Home Decorating For Smaller Spaces

Bonnie P Carrier

“Big Things Come In Small Packages” We’re all familiar with this quote, it’s normally associated with gifts not home decorating, but it should be.A one or two bedroom house, apartment, condo or townhouse can be just as impressive and grand as something with fifteen bathrooms, Wow, imaging having to clean all those, I have enough trouble with two.One interesting things I have found from past experience is that decorating a smaller place is actually easier, not to mention less expensive. Whether your currently living in a small space or downsizing – that’s another one of those trendy “buzz” words, which simply means your moving into something smaller – planning how your going to decorate or redecorate is a good idea.You may think because it’s smaller, having large pieces is out of the question. Not true, having oversized furniture is not going to make your rooms appear smaller, what it will do is give a warm inviting feeling. Of course the layout and size of a room will determine how many pieces can comfortably go into it. After all, you may be looking for drama and comfort, but you still need to be able to maneuver around.

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Get Your Sewing Organized.

Cyd Klein

Raise you hand if you have a ‘Sewing Room’ all to yourself. Wait a minute, hold on here, and let me count them-1-2-3-4. Well you get the picture; people with a dedicated sewing room are in the lucky minority. Most people have to borrow a corner of the Dining room table for their portable machine. Some use the floor as a cutout surface.

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A Revolutionary New Storage System

Indoors or outdoors, create instant storage in and around the home, cottage, RV or dormitory. They will increase closet capacity; hang clothes, tools or sports gear in the porch or mud room; drip-dry in the washing area, on the balcony, at hot tub or poolside; provide instant guest accommodation in a spare room or office; and expand seasonal storage capacity in the basement or garage.Easy to install on walls, doors or fences, unobtrusive, sturdy and strong, the materials are UV and weather resistant and are guaranteed. InstaHANGERS come in two sizes with a 12” or 16” hanging rod that support 45 or 60 lbs. They are wall mounted, require no floor space & collapse to a profile of less than 1-1/2”. QuikCLOSET telescopes from 3 to 5 feet, holds up to 90 lbs and can be linked together.

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Now Where Are Those Dishes? How to Survive Unpacking

dan the roommate man

In a short time, I'll be moving again. The thought of it makes my hair stand on end. Strangely enough, my trepidation doesn't come from the process of packing itself - although it's certainly a pain to wrap all of one's dishes in newspapers and bubble wrap, to lug all of the clothes out of the closet and to make the executive decision whether or not to throw away that salad shooter that I've never used but for which I'll probably devise an ingenious use the moment I pull away from the local Goodwill.No, instead it's the unpacking that I can't stand. It's the tearing open of boxes, the unloading, the mess all over my home that sits there for days. The frustration of not knowing just where I put my silverware or bath towels.

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Too Many Clothes and Not Enough Bedroom

dan the roommate man

The commercial and residential building trend for today is more living area space and less bedroom space. When an apartment complex has to compromise - the large bedroom and its accompanying storage space will be the first to get the pink slip.Lack of storage space is a flash from the past, when storage was not in walls or in shelving but in massive pieces of furniture each had a specific purpose and the grouping seemed to take up the whole room. As a renter - you'll have to supply your own storage.What's the solution? Consider how America used to live. Small bedrooms herald back to way before the fifties, when people accumulated fewer things and consumerism was less focused on the individual and more on the common good of the family. That changed substantially after World War II and the birth of the "Me" Generation - better known as baby boomers.

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