothes and a  and for blankets and linen. The bassinet should be discarded as soon as the baby need no longer be wheeled in it. Image credit powered by flickr.com (super_structure) A collapsible bathinet of rubber canvas or aluminum with a top that folds over is important for bathing the baby and dressing him for the first year or so. You will also need an extra cabinet in the kitchen for bottles, jars, and baby accessories. A chest, colorful wastebasket, butter tub, or box for baby’s toys will be handy after the first six months. A baby chair is necessary at about 4 to 7 months. These now come in table form, 30 inches high, to minimize the danger of a fall. This can later converted into a play table. Special colorful window shades, drapes, lamps and accessories are available. Many novelties may be made with wallpaper and decalcomanias on window or lamp shades. Linoleum is the preferred floor covering. Wa