Kids’ room wall decor grows up: from baby to teen (Part 2)

After a longer than planned interval, here is part 2 of the kids’ room wall decor topic. If you didn’t get a chance before, don’t forget to read the section about baby and small children’s rooms. As kids grow up and start to have more of their own interests, hobbies, and opinions, the decoration of … Continue reading →

Kids’ room wall decor grows up: from baby to teen (Part 1)

Decorating a child’s room presents a challenge all its own, since children’s needs change as they grow up. The room for the new baby can be decorated to the parents’ taste, but later the kids develop their own views and opinions about their space in the house. If you don’t want to redecorate the whole … Continue reading →

Creating a home gallery in your staircase

This is a follow-up post to Make the most of your hallway: turn it into an art gallery. I talked about a variety of ways to hang art in your hallways, which in many homes connect to stairs. If you haven’t read that post yet, read it now! Here we explore the particularities of hanging artwork … Continue reading →

Make the most of your hallway: turn it into an art gallery

Because usually halls are spaces that we pass through, rather than spend time in, they are often left for last in our decorating process. Nonetheless, even though the time spent is brief, the number of times each day that we pass through provides a wonderful opportunity to enjoy wall decorations without being occupied by a … Continue reading →

3 steps to make your dining room sparkle for company this holiday season

Even though it’s only November and we haven’t even celebrated Thanksgiving yet, one of the top “things to do” in London last week was to visit the opening nights for the Christmas lighting and the German-style “Christkindlmarkt”. So I guess it’s a good time to start preparing our homes for the party and big meal … Continue reading →

How to have fun shopping for art

In a post a few months ago called No more excuses: tips for decorating your new home’s blank walls I talked about how to select art for your home, and I recommended “window shopping” for art regularly in stores, galleries, artist’s studios, art fairs, museums, traveling, etc. Looking at art as part of your travel, … Continue reading →

Make a splash in the bathroom with art

It’s me again, Nicole, your regular blogger. Thanks to Mari for the guest blog in the last edition. This time, I’m going for a small room to decorate: the bathroom. In general the bathroom(s) in the house aren’t the first place we think of for hanging art. Maybe we have a magazine rack or a … Continue reading →

A wallpaper inspiration for every room and style

Hi, all! It’s Mari here from Arcadian Home blog, a fantastic place to find interior design inspiration including great decorating ideas for everything from beautiful foyer lighting to lovely rugs for the floor. I’m so happy to be with you at Walls with a guest post. Today, let’s look at wallpaper. No longer confined to … Continue reading →

4 more ideas for decorating with vacation photos, even with smaller file sizes

If you haven’t yet, check out my tips for taking pictures for decorating in my previous post. It’s always better to have high resolution files for printing, but if you’ve already taken the pictures on your mobile phone or in a lower resolution setting on your camera, here are some options for using smaller prints … Continue reading →

7 clever ideas for decorating with vacation photos

In this age of digital cameras, we often take hundreds of photos during our vacation, take a couple of weeks after coming home to download them to the computer, and then look at them once on the screen. If we’re especially motivated, we make a selection and sync with our smartphones or post on Facebook … Continue reading →