Enjoy the beauty of painted furniture

If you’re looking for a fresh new look for your home furniture, then you might want to consider getting some painted furniture. There is so much of it on offer these days, and you can find pieces that are designed to suit any style home – from the very traditional to the most up to date contemporary looks.

Painted furniture often comes in a cream or off-white colour, and some ranges have the tops of the pieces
retained in their natural wood colour with a waxed or varnished finish. This can create a really stunning look in the living room, dining room or bedroom.

Many of the wooden furniture ranges are manufactured in a Shaker style, and often have features such as tapered legs to give them a unique look.

If you love the distressed look on furniture, then painted furniture is your best option. Many retailers offer
distressed ranges that have a French style to them, such as the Bordeaux distressed painted range from Furnishing Homes. Painted distressed furnishings can suit a home in the country as much as a Victorian townhouse – the look is really versatile.

Painted furniture can work particularly well in the kitchen, as it helps to create a light and airy ambience. Check out the Kristina white painted distressed range which includes sideboards, dressers, dining tables and chairs.

he great thing about painted wooden furniture is that you can have all your furniture in this style, or mix and
match it with other styles; it works just as well for occasional pieces. For example, if you’re looking for a discount nest of tables for sale at http://www.furnishinghomes.co.uk you’ll find a whole range of different styles, including painted ones.

Probably the best idea is to buy one or two pieces of painted furniture and see how much you like it, before deciding to change everything in your home!

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Doing Up Old Wooden Furniture

If you really love wooden furniture – and who doesn’t? – but don’t have the budget for a lot of new stuff, then it may pay you to get renovating.

There’s a lot of discount bedroom furniture, old beds and bedside tables and other stuff out there in the second hand market and flea markets that’s going very cheap – maybe even free sometimes. So here’s how to go about things…

Firstly, you need to strip off the old piece – stripping away paint or previous lacquers, varnishes or wax etc. To do this, buy a good stripping solution, wear skin and eye protection and scrape and strip the wood using a shavehook or scraper to get rid of the old finish. You may also need to use a soft wire brush to get into the nooks and crannies – and you may need to repeat the whole process a couple of times.

If you have a large flat surface on a table, for example, you may be able to take off the surface via a few light shavings using a fine smoothing plane – and always working with the grain.

The next step is to start sandpapering the piece. This may be done by hand using a block or just the paper for corners etc., though you may prefer to use an orbital sander and/or a detail sander; whatever works best for you.

Use ever finer-grained paper until you have the desired colour and overall smoothness. You may also decide to rub with the grain of the wood using wire wool to get into awkward areas etc.

Next, vacuum the surface of the wood and wipe it with a dry cloth. Now clean it using white spirit and let it dry out completely.

If you’re happy with the overall finish at this point, it’s time for the easy part. If the wood hasn’t come up as well as you’d hoped, or you’re looking for a specific colour – use a stain to achieve the desired effect, followed by a lacquer or varnish. Alternatively, simply wax the wood with a clear or tinted wax to achieve a really nice effect (and one which smells great too).

But if all this sounds too much like hard work or you just don’t have the time, take a look at online and you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised at the prices.    

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Accessorise Your Bathroom

Just as one of the easiest ways to transform a jacket is to pin on a brooch or wear a silky scarf, one of the easiest ways to update your bathroom is to pay attention to the accessories. Not only is this a speedy way to alter the style and ambiance of the bathroom, it is also simple and inexpensive.

This project is made even less challenging if you have a white bathroom suite and relatively neutral decor, as then you can completely change the accent colours without worrying about clashes or contrast. Once you have picked your design theme and colour scheme, whether it is soothing and natural or jaunty and nautical, start in one corner of the room and begin to work your magic. Perhaps you only have a bath or decided to buy digital mixer shower from mirashowers.co.uk/home.htm. Whatever your means of getting clean, make sure every detail fits with the new colour scheme. This may mean replacing soap dishes, flannels, bath mats or toiletries, for example, or purchasing a new shower curtain.

Maybe once you decided to buy digital showers from Mira, you opted to keep the other walls in the bathroom completely plain. This project could present an opportunity for change. You may choose to hang a piece of art on one of the walls, or paint it in a striking colour. A single wallpapered wall or mirror can also act as a focal point. In a natural scheme, a shelf of plants or driftwood and shells could work well.

Other small details which must not be overlooked are items like soap dispensers, toilet roll holders, towel rails and doorknobs. These will be completely different for a shabby chic or French country style scheme compared with a modern metropolitan or Bauhaus-inspired look, so make sure that everything fits in with the atmosphere you are trying to create.

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Ideas decorating for kitchens modern look

If for decorating kitchens prefer a modern look, this time we have put together some examples for inspiration and create your own space, with the current nod but without neglecting the personality and style.

Straight lines and simple furniture finishes, handles that are hidden, where uniformity prevails. A modern kitchen with a setting with white and black, which is ideal for minimalist interiors. The central island functions as an element that becomes a magnet and provides an interesting practical to the kitchen.

Within a few meters, with a predominance of black on all surfaces, manages to give a sense of depth to this kitchen.

The trend in modern kitchens shows an aesthetic concept of space available and different ideas that are renewed. The new kitchens smooth surfaces, are accompanied by simple lines, no uniformity of colors, which vary between proposals sober tones or other bright and colorful too.

The materials are mixed, achieving full of attractive combinations, and creating space super comfortable and very practical. Among these are the classic materials like wood, aluminum, steel and stone.

Another ideas to make a modern looks to the decor of a kitchen, is the lighting. The distribution of points of light in the room, and the use of models of appliances for cutting edge design, create an attractive effect.

The LED illumination provides a fresh and different cuisines, it is also a versatile option that is suitable for various uses, as a decorative element, such as task lighting to illuminate interiors and furniture.

Stainless steel appliances, countertops, lacquered wood with ultra-bright finishes are alternatives to print a cutting edge look and even minimalist kitchens. photo fromdesiretoinspire.net.

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Color styles to decorate a rooms

The color to used that's given to the living room or main room in the home will determine the form and style in decorating it. That place is usually associated with social gatherings or a peaceful rest in the house, so you must be comfortable and elegant looks.

To achieve this effect is necessary to create a appropriate combination of color and style. In many cases you can just join two contrasting colors but must be complement each other. The walls and accessories must be perfect detail all of them.

The decor of the room should be supplemented with a defined layout for people. Improvisation and prevents overload of unnecessary objects. A room in decorating, may be used few colors to decorate with a neutral tint supplement (eg purple and gold together with white or cream).

In many cases it is usually elected a neutral tone, but in exceptions, and most recently, adding a touch of a strong and striking color. Thus the target range may be accompanied by touches of red, purple or dark brown.

The black and white can come together very well in a living room, this color will give elegance style for us, distinction and modernity. The atmosphere in both tones usually associated with the sober and refined.

to choosing color styles in decorate a rooms, it's depends on the look we want to give in our room. The ideas are many but the good are few. so, excessive use of color in a room, it will look dirty. The tips: choose the color we want, combine colors to suit our desires and also look elegant and stylish when guests visit our home.

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Designing A Perfect Living Room

The look and feel of a living room is totally dependent on the choice of seating and the color scheme that you have in the room.

For instance, if you want to go for a relaxed rumpus room style, you would choose a sofa and armchairs that reflected that. Big cushiony sofas which have that welcoming and embracing look about them, as opposed to straight-backed neat and tidy sofas that place design over comfort.

There are so many sofa designs now available on the high street and on the internet that it’s possible to find everyone’s ideal sofa – somewhere. It’s just a question of looking until you find one you like.

The shape of a sofa can be really important, as not all sofa shapes fit well in all living rooms. Take the corner sofa as an example. If you happen to have a walk through living room, by which you access another room like the conservatory or the dining room, then corner sofas can be too cumbersome as you feel you have to go round them every time you want to cross the room. Similarly, if you don’t have two empty walls adjacent to each other, then corner sofas can block useful things like radiators, and prevent the heat circulating around the room properly.

However, there are many rooms that can accommodate a corner sofa very well. In fact, they are sometimes great in smaller rooms as you can push them right back to the corner and gain a large amount of floor space in front of the sofa. There’s enough seating for everyone without needing an extra armchair which would take up more floor space. Similarly, if you have a very big living room, you can use the corner sofa shape to naturally divide the room into two areas, without needing to put a wall up.

With regard to colour, you might want to make the walls the colour feature in the room, and keep the furniture in neutral shades. It depends how often you imagine you want to change the colours in the living room. Are you more willing to repaint or to buy a new sofa and armchairs?

Once you’ve decided on your colour scheme and the sofa shape as well as other furniture in the room, make sure you check out any clearance sofas, as there might be just the one you are looking for – available at a bargain price.

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to decorate your living room, check out Harveys Furniture on Facebook for the latest furnishing trends.

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