On many occasions you have talked about the importance of lamps in the decoration. In fact, only changing these elements can be make any room look totally different. Therefore, when it comes to decorate any room in the home, it is important to give with the perfect lamp , especially in the living room, where we share much of our time with our family and friends.

Today there are many models of many different forms of lamps on the market and, although the choice mainly depends on our tastes, a series of recommendations should be taken into account. Below are the keys to lamps you choose to decorate the living room.

The first thing that must be taken into account when choosing lamps that decorate your living room is that its main function is to illuminate those areas of the room where the natural light is scarce. In addition, we recommend that you place a lamp at that point of the hall dedicated to reading and that another one of the light bulbs is mainly directed towards the central table for meals, and thus, create a warm and familiar atmosphere.

To achieve a harmonization of the salon, the best is to combine ceiling lights and low light. As for the former, they are the most used, although with the passage of time have been updated until real wonders. Thus, you can find from simple super models for people with rather minimalist tastes, to lamps of spider, ideal for people whose tastes are very classic.

The floor lamps are very useful for illuminating fixed stay points, especially if they are adjustable. In the market you will find different types covering all needs, as the floor lamps with arm, thanks to have another focus, allow light two key points at the same time.

Table lamps are ideal for corners with pictures or decorative objects you want to illuminate.

If in our previous article we talked about how painting the floors with a touch of originality, and showed you a series of environments with super interesting ideas in this turn them to the walls. The truth is that I am a bit tired rooms with the walls in white and suddenly, one in red or black; or of the typical estarcidas borders.

So I am going to show different four proposals , two of them very daring and the other two in romantic tones. They are all painted up down, to bring out the best of each environment.

We started with the two images that open the post. In this case, have been chosen very intense and dark, colors, something that at first seems unwise… But as you can see, nothing further from reality. Left you can see a painted wall color night blue, baseboard mouldings included. This color evokes the richness and the magnificence of the Baroque palaces, and is beautiful with type clasico-rococo or retro furniture. Ringtones for combining, ochre, gold, white, yellow and wood.

In the photo on the right, a combination that I loved: petrol blue and Bubblegum pink. In general the lighter color is placed above and the dark below, but here we have breached rules… And we have successful.

In these images the two options I show more romantic. On the left, has been decorated the wall painted in a greyish white with a Socket grey.To bring an elegant touch, a big box with a classic paper in the same tone, which has been framed with moldings in the same grey socket has paper wallpapers. And to the left, quintessential romantic color, pink cake. Who said that it was reserved to the children’s bedrooms? Combined with a paper with printed type Liberty, the effect is charming.

In Decorablog we have taught you that floors can be painted, with more than acceptable results. They can stay precious! Paint the floor involves saving us a good peak in its reform: we would be much more expensive to lift it and replace it with a ceramic type, parquet, laminate flooring… Every day there are more paintings and products that allow to paint our soils with art and style, and there are many possibilities.

Do not have to be you based on a single color: well, Yes, but as a base and combining it with others to achieve amazing effects. In these images, I show you a series of fantastic ideas so that you pintéis your floors this spring.

A quite common idea, but which always works well, is imitating tiled floors with paint. If you do it on a ceramic floor, you can use the original joints between parts; but it can also be done on a floor, for example, wooden planks. Either on top of a floor completely smooth, like a laminate or a cement floor. In the photo that heads the post is an example of a soil with these characteristics, types and chequered blue and white.

Most modern soils, as those who appear on these lines, are insured get with painting. On the left, the pavement is dark blue (almost black) and is crossed with white diagonal, horizontal and vertical lines. A valance in black and green surrounds the surface, forming a very bold ground for avant-garde environments. The idea of the right is less daring, but it is also striking: is a wooden floor painted green water cake, with an exterior formed by two thin parallel lines in black that make game that adorn the tables of methacrylate.

The painted carpets are trendy and can create effects as beautiful as the one in this photo. Eye: which is painted on the stairs is “glue carpet”, the other is truth. The combination of colors (lavender blue, green and yellow with black stripe) creates an effect at the same time harmoniously and divertido. In these cases, the painting has been the best solution to renew soils damaged and old-fashioned.

Not long ago I taught Decorablog how to make beautiful centerpieces with flowers and glass containers that we all have at our disposal. Boats, fish tanks, forgotten bottles of beer… The proposals were of the more decorative. Just looking at the famous round fishbowl, I remembered during a time was fashionable to use them to make terrarium with cactus.

The idea has not gone out of fashion, the opposite: is immersed in the trend of recycling and is also a minimalist proposal. Glass Terrariums are very decorative, hardly require maintenance and again, if we take containers recycled, they can leave us very cheap.

In these photos you can see various ideas for your terrarium. From the aforementioned tank mouth glass bottles to wide, passing through air containers. One of the ideas that I liked most is the large Crystal Cup: contain a Cognac or aged brandy has been harboring some dark earth and a few aesthetic miniature cactus. At his side, two beautiful narrow mouth spherical containers contain a simple leaves elongated with water halfway: is a composition full of elegance and zen spirituality.

Some other proposals mixing art with nature: just fill the container halfway with sand in different colors, creating compositions of layers, and plant the cactus inside. So these plants have their land, you can place the small pot inside the arena and thus give the feeling that its roots are directly buried in it. Nurseries and plant shops you can find perfect transparent glass containers for your terrarium; and also for plants, a very interesting and decorative option. As you can see, these plants just need air to live…

In these times of economic crisis touches all a little belt tightening us and dispense with some quirks. But we have to save a little does not mean that we can not redecorate our homes. The key is to look for promotions that will help us overcome this bump not dispense with a nice home.

Leroy Merlin, for example, offers plenty of promotions for this 2013 with which you can renovate your bathroom, your kitchen, and the exterior of your home. In addition, they offer a lot of units limited to prices of scandal. Want to know the French store promotions for this year? So very helpful!

Leroy Merlin you will find thousands of solutions for getting the most out of your bathroom and kitchen, spatially if you go before May 27, since you can get your project to the lowest price in the market. Among other promotions, the French store offers the Pack renews your House, with which you can carry out all your projects beneficing of a 15% discount. In addition, you can pay comfortably your kitchen and your bathroom in 18 months interest-free.

Of course, you can also find all the solutions for your garden or terrace at the best price: from a pergola or a swimming pool, a small solar Streetlight or a fun pad. In case outside little, at Leroy Merlin they agree to pay you double the difference if find you more cheap.

Finally, we tell you about the editions limited Leroy Merlin, which will be available until May 13. Textiles, floors, furniture, tools, lighting, plants, barbecues or lawn, among other many proposals, it may be on sale at super prices.

Ultimately, changes can make big for little money!

A few days ago explaining you How to choose colors to paint the walls in summer, something essential if we are to renew the decoration, taking full advantage of the light and joy of this season. But paint the walls is not everything: what would become of the decoration without furniture and accessories? Let’s take a look at all the possibilities that we provide for our summer interior design.

As you can see, both outside the indoor spaces are revalued with ideas and Accessories super simple, easy to get and even do.

We begin with the image that opens the post, in which you can see two summer but completely different environments. On the left, a corner of colonial inspiration that you can achieve with plants green, furniture Wicker cushions in shades of Orange and red. In the photo on the right style is nautical, full of freshness: a white frieze with horizontal tables, cushions, furniture in white wood and two decorative lifebuoys are sufficient for an effect 10.

On these lines, two decorative accessories easy-to-make that they will change the style of your bedroom and the table. On the left, a carpet underlay you can do yourself with a piece of this material: simply sew the edges and then do a “tropical” embroidery with raffia. In the other image, candleholder are simple vessels of tube that is has tied them a flower using a piece of raffia.

More ideas to the table: can put the candle in paper bags colors (find them at party supply stores and stationery), that you will have to drill holes to let out the light. On the left, chairs of wood with mats to blue and white stripes: are a sure hit and why not years pass. The photo are some cases easy to do, with ties on the side that you can use to cover the original ones and give them a new look.

Live flowers! In the image on the right, a rustic wooden bench Walnut rejoices with white cushions with hand-painted flowers. If you use special fabric paints, just ironed inside out so that they can withstand dozens of washings. And on the right, a wooden table has been painted with a delicate grey tone, embellished with stencils in neutrals, also fully spring. With this decoration, who needs a tablecloth?

The best style of decoration does not have to be the most avant-garde. Sometimes the vintage and retro can do to make your home stand out above the rest with its own personality, but to do this you must be convinced that is the best option. The latest proposals tend to be more bearable, but which are retro do not support medium term: you like or don’t like.

To achieve a retro style I recommend supporting your imagination on five standards indispensable to give a new life to your home with an air of melancholy. Notes:

In the 1960s and 1970s furniture were not as of now. The Forms rounded were that more also and curves were all the praise. If you are looking for something retro 100%, you must assume it.

Strong shades are the Palm. Combinations in Orange, yellow and red varieties you will move to another era. You should go for them to paint the walls and when choosing furniture and accessories.

Old painted and remodeled kitchen furniture will serve to achieve a retro decor. Wood and metal, materials more prominence once employees, recover.

Retro and vintage are very close, so strip of imagination and get you life to find phones of the time, tableware of porcelain naif, vinyl, classic pictures, old gramophones or turntable players… It will give you a tour of an antiques market come very well.

That Yes, it should also be said that there are those who prefer not to buy too many things and opt for a minimalist retro style, as for example in the first picture of this article.

Geometric designs and prints are the protagonists. Do not be afraid and risks with both walls and textiles. The more risk better, although not forget the space that deserve flowers.

Many people did not hesitate to choose ceramic flooring for terraces, courtyards, gardens, swimming pools… The reason for this is clear, and it is that the ceramic floors do not have but advantages. They are very attractive and not go out of fashion (in fact, the Romans, Egyptians and Greeks used them); are super tough and barely there material that even its resistance to weathering; and there are so many models and combinations to choose from…

In the images that appear in this post, we can see some of the trends for this year. We take them a look?

It is one of the most charming among the new trends. But again it has little, but it is beautiful. The area is solar with a given pavement and placed in the Centre a motif rectangular, round, square, etc. made with tiles or different parts. If they can be styled hydraulic tile, better. The result is as beautiful as the one in the photo, and can also serve to delimit spaces without closing.

We have already seen them before, but this time out of classrooms and dormitories to get to the courtyard and garden. I am referring to clay soils that mimic materials such as stone (above), timber (in the first picture), slate or rusty metal, among others. Its neutral tones are perfect to wear with any style of furniture, and on all those who imitate the stone are beautiful with the green of the garden.

Lately were much the soils of wood flooring in this area; they are very elegant and are warm. But this year is essential to combine them with ceramic tiles, especially if it is non-slip type. Watch out! This detail is very important for safety. In this pool a stoneware high brightness that combines perfectly edge has surrounded with wood and mosaic of the water. A complete success.

Give new life to your home? The walls of your house begging to a coat of paint? Well, it is time to put hands to work! And it is in times of crisis that run, the best is that you can paint yourself. The result can be almost as good as the of a professional if you follow the right steps.

For this reason, today we want to give you a few Tips so you can paint your House with your own hands. Please note that by doing so you not only save money, but that your home will acquire a more sentimental value. So very attentive to the advice that we give you below!

We know that the economy is not to throw rockets, but it is important that you buy a painting of quality in a hardware store of confidence. In the long run, I assure you it will be worth it.

On the other hand, before using the product, it is necessary that what you remove to homogenise the content. Of course, not you must lower painting than recommended on the packaging, since it decreases the power cover and originates leakages.

It is also important to prepare the ground. Thus, if the current painting is in good condition, only have to clean the walls to remove the dust with a damp cloth, then a dry cloth. But if the walls with any kind of deterioration, it would not be more spend a very fine sandpaper on them.

It is also necessary to cover the furniture, the floor, takes power and light keys. In addition, we recommend that you remove pictures, mirrors and curtains. If there is any splashing, it is important that you clean it immediately with a cloth moistened in clean water.

Once you are ready to paint, we recommend you start with the roof, using a ladder and a roll, preferably long handle. Then you will have to continue with the walls painted above down. It is better to delineate the edges between the walls and the ceiling with a small brush and with a thick brush or roller, paint the large cloths.

Sure that the title “40 shades of grey” you sound, right? It is a play on words with the surname Grey, grey in English, and the word shade, which means shade or tone. This is a case that if the grey of the famous novels has forty shades, white has many more. Believe it or not you, this color which is the result of adding all colors light in one single can be shown in many tones, each intended to achieve an effect or other.

White egg-shell (egg shell). Broken white. Creamy white, bone, aged… do you know them? We are going to give us a ride by the shades of white, so varied that they allow to decorate a stay using this color only.

In the two pictures which open the post you can see the enormous variety that can be of white color. In fact, there are lines of paints that have more than ten targets in its range, even reaching fifteen or twenty. They say that the painter Zurbaran was able to get dozens of varieties in his canvases… In short, the question is that if you have decided to paint your House “white”, you must specify a little more if you do not want then stay unhappy with the result.

First of all, the pure white give a certain feeling of coldness. This implies to be used must be wisely combined with surfaces of other colors that counterbalance the effect, such as oranges, reds, or boilers. At the other end of the spectrum, warm white wines are attractive, but they can generate a feeling a bit “outdated”. It is best to check the effect bringing us some samples (that you will make in the store, cardboards) home and placing them next to the supply of natural light, which tends to be a window.

To choose our target (or targets) will have to consider if we want more a Classic tone that ronde color bone or beige; one more contemporary, the grey line, or perhaps one rustic or colonial, similar to the range of ochre. Look at the photos: several targets with an excellent effect can be combined in a single environment. And then, to create contrast I recommend that you choose not too dark accessories (Wenge is definitely out) but better touch metal, light wood and upholstery in neutral tones.