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Adding Colour to your Space!

For the modern at heart, it is not always easy to combine comfort with style. For a room with mostly neutral colouring a fantastic way to a perk up the room with comfort and style is adding a pop of colour, the Stressless way.

The Stressless Metro recliner can easily add a colourful modern twist to any room with the utmost comfort. The high impact Metro recliner comes with a tilting ottoman and sleek chrome legs. This modern style seat responds to your every move. It is designed to automatically adapt to the body’s shape and needs, and with the array of vibrant colour selection how can you go wrong?

It is now easier than ever to refresh your room décor with only a few items. The rich red colour shown will add warmth to your room this fall.

Design advice by Ellen Zworth, Decorium

Warm up your bedroom this fall

With fall upon us, many of us need to cozy up our bedrooms for the upcoming cold months. During fall and winter it is common to spend a greater amount of time wrapped up in the warmth and comfort of your master bedroom. Here are 5 ideas to create a cozy and comfortable master bedroom this fall.

1. Warm & Rich Colours – choose a colour pallet that will make you instantly feel welcome and cozy. Colors are one of your best ways to generate a mood. Warmer tones, like reds, golds, light browns and oranges are a good way to turn up the heat.

2. Upholstered Pieces – Nothing says “snuggle in” more than an upholstered, maybe even tufted, bed. Even a beautifully upholstered side chair or bench will add a level of softness to the room.

3. Texture – Texture can do more add to the décor of the room, they add to the overall message and feeling the room gives off. Textures create the kind of cozy environment that will make you want to kick off your shoes and snuggle up with your significant other. Woven furniture and rugs add depth to the room. A quilted blanket mixed with buttery leathers and soft linens entice the eye.

4. Faux Fur – What better way to welcome the season of hibernation than fur, even faux? A faux fur throw or blanket is soft to the touch and is perfect to not only add to a room but to welcome you into a warm embrace.

5. Romantic Lighting – an important aspect to any cozy feeling room is the lighting. To add a romantic glow to your master bedroom use an assortment of lighting fixtures such as, lamps, sconces and romantic chandelier. To add warmth to the room, be sure to use bulbs that give off a yellowish or even pink glow

Design advice by Marta Wojtal, Decorium

Design Tip: Ideas on Determining How to Hang Pictures

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Ideas on Determining How to Hang Pictures

By Lisba Selbo, Decorium

In general, artwork should be hung so that the center point of the picture or grouping is eye level.  However an important point to always note is that art should be hung in relation to the pieces of furniture close to it.

Create a vignette.

1. If you’re hanging artwork in the dining room, you may want to consider hanging your pictures slightly lower since you are mostly sitting down when viewing it.  (Think about this too when hanging artwork in children’s bedrooms).
2. If you’re hanging pictures above furniture, make sure to leave at least 4” clearance.  Don’t go too high, otherwise the eye will focus on the blank space between the artwork and the furniture, and that’s not what you want.
3. When hanging multiple pieces vertically on the wall, consider the unit as a whole.  Unify the spaces in between the pictures.  A great plan is to lie the art on paper and trace around each object.  Tape the paper of the wall and this should give you a better idea as to how the “whole” unit will look when it will be installed.
4. If hanging a single picture, and you’re still not sure where, how high, etc., cut our paper with the approx. size of the artwork, and tape it onto the wall where you think you want it to hang.  If the spot appeals to you,  go ahead and take the plunge, hang your painting and enjoy it.
5. To confirm exactly where to place the hanging nail, ask someone to hold the picture in place, draw a light pencil line in the middle, just above the frame.  Measure the distance from the top of the frame to the wire.  This distance is where the nail must go into the wall from the pencil line.

Art transforms your home like no other aesthetic element can.  It adds colour and life to a room.  Choose what appeals to you, subjects, textures, colours, etc., things that you find interesting, and relax and enjoy your home to the full.