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DIY Décor: Making Central Carpet With Rugs

Decoration and art go hand in hand and they are biggest thing that demonstrate anyone’s creativity. Making things from things is really a creative work and is not always difficult. In our daily lives, we wish to buy so many things from markets which is off course a money consuming task. Making these day to day your own is really budget favorable as well as enjoyable task. I love to make things by my own to decorate my home and trust me it’s very simple. Central carpets are so much in fashion these days. Your whole home being made of marble requires few areas of it to be embellished with central carpets. Buying them from market is off course one of top options but making them at home is very simple, easy and creative task. You can make central carpets easily by rugs in following ways:

1. Gather small Rugs

Gather around 10 to 12 small or 5 to 6 medium rugs from any super market or even from carpets market. You can get funky, romantic, and cartoonish or any kind of rug from which you want to make central carpet. These rugs should be of same sizes to accommodate each other easily.

2. Combine All Rugs

Now combine these all rugs together with stapler or stitch them with thick thread if you can. Put them all in horizontal position like three in one step, three in second and so on. Continue stapling them with each other to make them stick fine.

3. Make a Boundary

Make boundary with any jute rope. Keep attaching it at every point with staplers. Cover all four sides with that rope. It will make a very good boundary. Now your carpet is ready to place anywhere in bedroom, living room or dining room.

50+ Brilliant Living Room Decor Ideas

Living room being the primary area of our houses, needs our really good attention. Any guest coming to your house has to be accommodated in your living room and that’s why it is necessary to decorate in a way that all of these visitors and guests feel pleasant in sitting in there. Following are some tips to decorate your living room.

Selection of Theme and Color

The primary step in living room decoration is selection of right theme and color that would look perfect. And then getting all other things in color contrast of that theme becomes your secondary choice.

Furniture

Furniture is an important of your living room and whether you place other items or not you always have to place furniture. Furniture includes sofa set, tables and couches. Place one big sofa attached to the wall and two or four opposite to that. Place one big table in center of all these sofas and side tables on side of small sofas. You can place couches on sides of living room.

Chimney House

Make a chimney house on any side of your living room and put in flower vases and other decoration items on its upholstery. It really looks great.

Curtains and Carpets

Curtains and carpets are really one of those things that can add beauty to any part of your house. Place central carpets on center of your sofa set and other pieces of carpets on sides and entrance of your living room. Hang double and triple clothed curtains like one cloth of net, then transparent cloth and finally basic curtained cloth. You can place these series in contrast with each other. Like off white net, white transparent and mustard basic cloth.

Television and Sound System and Book Shelves

Your living room is a place to entertain, read and watch novels and movies. Place television and sound system in center of any wall facing your main sofa. You can place book shelves on any side or corner of your living room.

Some Living Room Decoration Ideas for you

Girly Bedroom Decorating Ideas

Our bedrooms are the most personal and darling place of our house. Being a girl, we never want to leave a chance of decorating it more and more. They are our homes actually. Well, following are some ideas to make your room really look like an ideal girly room.

Paint it Pink

Well for girls, pink color is innate, directly or indirectly it comes in any way. But to make it bit different you can use combinations to make it look really cute. Pink and white, pink and light blue, pink and purple or even pink and red are ideal combinations to go with. You can paint it plain white too and can add things that would make it look girly.

Decorations and Wallpapers

Wallpapers are always good to make a label for room. Girly rooms can have wallpapers those of flowers, fruits, any art, actresses and so on. Decorations are ideal things to embellish your room like you want. Place wall hangers, wall frames, doors and windows wind chimes as they are ideal for girly room, paintings and family photos; fill your room with photos of your family and friends with you, place vases and standing lamps to make it look fresh.

Curtains and Lightning Fixtures

Curtains are really an important ingredient in making your room look like you want. Hang curtains in contrast with your room color; as for example if your room is pink and white then put on red curtain. Add new shades in them to make them look fine. Lightning fixtures really illuminate your room to good level. Have them those simple yet fancy ones.

Couches and Chair Swings

Place couches in your room to accommodate your friends and visitors, they look lovely. Chair swings are best options if you have enough space in your room to accommodate one. Place them near window and put in cushions, they are best ride while you are studying, listening songs and etc.

Other Girly Bedroom Decorating Ideas for you

Top Super Hanging Flower Basket Ideas

Gardening is the most interesting work among all house chores. Garden being the most attractive area of your house needs your special attention that’s always in form of adding more beauty in it. Wall hanging flower baskets are my love and seriously I wish to fill my entire garden with it. They are most attention drivers especially when they are hang on gates and boundary walls. Making them is as easy as anything and for that you don’t need any qualified gardener, you can do it yourself by following simple steps:

1. Getting a Wall Hanging Basket:

You can get wall hanging baskets from any house decorating shops or can get them right away from plant nursery too. They are usually bowl shape with a base made of iron and covered with dried nest or that of jute one along with chains on four sides combining to one holder to hang them easily anywhere you want.

2. Putting in the soil and water:

Now from this step your basket is getting ready. Fill half of the basket with potted soil, spread it to whole basket and then water it. Water is necessary to soak the soil and make it ready to accommodate plants in it.

3. Planting different plants:

Well I just love this step a lot. You have to plant these plants in side and center of the basket according to your choice. Flowerless plants and those plants that have long extensions should be placed in side to welcome flowered plants in center. Put all these plants with their roots; they would be available with soiled bottom in nursery, put them with their soiled bottom to new soil. Now put the flower plants in center, you can place 5 to 6 types of plants in center easily. They really look beautiful together.

4. Final Step:

After planting of these plants, put some more soil on them to nourish their roots further and then water them. Your beautiful flower basket is all ready to be hanged.

Some Hanging Flower Basket Ideas

Do You Know How To Decorate Your Dining Room Like An Expert?

Our dining rooms are an additional part of our house. It is because we can have those dining tables and chairs anywhere in kitchen, living room or even at our patio. Making and maintaining a dining room is very interesting thingy. Trust me I never get bore of decorating any part of my home and my dining room is something that keeps me busy always. Dusting and maintaining of things is daily house chores that can never be ignored. You can decorate your dining room in number of ways like:

1: Dining Table and Chairs:

Dining table is the core requirement of a dining room and it has to be as beautiful and sophisticated as anything in this room to capture attention of your guests and off course yourself as well. There are many types of dining tables like wooden, glass, rod iron, steel and etc. Select a dining table that has wooden base and a glass top; you will find numerous designs matching this item. Get those chairs that complement your selected dining table in every manner. Most of the time they come in sets with dining table while other times you have to make your own combos.

2. Upholstery:

Make an upholstery on your dining table chairs. You can make a simple base or can make them into steps. Place vases, small plant pots or any other decorator item. It looks really good.

3. Table Center Pieces:

Table center pieces are always great options to decorate your dining table. You can place flower vases, fruit and vegetable baskets, beautiful salt and pepper pots, candle stand, table mats, central table cloths or any other table decorations. You can also place cutlery stand which really facilitate you during lunch and dinners.

4. Wall Decorations:

You can place creative art frames on wall or can even place your family photos. Along with that you can fill your walls with good wallpapers too.

5. Lightning Fixtures and Lamps:

They illuminate your dining room and make it look beautiful. Place good lightning fixtures that complement your dining setup. Lamps are not only beautiful but romantic too. Place standing lamps on sides or corners of dining room to illuminate them romantically.

Few Other Dining Room Decorations

Do you know how to decorate your dining room like an expert?

DIY Gardening: How To Make A Pond In Your Garden

Your garden is really a biggest blessing for you and is always a fun filled task to decorate it more and more. You can decorate your garden with variety of things and among those great variety of things is making a pond in your garden. It sounds really tough and labor demanding task but trust me it is not that tough and within 5 to 10 days you can easily make a very good pond in your garden. Just follow the following steps:

1. Selection of Area:

Off course the primary task is selection of an area. Select any corner of your house and start making the pond.

2. Digging the Pond:

For that you would need a sharp axe. Ponds do need certain deepness in them to accommodate animals easily in winters. The colder your country is, the deeper should be the pond. Dig it deep with an axe. You have to make any one side of the pond sloppy so that animals can find good space to wander. When you dig that slope, keep the soil on the top side of the pond so that you can use it for later covering. After that remove small and big stones from pond area to make it fine.

3. Lining the Pond:

Cover the exterior of pond with layer of sand. After that put any newspaper or burlap on it and after that finally place any waterproof liner on that newspaper which you can get from any home style market.

4. Installing Pump and Edging the Pond:

Install pump on the central point of pond that can fetch good water when needed. Cut the pond liner about 5 inches to overlap it at the exterior. Put large stones on that exterior in level to the pond surface to make it look beautiful.

5. Fill Water and Add Plants and Animals:

Fill water into pond via hose bit low to edge. Add water lilies and plants in it. You can place small plant pots on its edge too. Put frogs or fishes in the pond and enjoy it in your garden!

DIY Gardening: How To Make A Pond In Your Garden