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  • How To Grow A Cottage Garden
    Cottage gardens are traditionally thought of as English gardens, lushly planted with colorful jumbles of flowers and shrubs, and grown in areas with mild winters and cool summers. Unfortunately, most places in the U.S. outside of the Pacific Northwest do not have the proper climate for an English garden.

    Luckily, American cottage gardens are just as beautiful and better adapted to our climate. Still based on the lovely informal array of flowers and shrubs, they are perfect...
  • How To Bring French Country Into Your Home
    French country decorating is one of the most popular forms of country decorating today, yet many are confused about how to introduce this look into their homes.

    French country decorating need not be expensive or difficult, and you don’t need to go out and purchase a whole new room. It is easy to introduce touches of the French country style without changing your entire decorating scheme.

    French country style is a European version of our own American country style that h...
  • Bring Spring Into Your Home Decorating
    Here are some great home decorating ideas for bringing the freshness of spring into your home.

    Sponge paint your walls, or a key piece of furniture. Blues, greens, pinks, and yellows in pastel shades refresh a room, and the softness of sponging gives an impressionistic appeal.

    Take clippings from outdoor ivy, and root in water for FREE houseplants. Buy inexpensive shade annuals and pot them up for indoors- fuchsias, impatiens, begonias, and primroses are wonderful for b...
  • How Women Can Make Money On The Internet
    For many women on the internet today, the idea of creating a business online seems a task only for experienced business professionals. Nothing could be further from the truth! Everyone has something they are good at, or can become good at, and share with the world. And every woman can learn to build a business online, with a little courage and hard work!

    Studies show over and over that people who create businesses around a subject they are passionate about are more success...
  • Add Fall Style To Any Room In A Day
    Adding the autumnal warmth to a room can mark the change in seasons for the entire family, ushering in football, holidays, and cups of cocoa after school. And it can be easy, dramatic, and inexpensive! Follow these three simple steps to take any (or every!) room in your home from summer simple, to fall fabulous in just one day!

    Step One- Add rich, warm color! Whatever your main wall color is in your room, paint your focal wall a deep shade of that color. No major color sch...
  • Using Everyday Objects As Home Décor
    When decorating your home on a budget, nothing is a more effective budget decorating strategy than using what you have. You can use everyday objects found around your own home to add decorative elements. Here are the top five ways to reuse everyday objects as decorative items in any room, on a budget! (What’s better than free?)

    Plates. Lets’ face it, when most of us choose our dinnerware, we pick out patterns we like! Use your dessert plates as accents hung on the wall, or...
  • The Budget Decorator’s Paper Bag Floor
    Sometimes one of the toughest decorating challenges we have when we are on a budget is replacing old, worn, or ugly flooring. If you have vinyl flooring that has seen better days, or you just want more of a natural or luxurious look in your rooms, hold on to your hat! I am going to show you how to create a faux leather floor from ordinary paper bags from the grocery store!

    Tools Needed

    Paper bags or a roll of brown Kraft paper from the postal supply aisle (enough to cov...
  • 3 Steps To Arranging Home Décor Accessories
    One of the biggest home decorating dilemmas is how to arrange your accessories, whether it be a bookcase, shelf, or tabletop. Here is a three step system that will transform your boring or cluttered spaces into charming vignettes!

    Harmony and Contrast

    When arranging a space with accessories, one has to keep in mind that the most important thing to avoid here is boredom! This has a lot less to do with the objects you choose than how you choose to display them. To keep an...
  • Furniture Fixes On A Dime!
    Furniture is our most costly home decorating expense, but there are many ways to make your furniture the star of the show, without breaking your budget! Here are my top 5 furniture fixes on a dime!

    *Paint. Ok, that’s an obvious one, but did you know you can paint anything these days? Yes, even that hideous laminate bookcase from 1974. All you need is a primer made specially for non porous surfaces. I recommend Kilz Original or BIN primer. A coat or two of good primer, and ...
  • Decorating Your Outdoor Room(On The Cheap!)
    Outdoor rooms are extremely popular these days, and not just amongst the rich and famous! You can squeeze an outdoor room in almost any space, and decorate it to match the style and mood of your home, inexpensively!

    Any room needs furniture, and an outdoor room is no exception. However, much of the patio furniture on the market today is quite expensive. You can make inexpensive resin chairs work for you, however. There are new varieties with a texture to them that looks mo...
  • 7 Fast And Easy Summer Decorating Ideas For Any Budget!
    Summer decorating should add freshness to your home, not bog you down with more projects during an already busy season. Here are 11 of The Budget Decorator’s top easy, fast and cheap summer decorating ideas.

    1. If you want to add color to a room fast, paint is a great option. To save time and money however, try just painting the focal wall in a room. In most average rooms, you can paint just one wall in less than an hour!

    2. Instead of sewing up new pillow covers and ta...
  • How To Start An Internet Business (When You Are Already A Full Time Mom!)
    I have had my own internet business for over 8 years now, and I get many women asking how I do it, being a full time Mom to 5 kids and three stepkids, besides! There are some tricks to the trade, so if you are thinking about starting your own business, but have held back because your Mom job comes first, have hope. There are ways you can do it all, and everybody benefits!

    Tip #1 First, I have to admit, I am a fan of Dr. Phil. You may have heard one of his catchphrases…”If ...
  • 10 Reasons For Women To Start An Internet Business
    Starting an internet business is in my opinion, one of the fastest and smartest ways women today can make money. Here are 10 reasons for starting an internet business, and one reason why you shouldn’t!

    1. Money. Pure and simple, we all could use a more of it. Whether it’s to get out of debt, build a retirement, or just simply make ends meet. With the right guidance, an internet business can start generating income almost immediately.

    2. Family. Let’s face it Moms, a lot...
  • Using Fabric In Your Home Decorating: Inexpensive Ways To Transform A Room!
    Using fabric to decorate a room is an inexpensive way to add color, pattern and charm. Use fabric to soften a room, add romance, and give a room a finished feel. Fabric can be used in any room style, and on any budget! Follow these great guidelines for using fabric in home decorating without breaking your budget!

    1. Inexpensive sources for fabric for decorating a room include using flat sheets from discount stores, quilts and tablecloths from yard sales (or your own linen ...

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