Mini Makeover Ideas for Your Kitchen
If you dream of an updated, upgraded kitchen, don’t feel guilty about it. Kitchens sell houses, as any real estate expert will tell you. They’re also the heart of the home, where we spend most of our time, studies show. So improving this important living space is a sound financial investment, and an investment in your family’s happiness.

Crimes of Fashion:  Home Design Mistakes Revealed
Has this happened to you? You dedicate all of your time and energy (not to mention money) designing a room with the perfect color scheme, the perfect furniture, the perfect window treatments -- only to find that it still doesn't look quite right?

Quiz:  Is Your Home Energy Efficient
For every 10 percent lost in energy efficiency, customers will pay 23 percent more in their utility bills. Is your home energy efficient?

Decorating Tips for Economic Times
Sick of those saggy silk drapes? Does the trendy color you painted your walls last year now look so “last year”? Your décor leaves you uninspired, yet the current economy makes you hesitate to spend a bundle on a total redesign. The good news is you don’t need the skill – or budget – of a TV decorating diva to give your home a fresh new look. Small, inexpensive changes can make a dramatic difference.

Freshen Your Home & Brighten Your Mood
Could your home be putting you in a bad mood? If so, you’re not alone. A recent study shows that having a clean home in the winter makes 92 percent of adults feel happier. You don’t have to undertake a major cleaning overhaul; just a little polishing here and there can boost your mood as much as a sunny day.

DIY Choices Add Elegance to a Home
New furniture and a fresh coat of paint are great places to start when updating your home, but what can you do to go above and beyond to really make your house stand out? Often what makes a home interesting and noteworthy are the little details. The latest trend in decorating rooms today is to add architectural details that give a new dimension to a room.

Spring Decor Trends Brighten the Home
As the weather continues to warm and nature starts to awake from its winter slumber, the world around us embraces spring. This time of renewal is also the perfect time to update home decor with the fresh feeling associated with the change in season.

Draw From Spring's Spectacular Color Palette
As the brilliant sights and sounds of spring once again emerge, those of us who have endured yet another long, cold winter can hardly contain our excitement and anticipation of warmer months ahead. In our enthusiasm, many of us instinctively turn our attention to sprucing up the inside of our homes.

Spring Decorating Inspiration:  How to Find Fresh Ideas
Looking to shake off the winter blahs? You’re not alone. Tender blossoms aren’t the only harbinger of warmer weather, so is the rush to decorate for spring entertaining. But design experts warn that many people fall into the trap of spending a lot of money for a new look, when you can actually scratch that spring fever itch on a budget simply by giving new life to things you already have around the house.

Does Your Favorite Room Blend Contrasting Textures For a Unique Look?
It is the goal of most people to create a feel and ambiance within their home that reflects who they are and that is warm and inviting to guest and visitors.  In the process of creating a décor that is warm, and inviting yet reflective of their personality can be difficult at times. 

25 Things to Know About Master Baths
1. Low-flow toilets do not have to mean low-performance toilets. To alleviate low-flow woes, select a toilet with a glazed trapway that measures 2 1/4 inches or larger. Keep in mind that a good toilet may cost $150 or more.

2. Soaking tubs -- often sized to accommodate two people -- are the focal point of many rejuvenated baths. To ensure plenty of hot water, the National Kitchen & Bath Association recommends a water heater with at least two-thirds your tub's capacity.

Secrets of Stress-relieving Interior Design
We all know stress is bad for us. In fact, about 64 percent of us say we are actively trying to reduce the amount of stress in our lives, according to the American Psychological Association. Health and interior design experts agree: stress relief can start at home by using smart stress-relieving design techniques.

Coming Home to Stress Free Relaxation
Today’s modern family faces busy days filled with long hours at the office, soccer practices, pilates workouts and late dinners. When finally returning home at the end of the day, most of us want to enter an anxiety-free atmosphere in which the home becomes a retreat from the stresses of daily life.  

Lighting and Decorating Tips that Will Make a Room Sparkle
The fabrics you pick for your upholstery pieces and the lighting fixtures you place overhead and at tabletop height can make a room sparkle or fall flat.  

Building Green is Building Momentum
David Winkler is green. He drives a hybrid car and is mindful of his global responsibility. So when it came to working on his Solano Beach, Calif., home, he decided to keep the basic structure of the house rather than tearing it down and building new. He also wanted a project that would be environmentally friendly and use green building practices.

Want to Update the Look and Feel of Your Home the Easy Way?
Whether you’ve moved into your home recently or been there a while, there’s an “itch” every homeowner feels at one time or another -- the need to redecorate.

Dress Up Tired Furniture
Furniture is one of our most expensive home decorating items, and often times we cannot afford to replace what we already own, or can get cheaply. There are several creative ways to take ordinary, tired furniture and turn it into a custom piece of art! (Or at least not make you cringe when you have company…)

Today's Master Bathroom - Is it a Bathroom, or is it a Living Room?
Today’s master bathroom combines all the elements of a luxury spa with the comfort of a living room. From living room furniture such as easy chairs, chaise lounges and sofas to fireplaces, refrigerators and coffee makers, the new master bathrooms wrap up the whole house and put it one room!

Guide to Choosing Drapes For Your Bedroom
If you want a fast way to give your bedroom a whole new look, try changing your drapery.  New curtains have a very dramatic impact on the feeling and the appearance of any room in your home, and picking the right ones for the rooms you use most often is vital.  This guide will show you the five most important factors to consider when choosing drapes for your bedroom, helping you to set the perfect mood.

How to Love Your Laundry Room
Have your ever thought about how many hours you spend in your laundry room if you added them up at the end of each week? If you’re like me there are very few days that go by without doing at least one load of laundry. This being the case, it makes perfect sense to decorate your laundry room in a style or theme that pleases you and helps the chore of doing laundry a little more enjoyable.

Turn Your Bedroom into a Peaceful Retreat
Your bedroom should be a stylish and peaceful room to help you relax and recharge. It should be the ultimate escape to help you unwind from the stresses of the day.

Time For a Spring Clutter Inventory
Catch it. Cut it. Contain it. Such are the three Cs of a thorough spring clutter inventory, according to the publisher of one of the country’s fastest growing house wares catalogs.

Spring Decorating Tips
Spring is a time of freshness, radiance, brightness and energy. Most of us like to reflect these feelings in our homes but are not quite sure how to go about it. We want to bring the outdoors in and fill our homes with light, color and radiant energy.

"Scent-mosphere" - The Hot New Trend in Home Decorating!
Scent-mosphere?! You won’t find it in the dictionary, but it’s a hot home decorating trend that’s all about styling your home with an eye (or nose) for all your senses, from the touch of fabrics, to the color of the wall to the acoustics of hardwood floors.

Easy to Grow Houseplants Clean the Air
A houseplant, usually native to tropical climates, is grown indoors for decorative purposes.  Houseplants also provide a natural and cost effective way to clean indoor air.  According to Dr. Wolverton’s NASA study, it is suggested that at least one potted plant per 100 square feet of home or office space is needed to be effective air cleaners.

Popular Faux Painting Techniques
Add some color, depth, elegance and charm to your home using one or more of these popular faux painting techniques.