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Decorate Every Room

Tips for Every Room in Your House

Learn about space planning, choosing color, and infusing your personal taste into your home's decor.

What Do You Want to Decorate?

What's Your Decorating Style?

Can you combine sheer lace curtains with bold colors? Actually, you can do whatever you want. It's your home, after all! But for a cohesive look, see what elements are associated with different decorating styles, and try to focus on your favorite.

Learn About Decorating Styles

Coral's Interior Decorating Blog

Add Decorative Moldings to Your Home

Friday May 16, 2008
A boring, drab room gets a real lift with the installation of even a little decorative molding. Crown molding finishes off the ceiling and baseboards frame the floor. There are lots of ways to use decorative molding, but some parts of your room will really be transformed with the installation.

Read about Choosing Moldings, get some Advise on Installing Crown Moldings and learn the Top Places to Use Decorative Molding. You'll be ready to get to work!

Style Guides for Home Interiors

Wednesday May 14, 2008
Whether you're decorating a single room or a whole house, a cottage or a castle, you'll find our guides to decorating styles helpful. The style guides will help you focus in on your likes and dislikes and learn elements that will help you achieve your dream room or make your home express your very unique taste.

Even if you think you know what you want, you might discover that some elements of decorating are unique to one style or another. When you blend styles in a good way, that's called eclectic. Mixing styles actually has a name, too! See what style elements appeal to you and decide how to combine what you like to create the home (or room) of your dreams.

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