
How's this for fantasy decor? Your kids will have so much fun playing in this Disney Princess Play hut! Designed to slip between standard twin sized mattress and box spring, this free standing play hut creates a fantasy princess canopy that will thrill your child.
Patented EZ twist technology allows for easy set up and fold away storage. The Princess Play Hut measures 42 inches long by 54 inches wide by 42 inches high.
The filmy drapes are also useful against mosquitoes so your child may sleep better and wake up with less itching. During play time, this Princess canopy becomes a location to hide and play. Four small tykes can sit inside and tell secrets, cast enchantments, and fantasize about their adventures. Stimulating to your child's imagination, this canopy provides hours of fun. The structure also provides a barrier to afford your child a bit of privacy. This may help when kids share a room, yet need their own space. It is also easier to fall asleep at nap time, when there is less visual distraction.
The pretty colors and pictures of splendid royalty will delight your child. Familiar princess characters from Disney movies adorn the sides and surface on many sides, so your child may feel as if protected by guardian angels and their associated magic properties.
The Princess Play Hut makes a great gift!
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The Decorator Posted this on December 18, 2009
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Why not make the most functional, every day items in your kitchen, things of beauty? Keep your grains, powders, and jams fresh in the time honored tradition with these lovely and well made jars. The sunflower design brings sunshine and warmth into your kitchen, gracing your counter tops and shelves with a bit of old universe innocence and charm. Your kitchen will feel like a garden in bloom with these decorated and finely crafted vessels. A great way to keep your medicinal herbs potent, and your loose teas from losing flavor.
Glass canisters like these do not leach carcinogenic dioxins or endocrine disruptors such as Bisphenol A (PBA), like plastic containers do. This makes glass jars a much safer and more healthful way to store food. Guarding your health and preventing disease is a worth while investment, and these jars are just the tools you need to do it.
It is easy to close the lids on these jars, due to the metal hinge clasps? are well made and, together with the rubber seals, ensure airtight freshness. The jars oval shape was designed for saving space in storage. Included in this set there are: one large canister with dimensions of 5″W x 3.5″D x 12″H; and one medium canister with dimensions of 5″W x 3.5″D x 9″H.
These jars make great gifts for any occasion, as everyone requires them.
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The Decorator Posted this on December 14, 2009
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This folding chair is simply perfect. It combines an interesting design, with nice round shapes repeated in the seat, steel legs that are both attractive and durable, and a bold color statement that can fit in marvelously in any designed room.

This about this chair in your study, for example, inviting you or your guest to make yourselves comfortable with a good book under a reading lamp. Or maybe in the kids's room, round and playful and themed into a lively color scheme of base colors. Or, how about the patio? a set of these chairs, folded neatly in your shed for easy storage, then pulled out to offer seating in comfort and style. The possibilities are endless, limited only by your imagination and creativity.
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The Decorator Posted this on November 18, 2009
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Storage options do not have to be bulky or in-your-face. Take this beautiful rolled-arm storage bench for example:

Its storage abilities are very discreet. It offers quite a lot of room under that thick foam padding, but if you do not know it, you won't even notice.
Your guests will focus on the sheer elegance of the stylish rolled-up arms and the unique vintage look.The delicate-looking cherry finished legs that are made of solid hardwood and provide great support, and the luxurious seating with its beautiful finish in gold damask.
This bench looks inviting and sophisticated and will easily mesh in country themed rooms, as well as more formal room designs.
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The Decorator Posted this on November 16, 2009
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If you have a play room for the kids, dedicated for toys and games – this is the perfect storage solution for you.? Day care centers and pre-schools, faced with the need to organize toys and materials for dozens or kids, know these storage device well. Well, why not use them at home as well?

These storage shelves aren't only practical – they are also decorative and can help keep the room looking tidy. Perfectly situated for the reach of kids, they can pull toys out of the boxes, and get them back inside with ease. No matter how colorful the toys, you can just toss them in, and let the blue, yellow, green and red boxes unify it all into one organized visual area. A word of caution: this storage unit may be a bit as well dominant and brightly colored to be placed next to a sleeping area. If you're going to use them in a child's bedroom, it should be well spaced from his or her bed.
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The Decorator Posted this on November 04, 2009
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Well it depends on who you ask. Some might be perfectly content having his or her bed up against the wall or in the corner of the bedroom. While this is a perfectly viable option, it is a bit reminiscent of a college dorm room. Adding a headboard and footboard to your bed is a simple way to add a bit of style and panache to your bedroom.
Positioned at the head of the bed, the main purpose of a headboard is to separate your head from the wall and to give you a location to put your bed pillows. The footboard, on the other hand, goes at the foot of the bed and keeps your feet from dangling off the end. While both of these pieces are functional, most people wind up getting them for aesthetic purposes – they just make the bedroom look more complete!
The fact is that a bed just doesn’t look good sitting on top of a box spring with the comforter spilling off the edge of the bed onto the floor. While most bed frames today include a headboard and footboard, wall mounted headboards and panels exist separately, providing for more versatility. Adding a stylish bed frame that includes a headboard and a footboard is a simple and cost-effective way to dress up your bedroom.
Some bed frames even give you some extra under-bed storage which is great for a small apartment.
For those of you yet questioning whether or not you really need a headboard/footboard, why not think about getting a bookcase headboard? These pieces are the perfect blend of form and function, giving you a neat and easily accessible little space to stack books and magazines, tissues, a clock radio –whatever you might normally place on a night stand.
Available in a variety of styles, there’s surely a headboard and footboard to match your personal style and home d?cor style – from an ultra modern leather (or faux leather) headboard, to a simple wood bookcase headboard, perfect for your child’s bedroom. You can even customize the look of your bedroom with a stylish upholstered headboard.
The Decorator Posted this on October 21, 2009
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Chic can certainly be functional, as this storage bench clearly shows. Admirably fine concept and build over here, with a fine lined simple piece of furniture, available in classic black and sheer maple. It is well sized being 13.75″ wide, 12.5″ high and 14″ deep, making it a popular choice that can fit in well, literally, in any room. It works well in the office room, the bedroom, the living room and even in the hallway.

This versatility is crucial, as it means this one item can be used for years to come in various setups, making it a must for interior decor fans that tend to shift things around the home.
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The Decorator Posted this on October 05, 2009
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When you combine solid wood, graceful classic lines and a cherry finish, you get that distinguished look that is good enough for royalty. This night stand isn't an original Louis Phillipe, but it provides a good example of how period furniture, or furniture inspired by them can create the right atmosphere in a bedroom.

Bedrooms are made for relaxation, so the calming effect of this furniture style can be just perfect. It may not be the focus of the room, but it does accent it. Make sure you balance it out with the right fabrics and textures in the room, to avoid a room that is as well formal (unless of course it's what your aiming for with your design).
This is the sort of furniture that stands the test of time, both in terms of style and functionality. Quality storage, including a felt lined jewelry drawer, and personal space for you to locate your belongings as you go to sleep.
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The Decorator Posted this on September 27, 2009
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Living in a small space can be a real challenge, especially for a family with kids, but not only them. Making the most of limited space is the topic of today's article - a real gem!
Interior Design Space Saving Techniques
By David McEvoy
There is nothing worse than clutter for spoiling an otherwise perfectly beautiful home. as well many ornaments occupying the shelves, piles of papers and magazines lying on the table, boxes and bags filled with all those bits and pieces that do not have a home, books overflowing on the book case and so on. Clearing up the clutter and transforming your home in the process needn't be a nightmare. If you think you haven't got enough storage space then think once more. The following space saving tips and techniques will help you to change the look of your home and create a harmonious atmosphere that isn't only pleasing to the eye but calming for the mind.
If you do not need it, ditch it
The first step would be to gather absolutely everything that you do not need and get rid of it. There is no point in hanging on to things that you haven't even looked at for several years, just in case one day you think you might. Invariably, you won't. It can be hard to let go of some items, particularly if you have a tendency to hoard things, but the sheer exhilaration of clearing out the junk is more than worth it. Give items away, donate them to charity, sell them at a car boot sale or take them to your local recycling centre. One mans trash is another man's treasure as they say so pass it on. You may be quite surprised at how much you can gather in only a few years so make a point of having a clear out regularly. It's well worth it.
Now that you've got rid of all the extras it's time to look at how you can display and store everything else.
Walls can be space savers
Walls are often underused when it comes to saving space. Just look at the amount of wall space there is in your home and start thinking about how this could be better used. For example, shelving is relatively inexpensive and yet a few corner shelves can be of immense value when it comes to finding a home for everything. Make your motto “a location for everything and everything in its place”.
If everything has a location then of course it will be much easier to keep your home tidy and uncluttered. Shelves placed high up on the wall can be used for displaying items such as photographs, ornaments or plants or anything else that you want to be able to see but do not need to use. For items that you do not want to see, consider putting them behind a closed door in a cabinet or a cupboard.
If you have a flat screen television then why not consider having it mounted on the wall. Televisions and stands can take up a great deal of space in a room so having it on the wall not only saves space, it is easier to view as well. Other items that can be wall mounted can include spice racks, soap dishes and dispensers, electrical equipment, shoe racks, just use your imagination.
Behind closed doors
Cupboards and cabinets can hide a multitude of sins but what you do not want is a cupboard that you're scared to open in case the contents spill out on top of you. You can buy clear storage boxes with lids very cheaply that you can then label with the contents and stack them on top of one another. This way, when you open the cupboard to put some thing away you will know where it belongs and it won't be a nightmare, or a health risk.
Using the furniture
If you are choosing new furniture spare a thought for any space saving aspects it might have. For example, a coffee table with a couple of drawers, a bed that can accommodate under the bed storage, a display cabinet with closed cabinet space as well. If your current table has space underneath it, think about investing in a good quality tablecloth that reaches the floor, not only will this act as an attractive feature in your room, it can hide videos or CDs or anything else for that matter underneath.
Other ideas
There are always ways to maximise the use of available space in any room no matter how small it is. Take a look round your home and identify any area that can be better utilised. Look above eye level to the ceiling and under to the floor, and remember to look underneath pieces of furniture as well. You will be pleasantly surprised at the amount of wasted space you already have and when you've made the effort to rectify this, you can sit back and enjoy your new and uncluttered surroundings.
David McEvoy is an expert in interior design. If you are looking for a leather sofa to give the finishing touches to a newly decorated room then please come and visit our site.
The Decorator Posted this on September 05, 2009
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Sometimes, the perfect furniture is simple. This storage bench, for example. With simple lines, beautiful three seats in one rectangular box-shaped bench and full leather upholstery, it is a classic. Leather as upholstery has this very special quality: it lends itself to the surrounding and can be anything from extremely elegant in a formal interior decor style, to cozy and friendly, in a country style or contemporary themed room. As it ages, this quality only gets enhanced with the years.

This particular bench, with its sturdy frame, quality leather-bound and foam filled upholstery, stylish finishing is an absolute find. It serves for much more than stylish seating as well, providing you with plenty of storage, be it in a bedroom, living room or even a well-furnished office room.
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The Decorator Posted this on August 22, 2009
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Classy clean geometric lines and elegant dark walnut finish make this bookcase an exquisite addition to nearly any interior decor style. Whether your style is formal or eclectic, this simple and yet stately bookcase can fit right in.

It's not just about good looks either. This is an extremely functional item of furniture that features four strong shelves with slats across the back of the frame to prevent books from falling behind the bookcase. Need more? it actually can be folded for easy storage, in case you're making changes around the home and wish to put it out of sight for a while, but then once more, why would you even want that?
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The Decorator Posted this on July 19, 2009
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When it comes to nursery decor, function is just as crucial as style. In fact, it's probably more crucial. The baby's crib - the central piece of furniture and a potential focal point for the entire room, should be both beautiful, with a warm secure feeling, and live up to your expectations as a long term investment.

This beautiful crib in cherry wood can be a perfect solution. It has a classic look that is both contemporary and one to last through generations. It's not only strong and safe, it's also extremely practical, as it can be converted into a toddler's bed and later into a proper child's bed.
There is even a drawer at the bottom of this crib, for added storage room - some thing you can never have enough of in a nursery. This is definitely the sort of furniture you want in the nursery - it conveys comfort and stability and has the potential to go through the family from generation to generation.
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The Decorator Posted this on July 17, 2009
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Solid wood is a classic way to create a distinguished opulent look and feel in a room, but not the only way, as this brown chaise lounger proves so well.

The cherry finished legs are beautiful but they aren't that dominant in the overall look. What makes this piece of furniture so luxurious is the very shape of the chaise lounger - inviting for a single person to put his or her feet up and relax in peace.
The color is crucial as well, brown as wood, it's both soothing and masculine at the very same time, making this lounger a perfect choice for offices and waiting rooms, as well as a more official living room. It could also work well in a more masculine bedroom, but do not be afraid to soften it a little with a nice warm throw, ready to be wrapped around some lucky person's shoulders.
And if you think a lounger isn't functional enough, keep in mind that this one hides plenty of storage room there as well, right under that seat.
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The Decorator Posted this on July 01, 2009
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Some furniture have a definite contemporary look and when it comes to a Plasma TV stand, a contemporary look is nearly required. After all, harmony in form and function is always pleasing, and when the function involves a high-tech Twenty-First Century object, what else would you expect but a sleek design like this:

How you work this into your living room, or perhaps bedroom, design is a dissimilar question. Fortunately, the design over here uses light colors, so it should be easy enough to have it blend into an airy well-spaced contemporary room, allowing whatever is displayed on the screen to draw the eye to it.
It's not as well huge, and if your TV is larger than a 42″ screen, then keep looking. If the size is right though, then this can be a great option, allowing for comfortable storage of your media, as well as appliances.
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The Decorator Posted this on June 09, 2009
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There is no end of possible uses for these gorgeously woven, willow baskets, from dirty clothes to more constructive utilities. Craftspersons can find a clean area to drop in the waiting quilting materials or say, items to be sewn or already completed. As catchalls for all items waiting to be sorted later, once once more these deep and wide baskets can hold an impressive number of items in security and in a protected space.
Light yet strong and very durable, they can fulfill any number of household or even picnicking tasks with ease. The natural finish of woven willow once once more fulfills its promise, dating its technology with weaving willow from ancient times and running it's incredibly useful lifespan over the centuries. As a green technology, few things can compare with willow as a building material for items such as this. Useful, pretty to look at, lightweight and strong, this is a household item well worth the investment. For all the household tasks we meet up with, there are very few items quite as useful.
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The Decorator Posted this on May 28, 2009
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