Once a small room of function, today’s bathroom has transformed into a place similar to a favorite spa. Whirlpool tubs, customized showers, and spacious vanities have combined to create a private retreat within the home, perfect for resting after a tiresome day. However, the bathroom is also a place where clutter gathers quite easily. Various [...]
Many homeowners today are taking on interior decorating projects that drastically transform their home with fresh colors, textures and designs. Painting your walls is one way to give your home a new style and a touch of elegance. But with all the paint types that are available in hundreds of colors and finishes, choosing the [...]
One of the most enjoyable parts of home décor is accenting your windows with tasteful elements that reflect your style. Choosing window sizes, frames and configurations can be a complicated process, but can run smoothly if you keep privacy, functionality and style in mind. With a variety of options for everyone’s tastes and budgets, window [...]
Achieving a color scheme that is both elegant and harmonious throughout the living spaces in your dream home is often one of the favorite steps of home decorating. Everything from the flooring and walls to the furniture and linens in your home should represent a color scheme that reflects its purpose whether you live in [...]
Homes offices are becoming an every-day necessity in many home designs. Whether you use your office as a hobby room for playing games on the computer, browsing the Internet, or as your full-time work center, it should be well balanced and extremely functional for every purpose it serves in your day-to-day lifestyle. These days, working [...]
Many people look forward to spending their weekends watching movies or reading a great book on the couch. It is a well-deserved treat for those whose work week is a flying, fast-paced few days full of picking up the kids, fixing dinner, packing lunches or doing laundry. After a long day’s work and all the [...]
As you begin looking at country house plans, remember that nothing will make your new house feel more like home than adding your personal artwork. You can easily bring your own personality and drama to any room by hanging photographs, wall art and collectibles.
Start by choosing the most important pieces you want to group together. [...]
• When choosing from luxury home plans, these interior design decorating tips will help you to solve household issues and improve the overall appearance of your new dream home.
• Starting in your kitchen, avoid using paper light shades or fabric that will harbor cooking odors and grease. Choosing glass and metal fittings is more practical in the [...]
Consider these delightful design ideas to add style and enhance the living space in your luxury home plans.
• Drapery designs are getting consistently longer. A great trick to add height to any room is to place window treatments just beneath the ceiling line. This designer tip can be used in any room that would benefit [...]
Basic Interior Decorating
Wonderful rooms have been designed by top-notch St. Louis designer Karen Pepper of Edwin Pepper Interiors. The rooms have a little bit of Karen and a whole lot of the homeowners’ personalities.
No rules and no boundaries is the Karen Pepper motto for designing rooms. Pepper, a second generation interior decorator working with Edwin [...]