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Joey Lewitin - EzineArticles.com Expert Author
Joey Lewitin is an author, designer, and artisan who has worked in the design industry for five years now. Specializing in products manufactured from natural stone, he is a creative and innovative force in the hoem decor industry.
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- Strategic Decorating - Strategies of Beauty
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] When you start a decorating task, you have to look at it like a general planning a battle. You can't just jump into the fray, throwing furnishings left and right in a mad tizzy. That will quickly result in chaos.
- New Years Drink Coasters
[Home-and-Family:Entertaining] Drink coasters can be a tasteful and stylish way to protect your home, before the party gets started. they can double as place mats, ash trays, and have a variety of other functions.
- Contemporary Decorating Styles and What They Mean to You
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] In the old days interior design was reserved for royalty. Those unlucky enough to be born in a lower class were generally concerned with feeding themselves and didn't have nearly enough money to engage the services of professional designers. Therefore, they had to make do with the homes and furnishings that were most functional and easiest to make.
- Recovering From A Decorating Disaster
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] What happens when you come home and you realize that you hate the way it looks? Decorating disasters are not the end of the world. All you have to do is take a calm, logical approach to the space, and you should have no problem figuring out what the problem is, and taking the necessary steps to resolve it.
- The Basics of Using Textures to Decorate Your Home
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Texture is one of the secret tools in a decorator's utility belt. It is often overlooked, but when used properly, it can add a whole new dimension to the ambiance of a space. Use the following basic texture tips to ensure that you get the most out of the look, and feel, of your decor.
- Accessories You Can Use to Improve Your Enjoyment of Wine
[Food-and-Drink:Wine-Spirits] Wine preparation and tasting is an intricate and highly evolved practice. It involves understanding the chemical makeup of the wine, its temperature, its aeration, and how all of this relates to the flavor. It also involves a tradition of elegance, in which tasting a new wine is more than a drink, it is an event in which everyone and everything around you participates.
- Decorative Color Schemes
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] A color scheme is basically an arrangement of colors. Throughout history the decorative style of certain times and places have become a standard. Think English manor, or country French. When you use the colors associated with these styles in your own home, you create a space which reflects the ambiance of those specific period.
- Drink Coasters Used To Target Drinkers
[Food-and-Drink] Marketers use coasters as a way to place ads right underneath drinker's mugs.
- Drunken Decor
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Tips for creating a stylish home that caters to your beverage of choice.
- Secrets of Picking Color Samples
[Home-Improvement:Furniture] Insider information on how to use color samples and chips
- Basic Color Wheel Information
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Basic information on how to use a color wheel
- Basic Tips for Decorating With Color
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Some simple information that can help you to choose colors
- Using Natural Slate Outdoors
[Home-Improvement:New-Construction] Everything You Need to Know About Using Slate Outdoors.
- Design Principles
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] The basic Information You Need To Decorate Your Home.
- Interior Decorating For Men
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Interior Decorating and how men perceive their homes.
- Comparison of Finishes Available For Natural Slate
[Home-Improvement:Stone-Brick] When slate has a natural clefted finish it means that the surface of the stone is rough, and has not been honed or polished down
- Decorating With Beverage Coasters
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Most peope don't give a lot of thought to beverage coasters. Tiny pieces of optional decor, they don't tend to be a dominant tool that is used when creating the decorative look of a room. However their small size and variety of styles allow you to create several interesting effects throughout your space.
- 7 Things You Didn't Know About Clocks
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Big Ben, one of the most famous clocks in the world, isn't actually a clock. Big Ben refers to the bell inside of the clock tower. The clock itself is St. Stephens tower.
- American Decorating Styles
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] During the colonial period, the early settlers were limited in their furnishings to what they could make, or what they could carry from overseas. This gave our country an early start with a style that was simple, functional, and effective. From such humble beginnings developed a style that was inherently down to earth, and even later on when European goods became more readily available, many homes still reflected this humble spirit.
- Insperiences, Bringing the Natural World Into Our Homes
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] I was reading about an idea called Insperiences over at trendwatching.com and it got me thinking about natural stone.
- Controlling Your Environment, In Order to Better Control Your Life
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] It is a simple fact that the world around you can change who you are. Your environment provides cues as to how to behave, how to feel, how to think, and your mind processes these on a subconscious level. The result is that the nature of your location has a powerful, albeit subtle effect on how you will handle any given situation.
- Basic Marble Information
[Home-Improvement:Stone-Brick] Marble facts and information.
- Masonry Information and Definitions
[Home-Improvement] Masonry - everything you need to know.
- Finding a Place for Modern Electronics in a Well Decorated Home
[Computers-and-Technology] There are many ways to integrate flashy electronics into an elegant setting
- Artistic Tiling with Natural Slate
[Home-Improvement] Ways to maximize the beauty in your natural slate.
- Beauty And Your Home
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Why your lack of art is leading to an uninspired life
- Turning A Spare Room Into A Walk In Closet
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] A walk in closet is a distant dream for many people. A place of almost infinite space, there you could store and organize all of your clothes and personal accessories, keeping them neat, clean, safe, and easily accessible.
- Slate Information
[Reference-and-Education:Science] Slate is formed through metamorphism, a process in which the tiny elements that make up a rock are pushed closer together to form a crystalline structure, also known as recrystallization of the stone.
- Should You Use Slate For Your Bathroom Floors?
[Real-Estate:Homes] Everything you need to know about natural slate in the bathroom.
- Spartan Home Decor
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] What the movie '300' Can Teach us About Decorating Our Homes
- The Chaos of Inspiration
[Self-Improvement:Inspirational] In a perfect world, everything would be the same. A perfect world would not have problems or evil, it would simply be perfect in every way, and everything would be that same perfection.
- Small Space Decorating Tips
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Simple ideas for decorating in a tight spot
- Novel Ideas for Decorating With Wall Clocks
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Ideas and inspirations for decorating with your wall clock
- You Too Can Have a Library in Your Home
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] A library gives a house a sense of sophistication and intelligence that few other touches can. It shows that the owners value knowledge, and that they treasure wisdom enough to stockpile and organize it within their home. This can have a powerful effect on how visitors perceive you, elevating your status and respect to new heights.
- Impressing Your Boss With Home Decor
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Your home can say a lot about who you are as a person. In a subtle way it is an artistic expression of your true self, revealing not only your taste, but the inner workings of your mind. This can be a liability, or a boon, depending on the care you put into its design and maintenance.
- The Important Benefits of Using Slate in Your Basement
[Home-Improvement] If you are looking for a durable and beautiful way to finish your basement, but are worried about the mold and water level problems that can arise in this space, natural slate may be the perfect building material for you.
- What's So Great About Slate? – A Look At the Application of Slate In Interior Design
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] What’s So Great About Slate? – A Look At the Application of Slate In Interior Design
- 100 Dollar Beer Coaster Changes the Nature of Drinking
[News-and-Society] Researchers Andrea Butz and Michael Schmitz in Germany have invented a new drink coaster that costs about 100 dollars to make, and can change the nature of drinking forever.
- The Decor of Details - Drink Coasters
[Arts-and-Entertainment] The drink coaster is a small part of a rooms overall design. However, it is the details of a space that will define its true personality. While the broad appearance of a room washes over a visitors mind, melting into a faint memory which is little more than a shadow of the true appearance, the subtle and clever details in the setting will stand out in their fond and delighted recollections. Drink coasters are a subtle accent that evokes both a sense of sophistication, and individuality.
- Interior Decorating for Cat Owners - Finding the Beauty of Cat Decor
[Pets:Cats] Finding The Beauty of Cat Decor: For the most part cat décor is less about being beautiful and more about keeping your pet safe and comfortable. However there are so many manufacturers of cat products that you can fine almost any of the items mentioned above in several different colors. Try purchasing items such as litter boxes and scratching posts in matching or complimentary colors. If you match the hue to the rest of your setting you may be able to blend them seamlessly into the area...
- Interior Decorating for Cat Owners - Protecting Your Pet
[Pets:Cats] Part 2: Protecting your pet
If you own a cat, then designing the décor of your home will require taking several precautions in order to protect your pet from harm. Glass items should be avoided both because they are easy to shatter, and because fragments of glass can then become embedded in your cat’s skin. Other items to avoid are those that have sharp edges, spikes, or that have small pieces which can break off and be swallowed...
- Decorating for The Cat Owner - How to Protect Your Possessions
[Pets:Cats] Interior Decorating for Cat Owners – Protecting your possessions
- Turning Your Child's Room into a Mysterious Jungle
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Using interior design to change your childs room into a jungle. Includes tips on getting to know your kids better and ways to teach them while you craft...
- Interior Decorating For Cats - Protecting Your Possessions
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Decoratinga home around a cat can be difficult, but this article will provide information for creating a safe and beautiful home...
- Decorating a Romantic Room
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Decorating a romantic setting...
- Practical Feng Shui - Debunking the Myths
[Home-Improvement:Feng-Shui] Practical Feng Shui – Debunking the myths and finding out what we can actually learn from the ancients...
- Dont Just Clean, Organize
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Ways to use decorating to help minimize clutter...
- Decorating for the Artist Within
[Home-and-Family] There is an artist lurking within all of us. The creative fire burns in every human, propelling us to create, to express, to shape the world around us. Even though we may be unlearned, or perhaps even unskilled, still the urge to impact our environment is so inherent that we do it without even thinking about it. Every twist of the magazines on the coffee table, every centering of a portrait, every adjustment we make is our inner self yearning to impact the world around. By making a conscious effort we can guide these impulses into a form of art that will both beautify our surroundings and strengthen our inner self.
- Decorating a Guest Bedroom - Get Out of your Own Way
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] The guest bedroom is the one room in the house that you aren’t decorating for yourself. Therefore when you go to design the rooms décor, it is important not to get in your own way. Overdoing the decoration in this room will be a disservice to guests by reinforcing the fact that they are not in their own home. As comfortable as they may be with you, they will never be as comfortable in your home as they would in their own setting. On the other hand, failing to place those few simple pieces that make a space feel personal; will leave the guest room feeling cold and empty.
- Psychology Of Colors: The Dining Room
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Colors affect our minds, our physiologies, and our social interactions. The colors you choose when decorating a room can have an effect on any occasion that you hold there. The dining room is a place of delicate social situations that occurs between the most intimate of relationships. By first considering the psychological effects of the following colors, one can help to make the dining room a more relaxing place to eat and gather.
- Decorating The Bathroom - Dress Your Mess For Less
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] The bathroom may be the hardest room to decorate. Its use and nature make the room decorative uninspiring, and its limited size and necessity of function make it difficult to add very much. Further, making a major change to the room’s décor generally requires huge sums of money, when you consider the expense of changing tiled floors or walls, or replacing existing fixtures such as showers and sinks. However, there are a few thrifty things you can do to turn your bathroom from an eyesore into a place of decorative elegance.
- Home Made Gifts, The Best Way To Teach Your Kids The Value Of The Holiday
[Home-and-Family:Holidays] To a large extent the holidays have come to be more about materialism than the original values of peace, harmony, and faith. Advertisers hit us from all sides with messages of greed and pettiness. Ev...
- Travertine Information
[Reference-and-Education:Science] Travertine is a compacted form of limestone that forms in rivers and hot springs. Water, especially river water, has a lot of minerals in it. Sometimes these minerals become deposited on the river be...
- Marble Information
[Home-Improvement] Marble is any limestone or dolomite that can take a high polish and still be usable. Marble is generally formed from limestone undergoing metamorphism. When exposed to extremes of pressure or heat li...
- Decorating a Kid's Room
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] The most important thing to consider when decorating a child’s room is to make the child comfortable. You want to surround them with fun, playful items. The way this room is designed is going to have...
- Using Psychology of Color to Influence the Mood of a Room
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] The living room is the setting which will blend the people in your life into the occasions of your home. It is the hardest room to decorate because it has to be versatile, comfortable, and entertaining. Guests, relatives, friends; this room will be the showcase of your home for all of them. This makes the decoration of the living room especially important. The colors and designs you choose will have subtle effects on the psychology of the occupants in the setting, resulting in slight changes to the interactions held there. In a social center such as this, you do not want that influence to be a negative one. A way to help control this is to understand the psychological effects of color on the people in a room.
- Psychology of Color - Decorating a Kitchen for the Subconscious
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Psychologists have studied the influence of color on the mind for years. While they have not found any effects that generalize to every society, they have found that people from the same society are affected by colors in similar ways. Using these findings it is possible to tap into the subconscious of people, and use this information when decorating to create a room that will have positive emotional effects. The following are the general effects of color on the perceptions of Americans, and some tips on how to use these colors to influence the minds of the people in your kitchen positively. These colors may affect you differently, and as such it is important to pay attention to your own tastes above any advice.
- Decorating a Bedroom for the Subconscious Mind - Psychology of Colors
[Home-Improvement:Interior-Design-and-Decorating] Psychologists have been studying the effects of color on people for many years. While they have made many discoveries about color effects on people in different societies, they have not found any effects that occur across all societies. For instance in China the color red tends to make people feel calm, while in America red tends to make people more aggressive. This means that the effect of color on a persons mind is individual and perceptual, rather then being physiological and inherent. In order to choose the right color for a setting, you will have to get in touch with your inner self, and see which color you harmonize best with. In the bedroom one tries to achieve maximum relaxation. By choosing the colors that you feel most comfortable with, you will find the greatest contentment with your decor.
- The Chinese Invent Moving Clocks 500 Years Before Europe
[News-and-Society] The chinese built the first mechanical clock roughly 500 years before the Europeans. The first example of this was a giant clock tower with moving astrological objects
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