How to: remove the frustration out of decorating your home? Part2

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdXb7OTprj0unq7jmoDtwcrIT_U5zZ3QIE3T2Tin8URx6sL1h9EkrsOdcGzRbZiHfH5vA_fxUm68QNN6VgEyp9VnT4bEGIV5Ikx-Hx9g5_zA4nTh3M7vONqMIz_ZqTqGuFYYycwHPm3g/s1600/frustration+in+decorating+your+home1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdXb7OTprj0unq7jmoDtwcrIT_U5zZ3QIE3T2Tin8URx6sL1h9EkrsOdcGzRbZiHfH5vA_fxUm68QNN6VgEyp9VnT4bEGIV5Ikx-Hx9g5_zA4nTh3M7vONqMIz_ZqTqGuFYYycwHPm3g/s320/frustration+in+decorating+your+home1.png" width="242" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Hello friends, a few week ago I did a post on <a href="http://tophomedesignz.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-remove-frustration-out-of.html">decorating frustration and how to get rid of it.</a> It’s time for part2 of our 5 part series, if you were encourage from part 1 then part 2 is sure not to disappoint. Last time we talked about the guidelines to follow while decorating your home. first I will like to refresh your memory on the order. Here are the guideline order we discussed before</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">  </span><span style="color: magenta; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Plan your project by having a blueprint. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">   Create a storyboard or mood board to get you inspired. </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">   Try new furniture placement</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">  </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Here is <b>guideline 2 </b>and this should be fun if you love to shop. This has to be one of my all time favorite things to do. I love to shop and especially if I’m spending someone else’s money </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">:)  now friends stick with me. What do shopping has to do with removing the decorating frustration from you home? I don’t know about you but shopping always makes me feel better. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">OK you found your inspiration, you created your mood board and tried new furniture placement. Now it’s time to go shopping.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Where do I shop?</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">1.)<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">    </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">This may sound strange but the first place I will suggest you shop is your own home yes your house. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">By shopping your home you may be able to save money. </span></div><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qVoI7u9nxvBy0TX7WiCEpGUcOjn0TRFlN45F75KlIaojKXLkTOrPuo1q7Z2EIIZbwTe6uTfW6dzc7NmQ9FdL3RXHXETeMmAlVo7mIY79SKWYcqKmPqiUAgZba8qI947wxAuDG8jHTSg/s1600/SHOPPING+YOUR+HOME1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0qVoI7u9nxvBy0TX7WiCEpGUcOjn0TRFlN45F75KlIaojKXLkTOrPuo1q7Z2EIIZbwTe6uTfW6dzc7NmQ9FdL3RXHXETeMmAlVo7mIY79SKWYcqKmPqiUAgZba8qI947wxAuDG8jHTSg/s640/SHOPPING+YOUR+HOME1.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">shop your home first</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The reason I say <b>shop your home</b> first is because it will give you the opportunity to look at old pieces you have stashed away in closets, basement and attics in a new light. How about making something old new again or throw out something to make way for the new things you will bring in?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Before you start to shop you should already know what colors your interested in , what style you want and what you need to complete your room redo. You should have a list of things you need such as tables, lamps and accessories before you start this will make your job less stressful but fun.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Now your shopping your home but you don't see anything that remotely resembles the colors or inspirations you put onto your mood board. This is when you start to look at old thing in a new way. Maybe you have an old table, or some ugly lamps that's just sitting there collecting dust or maybe they can use a can of spray paint or perhaps its time to git rid of them and make room for something new.  Check out this old dresser made new again over at <a href="http://www.designsponge.com/2011/03/before-after-rebekahs-luxe-sofa-jamies-dresser-redo.html">design sponge.</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnThQ3qd0Crl8fLDgjjj091ReNAi0MVBILpZq62vblKwJR7DvIBpxm6ft1pL6yOfoQAh-9oGy5R4EzgVGHmXgJ0OUV5K5m12SwsLhFuTLqIDBLyqMqopwDIHVsPbPvoYQrnqv8Km9V-w/s1600/before+and+after+dresser1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="321" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRnThQ3qd0Crl8fLDgjjj091ReNAi0MVBILpZq62vblKwJR7DvIBpxm6ft1pL6yOfoQAh-9oGy5R4EzgVGHmXgJ0OUV5K5m12SwsLhFuTLqIDBLyqMqopwDIHVsPbPvoYQrnqv8Km9V-w/s640/before+and+after+dresser1.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">How different is the two dressers? Night and Day they don’t look the same at all. So before going shopping outside your home see what you have lurking in your basement, attics or other rooms around the house.</span><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted to give you my own example of shopping your home first- "Here are a few things I found lurking around my house".</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqjktwYmzGE0y8gO0jgEKb256xeZZbFQRxwGehki0YFONQIdR_hzXP6qFj1ult4oROHAq2HWnmchU2MxzrKvw82D8Qco45Em-dUS7Pbnsnj7ksoqU9HR58iGsLhQnKO4VZwKovJS0PR0/s1600/house+shop1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxqjktwYmzGE0y8gO0jgEKb256xeZZbFQRxwGehki0YFONQIdR_hzXP6qFj1ult4oROHAq2HWnmchU2MxzrKvw82D8Qco45Em-dUS7Pbnsnj7ksoqU9HR58iGsLhQnKO4VZwKovJS0PR0/s400/house+shop1.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Old bench and ottoman. I actually found 2 of the benches. I have something plan for them both you have to stick around to see what happen to the bench and the ottoman I will recover and paint </span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_B2POFJgUIhbWlyIzBNvC81g9av3w-aisVpoka3xZWZUdHQ_uQmg921cU8E_L3sP_kdmYISxF-1qBRpTtwufGcQ7PK-p68c3xXJKJ8bnL4D292Z3nqXU155i9JpnWskSudPJMqlmeHM/s1600/house+shop2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip_B2POFJgUIhbWlyIzBNvC81g9av3w-aisVpoka3xZWZUdHQ_uQmg921cU8E_L3sP_kdmYISxF-1qBRpTtwufGcQ7PK-p68c3xXJKJ8bnL4D292Z3nqXU155i9JpnWskSudPJMqlmeHM/s400/house+shop2.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Look! I found a fun desk lamp, lamp shade, vase, picture frames and file/paper holder.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiub3GyiUtAXLTL57QAy0XZaeJV_XM2G5D1V1MAy5fZ8yR-Bayd-VUKuQ2FoxBUGOCaD-ZWd1RQFlCqfnenAsPuZaOVVBFtv9s_2QGQcEpUnDyNTHhyLcIryPFtkIiK91E1ApE-6fRh1c8/s1600/house+shop3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiub3GyiUtAXLTL57QAy0XZaeJV_XM2G5D1V1MAy5fZ8yR-Bayd-VUKuQ2FoxBUGOCaD-ZWd1RQFlCqfnenAsPuZaOVVBFtv9s_2QGQcEpUnDyNTHhyLcIryPFtkIiK91E1ApE-6fRh1c8/s400/house+shop3.png" width="170" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal">  </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">“I absolutely love this vase”. I disregard I had it. My goal is to find a place for it soon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Consequently I found a whole lot more but I'll cover that in another post. Moreover my intent was to show you how to shop your home even if there aren’t any pretty things around. Clearly you don’t have to keep everything you find, following this further, how about donating some of the things you don’t want to keep to Goodwill or someone who you know need it or do a trade off with someone else who's redecorating, before long you will be on your way to fewer frustrations in decorating your home. </span></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Finally 4 Guidelines to remember!</b></span></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span>Shop your home first</b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Make old things new again</b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Donate what you don't want to others who needs it </b></span></li><li><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Trade decorative pieces with others who are redecorating also.</b></span></li></ul><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">       </span></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hope you got some answer to your decorating frustrations from this post stay tuned for our upcoming post part3 where we will discuss shopping for the perfect furniture and accessories for</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">your home.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Are you tempted to shop your home after this post? </b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do you prefer the more direct way to shop {a store first perhaps} </b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Was this post clear enough to understand if not what can I don’t better to help to improve you understanding?</b></span><br /><br /><br /><b>Until  the next time!</b><br /><b>xoxo </b><br /><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><b><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">        </span></span></b></div></div><br /><br /></div><a class="pin-it-button" count-layout="horizontal" href="http://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftophomedesignz.blogspot.com%2F"><img border="0" src="//assets.pinterest.com/images/PinExt.png" title="Pin It" /></a><br /><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54490/63/666A3ABE2726E3944B3F62D47F551437.png" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% transparent; border: 0pt none ! important;" /></a><br /><br /><br /></div></div>

How to: remove the frustration out of decorating your home? Part2

Hello friends, a few week ago I did a post on decorating frustration and how to get rid of it. It’s time for part2 of our 5 part series, if...

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