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DECORATING TIPS
Welcome to this new addition to the website. Every month you will find a home decorating tip from Interior Designer and author, Terry Willets. I met Terry and her husband Bill while living in Atlanta, GA. We attended the same church and I also did wallcovering installations for her clients and personal home. I think you will find the tips Terry has suggested will be helpful in many ways. She has a unique perspective when it comes to Interior Design.
In Terry's one of several books," 505 Quick Tips to Make Your Home SenseSational ", she offers inexpensive and invaluable tips for sprucing up your home decor in ways that awaken all of the senses, without draining your wallet or seriously dipping into your free time.
Through the use of scents, spices, fabrics, and assorted accessories, Terry Willits provides creative decorating tips that can energize any living space and revitalize the daily routine of even the busiest professional. Ideas like keeping pinecones scented with essential oil by the fireplace; dressing up the bathroom with wicker shelves to display interesting and unusual bottles; baking cookies or other fragrant delights before company is expected; and using decorative switch covers to help an ever-present feature of every room add to the atmosphere, rather than detract, will add a special touch of character to every home. Willits even shows you how to make a guests feel welcome with fresh flowers by the bedside and a basket of scents in the bathroom for their use".
If you want to see all the tips in one fell swoop, instead of reading them over the next many months of this site, you can contact Terry Willits personally and order her book. She can be reached at terryrwillits.@gmail.com. Thank-you Terry for your friendship and most of all allowing me to share your Sense Sational decorating tips with my viewers.
February's Decorating Tip
Be on the lookout:
Observation is one of the best ways to train your eyes and learn what pleases you most. Tour model homes in newly developed neighborhoods. Wander through furniture showrooms. Visit decorator showhouses. Go on home tours. Take your camera (if allowed) and notebook, documenting anything you love.
January 2012 Decorating Tip
Start a "dream" file:
Collect pictures from your favorite home magazines for creative inspiration and future reference. File your clippings by room in an accordion file or a pretty notebook with clear vinyl sheet protectors. As patterns emerge in what catches your eye, you will begin to discover your decorating style.
December 2011 Decorating Tip
Welcome with a wreath:
Welcome loved ones to your home with a dried floral wreath or bouquet on your front door. A few drops of essential oil on the dried leaves will refresh its floral scent. For a special occasion, tuck fresh, fragrant flowers in a wreath of greenery.
November 2011 Decorating Tip
Spruce up the shower:
Enhance your bathroom with a pretty shower curtain. Buy a decorative one, or make one from a flat sheet, tablecloth, or fabric. Try adding color to a simple, white shower curtain by tying it to a curtain rod with grosgrain or fabric ribbon bows that coordinate with bathroom decor.
October 2011 Decorating Tip
Make a splash with color:
Bring color into your bathroom with pretty towels and throw rugs that coordinate with the room's decor. Don't stash color in a closet: hang towels on wall pegs or roll them up in a large basket beside the tub.
Septembert 2011 Decorating Tip
Tip Unite with white
To allow a smooth transition between rooms, paint all trim on windows, doors, and moldings the same neutral color. Consider using a high or semigloss, white oil-base paint. (White works well with all colors, and oil-base paint is the most durable for woodwork in your home.)
August 2011 Decorating Tip
Welcome with color
Place a favorite piece of artwork, a hand-hooked rug, or a cozy wing chair in your entrance to introduce your color palette and to hint at the collage of colors yet to come.
July 2011 Decorating Tip
Begin with something beautiful:
If you are wondering where to start to make a room pleasing to the eye, begin with what you have and love. Then work your way up, starting with floor, furniture, walls, windows, and, finally, accessories.
June 2011 Decorating Tip
Try it before you buy it:
Before buying yards of fabric or rolls of wallpaper, put the pattern on trial. Tape a large sample of your selection to a wall in the room in which you plan to use it. By looking at it and living with if for several days or weeks, you will be better able to determine if the pattern is right for you, possibly avoiding a costly mistake. ~ Terry Willits, Interior Designer, Author of 505 Quick Tips to Make Your Home SenseSational
May 2011 Decorating Tip
Let it flow, let it flow, let it flow:
Find one beautiful fabric or wallpaper for your main living area that has a pattern and colors that you love. Use this as the color palette for your entire home. Other room may only use one or two colors from this palette, but it will provide a smooth transition between rooms.
