A few years ago I brought some friends over to the house I grew up in. "Oh, wow!" one of them said as soon as we walked in the door. "I love these gorgeous hardwood floors!" My immediate response was, "Huh? Wow, we really do have hardwood floors!" Because, honestly, I had never noticed them before. So much of our house was covered in huge area rugs, with more unused ones rolled up and propped in t...
If you've decided to redecorate as part of your spring cleaning (of which it's never too early to start on), you may find your floors lacking in intrigue. Adding an
area rug is a great start to forming a solid space, whether it be a living room, dining room, bedroom, or entryway. Home Thangs has a lot of different rug brands and styles to parse thr...
Finding the perfect accent for any room is hard. You have to balance the space with furniture and colors without it coming off as too bland and unmemorable or too over-the-top and loud. But you can make the task easier by utilizing a subtle part of the room: the
area rug. You can accent a room with area rugs and make a spectacle of it through the u...
There are lots of ways to make a master bathroom feel more luxurious and opulent: natural stone floors, decorative bathroom vanities, and high-end fixtures. But the best way to make a bathroom look more relaxing, elegant, and enticing is both simpler and more affordable: treat your bathroom like you would any other room in your home, and furnish it. Placing even a single piece of furniture in a ba...
Spring cleaning has very little to do with normal everyday cleaning. After all, most of your house probably gets cleaned pretty routinely. Spring cleaning is for those things that don't need to be cleaned as often (and are easy to overlook during routine cleaning), or little problems that sneakily build up over the course of the year. Whatever your normal cleaning habits - whether you're meticulou...
Ranch-inspired spaces are often rather rustic in design - featuring lots of rugged wood, stone, and leather that give the look its signature old-west feel. But layering a lot of "rustic" materials can also make a space feel dark and dingy. One simple way to combat this is with color; even a little bit of color can help balance out the rough quality of ranch-style architectural features. So if you ...
A lot of talk about living room design is dedicated either to the big ticket items - like your sofa, accent chairs, and entertainment system - or to the big surface areas - walls, flooring, and area rugs. But while these elements combined make up the lion's share of your living space, it ignores the one element that brings it all together: your lighting. Good lighting is what makes a living space ...
Many people like the idea of having an antique inspired bathroom, with period-style furnishings and fixtures to create an air of decadence and luxury. And that's easy and easier to do - vaguely antique-inspired bathroom vanities are a dime a dozen, and so are
clawfoot freestandi...Entryways are one of the oddest rooms in the home. They're the first things guests see and set the tone for the house as a whole, but are often made of little leftover patches of space carved out or crammed in between the main rooms. That can make for some pretty unusual layouts, and a space that isn't exactly easy to decorate. Console tables are one of my favorite solutions to these problematic s...
Setting up a nursery is an exciting part of preparing for a new baby, but being restricted to a powder pink or blue palette can also make it something of a frustrating endeavor. Whether you don't know (or don't want to know) the gender of your baby in advance, you want to create a gender-neutral space regardless, or if you'd simply rather not deck a room out in traditional baby pastels, it can sta...
