Decorate Your Table for the 2010 Fall Season with Maple Leaf Dinnerware

The fall season is here and with it comes the hope of autumn festivities. Kick your season off right by following one of the freshest dinnerware trends of the 2010 fall season with maple leaf themed dinnerware. This delightful new pattern will transform your autumn table into a masterpiece of design without the boring themed tableware that lacks color and personality.

This season, autumn decorating styles have shifted more to traditional designs with more concentration on textures and colors. When using colorful maple leaf dishes, you can forgo the normal fall table decorations such as containers of flowers, vivid table linens, and so forth. This trend makes setting up an autumn table fast and easy.

To make the most out of this trend, mix and match the sizes and colors. One example would be to use the earthy brown plates with mugs of a contrasting color and bowls of still another color. If you have a favorite harvest tablecloth, you can still use this style, but opt instead for matching the tableware pieces in a color that contrasts to your tablecloth. The plan is to make your fall table decorations brilliant and attractive.

These fall table decorations are showing up in other rooms as well, taking their place in the family room as fabulous containers for pinecones or autumn treats. The subtle design makes it simple to switch these pieces from room to room and function to function.
Let Interiors Refined by Paula redesign your dining room this Fall.

Place Looking Tired? Simple Tricks to Update Your Home Now

Look around and ask yourself how your home looks and feels- Right now. Is your environment supporting a harmonious state of mind? Do your surroundings uplift or inspire? It's easy to breathe new life into a tired space. Here are 5 basic and inexpensive ways to refresh and revive your home today!

Restore Your Door. If your front door is old, worn out or has peeling paint, you have several options. Buy a replacement door from a building center for as little as $165. Paint your door a signature colour, or install a decorative window and let light in. A door with character will enhance curb appeal and bring a smile to your face every time you come home.

Rejuvenate with Color. Refreshing home areas that are used most (the foyer, living room or kitchen for example) will create impact and energy. Deliver design punch to rooms with interesting accent cushions, bright curtain panels or a bold accent wall.

Refresh the Trim. Think about replacing or painting any scuffed or non-existent baseboards and/or trim. Home Depot and Lowes as well as other home improvement centers have new trim starts at less than a dollar per linear foot for pre-painted “easy to install” plastic. Crown molding adds drama and architecture to a foyer, living room or dining room.

Update Switches, Plugs and Plates. An often overlooked but effective home update is replacing all old and painted over light switches with new plates, and to buy new dimmers, controls and plugs. It’s possible to refresh an entire house for less than $100. If you are handy, plug receptacles can be replaced with a newer, square style.

Make Over Dull Interior Doors. Take all ugly brown slab doors, add some inexpensive molding and paint them white. While this final project suggestion is a bit more intensive overall, the payoff is basic hollow-core doors transformed to appear expensive, clean and unified. Find an attractive new doorknob or handle in a complementary style or finish from about $10.

It’s easy to renew the spark in your home relationship. These refreshing and easy changes will increase the value of your home and can have you “loving it again”.

5 Effective Tips for Decorating Your Home on a Budget!

Are you sick of looking at the newest styles of brand name furnishing catalogues and stores for your home, just to realize that the price for small coffee tables are equal to half of your salary per month? Do not let this discourage you. With some ingenuity, any home can become as stylish and beautiful as a celebrity’s, for a much lower price. Here’s how!

1. Begin with your walls. It is quite easy to just forget that a fresh new color of paint on your walls could give any room a whole new feel and look. Wallpapering is another way to spice up a room. However, do not go over your budget by hiring contractors. Think about wallpapering only a single wall or just the borders.

2. Accessorize. Yet another cheap way to produce designer looks would be by purchasing several key accessories, such as throws, scented candles, and silk pillows. Pick elegant centerpieces for the dining room table, such as fruit bowls, fresh flowers or floating candles. Photographs, paintings and prints can also be hung up throughout the room to produce any look you want. Shop at thrift stores and flea markets for interesting prints and photographs, or visit discount stores for frames to hang several personal creations.

3. Buy “budget” furniture. Shop intelligently for couches, entertainment centers, lamps, and tables! Consignment stores, estate sales, flea markets, thrift and junk stores could become gold mines when it comes to stylish second-hand furniture. If second-hand isn’t your thing, shop online or at clearance sales. Furniture stores on the internet can sometimes be treasure chests for awesome deals.

4. Create your own atmosphere. Do not underestimate a lamp’s power. The perfect lighting can easily transform a room. Avoid halogen unless they actually match your decorative scheme. A great way of providing style to a room would be with wall sconces. Search for sconces that are easy to install yourself.

5. Sew. If you cannot afford a new couch and know how to sew, make use of discounted fabric to create new couch covers. Produce even more beautiful and cheap furniture simply by making chair covers or seat cushions for the dining room. You can also find slipcovers at Surefit.com

Finally, think about just rearranging the furniture you already have. Finding another wall to move your couch against can produce a brand new look. For help contact Interiors Refined by Paula.

These tips can help you achieve the style you desire for a very low cost. Surprise your family and friends with a stylish home and dazzle everyone with the very low budget you actually worked with.