Decorating The Home

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How to Pull Together a Gallery Wall in Your Home

Put together a gallery wall of your favorite art, photos, and home decor along your staircase with these easy tips and ideas.
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Decorating The HomeHomesteadPhotography Tips

How to Bring Your Walls to Life with Art and Photos

Bring life to your walls by mixing and matching art with photos and assorted home decor items with these easy-to-follow tips.
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10 Cheap Updates For Your Home With Spray Paint

Looking for cheap but effective ways to update your home? Here are 10 amazing ideas to transform areas of your home with spray paint.
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How to Bring Your Own Unique Style into Your Home

Whether you are after a vintage eclectic look, shabby chic, or prefer the farmhouse style, we've got tips for bringing your favorite style into your home.
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Trash to Treasure Painted Wooden Spoon Holder

Don't hide your collection of spoons in a box. Thrift stores always have spoon holders that can be brought back to life with a little paint.
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How to Use a Repro Hardware Bin on Your Dining Table

Use a rotating repro hardware bin on your dining table to keep all of your condiments, napkins, candles, and more organized.
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How to Paint Silver Curtain Holdbacks

Transform a pair of vintage-looking curtain holdbacks with a little spray paint. We'll show you how easy it is.
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Quick and Easy DIY Wall Art For Your Home

This quick and easy DIY wall art using napkins and a canvas takes just 10-minutes to make and will brighten up your walls.
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DIY Painted Side Table

When the kids and I relocated to San Diego from Monterey a couple of years ago, Randy stayed behind for 6 months to finish his degree.  He moved into a house with a friend, and when they were both packing up to re-locate, he came across a side table that his friend was going to throw out.  Randy knew me well enough to grab the table and bring it home where it could get a little love and a makeover.

Painted side table
The most time consuming part of this project was sanding the table because of the shaped legs, but as you can see, the table was dated, and in desperate need of a fresh coat of paint.

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Tablescapes: From Halloween to Thanksgiving

I love decorating our table for the Holidays, but you don't need to spend a lot of money on a variety of table decor for every holiday and every season.  Purchase the basics, and decorate around them.  I'm going to show you how to create simple and stylish Halloween and then Thanksgiving tablescape using a few basic items.

It's no secret how much I love World Market.  From their food items, to their jewelry, and of course their furniture and decor I'm a regular shopper.  

My most loved household items are my dining table and chairs, which of course I purchased from World Market about a year ago.  Our dining table is where we entertain visitors, and enjoy family meals most nights. 

These basic items that I'm going to show you can not only transform your table from Halloween to Fall, or Thanksgiving, but also (aside from the pumpkins) through to Christmas as well.  The colors and items are very versatile.

Basic items:

  • Table Runner: Brown Woven (from World Market)
  • Placemats: Red Pandan Square (from World Market)
  • Chargers: Fluted Silver (from World Market)
  • Napkin Rings: Hammered Silver (from World Market)
  • Candle Holder: Alto Metal Taper (from World Market)
  • Candles: Metallic Silver Taper (from World Market0
  • Napkins: Brown Woven (already owned)
  • Cake Stand with Dome (already owned)
  • Silver Glitter Pumpkins (already owned)

This is how these basic items come together.  The colors are perfect for every day dinner parties, not just for the holiday season.

Fall Tablescape

The reason I chose these colors:

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