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How To Style Your Bookshelves
Bookshelves can be an open canvas for decor, treasured books, a small lamp or even your favorite family pictures. So with all these options, it’s essential to make a plan and decide what you want to feature on your shelves, showing off your best and most loved pieces that represent your personality. Color Coding: If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to get styling, start with color-coding. A bookshelf…
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How To Decorate With Red
Red is a bold, sultry color that grabs attention and makes a unique statement in any room. However, the color itself can be overwhelming to decorate with because too much of it can feel overbearing and too little may end up lost in the grand scheme of your design plan. So, to achieve the perfect balance of boldness, it can be essential to plan out where you’ll incorporate this wonderful…
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How To Keep Warm This Winter
Winter is in full swing now, and whether you’re dealing with snow or freezing temperatures, it’s important to keep warm inside your home. There are a few key things you can do to keep the warmth in this winter, and it won’t include wearing three pairs of socks or a parka while you’re in your home. Utilize Your Valor Fireplace One of the most important ways to stay warm this…
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4 Ways To Celebrate New Years Eve At Home
New Year’s Eve is on the way, but this year couldn’t be more different, so we have to get a little creative in ringing in the new year. The best part about being home for this joyous holiday is that you’ll have all the comforts of home while you celebrate the arrival of the new year with the family within your home. Create A Home Party: Just because you’re not going…
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How To Prepare Your Home For The Holidays
The holidays are slowly sneaking around the corner, and once they arrive, everyone becomes extra busy as they celebrate the season. So, before the chaos begins, why not get your home prepped and ready, so you have less to do when the fun starts! This means tackling a few key areas in your home, prepping the most used areas and giving your house an overall look to make sure everything…
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How To Make Guests Feel Welcome In Your Home
This time of year, we can all expect a few guests to come to visit us for the holiday season or even just pop in for a quick coffee. Because of this, it’s important to be at the ready for guests as much as you can and make them feel as welcome as possible whether their stay is for an hour or for a few days. This is easy enough…
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How To Be A Great Host
As we enter the holiday season, this usually means we will be seeing guests, family, and visitors within our home. Whether you have a few people over for a quiet dinner or if you have a weekend full of guests staying, it’s important to be the best host possible. Prepare In Advance The best thing you can do when it comes to hosting is to prepare in advance for any…
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How To Organize Your Front Entrance
Within our homes, we tend to have “high traffic areas” that get used frequently and generally have a flow of people in that space often. Thus, it means these spaces need to be extremely practical and have a good set up to be used continuously without much fuss. For example, the entrance to your home is a high traffic area for not only the family living in your residence but…
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Where & How To Use Chevron In Your Home
Chevron is a trendy pattern that has been on-trend for the last few years in the home design world. Most people you talk to love this pattern for its bold lines, and because it is so versatile, it can be used in almost any room. So, the next question is how and where to use this great pattern in your home? Well, the options are pretty much endless as it…
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How To Make Your Fireplace Stand Out
When you look at the fireplace in your home, do you find that it gets lost within the room? This is commonly the case because fireplaces can be seen as a practical item rather than a centrepiece. But there is no reason why your fireplace shouldn’t be the center of attention and really be a standout piece in the room! To give your fireplace a little extra oomph and really…