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Personalize Your Bathroom Space with the Perfect Colour Choices

Guest Post By Bathshop321

Achieving the most comfortable and relaxing space in your bathroom can be easily obtained by personalizing the interior to suit your own needs and taste. Creating a uniquely styled design instead of imitating those seen in brochures or store windows will surely result in you feeling more at ease in your surroundings.

The most ideal way to inject your own personality into your bathroom is through the use of colour. Your choice of colour in a room can often affect your mood and is therefore a vital aspect when planning the theme you wish to apply.

Neutral tones will influence a tranquil and calming atmosphere as well as give the impression of luxury often found in spa resorts. Shades of white and cream are used to create a classic and often expensive looking interior. The cleanliness of such colours is the perfect blank canvas and is sure to flatter both contemporary and traditional timeless styles.

5 Tips for Creating a Colorful and Unified Property Landscape

Beautiful property landscapes are rarely random acts of nature. They are the result of careful planning. Thoughtful gardeners create unity and coherence; highlight a focal point or two; balance their color schemes, plantings and other features; and try to maintain an eye-pleasing rhythm across the yard. An understanding of the color wheel and the diversity of common blooming plants, shrubs and trees is also very useful. The good news is that with a few helpful guidelines you can create an amazing, colorful landscape around your home or property. The follow tips will help:

1. Think about what kind of impression you want to create with your landscaping. This is the planning stage. Do you want your plantings to be a powerful attention-getter? If so, consider bright red and yellow combinations. Red adds energy and excitement and yellow speaks of sunshine and friendliness. Together, these two colors can make a powerful statement. They're also very seasonal. You can easily combine cheery red and yellow tulips to welcome spring and yellow black-eyed Susan plants with stately red dahlias in the heat of summer. On the other hand, if you want your yard to represent a cool retreat, blues, purples, pinks and variegated greens can convey your intentions. White is always a wonderful filler color to mix into any color scheme.

2. Create unity and coherence in your landscaping design. The easiest way to do this is to choose one dominant color and sprinkle it in small plantings around the yard. You may or may not use the same flower each time, but you should repeat the same color here, there and everywhere. Although perennials are more expensive initially, they will reproduce and can be divided over time. You can also consider supplementing with repeat plantings of annuals such as purple petunias, yellow marigolds or rust-colored fall mums.

Wedding Cake Trends and Color Schemes: A Comprehensive Guide

Choosing all your wedding decorations can seem overwhelming, but once your color scheme is in place, the rest becomes much simpler. Those key colors can be incorporated into the gowns, the flowers, tableware and even the wedding cake, which will become the centerpiece of your reception.

The tradition of the wedding cake as a symbol of good luck dates back several centuries. However, in those days, a dessert known as bride's pie was served to guests. Eventually, a bride's cake became accepted, and from that, the tradition of the wedding cake was born. Queen Victoria shocked the world and started a new trend when she wore a white wedding dress and offered a white wedding cake to her royal guests in 1840. Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, was the first to offer a completely edible version in 1882.

Today's wedding cakes are not just for eating. Many are created as decorative showcases. The trends for 2012 include taller tiers and noteworthy pedestals upon which to display them. Brightly colored wood blocks or ornate glass cake stands are equally popular. Since the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, the traditional white or ivory fancy cake has regained popularity. It speaks of fairytales and princess brides and all that is regal and refined. Decorated with latticework, piping, icing rosettes, swirls, drapes, lace effects, and delicate fondant ruffles and frills, this cake is perfect for a June wedding or any other time of the year.

Transform Your Apartment or Dorm Room Without Painting: Creative Decorating Ideas

Customizing an apartment or dorm room may seem like a daunting task when you are faced with the standard white or beige walls and strict instructions not to paint them. However, resourceful tenants with a little creativity and some basic decorating skills can bring color and personality into the plainest of living spaces.

Although you may not paint the existing walls, you might try building a large, thin frame the size of one of the smaller wall spaces. Cover your frame with thin canvas, and then feel free to paint it, stencil it, create a mural on it or even wall paper it. Use it to cover the living room, dining room or bedroom wall, and you have created a new focal point for the entire room. If this project seems too ambitious, consider creating your own abstract wall art on a smaller but still significant frame, or how about adding a poster reprint of a classic masterpiece? Online sources offer huge selections from which to choose. Build the frame yourself or splurge on a nice one that you can re-purpose when you move to more permanent housing.

If large wall art doesn't work for your budget, consider a collection of smaller but related art. Buy mismatched frames or mirrors, paint them the same color and hang them close together to display pictures cut from a favorite theme calendar or family photos. Other affordable wall treatments include popular, removable vinyl decals. Custom design your own wall treatment in country, contemporary or classic styling. These wall graphics will draw attention away from unsightly architectural features and create interesting focal points in almost any room of your house. They can also be applied to kitchen and bathroom tiles or cabinets.

Teen Bedroom Colors: Choosing the Perfect Palette for Your Teen's Personal Space

Deciding on the perfect colors for your teenager's room can be a bit tricky. Unlike the other rooms in your home, your teen will usually have very strong feelings about what you do to his or her personal space. This is definitely an area where you need to proceed with caution and collect as much input as you can before you begin. Better yet, pull your son or daughter into the project and use the opportunity to teach a little about the wonderful world of color. The following general guidelines can help you understand how the typical teenager thinks:

• Most teens want their room colors to be an extension of their own style, mood, passion or personality.
• Teenagers are not at all afraid of bright colors.
• As a rule, teens are not crazy about white.
• Your son or daughter will usually prefer either a specific color scheme or bedroom colors that complement a theme or the display of a prized possession.
• Teens are not impressed by high-end, expensive looks. They tend to prefer a more free-spirited approach.
• Young people want their rooms to make a dramatic but comfortable statement, or in keeping with their emerging independence, they want their room to resemble a small studio apartment.
• The easiest room change is to paint the walls one bright color, use white as a neutral for furniture and trim work, and add pops of a third bright color for accessories.
• Teens change their minds and their tastes frequently. However, paint is relatively cheap and paint colors are easily redone.
• Some teens want their favorite color incorporated into their new bedroom design.