Decorating for real life and real people

Article by: LaJoyce Kerns

I spent a recent weekend curled up with a stack of decorating , Fine Gardening Secrets Revealed magazines. I read them cover to cover - usually back to front, but that's the way I read most magazines and newspapers. I studied each photograph and tried to determine the particular design , The Benefits of Using Landscape Software concept that was being presented. I looked at the number and placement of accessories, , A Gift Idea for Some of the Hardest People to Shop For -- Yo how and where arrangements of items were hung on the walls, , Part II: Home Buyer Terms and Definitions choices of color , My Story on starting out in buying properties for growing plants and texture, and flooring , Should You Sell Before The Housing Bubble Pops selections. Each photo was scrutinized in the minutest detail. At some point I started to wonder for whom these absolutely gorgeous rooms , Nutcrackers Add a Whimsical Touch to Holiday Decor were designed.

Bedside tables held no alarm , Make Your Spa an At-home Getaway clocks or clock radios. While there was usually an abundance of decorative items, there were no tissue boxes or eyeglass cases. Dressers displayed beautifully arranged floral creations and perhaps a cut glass , CollectibleSport.com offers a great selection of collectible sports memorabilia and gift ideas for m perfume bottle or two, with ornamental stoppers. No jewelry boxes, no lotion bottles, none of the everyday stuff of life. I don't know about you but I want a telephone at the side of my bed. , The White Pine Tree Of Pa. And someplace handy for the TV remote.

And the bathrooms! , The tricks you need to know about welding. Don't even get me started on the bathrooms! , Managing Pond Motives and Expectations Do the users of these bathrooms , Why Not Add a Shower To Your ? ever need to replace the toilet paper or the hand soap? Do they have their hair done weekly (maybe daily?) at beauty- or barber-shops and thus have no need of shampoo and conditioner bottles? Toothbrushes, toothpaste and floss? The men don't have to shave and the women have no need of makeup? Streamlining and organization can only take you so far. Sooner or later you need a place , The tricks you need to know about welding. for feminine supplies, room , Buying A House Or A Home? deodorizers, and the extra cotton balls and swabs that don't fit into the pretty little designer , Tips On How To Care For Fresh Cut Tropicals containers. And I can't be the only person who thinks that a plunger should be stored someplace handy to the location , A Beginners Guide To Garden Bridges of possible need.

No cords for the lamps, no tangle of wires for the home , Fine Gardening Secrets Revealed office computer system. One photograph featured an elegant "work space" with a large bouquet of flowers , Practical Feng Shui – Debunking the myths and finding out wh drooping fetchingly over the printer. I could imagine spent blossoms dropping into the works, and I couldn't imagine how to , Choosing The Perfect Flowers For Summer open the paper tray without knocking the vase over. I suppose the person who would work at such a desk would have no need of a mouse pad, paper clips, or a pile of sticky notes. I wish I could work like that.

I want to know what the rooms , Sky Pencil Hollies Are Used in Furlong Pa. in the photographs look like a week later. Are the same three Granny Smith apples still in perfect position on the glass-topped table? Is the fringe on the cashmere afghan still draped just so over the arm of the rocking chair , Garden Shed - Using It as a Workshop or Craft Room in the baby's room? Does the kitchen , Essential Cleaning Tips for the counter look bare without the tureen of soup and the matching soup bowls? I mean, the soup was eaten, wasn't it? Am I losing my perspective here?

Show me a playroom after the children have been forced to put away the toys. I'll bet there are no cunning arrangements of stuffed animals having tea, and the blocks aren't stacked into just-right pyramids with one block placed in front and a little to the side. The pillows are all over the room , Garden Shed - Using It as a Workshop or Craft and the bedspread is trailing onto the floor. , Arborvitae - A Multi Use Plant That's real.

I realize that the decorating , Sky Pencil Hollies Are Used in Furlong Pa. magazines present rooms , How to Raise House Plants from Seeds Easily and arrangements that are idealized and stylized. They are intended to give our imaginations a jumping-off point; we are meant to adapt their ideas to our own needs. They do a wonderful job and I will continue to peruse the glossy pages of each publication. Occasionally, however, I'd appreciate a view of a real room, , Best Hardwood Floor researched. spiffed up for company, perhaps, but real. I want to be able to imagine waking up to the clock radio, to see myself sitting at the computer and actually getting some work done, to know where I would store the supply of makeup without which I cannot face the world. I want to think that I could actually live in the room. , How a Good Bed Design Can Boost Your Confidence Isn't that the point of the whole exercise? Don't we all want comfortable homes , Best Hardwood Floor researched. that suit our life styles, organized and better looking, maybe, but still us?

Go take a look at the pictures in a decorating , The tricks you need to know about welding. magazine. See if you agree with me. I think I'm going to go clean out a couple of drawers and straighten a bookcase shelf or two. It won't end up picture perfect, but it will be real.

LaJoyce Kerns is the creator of the website: www.decorate-bedrooms-for-less.com. She provides tips, , How to Create a Backyard Oasis ideas and techniques on decorating , Plant Containers - The Simple Way To Choose Them bedrooms for real people. LaJoyce believes that you can achieve beautiful , A Unique History of the Light Bulb results without breaking the budget.

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