The kitchen is a great place to make use of wooden wall shelves. Why not find a pretty shelf to hold all of your cookbooks instead of using valuable cabinet space for them? Or add a corner shelf with decorative items to make use of that empty space and add a nice touch to your kitchen decor. If you have an older home, your kitchen may not have been built with that much cabinet space. Wall mounted shelves are a great way to add storage space without spending a lot of money.

Hanging solid wood shelves in a living room or den is a nice way to add a classic look that is warm and homey. Display your favorite heirlooms or decorate with photos and plants to create an inviting cozy space for you and your family to relax in. If you are the type that collects lots of books, add wood wall shelves along with bookcases to provide plenty of room to store all of your favorite books. You can find wooden wall shelves to go with any type of room decor, from traditional to contemporary.

Kids rooms are another great place to make use of wood wall shelves. Most children end up with a lot of toys, books and games and toy boxes and bookshelves can quickly fill up. You could hang up some shelves for those favorite items that they don’t want to misplace. You can even find wooden shelves that are painted to match different types of kids room decor.

Wall shelves made of wood can be found at local furniture stores, home improvement stores and through online retailers. Take advantage of these classic looking shelves to create a distinctive or casual display in any room in your home.

Dining rooms, living rooms and even kitchens are great places to use black and white wallpaper. Let’s take a look at some of the ways the use of these wallpapers can add to your design ideas. If you are going for elegance and sophistication and have a traditional home you can’t go wrong with a floral black and white wallpaper. In both art and architecture, the combination of black and white is classic and timeless. Think of a stoic museum or gallery with a black and white marble floor. A black and white traditional wallpaper can give a Parisian feel to a room and provide a subtle background for your furniture and accent pieces.

If you prefer more contemporary design, look for a black and white wallpaper with more of a geometric design. This could be a great start for a modern design with a minimalist feel. You could even keep all of your furnishings black and white or use just one other color (such as red) in the room. Another approach is to keep everything else in the room simple and use an artistic black and white wallpaper as the focal point of the room.

Black and white wallpapers are also a perfect choice when creating a retro look in a kitchen or dining room. From black velvet damask papers to polka dot patterns, you can escape back to any decade you want by choosing a retro wallpaper for the background of your room. Because of the popularity of everything retro in recent years, there are plenty of companies where you can browse either in person or online to find the perfect wallpaper for your decorating project.

If you are looking for a different approach for your next home design project, you can’t go wrong with a black and white wallpaper no matter what style of decorating you like. Your room will be timeless and ready for whatever furnishings you want to add to complete the look.

Murals and vinyl decals are great ways to spruce up a room. Suddenly their favorite Disney’s characters can come to life on their walls. Painted wall murals are great ideas for artistic parents. What child wouldn’t want a hand-painted wall of all their favorite characters made by mommy and daddy? But for those of us who are not as gifted with a paint brush, there are vinyl options for kids wall decor. These kids wall stickers can be bought online with virtually anything your child could want on them. Also, there are now vinyl borders for the top and bottom of the room. A great bonus of decals is that they come off quite easily and don’t leave marks because they go on without glue. So as quickly as children change their minds, so can their walls!

Another unique idea for kids wall decor is to have them help out with some of the creativity themselves. Be warned this could get a little messy. Start off by putting blackboard or even whiteboard material over a part of the wall. It works best in an easy to reach space for the child, near the bottom of the wall. Give them chalk or markers and they can decorate however they want. Chalkboards and whiteboards can be easily erased so they can redecorate whenever they change their mind.

After the walls have been decorated to the child’s delight, white wall shelves and storage options can become great places to hold their keepsakes, trophies, and more without being cluttered. Kids will look up at their shelves and remember great memories. Buy shelves in bright colors and fun shapes that match the theme of the room or better yet make them yourselves. After the storage shelves are completed and put up, make sure there are a few open spots. They’ll be for the future memories and keepsakes to come!

While they can look great in any room; bathrooms especially have become popular spots for mosaic mirrors. Mosaic art can immediately make a bathroom mirror stand out from the wall. This works even more effectively when the wall and mosaic mirror are contrasting colors. For example a purple-based mosaic might look great against yellow wall. This gives the bathroom an added bright and creative flair. For decorating with mosaic mirrors in other rooms of the house this advice should also be followed. Full length mirrors would look great in bedrooms; while small, knick-knack like mirrors would be pretty in a kitchen. Mosaic mirrors work especially well in rooms that are small; because the reflection they create makes the room appear larger than it is in reality.

A mosaic mirror can be bought quite easily today, at a range of prices. Popular options from buyers include both glass mosaic mirrors and round mosaic mirrors. But the options in medium and shape are endless. Also, for the more artistic person, mosaic mirrors can be made. Several websites have detailed instructions for making mirrors with glass mosaic tiles. This gives the decorator an opportunity to add their own individuality to their mirror; to make it one of a kind. When you decide on getting a mosaic mirror make sure you weigh out the two options, making or buying! The choice can be difficult. While making will save money, buying would ensure a successful product. On the other side, making would give you the ability to do whatever you wanted as far as colors or patterns are concerned.

These mirrors are so popular because they truly are different. You commonly won’t see the same mosaic mirror twice! Not only do they look nice, they can serve as conversation starters as well. People will ask if you made them, or where you got them, and how they can get their own. And once you start, you may quickly notice your family and friends also putting up mosaic mirrors in their homes.

While many people rely on cell phones and wrist watches to check the time during the day, it is convenient to have several large clocks around our homes so that we can check the time quickly when we need to. And since we are hanging up these timekeepers, let’s make them decorative as well. Here’s take a look at the different types of clocks we can choose for our homes.

Large wall clocks make a lot of sense because you really want to be able to see the numbers and the time from across the room. There are all sorts of large wall clocks available in a wide range of decor styles. If you come across one that you love, make it the focal point of the wall by centering it without any other items around it. Or, use it as part of a grouping of decorative pieces for an artistic look.

Antique large clocks can work beautifully in a room with traditional or an eclectic style of decor. While clock-making has been a precision craft for centuries, you may want to make sure that an older clock is still keeping time correctly. If not, it is not difficult to find a good repair shop to update or fix and older clock that you really like. Many shops and online retailers also create wonderful reproductions of antique clocks.

Pendulum wall clocks are still very popular even though the technology of keeping time has raced ahead with the advent of electric and digital clocks. Still, there is something soothing and relaxing about the swinging of the pendulum and the quiet ticking of the pendulum wall clock that makes these clocks a favorite of many people, even today.

Digital wall clocks are becoming more popular as clock makers perfect the art making digital numbers more appealing. It always amuses me that my teenagers have to stare at analog clock for a bit before they can process what time it is. And add in Roman numerals and the difficulty compounds. Alas, we are firmly in the digital age and someday soon we may have a digital wall clock that looks as attractive as the “old fashioned” kind.

Modern wall clocks. Any of these large clocks would work well in a living room, dining room or den. But what about the kitchen, where some of us spend most of our time? Many stoves have a digital clock built in, but it is nice to have a large clock on the wall, to be able to glance at whenever necessary. If you have a modern kitchen, you can find a great kitchen clock that will look sophisticated, or a homey type of clock shaped like a coffee mug or other cute design. There are hundreds of large kitchen clocks to choose from, since most people love to have one in this area of their home.

Large clocks are an excellent way to decorate our walls and yet another opportunity to express ourselves while decorating our home. Take advantage of all of the wonderful timepieces available and carry on this 5000 year fascination we have with clocks.

One of the great things about shelves is that you are making use of virtually unused space and you are creating a new surface out of thin air to display some of your favorite objects. This may free up some other surfaces and contribute to more of a spacious, uncluttered look.

So why use white shelving? Well, it may not fit into every room’s decor, but white typically goes with any other colors and creates a calm, clean, organized look in any room that you use it. White tends to brighten up a room and white wall shelves can tie in with other white objects that are already in the room. White can be a contemporary look, or fit in nicely with country or traditional decor.

White wall shelves come in many different shapes and styles. You will find wall shelves made of wood, composite wood, metal and man made materials such as melamine. It is a good idea to plan what type of items will be displayed on the shelf so that you can choose the size and type of support that will be required. White wood wall shelves will typically have support brackets that mount to the wall underneath the shelf or in the case of the floating shelf, inside the shelf itself. The amount of weight that the shelf can support should be noted on the packaging or the online description of the product. When hanging your white wall shelf, you will want to find wall studs to screw into, or else use anchor screws for extra support.

Depending upon the purpose of your shelf, you could get white floating wall shelves for a nice decorative display, or even a larger wall unit that contains two or three shelves. Multiple shelves work well in an area in which you need more practical storage, such as a child’s room or a bathroom. White wall shelving is perfect for either kids rooms decor or the bathroom where they will brighten and organize these rooms that typically need a lot of storage space.

Pick up some white wall shelves today and get decks the walls with a few of your favorite things.

Mirrors were very much in style during the decadent days of eighteenth century Venice, when the upper class was consumed with parties and palaces. Furniture and clothing were very ornate and extravagant which meant that hand-crafted mirrors became a symbol of luxury and wealth. Soon the nobility throughout Europe had to have these extraordinary creations. What had started as a small craft on the tiny Venetian island of Murano in the 1600′s was now a full blown business.

We are fortunate that this knowledge and craftsmanship was passed down through the generations. Beautiful Venetian mirrors are still made in Italy and exported around the world. Less expensive replicas are also available for those of us who can’t afford antique Venetian mirrors or the one-of-a-kind originals.

Rosettes and etched designs are some of the most common elements found in Venetian glass mirrors. The frames are often made up of small pieces of glass, attached with tiny screws and rosette covers. Today, these mirrors are made in many different sizes and shapes and can be very ornate, like the mirrors of eighteenth century Europe, or quite a bit more simple, to fit in with twenty-first century décor.

Many of us have experienced the benefits of hanging mirrors in the main rooms of our homes. Mirrors make a room seem bigger and brighter by reflecting light and creating the illusion of more space. It is interesting to note that the nobility of Europe decorated with Venetian mirrors more to illuminate dark rooms than for viewing themselves. The original mirrors often had candle holders built into the bottom sections of frame. The candlelight would be reflected by the mirror to add light to the room.

Our rooms can also be brighter when we use mirrors to reflect natural light or light reflected from a lamp. The larger the mirror, the more light it reflects. Another trick is to hang a mirror on the wall that is seen first when you enter the room. This will make a small room appear to be larger than it is.   A beautiful Venetian glass mirror can also be used as the focal point in any room. You can go for an eclectic look or choose a style of mirror that blends well with the rest of the décor. You could even try a sunburst mirror for a retro look.  One piece should never overpower a room completely, but don’t be afraid to make one of the amazing mirrors the centerpiece of your décor.

Sunburst mirrors have been around for centuries since artists began creating pieces to pay homage to the sun. Sun worshipers in many areas of the world brought their love for the sun into their art, architecture and even their mirrors. The sunburst mirror has often been associated with Louis XIV, who was known as the “Sun King”. King Louis liked to begin each day by seeing golden rays of sunlight radiating from his face as he looked into his mirror.

The trend caught on and sunburst mirrors were soon found in dining rooms and living rooms all over Europe. Even today, it is easy to find an antique sunburst mirror at flea markets in France and other surrounding countries. While they go in and out of style, these great pieces of functional art keep coming back into vogue.

In the United States, sunburst mirrors made a big comeback in the 1950s and 1960s as everything to do with the sun was very popular. Many homes featured a large sunburst mirror in the living room. Now, a few decades later, these same mirrors are becoming the retro wall art that everyone has to have.

There are many reasons why these mirrors are so popular. They are a great way to add color and vibrancy to any room. You can create a dramatic focal point instantly by hanging one on the wall of a living room, dining room or even a bedroom or bathroom. The mirror and the rays extending outward can make a small room appear to be larger than it is. A gold sunburst mirror will bring warmth and energy to a room that does not get a lot of natural light.

So, how do you go about finding your very own sunburst mirror? There are a lot of different ways, depending on what type of mirror you want. Antique stores and dealers are one place to start. There are also online retailers selling both antique and reproductions of older mirrors.

If you want a more contemporary sunburst wall mirror, then you will have a lot to choose from. Designers are constantly coming up with new spin-offs. Sunburst wire wall art can be either contemporary or actually have a 1970s retro look. These are often made of stainless steel with many reflective mirror discs and are about 24 inches in diameter. Other contemporary artists are recreating sunburst mirrors out of bamboo or even driftwood. No matter what your decorating style is, you should have no trouble finding a beautiful sunburst mirror to add glamor and style to your home.