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Patricia Taylor's Articles in House and Home

  • Take The Fear Out Of Wallpaper
    Blank walls are a source of frustration for most do-it-yourself home decorators. Blank walls say ‘you are lacking as a decorator,’ and haunt us for years. The adventurous home decorators may experiment with texturing stucco, a stucco and sand and paste, grass paper, and stenciling. Most home decorators feel they are limited two alternatives, paint or wallpaper.

    New technology is making wallpapers simpler to hang and remove, and easier to paint. Easy-hang wallcoverings...
  • Affordable Window Decorations
    Windows play an important place in a family’s health and well-being. They are the eyes to the world. Windows let the sun’s light in, warm and light the home, and expand the living space.

    Window treatments are part of a room’s decorating scheme, protect furniture and carpets from fading, trap heat in the winter, let the breeze enter the room in the summer, and frame the window.

    However, most window treatments are expensive. A drab, basic window treatment for a smal...
  • Improve The Value Of Your Home For Less Than $2 000
    Improving the value of a home is easy, and sometimes cheap. The most important thing you need to understand is where the home’s value is located.

    The kitchen is the heart of the home. Just watch a few potential home buyers in an open house. They make a beeline for the kitchen before looking at any other room. A few focal points of a kitchen that people associate with value include the faucet, counter, and flooring.

    A kitchen make-over can be as simple as replacing fa...
  • Decorating With Wrought Iron
    Wrought iron has a beautiful, almost ethereal, element that transcends home décor styles and environments, time and tradition. Today’s manufacturers have listened to public demand, hired artists, and created furniture and accents that lets homeowners seamlessly weave wrought iron through any home, any color scheme, and any price range.

    Unlike other design products, like glass, wrought iron is not the privilege of the wealthy. The average homeowner does not need to resort...
  • Decorating Homes With Glass
    Decorating with glass does not need to be expensive or cliché. Today’s decorative glass goes far beyond colored glass bottles, mirrors, and walls made from glass blocks.

    At one time glass was considered as cold and static. Today’s decorators have learned how to blend glass with color and light to create mood and bring life to a room. A new glass, UltraGlas, can be shaped into textured sheets and panels with raised designs.

    It is used in everything from tabletops and...

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