Posted by janette on 31st July 2008
With the ever-growing popularity of tapestry wall hangings as a stunning alternative to traditional wall décor, Art & Home continues to expand their collection of available tapestries for consumers.
Partnering with one of the most respected tapestry manufactures in the U.S., based out of Lynn, North Carolina, www.Art-and-Home.net has continually added new tapestries in a variety of styles, sizes and colors, and has now reached the collections largest size in Art & Home’s history. With nearly 1,400 tapestry wall hangings currently available (and more being added on a regular basis), customers can select from contemporary, traditional, abstract or classical.

“Tapestries are more than just décor, they are woven pieces of art,” says Paul Stainton, Owner of Art & Home, located online at www.Art-and-Home.net. “Where else can you get all the beauty of a painting, the acoustic benefits of a rug and the uniqueness of a hand-crafted artefact all in on. It’s no wonder that tapestries are becoming more and more popular as our customer’s choice for wall décor.”
The tapestry collection began with less than 200 pieces, and has grown over time. With the most recent additions, the collection now includes 1,398 tapestry wall hangings, plus a large collection of tapestry throws and woven tapestry throw pillows. The tapestry collection is divided into various categories, including traditional, contemporary, landscapes and more.

Art-and-Home.net is an online retailer specializing in unique and stunning décor products for the home and garden. A family owned and operated business, they are always seeking new, fresh and decorative products in order to provide their customers with a unique shopping experience.
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Posted by janette on 8th July 2008
Buying real and textured surface can be very tight in your budget. Since paint is most times more economical then the real thing, why not add a little trick to your place to deceive your viewer’s eyes with something that looks real. What you see isn’t always what you get. This is what Tromp L’Oeil made of. It
achieves the sense of being three dimensional with a technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion. Their placement and realistic preciseness is just amazing. Surprises like these are what make interior design so much fun and fascinating.
From the french word Trompe L’Oeil, pronounced “trum ploy” its meaning translates literally “to trick the eye” or “to fool the eye”.
Inexpensive, simpler furnishings, along with interiors and exteriors of buildings can be made to look
more expensive using techniques in wood graining (faux bois )and marbling (faux marbre). A three dimensional effect can be given to flat walls and ceilings. With the use of shading, shadowing and viewpoint skills trompe l’oeil artists and muralists can use their flairs to craft windows, doors and other openings like break aways, and rips and tears to open a room and give it depth.
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Posted by janette on 12th June 2008

Walls can be a great way to entertain yourself and have fun. Painting can consume some of your precious times and it could also be painful in your pockets when at the end you’re not satisfied with what it has become. Decals are just the fastest way to deck your walls. You might get used to with the old and boring designs. Wall Slicks offers new innovation in Home Décor. Other than making your wall ornamenting easy and simple, Wall slicks offer an inexpensive and mess free decals. Any one can quickly add and remove these exciting wall decals. Perfect for DIY fanatics, these surface graphics works best not just in walls but also in floors, doors, ceilings, furniture, glasses and more.
Just by peeling and sticking, these decals are also removable and could be transferred to any place. The adhesive wall graphics are as easy to remove as they are to apply, and are guaranteed to not leave residue. Perfect for home owners, apartment dwellers, or college dorm rooms.
Wall Slicks offers to be realistic. It may seem to look like paints. Thinness of material and opaque, matte finish allows decals to blend in with any décor and don’t look “stickery”. Perfect for any room, it could be your kitchen, playroom, living room, family room, bedroom, dorm room, nursery room, even the garage, providing an endless possibility!
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Posted by janette on 12th June 2008
Who says only kids can imagine things such as backdrops on their rooms? Even adults can do it! You can make your place of fantasy appear in your room, even pictures that you can only imagine in your dreams. You can make it happen with Murals Your Way.
Everyone can be creative in their own ways. You may want a Broadway, outer space, underwater, forest, or just any abstract designs you have in mind. Mural Your Ways features different designs in their site. You may check some of their designs from different clients – residential, commercials, schools, restaurants, hotels, corporate, medical, retail shops and many others.
Their selections of 5,000 murals are all printed on heavyweight vinyl panels. They are uncomplicated to hang and they offer all the materials you will necessitate to complete the job.

Murals are available in customary heights from 4?-9? to 8? tall but they also offer custom sizes. To add up some of their site’s cool feature they have the Room Tool Tutorial that helps figure out what scale will work best in your room. You can also provide them your own photos or artwork to make into a mural. The options are nonstop! Whether you fancy covering a whole wall or just make a focal point, Murals Your Way has got you covered.
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Posted by janette on 10th June 2008
Wall pictures can play a significant role in the room, making it the focal point to the room. That is why it is indeed important to plan where to hang them to be able to maximize the effect of the pictures. Here are some suggestions to help you decide how to get the best effects from your pictures.
Creating a modern gallery look or touch to any room is best in hallways, lobbies, and stairwells to enable an ample breathing to each space. Stand at the midpoint of the first piece and take one swift, or two small steps along the wall. This is a good center for the next piece.
Most of the time we place wall pictures at the top of a furniture. Most common are the sofa. When placing wall art above it make sure it is situated on an eye level position or it could be around seven to nine inches above the furniture.
You can also make it a sort of cluster arrangement. You can give a statement or a focal point by grouping an even number of pictures compactly depending on the look you want. These cluttered arrangements can both works well in small and wide spaced walls. Consider placing odd numbers of picture in a row or in a horizontal line. This is ideal in hallways and stairwells since it gives a sense of balance and space.
It is very important to decide where and how you’ll hang the pictures. By planning whether it could be a cluster arrangement or just a single piece in top of your furniture you’ll enable yourself to determine the size and shape of pictures that you need to purchase. It is also significant to ascertain the room’s function, color and style prior to your shopping.

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Wall pictures are oftentimes taken too lightly as a home interior design accessory. Perhaps it is because nearly everyone doesn’t have an idea how to create a maximum effect of the pictures in a room. Prior to hanging up your pictures make it appoint that you plan ahead on what outcome you want out of that room. Settle on the function, style and color of the room initially prior to your shopping. Doing such way, you position yourself in a way to buy the right type of art picture that matches with the theme and color that would also best accentuate your room.
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Posted by janette on 31st May 2008

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Stickers or wall decals can be a distinctive approach to generate attention-grabbing theme for your home interior design. Vinyl wall decals are available in various themes. The good thing with these wall decals is that they are easy to remove since they have no adhesive backing in nearly all cases and it can be placed to other areas of the house or any rooms. Vinyl wall decals are beneficial most especially for rented apartments. These decals can be easily removed since they hold fast with static cling - leaving no trace on any surfaces or walls once removed.
Wall decals are also all the rage in decking a nursery’s room - alphabet, train and animal stickers are the most common themes parents chose for their children. Some film fanatics also opt for their favorite science fiction movies such as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry or their kid’s favorite heroes like Spiderman, Superman, or Batman just to name a few. A number of designs are attractive such as glow in the dark decals. A solar system look offers a gleaming effect for quite a few minutes but can intermingle to some degree when lights are turned on. Even sport idols, rock stars and other music artists can also be selected as a theme for the wall decals to add a different touch for your kid’s room making it a nice place to hang up and chill whenever your kids turn on their teen years.
Wall decals are also a unique way for a place during parties. Balloons and streamers are the usual choice for a party touch environment but decking your walls with wall decals can add up an excitement to whatever party you have.
Vinyl wall decals for home design and interior decorating grants you infinite ways do embellish a room or home. Their ease of use, simplicity and transferability are the best advantage you can
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Posted by janette on 23rd May 2008
From residential to commercial places, walls are in great deal the most pleasing spaces to embellish. Whenever you take part on your passions, it will assist you to amend your room into a place you dear to be in. From an age-old map to synchronal images of skyscrapers, the sky is virtually the limitation once it comes to decorating your walls. Merely opt on a wall décor steeped with your personality and qualities and you’re forth to an eminent beginning.

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Innovational artistry canvasses and graphics can endure style in any room. Give consideration to the flatness and frame for these items - they can serve to embellish an art object. From time to time a great piece of art can invigorate a whole room. Always hang pictures at eye level if possible. You might also prefer to set up some light fixtures to accentuate your work a lot better. Walls are precisely the ideal place to showcase any of your collections - graphics of shores in charcoal, oil paintings of automotives, watercolors of a nice landscaped garden - these examples may not blend well in collaboration, but admitting the oil paintings to revolutionize other parts of your room with enhancing items will link up a plan collectively.
A thriving interior decoration is dynamical in many things. It may captivate, give solace, enchant and above all it should always render interest. Furnishing fascinating décor for your walls can invigorate exchanges and also an appreciation and veneration. Although a great deal about beautifying is roughly from personal taste, in that respect is such a broad range of choices for walls that it perhaps grant difficulty to nail down selections. Listed here are some tips that may help you deck your walls for best interest intended to please every sight that gaze through it.
It is best to reckon your personal interests when it pertains to art. You might opt on a certain styles like American country, French provincial or an English cottage or perhaps an era like Victorian or Art Deco. These examples are keen places to start with your plan to deck your walls. You don’t necessarily require adhering on a single theme or one trend. It can also be a combination of eclectic styles drew together. Any of these will steep any room with character and personality.
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