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August 2012
Featured Articles Inexpensive Interior Design Tips
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Refinishing Your Home with Hardwood Flooring
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Featured Businesses The Blind & Shutter Gallery
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Home Builders
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Carpenters
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Kevin Bearden Custom Homes, LLC Weld House Homes
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Home Theatre
Custom Intergrators
Countertops
Gary Beam Formica Countertops Goldstone Red’s Quality Marble Unique Kitchen & Bath
Electrician
Mr. Electric Zawadzki Electric
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House Plans
Great House Plans
HVAC Contractors
Comfort Air Lochridge Priest Oasis Heating and Cooling
Insulation
Flooring
Custom Stain and Scoring
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Building Materials
Furniture Center
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Handicap Modifications
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DEK Insulation
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In the economic climate we live in today everyone is trying to cut corners and pinch pennies. This is true in all aspects of our lives including interior decorating within our homes. Face it not all of us have a decorators touch but doing it yourself you can save a small fortune. Here are some simple tips to help you become an expert interior decorator for your home without breaking the budget. TIP ONE: Often people are not thrilled with their home’s flooring. However we all know this is an expensive replacement in home furnishings. One instant change to a room be it carpeted, tiled or hardwood is using a large decorative rug. This will instantly hide the flaws in your flooring and add flair to the room without having to completely redo the
flooring. Think about it at minimum you are looking at three thousand dollars to redo the flooring within your home. A new area rug is at the most two hundred dollars. That is a minimum savings of two thousand eight hundred dollars.
TIP TWO: This tip requires absolutely no money only a bit of time and muscle. Rearrange furniture in a living room area to divide the space up. Have a space devoted to television, one area for reading and a cozy spot to sit back and talk with family and friends. This is a terrific way to utilize a large space and give your room and furniture a more visual appeal. It also makes the space more user friendly.
TIP THREE: Add book shelves-and not only for books. A large book shelving unit is a great way to display pictures, art and memorabilia that you have accumulated that is too special to store in a box under the bed. This helps create a personalized feel to any room making it friendlier, more welcoming to guests and more special to you.
TIP FOUR: Purchase window treatments that fit your style and function for the space. In bedrooms room darkening blinds and shades can be installed under designer roller shades or bamboo blinds. This gives you the ability to have a stylish yet functional window treatment. Homeowners can spice up a room using window treatments to play up their windows. Just because you have a tiny window does not mean you have to stick with a mini blind. You can transform the room using large curtains to add a focal point to the window, making it appear larger than it is. Layering window treatments is a must in interior design. Don’t be afraid to combine textures and materials in your window coverings.
TIP FIVE: I saved the best tip for last. A big impact on a small budget can be had with the use of paint. Painting a wall, ceiling or whole room can dramatically change the room’s overall look and feel. Recently we added a deep brown wall into our otherwise beige living room and instantly the room was transformed. It was amazing! The colors you choose to paint with don’t always have to match exactly from room to room. Adding color that plays well with other areas of the house if the key element to look for. Comfort Blinds offers blinds and shades in a multitude of materials perfect for every home. You can shop online or learn about measuring, ordering and installing window blinds and shades at www.comfortblinds.com.
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Perhaps you have chosen to purchase an older home that needs to have some hardwood floor refinishing. This can be a daunting task if you have never had any experience with this work. You can read up on it and rent equipment, but to really have it done right you would be wise to hire a company to do the work for you. The type of hardwood floor refinishing you would like to have done might depend on your style. Some people want to keep the flooring to period and have it look as much like it looked when it was first laid. Other individuals would like to modernize their flooring and go with a more modern finish. In some homes there may be some damage and some of the flooring will need to be replaced to match the original. For some jobs, it might be as simple as sanding the flooring and putting a protective covering over it.
Before choosing a contractor to take care of your hardwood floor refinishing, you should take a few things into consideration. You will want to make sure that the contracting company has experienced and trustworthy staff and affordable prices. Experience is an important part of hiring someone to do hardwood floor refinishing. You will not want a contractor that has workers who rarely do this type of work. Being trustworthy is another important aspect of a contractor’s staff. It is
important because these individuals will be in your home and around your family. You do not want to hire individuals to have in your home that you can’t trust. One way to know that a contractor has a respectable staff is whether or not the company does background checks on the staff. Affordability is obviously an important part of your decision for a contracting company to do your flooring. If you purchased a fixer-upper then you probably planned on spending some money to get your home the way you want it. In order to get good work you might have to pay more than you would like, but in the long run it will be worth it to have the quality you want.
Before hiring a contracting company make sure you do some research into them. You can look for reviews online, and you can also ask around to those you know who have had flooring refurbished or installed. You will not regret hiring experienced, trustworthy, affordable workers.