Area rugs bring with them much beauty into your home.
Finding just the right colors, patterns, size and shape are all fun challenges in the search for a great rug. Sometimes we are offered gifts from our donations of a nice area rug and then we begin making the room work around the rug.
Regardless, it’s a fun challenge and the results can make the difference in a happy home.
We realize all matter of furnishings are needed when the homeless becomes “with home” and we are here to help that cause.
Wall decor can set the dimensions of your room by hanging some nice colorful works of art on the walls. It sort of “puts” the walls there in the room. A fancy koi fish tapestry wall hanging is wonderful, but so it the artwork of your children to hang on the walls.
Whatever the decorations for the walls may be, be sure to add something cheerful and colorful to help make your new house a home.
It does not matter how fancy your new house is, you want to make sure you turn it into a home, as soon as possible. One way to do that is to add an area rug to the main or your favorite room in your home. The room where your family and friends gather to chat and play games.
Kids can sit on the rug a not a drafty floor, and adults will sit in chairs placed strategically around the rug.. making a nice focal point in the room and a definitive area to sit and enjoy each others company in comfort.
Donations have been plentiful with home decor accessories, mainly area rugs… lots of them have been coming in… thanks.
You’d be surprised to know that donations do include oriental rugs. They are not in good shape, but even a thread-barren oriental rug is amazingly beautiful and boy are they durable. These old area rugs will hold up another 10 years or more, and that’s when it’s probably over a hundred years old already. Of course, a well cared for rug can last an lifetime and then through the next generation, too.
The great big important and popular ones are the handmade authentic Oriental Kazak Rugs. Well sought after are these rugs with their bold colors and geometric patterns originating form the Orient. We are on the look out for the Kazak rug and maybe one day we shall get lucky.
We received another batch of wonderful donations from our good people that care. One stood out to us, as it was and oriental rug. It was small and tattered, but was probably so beautiful in the colors and craftmenship in it’s day… what a surprise to get this sweet little area rug.
We ended up giving it to a small child who came in with his mother and a pack of dogs. The little girl wanted a nice bed for her doggie. We felt it was not much use more than to make this little girl happy and run out the door to her pup and give him a hug and put the little rug down for him to lay upon. And the doggie actually lay down right on the rug and the little girl right beside him.
Simple pleasures.
It’s spring and time to clean out those closets must be nearing an end, soon. Once you can open your windows and let in the fresh air it’s time for a beautiful wall tapestry to brighten thing up in your home decor.
Shopping online is the way to go when looking for a tapestry these days. You can find just about any wall hanging your interesting in having fit your wall decor. However, if you are on a budget you cannot easily do that. Instead find your local homeless coalition and you will be surprised to find, there are a variety of donations just waiting for you. You might just get lucky and find something nice to liven up your walls.
A very nice way to have fun with your new home is with tapestries.
Now that you’ve got your new home you’ll want to think a bit about what you have to work with and what you might want to keep your eye’s open to add to your home decor, especially if you are working with small rooms in your home.
One tip is to get the essentials and get them organized to get the most from your rooms. Lights can be hung on the walls, saving space in the smaller rooms. A small but nice area rug to put your feet on when you rise in the morning is a nice touch, everyday. A simple artwork on the wall is nice to keep the walls from seeming to close, but you’ll want something calm and with cool colors, such as blue, green, mellow yellows are nice too. Keep it simple.
A bed and place to keep your clothes are essential and where you want to begin. Here are some tips to help with your bedroom home decor.
The Homeless Coalition offers 5 key things you can do to help…
1. You need to take action.
2. The need for donations is huge. Donate today.
3. What about becoming a volunteer? This is very needed and wanted nationwide.
4. Many events are happening and by attending one of these events in your area is a big help.
5. Last but not least… speak out on the views that you feel are important. Contact the mayor in your area and find out what’s on his list of things to do to help the homeless as well as what’s being done already. Then speak out on issue you feel need a bit more support.
I’m sure there is something we all can find on this list to do to help the homeless coalition.
We love our kids and kids rooms rock with kids rugs and other cool playroom decor. Sometime we need to think about us adults and our home decor needs in terms of area rugs.
Beautiful area rugs can change your home to luxury, southwestern style, modern or contemporary rugs styles in the blink of an eye. Watch a room transform when you bring a cool floor covering into your home. It can bring the wall decor together with the furnishings and basically just tie it all together really well.
A cheap carpet can wreck the room… just as fast. So, find a fabulous rug to lay on top of the ugly carpet and it helps. Sometimes it’s enough.
Now that we’ve made the leap back into a home lets take a look at how to set up camp, so to speak.
How do we want the room to function and how do we want the room to look. Two very different things when it comes to making it all happen.
First arrange the room for functionality and then begin looking at paint and color and wall art, furnishings. You will find it will come together much better with this sequence of steps. Get some more tips with this great article on home decor basics and then work your way up to home decor accessories.