5 Most Popular Ideas to Utilize Under the Stairs Space of Your Cozy Home

1. Transform the space into a home office and enjoy your new workspace  

Contemporary Home Office by Austin Architects & Building Designers Hugh Jefferson Randolph Architects

Contemporary Home Office by Vancouver Interior Designers & Decorators Maria Killam




2. Convert the space into a cozy sitting area

Traditional Sitting Space

Transitional Family Room by Bridgeport Interior Designers & Decorators Bishop Creative Partners




3. Remodel the space into a indoor play area for your kids

Eclectic Kids by Dallas Interior Designers & Decorators J Campbell Interiors




4. Create a closet or few cabinets with doors and drawers under the stairs and enjoy plenty of storage spaces

Traditional Staircase by Minneapolis Kitchen & Bath Fixtures Steven Cabinets

Traditional Staircase by Cambridge Interior Designers & Decorators Pinney Designs




5. Make some shelves to use the space for displaying books, showpieces and other stuffs

Contemporary Staircase by Vancouver Photographers Heather Merenda

Modern Basement by Devon Interior Designers & Decorators Semerjian Interiors

A Vast Selection of Bedroom Textiles at Quilts Etc.

Are you planning to buy some bedroom textiles for your cozy home recently? Quilts Etc. has a wide  collection of bedroom textiles that you can easily afford. Quilts etc. carries Canadian Crafted Down Duvets as well as silk, wool and synthetic styles. From basic 300-thread-count blends to luxurious 600 thread count, 100% cotton sheeting, the Eco Friendly natural fibers Trencel (Lyocell) and Bamboo, Quilts Etc. has everything that you need! 

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Small Living Room Design Ideas

Contemporary Family Room by Kennesaw Interior 
Designers & Decorators Kandrac & Kole Interior Designs, Inc.

Everyone has got different ideas and unique style to decorate their living room than others. However, while designing a small living space, this is very common for all of us that we always want our small living room to look specious and cozy.

You can search for small living room design ideas online and get thousands of pictures as a result. Try to find out some key issues or challenges you are facing regularly with your current living room design and then address those areas one at a time to redesign your living room.

An Easy DIY Wall Art Project Using Duct Tapes and Paints

Wall art using duct tapes are very easy to make. You just need a canvas, duct tape and few paints of your own choice to get a vibrant out come.


It is not always possible to buy paintings to match with the colour theme of your room. But after reading this article, you will be able to decorate any room of your cozy home with a matched wall art. These project does not cost much time or effort. Also, this is very inexpensive. So, whenever you get some free time, follow these three simple steps to make a piece of your own wall art.

 Step1: Take a blank canvas and randomly put some tapes.

Step 2: Once you are done putting on tapes, use colors of your own choice to paint the uncovered parts of the canvas.





Step 3: When the paints are almost dry, remove the tapes from the canvas. and enjoy your beautiful piece of art work. You sure will be surprised by your own creativity.



Enjoy your beautiful piece of art work. You sure will be surprised by your own creativity.

How to Decorate Kids Bedroom?

Kids are the source of happiness. They add glory and joy to a family. They give reason to live.  They deserve their own space in our cozy home. Small kids may or may not stay in a separate room from their parents. Also, you may not have a extra room at your house right now for the little one. Depending on you situation, you can allocate a room or some space for your kids and decorate it accordingly.

Contemporary Kids by Orlando 
Design-Build Firms Hobus Homes

Use bright colors for kids bedroom:

While decorating a kids bedroom, use vibrant wall painting, matching textiles and colorful furniture.

Eclectic Kids by San Jose Home Stagers Classic Interior Design

Allow plenty of storage spaces: 

Kids need their own spaces for storing their cloths, accessories, toys, books and many more. Try to make use of closets, shelves and space under the bed through bins, hanging organizers, baskets etc.

Traditional Kids by Columbus Real Estate Agents William Robbins/ GR&T Group of HER Realtors

Leave some space for reading, writing and drawing: 

If possible, arrange a small table and chair to create a reading space for your kid.

Eclectic Kids by Other Metro Architects & Building Designers Dalius & Greta Design

Allow enough free space within the room: 

 Do not make the room very crowded with lots of stuffs.Instead, try to leave enough free space within the room so that your kid can have space to move around and enjoy his little play area.

Contemporary Kids by Great Neck Photographers Kitty Dadi Photography 

Keep the room tidy and organized: 

The more you keep your kids room tidy and organized, more your kids will learn to be organized. Ask help from your kids to make up his beds and clean up the mess everytime he makes while after playing.

Modern Kids by Other Metro Furniture & Accessories casamodern.com

How to Organize Bills and Mail at Home?

Traditional Home Office by Birmingham 
Interior Designers & Decorators AMW Design Studio

If you are planning to keep your home tidy and organized, one of the most important tasks will be organizing bills and mail.

DIY Project: Book Holder from Cereal Boxes

Having breakfast with cereals is very common among us. As such, most of us often get some empty cereal boxes. Did you ever think of consuming those boxes and  turn into something very useful for your cozy home?

Those boxes are usually perfect in size for turning into a magazine holder. Apparently, you can make one and use it to organize your books, notebooks and many more. This time by making a book holder for my daughter's bookshelf, I solved one organizational problem at my cozy home.

How to Organize Kitchen Cabinet Shelves?

My previous article 10 Steps to Get an Organized Kitchen was on kitchen organization. However, if you have just started working on this kitchen organization project, that article was quite brief to follow as a guideline towards an organized kitchen . That is why, I have planned to write more on kitchen organization. Let us first start with how we can organize our kitchen cabinet shelves.

DIY Project: How to Make an Organizer from Old Shoe Box

After buying a new pair of shoes, I used to put the shoes on shoe rack and got rid of the shoe box. But some of us keep old shoe box to store shoes as well. However, if you are like me, from now on you, before recycling your shoe box, you may think of up cycling it instead. Few days back I was watching a video on Youtube  and got this wonderful idea of turning an unused shoe box into an organizer. Immediately, I decided to try this DIY project by my self for making a stationary organizer for my daughter.

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DIY Project: Make Your Own Drawer Organizer

DIY projects are always fun. However, by designing and creating your own drawer organizers, beside having fun, you can maximize the space available in drawers. These drawer organizers can be designed based on your needs. You can design your own jewelry organizers for drawers. These customizable drawer organizers are also very handy to organize your,  jeweleries, accessories and many more. You can make similar drawer organizers for any drawers in dresser, night table, kitchen or washroom.

It's hard for me to believe that this gorgeous drawer organizer is made all by myself. It was so easy to make, I even did not realize before trying it. This will really help me to organize my stuffs inside a drawer.

Choosing Right Curtains for Your Room: Problems and Solutions

It is not always a easy task to choose right curtains for your room. In this article, I am going to share my own experience that I gained while choosing curtains for my main bedroom.This seems quite a lot of experiments with curtains. Hope you will enjoy reading this article.

Problem 1:

After moving to a new house  I found that my old curtains are not enough for windows in the new house. Although I could cover up windows of second and third bedrooms with old curtains, I did not have enough curtain left for master bedroom and living room windows.

Solution 1:

I brought three window panels for Master Bedroom as shown in picture 1.

Picture 1: First Experiment with Window Treatment for Main Bedroom

Decorative Mirror: A Delightful Addition to Your Room

Hanging a mirror in a small room has became an well known idea to make your room look bigger. Decorative mirrors are now very popular to design interior of your rooms. A wide varieties of decorative mirrors are available in stores and online. Most of these are usually brought as modern home decor products.

Contemporary Living Room by Sydney Interior Designers & Decorators Darren Palmer Interiors

Before buying any decorative mirror, choose the right place to hang the mirror. Mirrors are itself heavy. And, when it is used as one of the home decorating accessories, based on materials surrounding the mirror, it becomes heavier. So,make sure that you will be providing enough support to hold the mirror on a wall. Here, I have added few of my favorite inexpensive decorative mirrors. Hope you will like my selections.

Mirrors: Wire Capiz Sunburst Wall Mirror Find mirrors at Target.com! This round mirror is made of different sizes of round natur... [More] Price: 84.99 Buy Now	22.5" x 24.5" Mirrors: Mosaic Mirror - Pew... Find mirrors at Target.com! Give your room an updated look with the 22.5x24.5 pewter an...[More] Price: 39.99 Buy Now
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DIY Project: Bracelet Holder From Paper Towel Rolls

Sometimes it is hard to imagine how we can reuse some stuffs like toilet paper/paper towel rolls and transform those into a very useful and attractive accessories all by ourselves without spending a single penny. I have been looking for an attractive bracelet holder for long time. After watching the following video, I am now planning to create my own bracelet holder very soon. Hope you all will enjoy this too.

A Gorgious Entryway Decor Idea

Last weekend, I went to visit some of my friends. I was amazed by their home decorating ideas. Without getting help from any professional interior designer, they decorated their own house with their simple sense of beauty. I learned a lot from them. I can not help but sharing a gorgeous entry way decor idea from one of my friend's house as shown in the following photo.

They just used a wall decor, an animal themed decor accessory, a foyer table, a bonsai tree in a ceramic pot and a decorative tray for the plant pot to get this unique and professional outcome. I found this decor idea very attractive and welcoming. Hope you all will like it too.

Use Metal Wall Sculpture to Bring an Artistic Touch to Any Room

Contemporary Entry by Greenville Interior Designers & Decorators christy johnson

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How Bedroom Ideas Vary with Furniture Arrangements

There are many ways to design a bedroom. Each bedroom looks different in terms of furniture type, furniture design, furniture colour, furniture settings, wall color, bedroom textiles, lighting and decorations. What are the most important facts for you while arranging furniture in a bedroom?

Check out the following self explanatory designs to see how only the arrangement of furniture can affect a bedroom design. I used a Queen Bed, a double dresser, a night table, a crib and a laundry basket while designing each bedroom with interior design tool. Each design has pros and cons. However, I like the last design (Design 6) most since it shows easy access to every furniture and provides the maximum free space  next to the entrance of the bedroom and thus make the bedroom look bigger.  Which furniture setting do you like best?

Design 1:

 

DIY Project: Design Your Own Wall Art

If you are on a limited budget to decorate your room walls, you may not be interested to spend on expensive wall decor such as original paintings. Other wall arts, for example,  metallic wall decor or vinyl wall decals, if chosen a unique design, will be pretty expensive too. However, our budget is not going to stop us from decorating our cozy homes. Show your creativity and design your own wall art which will be unique and one of a kind. Also, the pleasure you will get from this creation will be priceless. Moreover, as you have not spend much, you can change it anytime you want. Whereas after buying an expensive decor, even if you do not like it anymore, you have no choice but keep it. Check out the following picture of a set of wall arts that I designed for my kids bedroom. Hope you will like it.

Why Does Room Makeover is Important?

All of us more or less need a little makeover to go outside, to attend in a party or on special occasions. We love to experiment with the ways we appear in front of families and friends. We do makeovers to feel good and get appreciated by others for our presentation. From this perspective, our home should get some makeover once in a while. Beside doing regular house keeping you can create new colour theme for a room or move around with colour themes between rooms through textiles, decor accessories or changed layout of furniture. A little change in a room can give you a very good feeling. Checkout my recent makeover experiments with a bedroom in the following pictures.

 

 

 Have you recently done any experiment with the way your room looks? If not then get inspired by Spring. Give your room some new makeover to get rid of it's monotonous look and share your experience with "We Love Cozy Homes".