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Home Decor Tips – Home Savvy
About This Episode
In this episode we’ll show you how to add style to your walls by following our handy tips.
Sponge Painting is a great decorating technique to camouflage any imperfections on the wall surface.
Choose three colors, in order to make certain wall has proper depth. For your base coat, Select Behr Premium Plus Ultra – This interior paint is both paint & primer in one, and has advanced stain-blocking capabilities.
Wainscoting dresses up the walls in your home, by adding unique detail and gives an architectural touch.
Ceiling Medallions – You can paint them to match any home decor and personalize by adding family photos.
Hang your work of art by, using paper cut-outs in the same size of the pieces that you will mount. Adjust paper cut-outs, in order to find the right balance and focal point before you affix a medallion to the wall.
Use a lighting fixture to accent your sponge wall. The best way to do this is by using a Wall Sconce.
The Home Depot Style Guide is here. It’s your inspiration resource filled with trends, tips and instructions that will guide you from start to finish. Brush up on the latest paint finishes, hear what the style bloggers are excited about, and buy anything you need without a trip to the store. Find it in the iTunes store, or log on here: http://styleguide.homedepot.com/
WANT MORE HOME SAVVY? WATCH THESE EPISODES:
SEASON 2
- Episode 1: How to Install a Bathroom Vanity
- Episode 2: How to Install a Bathroom Faucet
- Episode 3: How to Save Money on Your Home Energy Bills
- Episode 4: Home Decor Tips
- Episode 5: How To Decorate For The Holidays
SEASON 1
“Home Savvy” Episode 1 – Creating A Container Garden
Welcome to Madame Noire’s new home improvement show, Home Savvy. In this series we’ll share insightful tips and creative ideas for sprucing up any living space. Home improvement, your way.
In this “Get It Done” episode you’ll learn how to create a beautiful container garden that will instantly enhance your outdoor living space. Creating a container garden is a quick weekend project that also makes the perfect gift. Besides, you can never go wrong with presenting that special person with a gorgeous arrangement of flowers.
Be sure to watch Home Savvy host Suzanne Rust as she demonstrates with Home Depot Associate Shenell Leighton how simple and easy it is to create your own container garden.
MATERIALS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
HERE’S HOW TO DO THIS PROJECT:
Fill pot mid-way with soil.
Install your filler, while loosening the roots.
Begin filling container with potting mix.
Add Thrillers.
Add Spillers.
Add more spillers and thrillers as needed. You now have a gorgeous container garden.
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WANT MORE HOME SAVVY? WATCH THESE EPISODES:
SEASON 2
- Episode 1: How to Install a Bathroom Vanity
- Episode 2: How to Install a Bathroom Faucet
- Episode 3: How to Save Money on Your Home Energy Bills
- Episode 4: Home Decor Tips
- Episode 5: How To Decorate For The Holidays
SEASON 1
Let Diana Inspire You! Her Look in Your Home
There’s no denying that Diana was a style icon. A legend, if you will. What better way to pay homage to the woman than by letting some of her trendsetting, forward thinking style inspire you, not only in your own fashion but in your home as well.
It may sound like a stretch, but it can be done.
Find out how at our sister site StyleBlazer.com.
Ballin’ on a Budget: Home Decor Edition
Oprah often says that, “your home should rise up to meet you.” Although those of us who are on a budget may not have the funds to make our cribs levitate, we still deserve a spot that is cute and comfy. Home decor can be costly, but if you get creative, you can fix up your domain and still keep some dollars in the bank. Here are some tips on how you can pimp your residence when you are ballin’ on a budget.
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Stylish E-Commerce: Black Online Fashion Entrepreneurs to Watch
By Denise Burrell-Stinson
There was a time when many thought selling fashion and beauty items on the Internet was a big question mark — a business strategy that should be approached cautiously, if not skeptically. Would style-conscious consumers of be enticed by small labels (as opposed to prestige brands) outside of the pomp and circumstance of a cool, freestanding store in a swanky neighborhood? Now, however, that sentiment has gone the way of dial-up. Fashion lovers now flock to the web to conveniently shop for unique accessories, home decor items and clothing – and black sartorial entrepreneurs are taking advantage of this trend. The Atlanta Post has profiled seven exciting black-owned brands that are finding the lower costs associated with launching an e-commerce site ideal for breaking into the tough style arena. Meet the Top Seven Black Online Fashion Entrepreneurs to Watch.
Roslyn Johnson, a 26-year-old New Yorker, launched her online shop just four months ago. Previously, she had she worked for the boutique chainlet Scoop, interned for Sean John and spent three years working in the buying office of a major department store. Her beginning career moves gave her the confidence to start her own brand. “I saw a number of up-and-coming collections and thought I had what it took to compete,” Johnson told The Atlanta Post. For her Inkwell designs, Johnson uses Malian mud cloth dyed with plant juices, teas and mud in a process called Bogolanfini, that give a mature, classic Hollywood sexiness to her cocktail dresses and miniskirts. “I saw a void in the marketplace for an African-American heritage brand that incorporates tribal fabrics in a more all-American way,” she says of the classic cuts of her pieces. According to Dr. Angela Hausman, associate professor at the Howard University School of Business and founder of the marketing consulting outfit Hausman & Associates, the web can be an ideal starting point for someone with Johnson’s entrepreneurial spirit. “There are a lot of real costs involved in brick-and-mortar,” says Hausman. “But on the Internet, you don’t have to sign a lease, arrange utilities or build out a space.” Free of these limitations, Johnson took her idea, and ran with it.
How to Decorate Your Home on the Low-Low
Could your home use a little sprucing up? You might want to do a little bit of home improving but your money is funny and your change is strange. It’s alright. There’s still hope.
Hello Beautiful compiled a list of simple, inexpensive ways for you to decorate your home and hide some unsightly features.
One of the suggestions include framing and hanging several family photos on one wall, even if the frames don’t match.
Interior Designer Cecil Hayes: From Back Room to Boss
(Miami Herald) — When Cecil Hayes graduated from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale with highest honors in 1973, no one clamored to give her a job. Ray Stevens, the designer who did hire her, put Hayes in the back room doing catalog work. He confessed later, after she became a success, that he thought his white clients would not accept a black designer. “I never met with clients,” she says. “I was there but not seen. I didn’t realize until then that there were not any black designers and most clients had not been around blacks.”
Even after she opened her own firm about five years later, she experienced rejection from shop owners when she visited showrooms in the Miami Design District. Hayes, who owns Cecil’s Designers Unlimited in Coconut Creek and manufactures a furniture line, has worked hard to turn rejection into success and has become a nationally known superstar designer.She was the first South Florida designer to be named to Architectural Digest’s prestigious “AD 100,” a list of the world’s best designers and architects. She made the list three times. Her high-profile clients include actors Wesley Snipes and Samuel L. Jackson, athletes such as Ty Law, Penny Hardaway, Louis Oliver and Derek Brown and hip-hop artist/producer Tim Mosley, aka Timbaland.
Those who can’t afford to hire her can learn her secrets in her two successful design books, 9 Steps to Beautiful Living, and The Art of Decorative Details: Creative Ways to Design the Home of Your Dreams. Some of her honors: NAACP Hall of Fame award, induction into the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, and one of Florida Monthly magazine’s 21 intriguing Floridians.
Beyonce: Now Doing House of Dereon Home Decor
(AOL Black Voices) — Beyonce Knowles and her husband Jay-Z have been busy building their multi-million dollar business empire over the past few years. Now, the 16-time Grammy Award-winning pop star is gearing up to launch her own bedroom furnishing line. Already, the former Destiny’s Child front-woman has a very successful cosmetic fragrance, a L’Oreal beauty deal, and her own fashion line, House of Deréon, which is named after her grandmother.
