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Home Decoration Tips & Tricks

Learn to look at your home like a designer does with these home decoration tips & tricks that will help you decorate your home in style while staying within your budget.

 

Decorate a Mantel Like a Designer using the elements and principles of design.

What Everyone Ought To Know About Decorating a Mantel

Decorate a home on a budget with these budget tips and tricks.

Tried & True Decorating Ideas for Really Small Budgets

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Making Faux Plants and Branches Look Real

Blue and white bedroom with blue and shite striped area rug over dark hardwood floor.

What Size Rug Goes Under a Bed?

Pumpkin Decorating Ideas using candle holders

Insta-Style: Pedestal Pumpkins

Decorating trick using a mirror

A Home Decorating Trick That is Fun + Free

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Quick & Easy Comfy Cozy Fall Decorating Tips

Fall wreath on mantel

Decorate Your Fall Fireplace Mantel Like a Designer

DIY Decorating Project Planner sheet

My DIY Decorating Project Planner

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Christmas Ribbon Bow Trick

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How Do You Use Your Favorite Color in Your Home?

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How to Remove Stains from Carpet

No sofa living room

“Summer”izing a Living Room in an Afternoon

How to care for white slipcovers

Why I LOVE Living with White Slipcovers

Where to buy inexpensive cabinet knobs and how to attach them.

How to Tighten Inexpensive Cabinet Knobs

How to hide a cable box and the wires coming from a wall mounted TV. With this under $20 item, you will be able to hide your TV cable box yourself. It is an easy DIY.

Installing a Swivel TV Mount and Hiding TV Cords + Cable Box

How to cut material evenly

Crafty Tip: Keeping Scissors Sharp

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How To Hang Heavy Items On a Wall

How to create perfect pleats in drapes

5 Tricks to Use When Hanging Drapes and Curtains

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How Not To Kill Houseplants

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Dresser Makeover: Buttons & Poet’s Paint

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How I Hang Wall Art and Mirrors Instantly

How to hang a wreath with ribbon

How to Hang a Wreath Without Making Holes in the Door

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Make Cushion Covers – The Easy Way!

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Fun Decorating Trick: Upside Down & Reversed

The best silver spray paint that looks like metal

The Best Metallic Silver Spray Paint

How to care for unsealed wood

How to Care for Salvaged or Unsealed Wood Furniture

How to paint kitchen appliances

Why I Painted My Brand New Dishwasher

3 shades of brass pulls bright, dark, and burnished

How To Age Brass in Less Than 5 Minutes

How to display a collection on matchbooks

What to Place In a Large Decorative Bowl

Decorator's Notebook

A Decorator’s Notebook + Free Printable

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What’s In My DIY Decorators Toolbox ?

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Meet Diane the blogger behind the DIY Home Decorating blog, In My Own Style.com

I love all things creative, colorful, and DIY. It is just the way my brain is wired. I can't add 2+2 to save my life, but I can help you decorate your home in a style that you will love...YOURS! 

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