Comments on: An inspiring walk through a furniture store

By: Bespoke Furniture

Bespoke Furniture — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:20:30 +0000

You know i love looking in furniture stores at all the designs but the problem is i drag all me kids in there and i can never get any peace … to concentrate on the designs … but i try and try ….

By: Judi

Judi — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:33:34 +0000

Great ideas!

Our bathroom is really small, I mean, closet-sized. I use a clear liner and found curtain sheers (with a fern print on them) on the clearance rack a big box chain store…to use over the liner. Because the liner is clear and the curtain is sheer, it helps keep the bathroom feeling more open.

By: Design Ideas

Design Ideas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:14:57 +0000

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By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:01:20 +0000

I love the chandelier over the bed idea!! I really want my bedroom to be like that now… I better remember this for when I actually have a house instead of an apartment!

My apartment is furnished, so luckily I didn’t have to do any decorating… I have no idea where I would start. I think that style depends a lot on the living space, so, to me, it’s almost pointless to buy nice things when I live in an apartment. I guess it depends on how long I plan on being in the apartment though.

By: Debbie M

Debbie M — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:11:39 +0000

I do research at my friends’ houses. Like when I was deciding what kind of couch I wanted, I started paying attention to where people sat whenever I was over at someone else’s house. Answer? The arms of chairs. The backs of couches. On the floor in front of couches. Weird, eh? (We were in our mid-twenties then.) I concluded it would be no big deal if it took me a while to get around to having a couch!

I once noticed a friend’s bedroom seemed really comfortable. What was the secret? I’m not sure, but I think I like that the bed was made with a soft hunter green comforter, and there were banker’s lamps on either side of the bed for easy reading.

You can also see just how little it takes to achieve a certain effect. You can remember a room as being red when only one wall is red. You can remember a room as having stained wood trim when it really just has stained wood switch plates (with dark switches).

By: joanna

joanna — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:24:02 +0000

I flip through home magazines for ideas. I’m not the best at decorating, or matching colors or anything, so I need the help. The home magazines seem more realistic than the furniture stores or the catalogs- more like places that I’d actually want to live.

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:49:36 +0000

I enjoy furniture stores and magazines. But I don’t really try to recreate them. Perhaps I shall someday when we have more money…but frugally most definitely. As long as the furniture is attractive and functional I don’t see as much need to spend thousands.

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:47:22 +0000

That’s a great idea. I haven’t been to a furniture store since I was a kid. I usually do what the other commenters do — look in catalogs or on TV shows. I also look at things online, including DIY and crafty sites. There are a lot of great designers (amateur and professional) that put their ideas out there to share.

By: Tootie

Tootie — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:03:44 +0000

I like watching HGTV for ideas. They have some good shows, including “design on a dime” where they actually show you how to make low-cost decorating items.

By: Meredith

Meredith — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:02:20 +0000

I love looking through the Pottery Barn and Pottery Barn Kids catalogs and then finding cheaper alternatives elsewhere (Target, Walmart etc…) Sometimes I do buy 1 or 2 things from PB or PBKs if I can’t find something I like as well (for example, the window sheers in DD’s bedroom), but then finish decorating with cheaper items or with things I already have. I use their catalogs a lot when figuring out how to hang/group picture frames especially.