Archive for the ‘Decorating Ideas’ Category
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Why worry about travel safety and soaring transportation prices this year when you can plan for a vacation to paradise in your own backyard? For less money than you would spend on a cruise for two you can convert your patio into a private resort setting using handcrafted custom patio furniture from the Amish. These [...]
Tags: Amish, backyard, cedar, Furniture, Outdoor Furniture, picnic, retreat, solid wood, swing, tripod frame swing
Posted in Adirondack, Amish Furniture Styles, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Uses, Hickory Furniture, Home Life, Patio & Outdoor Life, Rustic Furniture | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
A preferred showcase chosen by many collector’s of fine porcelains like Royal Doulton is the hardwood bookcases, curios, china cabinets and shelves designed and built by the Amish. Like Amish heirloom pieces the precious and highly valued and regarded collectibles and décor items designed and crafted by the Royal Doulton Company are world-renowned and highly [...]
Tags: Amish hardwood, Bookcases, china cabinet, corner cabinets, curios, Henry Doulton, hutches, John Doulton, John Watts, Royal Doulton
Posted in Accessories, Bookcases, Decorating Ideas, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Organization, Porcelain & China, Storage | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Now that you have accessed your home and lifestyle, documented your usable possessions and determined your desired future environment it is time to consider where to start investing from your “wants list”. Start with the fundamentals, such as where you will sleep, sit, eat and even store your possessions.
DETERMINE A BUDGET: It is far too [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, BUDGET FURNITURE, BUDGET YOURSELF, Buying Furniture, furniture construction, home environment, intelligent design
Posted in Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Tips, Home Life, Understanding Hardwood and Furniture Construction | No Comments »
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Food, water, clothing and a place to give you shelter is the necessities to live a decent life. While it is true that you can make do with the most minimum of furnishings in order to create the shelter that protects you we are fortunate enough to be able to create a warm and welcoming [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, furniture investment, game center, home environment, intelligent design, personal atmosphere
Posted in Accessories, Adirondack, Arts and Crafts, Baby Furniture, Bedrooms, Cherry Furniture, Clocks, Craftsman, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Dining Room Furniture, Furniture Tips, Hickory Furniture, Home Life, Home Office Design, Lamps & Lighting, Linens, Lodge, Log Cabin Homes, Maple Furniture, Mirrors, Mission, Modern & Contemporary, Oak Furniture, Organization, Rustic Furniture, Shaker, Sofas, Upholstered Furniture | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
In an unsteady economy isn’t it nice to know you have designed a custom home, full of Amish hardwood furniture you can enjoy and entertain on in a much less costly fashion than dining out? If you don’t always find the joy in eating and entertaining at home it may be you are lacking an important [...]
Tags: ambience, Amish Furniture Styles, Amish hardwood, Dining Room Tables, economical dinner party, entertaining at home, Hardwood Furniture, memorable event, Shabby Chic
Posted in Accessories, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Dining Room Furniture, Holidays & Gift Ideas, Home Life, Linens, Organic, The Entryway | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
You had the wisdom to invest in a magnificent hardwood bed hand built by Amish artisans so why not buy the best sheets you can afford? Sheet quality is determined by thread count in the bedding marketplace. In recent years the thread count has risen from 400 to 600 to even 1000 thread count. While [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, Bed, cotton fiber, cotton yarn, egyptian cotton sheets, egyptian cottons, fiber quality, John Mercer, Linens, Mercerizing, pima, quality cotton, silk blends, sodium hydroxide, staple cotton, thread count sheets
Posted in Accessories, Bedrooms, Decorating Ideas, Home Life, Linens | 12 Comments »
Monday, January 19th, 2009
Whether you are limited on space in an apartment or house, just trying to give a room a streamlined and well organized look, furnishing a commercial living space like a hotel or setting your parents up in a scaled down residence, a pier bed wall unit is the most efficient piece of bedroom furniture in [...]
Posted in Amish Furniture Styles, Arts and Crafts, Bedrooms, Craftsman, Decorating Ideas, Design Style, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Lamps & Lighting, Mirrors, Mission, Oak Furniture, Organic, Organization | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
While homeschool families utilize the whole world from home to yard to neighborhood and beyond, as their classroom, at some point even the freest thinking parent-teacher must dedicate a room or sections of a room to the home school. Logically, home schooling families quite often use the dining room table as command central. Even “out [...]
Tags: Amish Furniture Styles, Dining Room, Dining Room Table, Dining Room Tables, home schooling families, homeschool families, homeschoolers, solid wood
Posted in Bookcases, Chairs, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Dining Room Furniture, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Organization, Storage | 2 Comments »
Monday, January 12th, 2009
No matter how well designed your home is poor lighting can have a negative impact on the ambience and even paint scheme. Misplaced lighting, as well as a poor choice of bulbs, can cause squinting and color schemes, and even things like food, to appear to fade into unwanted shades. One lighting source in use, [...]
Tags: CFLs, compact fluorescent lights, energy saving, Going Green, green light bulbs, green lighting, incandescent bulbs, Lighting, Low-energy fluorescent
Posted in Accessories, Bathrooms, Bedrooms, DIY Projects, Home Life, Lamps & Lighting, News, Organic, The Entryway | No Comments »
Monday, December 29th, 2008
You have wisely selected the perfect Amish built focal point for your new media room or personal home theatre – the entertainment cabinet and now it is time to fill it with quality electronic fun. A well planned personal home theater will deliver years of entertainment for you, your family and friends.
TELEVISION:
Both satellite and cable [...]
Tags: Amish, cotton candy machines, entertainment cabinet, entertainment center, Gustav Stickley, hd television, high tech gadgets, home theatre, leather recliners, Media Room, Morris Recliner, movie memorabilia, personal home theater, popcorn machines, recliners, reclining chair, solid wood, television hd, theater seating, theatre experience, William Morris
Posted in Accessories, Arts and Crafts, Chairs, DIY Projects, Decorating Ideas, Furniture Uses, Home Life, Mission, Upholstered Furniture | 3 Comments »