Update Your Bedroom

Bring Color to the Bedroom to Update your Bedroom

Bring Color to the Bedroom

Use neutral colors adding a different color to an accent wall. Grays and blues are cool color which provide a relaxing atmosphere.

Switch Out Accent Pillows

Accent pillows let you quickly alter the personality of a room and shift the balance of color. They’re especially powerful used in a bedroom because the bed is a natural focal point. Pillows can update a room instantly by adding volume, pattern, texture, color, and personality.

Here, a subtle backdrop of cream and blue is brought into focus with a collection of lively pillows. Sunny yellow and blue accent pillows pull the wall color and accent color together perfectly.

Update the Headboard

A dramatic headboard can add instant impact. You’ll find a wide variety of new headboards available at all price points but consider customizing your existing headboard or using an unexpected salvaged piece for a low-cost option. Here, fresh fabric covers an existing headboard to create a cozy retreat.

Update Window Treatments

To set a mood, use draperies and classic swags for a formal look, curtains and shades for an informal look, and simple blinds for contemporary appeal. Consider lining–room-darkening or insulating–that suits the treatment and your needs.

Try on Bold New Bed Linens

Nothing looks and feels fresher than new bedding. If you love the idea of new bedding but are short on storage space for bulky comforters and quilts, consider a duvet, switching out the duvet cover every season.

Bring in the Right Amount of Light

General overhead lighting is less important in bedrooms. Instead focus on bedside lamps and other sources of accent lighting to turn a bedroom into an inviting, comforting retreat. And the type of light is important, too–something as simple as replacing an old light bulb with a warm-spectrum fluorescent might provide just the freshness your bedroom needs.

Try a New Direction

To give your bedroom a decorative lift without spending a dime, angle the bed from a corner. If your present headboard looks too bulky for this arrangement, replace it with a salvaged iron gate or a shorter upholstered panel.

Update Closet Doors

In many bedrooms, closet doors take up a significant amount of wall space. Why not replace the bulky, utilitarian sliding doors with something you’ll enjoy waking up to every day?

Sliding closet doors can be replaced with chic French doors. Mirrored panels hide closet clutter and give the room more visual space.

Paint the Ceiling

Here’s a quick and easy way to create a cozy feel in your bedroom: Paint the ceiling the same color as your walls. Without a visual break between ceiling and walls, the room feels smaller and more intimate.

Use neutral colors adding a different color to an accent wall. Grays and blues are cool color which provide a relaxing atmosphere.

Switch Out Accent Pillows

Accent pillows let you quickly alter the personality of a room and shift the balance of color. They’re especially powerful used in a bedroom because the bed is a natural focal point. Pillows can update a room instantly by adding volume, pattern, texture, color, and personality.

Here, a subtle backdrop of cream and blue is brought into focus with a collection of lively pillows. Sunny yellow and blue accent pillows pull the wall color and accent color together perfectly.

Update the Headboard

A dramatic headboard can add instant impact. You’ll find a wide variety of new headboards available at all price points but consider customizing your existing headboard or using an unexpected salvaged piece for a low-cost option. Here, fresh fabric covers an existing headboard to create a cozy retreat.

Update Window Treatments

To set a mood, use draperies and classic swags for a formal look, curtains and shades for an informal look, and simple blinds for contemporary appeal. Consider lining–room-darkening or insulating–that suits the treatment and your needs.

Try on Bold New Bed Linens

Nothing looks and feels fresher than new bedding. If you love the idea of new bedding but are short on storage space for bulky comforters and quilts, consider a duvet, switching out the duvet cover every season.

Bring in the Right Amount of Light

General overhead lighting is less important in bedrooms. Instead focus on bedside lamps and other sources of accent lighting to turn a bedroom into an inviting, comforting retreat. And the type of light is important, too–something as simple as replacing an old light bulb with a warm-spectrum fluorescent might provide just the freshness your bedroom needs.

Try a New Direction

To give your bedroom a decorative lift without spending a dime, angle the bed from a corner. If your present headboard looks too bulky for this arrangement, replace it with a salvaged iron gate or a shorter upholstered panel.

Update Closet Doors

In many bedrooms, closet doors take up a significant amount of wall space. Why not replace the bulky, utilitarian sliding doors with something you’ll enjoy waking up to every day?

Sliding closet doors can be replaced with chic French doors. Mirrored panels hide closet clutter and give the room more visual space.

Paint the Ceiling

Here’s a quick and easy way to create a cozy feel in your bedroom: Paint the ceiling the same color as your walls. Without a visual break between ceiling and walls, the room feels smaller and more intimate.

Alpine Strawberries

Alpine strawberries cause confusion, as sometimes they’re considered wild, and sometimes they’re not. They’re generally of the genus Fragaria vesca, which grows wild in northern Europe. They can be both red or white.

If you do a search online for white strawberries you will likely get a lot of results. Many will have pictures of pure white berries. They are found in seed catalogs, I have never found these in any greenhouse. They are called pineberries. Some of those offering plants and seeds of these berries are calling them alpine strawberries. There is considerable misinformation about white strawberries in general.

White alpine strawberries are varied. These are called “Pineapple Crush” and are grown in a 12″ pot from seed.

Add a Fountain to your Landscape

Over the past ten years or so, water fountains have almost become a craze. More indoor and outdoor water fountain models are available in more choices of styles, sizes, colors, and materials than ever before! Office desks may sport miniature water fountains, logo water fountains are used for corporate signage; hospitals and dental offices use water features to calm visitors; outdoor water fountains are increasingly called for in residential developments, parks, even children’s playgrounds. Municipalities are incorporating water fountains in high-traffic locations.

Simple diy fountain with paving stone

Everyone loves water fountains! Why?

Water circle fountain
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We live in an increasingly stressful world…the sound of water flowing from a water fountain has a magically relaxing effect. Imagine yourself at the ocean, or by a babbling brook, and you may start to unwind… Ambient noise–traffic sounds, sounds of appliances, televisions–all take their toll on our nerves, sometimes without our realizing what’s going on.

Fountain with pump and water tank

How about the sound of water? That question can only be answered subjectively. In general, water fountain sound will be influenced the materials used in making the fountain, the size of the water fountain, the height from which the water falls, and the number of surfaces to which the water falls. External ambient qualities will also come into play…is the location for the fountain very “live” acoustically, i.e. do sounds bounce off the surfaces and echo, or does the space muffle sounds…with acoustic design elements, or just lots of carpets, soft furniture, and the like? How loud are the sounds that the fountain will be used to mask? You can see that the criteria are numerous to determine a fountain’s sound.

Southwest style fountain.

Of course, water fountains also disperse more water into the air, and we all know how much better our skin feels in a room with the appropriate humidity level than in a dried-out environment. Negative ions are produced by falling water…and they have a calming and cleansing effect…notice how clean the air smells after a thunderstorm! A water fountain will have a similar effect.