Joe Badin

Just add colour

Nothing refreshes your rooms as quickly as the newest hot colour combinations. In a living room try adding throw pillows in the new colour combinations of tea green and burgundy, sky blue and chocolate brown or yellow and acid green.

Bring zen to your coffee table

Buy one of the new large square ceramic dishes in a modern colour like banana or pewter grey. Place it in the centre of your coffee table and use it for potpourri or as a holder for four square pillar candles. Or just use it as a place to organize matches, a television remote control and other coffee table esstentials.

Make your storage chic

Ebony coloured rattan baskets, plexi-glass boxes, frosted plastic boxes or blonde-wood crates in multiples on a bookcase or a kitchen shelf are a stylish way to store almost anything.

Dress your bed for the season

Find a fabric you love or a freshly patterned sheet, and change your duvet cover and place two patterned pillow cases in a matching print in front of your plain coloured pillows. This will give your bed new punch.

Perk up your windows

By simply adding either natural match-stick blinds, patterned roman shades or painted wooden shutters inside of your windows, you can give a room an entirely new feel. Let your old drapes sit as side panels so they continue to pull the room together with their pattern colour scheme.

Liven up your lamp-shades

Toss out traditional silk shades and replace them with newer parchment paper shades, or even new silk shades in a clean square or rectangular shape.

Tinker with your tabletop

Try setting your table with a different combination by using your old dishes as a foundation. Introduce colourful new dessert plates, coloured chopsticks, and new table linens in delicious seasonal colours.

Freshen up your bathroom

By replacing tired art with chic black and white photography with crisp white matting and thin black frames you can easily give a dated bathroom a modern look. Also, merely changing your towels to a new neutral like sable, pewter or burnt orange can make a world of difference.

Update your kitchen

Change your faucet to a new brushed chrome goose-neck and change the hardware on your cupboards to match. Maybe its time for a sleek new kettle, toaster or coffee maker and don't forget new tea towels on display.

Clear away clutter

Clean out your home office and your closets. Eliminate, organize and edit down to only what you really need. Invest in small details like new hangers, storage baskets, a container for pens and a new desk lamp. You'll feel much better and much more stylish

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