Living Room Decor

Scroll Top Tool Set

The scroll top five piece tool set is the perfect decor item for a classic looking hearth. The scroll design will compliment any antique decor, and looks great with the Tuscany-design fire place screen, shown in the last post. This tool set isn't only beautiful to look at, it is durable. These tools will last for years and years, keeping your hearth clean, your fire stoked, and your logs positioned just right. Being practical can also be beautiful, as proven by this ornate design.

Broom, shovel, poker, and tongs all hang beautifully like sculpture for an artistic silloete, and leave the floor clear, so it is easy to clean around and beneath the scroll shaped stand. Powder coated steel gives the set fire resistance and strength.

The scroll top design nearly looks like a fountain, and the fluid lines are easy on the eye. This set would also look great not far the CharBroil Firenzy out door fire place. You can mix and match the decor items to create a more formal or a more casual look. You can use the tool set outside with the Firenzy for a more rustic look, or indoors with a decor fire screen for a more formal atmosphere.

Pair the 5 piece tool set with a matching log cradle to complete the look.

This tool set makes a great home warming present.

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Triple-Panel Floor Screen

Do you have kids in that awkward stage of development, sharing a room, and embarrassed to dress in front of each other? This screen will solve the problem.

Is your ugly computer hardware set up and messy work desk ruining the look of an otherwise pretty room? This screen will solve the problem.

Do you live in a studio, loft, or home with an open floor plan? Do you need a beautiful and versatile way to divide the space as needed for different activities? This screen will solve the problem.

Does your baby refuse to fall asleep when there is as well much visual stimulation? This screen will solve the problem.

Nexxt by Linea's Bota triple-panel floor screen divides a room while adding a lovely peaceful view of tree branches and birds, as if you were seeing them through a second story window. The design keeps the room feeling light and airy.

The Triple panel screen is freestanding and constructed of white stretched canvas. The silk screened image is done in layered,? burnt red and taupe silhouette providing interesting depth and dimension in any space. The screen is also available in black and taupe.

The Triple Panel floor screen comes fully assembled.

Dimensions of the screen are: 48 inches wide by 71 inches high by 1 inch deep when open.

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Also check out the Shoji collection for triple panel screens with classic Asian designs.

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Interior Design Through Pillows

Everyone loves pillows, whether they are arranged in a row on a couch, or heaped on the floor in a pile, whether they are used one at a time, or layered and grouped, pillows are great decorations. Pillows can be stamped with fabric paint, quilted, appliqu?d, sewn with ruffles, printed with photographs, or beaded to make them really stand out.

Pillows come in all shapes and sizes. When combined, they are an art instillation in and of themselves. The benefit of this sort of art is that it is so comfortable for everyday use.? A heap of pillows is fun to jump into, sprawl out on, build forts with, offer to guests to make them more comfortable, support aching backs with, rest your head on, elevate your feet with, and of course, have a pillow fight with.

Many modern day artists work in fabric to create unique signature pillows. These do not have to be extremely expensive, as they are often designed by the artist and then mass produced to lower costs. Some artists work with a certain style or theme that runs through their cushioned creations, so you can combine pillows that have different designs while retaining the very same look and feel.

Pillows can have tassels, fringes, fur, laces, or buttons. The possibilities are virtually endless. That means you can use different elements to create a unified look without giving up on variety. attempt a collection of pillows that share the very same shape and fabric but come in a multitude of colors; or why not a mix of different pillows in pure white, showing off different textures and trimmings?

do not think just beds and couches either. Pillows come in all sizes. Some are large enough to be used as chairs or beds, while some are tiny and have pockets for teeth that the tooth faerie will come for. Play around and adds elements of luxury and comfort in various rooms.

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Dress Up Your Tables

Amazing what a difference dressing up your room can make. It doesn't have to be a huge makeover either and doesn't have to be an expensive table cloth. Take a bare room and just throw a runner like this one over the table and voila – you've made a change the atmosphere. What's more, with these relatively cheap runners give you an excellent tool for controlling and playing with color themes.

Practical as well, made of polyester and machine washable, keeping a bunch of these runners in different colors may be a good way to have easy and quick decorative makeover from day to day. Either for a special party, or just a change of seasons, or even of your mood! They can make a great gift as well, for a home warming party, or when visiting a friend.

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Hand-carved Spirit House

Used as a spiritual object, or as a decorative item, this spirit home can blend in nicely into your home. In Thailand, where this sculpture home was crafted, it is intended as a small indoor shrine for local spirits, providing them with their own miniature residence. Such a spirit home is supposed to bless the entire with family happiness, and good fortune. You do not have to follow the Thai religious tradition to enjoy the notion of a good-luck charm. Just enjoy it for what it is. Its attributed qualities and the surrounding lore do make this into an extremely appropriate gift for a housewarming party!

This quality item is ecologically sound as well and planet earth friendly, providing the local craftsmen of Northern Thailand with a source of income while encouraging them to celebrate local traditions.

In terms of style, it blends in wonderfully in any Asian styled room, and its wooden texture and color means it can fit in with some country styles, and even a more formal decor as well.

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