Molding Helps Define Your Walls

Our ongoing video series "Quick Decorating" provides homeowners with tips for creating an impactful interior. With a little sweat equity, you can put up your own picture molding or chair rail molding in a room and add some wainscoting or wallpaper for an extra layer of texture, pattern, color, and wrap-around interest to any room. In this video, we'll use an example in a master bedroom suite.

Go to Inviting Home for more decorating suggestions with walls (top photo is from IH.com).

Quick Decorating: Guest Bedroom Tips

It's a big deal when you receive guests in your home. Make sure that your guest bedroom provides a memorable experience that enhances their visit. Here are a few tips of the design trade to follow:

• A sitting area in the guest bedroom makes it a more comfortable visit for them (room permitting). Your guests will have more of a sense of independence if they have a room where they can close the door and just relax and unwind.
• Look after the amenities that you appreciate in a fine hotel, then see that your guests are well equipped. This would include notepaper, good lighting, crisp bedding, extra blankets and/or a heater, space in a chest of drawers and closet for unpacking and hanging up clothes, and access to a phone to make local calls.
• Blackout shades or heavy drapes that keep the room dark. It's refreshing to have a full night's sleep without having the early morning sun shine into the room.

Here's a Quick Decorating video we took to show a guest bedroom featured in Architectural Digest and our point of view on providing a great experience for your company.

For more tips: watch our special Guest Bedroom Video!