Decorating Your Table For Thanksgiving

This video shows you how to decorate your table for Thanksgiving using items you already have in your house. There are many great center piece and place setting ideas. They are fun projects that you can do with your children that will still look classy and decorative.

Make Your Own Halloween Tombstones

This is a fun, simple way to make Halloween tombstones for your yard.  There are only a few steps and it should only take you 5 minutes to make one.

Materials:

-       Spray paint

-       Hot glue gun and glue

-       Wood

-       Styrofoam

Decorating Your House For A Halloween Party

A few must-haves:

1.     Jack o’lanterns

2.     Candles

3.     Cobwebs

      

Decorating your house for a Halloween party can be challenging but it can also be really fun. You need to strategically place decorations in places that make people look twice at them and wonder “what is that doing there”. You want to place things in certain places so that they look like they don’t belong there. This will give it a more spooky feel.

             

A few ideas of unique decoration ideas are: place dried up leaves and sticks under tables, place lots of clocks throughout your house, spray paint clown masks white so they look like goths, and place a kitchen knife covered in blood in a flower pot (don’t do this if there will be kids around).  

           

Not only can you decorate inside your house, but decorate your yard and outside of your house as well. Take pieces of cardboard and make them into doors and tombstones and place them in your yard. You can write things on them like ‘RIP’ or ‘burial grounds’. 

The most important tip is to BE CREATIVE!!

Top 10 Interior Design Schools Worldwide

1.     Lorenzo de’ Medici School in Florence, Italy

Specializes in language studies, studio arts, liberal arts, and fine arts.

2.     Florence Design Academy in Florence, Italy

Specializes in interior design, industrial design, graphic design, 3D animation, and 3D graphics.

3.      The Interior Design School in London, England

It’s located in London’s Queens Park and offers a number of classes ranging from one day courses to 2 year programs.

4.     Istituto d’Arte Applicata e Design in Torino, Italy

Focuses on visual communication and product design. You can obtain a European Bachelor of Science in Design here.

5.     Visual College of Art and Design of Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Specializes in interior design, web design, graphic design, fashion, and animation.

6.     Fashion Institute of Technology, State University of New York, New York, U.S.A.

Specializes in fashion, design, art, business, and communications.

7.     Academie Grandes Terres in Paris, France

Specializes in interior design (decoration, furniture, and design), commercial art (graphic and illustration), and styling (textile design and model).

8.     New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury in New York City, U.S.A.

Focuses on design and architecture, engineering, computer sciences,  arts and sciences, medicine, and management.

9.     Creapole Ecole de Creation Management in Paris, France

Specializes in product design, multimedia, fashion, visual communication, video game animation, interior design, and art design.

10.  University of Nevada, Las Vegas, School of Architecture in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

Focuses on architecture, dental medicine, law, engineering, hotel administration, and design.

Eco-Friendly Design Products

There are many ways to make your home more eco-friendly, from shutters to furniture to paint. Below are a few eco-friendly products.

Wall Panels: These ultra-textured MDF wall panels made by Architectural Systems, Inc. in their Sculptured Collection are packaged in completely recycled cardboard. They are made with no-added-urea formaldehyde. You can get the panels in either unprimed wood or primed in white.

Shutters: NewStyle Hybrid Shutters has GreenGuard Indoor Air certified, extremely energy efficient shutters. The shutters come in 11 frame styles and either stained or painted finishes. They have the same grain pattern and color as real stained wood and they have the stability, strength, and uniformity of manmade materials.

Dining Room Table: Henry Hall Designs has designed a dining room table made of 100% recycled aluminum. It has a zinc plate patina finish that is very durable as well as FSC-certified teak wood. The Cast Outdoor collection also includes chairs, smaller round tables, and benches.

Fireplace: Morso has created an eco-friendly wood-burning stove that is energy efficient.  Advanced purification systems and refined combustion technology reduces particle emissions when the woodstove is burning.  The woodstoves are made from 98% recycled material.

Paint: Mythic paint is the only latex paint that doesn’t contain VOCs and is non-toxic. It’s available in 1,232 colours and in satin, matte, and semi-gloss finishes. It is also available in primer as well as paint.

Creating An Eco-Friendly Bathroom

There are many things you can do to design an eco-friendly bathroom. Below are a few eco-friendly bathroom products.

Toilet: One of the best ways to help the environment is to save water. This can be done by using a toilet that has smartflush technology which uses less water than a regular toilet. Caroma’s Invisi Series II saves 330 gallons of water per person per year. This toilet hangs on the wall so it also saves space.

Towels: Sina Pearson Textiles has great eco-friendly bath towels. Their Global Village Collection uses a moisture repelling polypropylene fabric. The fabric is completely recyclable and will not harm the environment in any way.

Vanity: The newest eco-friendly trend is a wood substitute called Kirei Board. It is strong and durable while remaining lightweight. It is being used for different types of furniture such as cabinetry and other case goods.  Kirei Board is made out of a material called reclaimed sorghum straw as well as formaldehyde free adhesive.

Bathtub: A company called Sonoma Cast Stone creates Earthcrete bathtubs that are made from recycled concrete-like material. This material is more light-weight than regular concrete.  It doesn’t use any river rock and uses an impressive 87% less delta and river sand.  By doing this, local waterways are not impacted as much.