Resources for Designing Specific Rooms

Decorating Themes for Children's Rooms
Decorating children's rooms and nursery rooms is no longer about pink and blue balloons and clowns. This guide offers alternatives to pink, a young cowboy theme, ocean themes, starry night themes and Winnie the Pooh themes. The decorating basics section offers tips to enhance the look and maintain safety in your child's room, including protection from electric sockets, avoiding long drapes and curtains, using roman shades, using solid colored bedding so children can grow with the room and selecting furniture for children's rooms. A children's room decorating newsletter is offered, as are other themes such as baby safari, sugar-n-spice and denim patchwork.

Kitchen Redesign
An article on preparing your kitchen for a prospective homebuyer to purchase is available. Tips for hanging a pot rack using dowel rods and dowel holes is offered. Site contains specific measurement information and installation instructions are included. Another link invites visitors to build a kitchen building block using the right lumber and how to care for the kitchen butcher block. Final link includes instructions on how to repaint a vinyl floor.

Quick Tips for Simple Bathroom Makeovers
Bathrooms are one of the most used and abused rooms in your home, yet they are also a serene and relaxing retreat to escape for a few moments each day. With that in mind, it is crucial for your bathroom to be functional, beautiful and enjoyable. Tips include determining your bathroom design style, personalizing the room with paint, and finishing your bathroom look with coordinating finishes. One of the easiest ways to create a professionally designed look in your bathroom is to coordinate the metal finishes. Start by updating the faucet with a new, sleek style in a hot new finish, such as antique nickel, oil rubbed bronze, brushed nickel or stainless steel. According to Vern, coordinating the finish throughout a room is a great way to pull it together. Be sure not to stop with the faucet -- change your drawer pulls, knobs, towel bars, faucets, showerheads, accessories and even your framed artwork. Not everything needs to be exactly the same finish, but be sure the tonal colors are relatively the same hue.

Home Office Decorating Tips
Here are ten tips for decorating a home office. Telecommuters will enjoy these simple tips. Tips include interfacing with household members about the importance to separate your home office from the rest of the house, choosing a suitable location for a home office, choosing an L-shape desk and home office lighting, using wastebaskets and recycling containers, creating a home office filing system, organizing papers, making use of wall space and getting rid of unwanted clutter.