Saturday, December 19, 2009

3 Easy Ways to Arrange Furniture for a Wall Mounted TV.

Step 1 Pick a location to mount the TV on the wall according to instructions. Recall, this will most likely become a focal point in the room. This decision may affect the placement of all other furniture in the room, so you may wish to try a few arrangements before drilling holes in the wall. You ought to avoid having the TV near a window if it doesn't have drapes or blinds, as this could disrupt viewing with glare.

Note that: Arranging furniture in a room with a wall-mounted TV should make the TV the room's focal point. You may require to move couches, chairs and side tables in to positions so that people can easily view the TV and still have foot traffic flow through the room easily. Moving the media cabinet to a side wall may also help enhance your viewing experience, as would a couch that converts to theater-style chairs.

Step 2 Think about traffic patterns. You may require to move the position of tables or other furniture so that people can flow through the room without much hard work. You may also require to add a media cabinets to accommodate the home theater system's components. Moving the media cabinet away from the TV to a rear or side wall will move the various lights from your line of sight and enhance your viewing experience.

Step 3 Move some or all of the couches and chairs in the room in to positions so that people sitting in them can easily view the TV. A preferred set up is having a couch directly across from tv at a distance proportional to the screen size (for example, a 50-inch screen would be about 10 feet from the viewers). You may require to select a couch that converts in to theater-style chairs for maximum comfort.

If you wish, you can purchase a frame for the TV that fits the model that you purchased. You can even play art DVDs when the TV is not in use.

Friday, December 18, 2009

10 Easy Ways to Decorate Walls in Your Home.

There's no need to go out and drop a fortune to accessorize the walls in your home. With a tiny creativity, you can repurpose a variety of things in your house and have incredibly one-of-a-kind wall art without spending a dime.

Step 1 Make a giant faux frame on your wall by taping off a rectangular section and painting the space within. Hang pics of significance, a diploma or other memorable pieces within your frame. This is a great way to bring a sense of unity to a collection of multiple items.

Step 2 Hang those mismatched china plates and platters you seldom use on the wall. Attach a hook to the back of the plate and hang it on a wall hook using a colorful piece of ribbon tied in a bow.

Step 3 Paint the shiny sides of elderly CDs, then etch a design in to the paint to expose the iridescence underneath. Affix the CDs directly to the wall in a creative pattern or put strings through them and hang them in an asymmetrical fashion on the wall.

Step 4 Bring the beauty of nature right to your wall by lightly painting the backs of leaves, fern fronds and flowers and then pressing the images onto the wall. Fill a small wall with your designs or generate a one-of-a-kind border around the room.

Step 5 Generate a collage of elderly picture frames  on the wall by painting them all black and hanging them in a rectangular or square pattern. Fill them with pics you have stored away, elderly postcards or antique black-and-white photos.

Step 6 Use things from nature to adorn your walls, such as a piece of driftwood, a branch from your yard, dried flowers or shells.

Step 7 Gather up your elderly half-used cans of paint and stencil in a pattern around windows and doorways or other focal points on the wall.

Step 8 Cover elderly wood hangers with sheer strips of fabric or paint them in bright colors. Hang a dried bouquet of flowers, a vintage necktie or an elderly piece of costume jewelry from the hanger and then hang the piece from a wall hook.

Step 9 Display memorable pieces of clothing, such as a kimono from your trip to the Orient, your daughter's first dress or your wedding gloves.

Step 10 Hang elderly musical instruments from the wall along with some pieces of sheet music.

Get creative! anything around your house can become wall art if you put a tiny thought in to it.