Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and if you are hosting the celebration this year, you will surely have overnight guests. So, why not spruce up the guest bedroom with some holiday flair? Not only will it set the mood, it will also give your guests a happier and a comfortable stay. Here are some ideas that will help you extend the holiday feeling to your special visitor’s room.

How to Update your Guest Bedroom this Thanksgiving

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Welcome gift

As a welcoming gesture, place a nicely wrapped present on the bed-whether a basket of toiletries, a tasty treat or a book to read over the Thanksgiving week.

Little fall touches

Give your guest room a little fall makeover. Few autumn inspired accents can easily make your guest room Thanksgiving ready. Add some throw pillows in vibrant shades of fall such as rusty orange, dark brown and deep red. Similarly, a dark colored comforter and curtains will instantly lend the guest room a warm and cozy feeling. Few splashes of fall color is all the you need to give it a boost of holiday cheer.

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Scents

Pumpkin spice, apple pie, and cinnamon are not only reminiscent of the season, but are also common candle fragrances. So, to get your guests in the holiday mood, dress up their bedroom with few scented candles, decorative air fresheners or potpourri.

Welcoming wreath

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Greet your guests with a beautiful holiday wreath on the room door. A simple grapevine wreath adorned with faux fall leaves, sprigs of red berries, and miniature wheat bundles will do the trick. Add a bright golden bow to complete the festive look.

Decorating a guest room is a great way to let your visitors know that they are not only expected but also warmly welcomed.  And the best part about these little tricks is that you can do it differently every year!

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Your bedroom is one of your home’s most personal spaces. It is a place where you spend a lot of time and should be outfitted for comfort and style. Some people tend to neglect their bedrooms by rationalizing that no one else sees them but having a comfortable bedroom is crucial to getting a good night’s rest. Creating a room that reflects your personality and sets the right mood isn’t as hard as you think. With just a few simple tricks, you can try these simple bedroom makeover tricks to transform your bedroom into the room of your dreams.

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Simple Bedroom Makeover Tricks

Use Soothing Colors

Calming colors are very relaxing when used extensively. They can help you to create a personal space that shows off your innermost desires. A simple color palette can create a retreat where you can relax and rejuvenate. If you don’t know which color to choose, look to the environment for inspiration. Choose a color palette that dictates your other design choices. You can use one or two neutrals and find a bold color to splash. Avoid dark colors as they have the capacity to intensify specific human moods. Painting walls can be expensive so you can choose to paint a single wall as a highlight.

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Add Mirrors to Reflect Light

A couple of small mirrors or a large mirror positioned strategically can make a small bedroom feel larger and lighter. If you’re into modern décor, use furniture with glass or metal to visually expand the space. Make sure you don’t block the path of natural light with wardrobes or closets.

Dress the Windows

You can decorate your windows to reflect the seasons. During summer and spring, choose airy materials that add elegance, color, and privacy to the windows. Curtains can highlight your color palette especially when chosen in one solid color. In winter, you can use heavier fabrics to protect the room from the cold air outside.

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If you are tired of coming home to a boring bedroom, try these tricks and change all that. Give the room a new look that you’ll be proud of and will enjoy showing to all your family and friends.

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The warm scents and warm colors of autumn make the season truly unique. In spite of the cold weather, autumn is filled with beautiful colors ideal for decorating your autumn bedroom. It is the best time to incorporate earthly colors into your bedroom decor. Since you spend a lot of time in your bedroom, it should be a cozy, calm, and welcoming area. Introduce autumn’s warmth into your bedroom with these simple tips:

Light Up with Illumination

Autumn comes with shorter days and cooler weather. Daylight becomes a rare feature until spring rolls around. When creating a cozy autumn bedroom, take advantage of the early nightfall by lighting scented candles in the room. Choosing the right candle for your bedroom depends on your specific taste and preference but the most popular relaxation scent is lavender. The candlelit atmosphere helps relieve anxiety and stress after a tiring day at work.

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Embrace Minimalism

To create calm in your bedroom, get rid of clutter on the floor and walls. Choose a focal wall and decorate it with one or two pieces of art. Get rid of any unnecessary furniture and streamline the room.

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Add Dimmed Lights

Lighting is crucial when it comes to creating a cozy autumn bedroom. Dimmed mood lighting creates a relaxed atmosphere and is essential at night. You can replace your regular switch with a dimmer or use a bedside lamp to add subtle light at night.

Get the Perfect Rug

Nothing adds warmth and style to your bedroom like a carefully chosen rug. The right rug can give your feet a small massage and help you to relax before getting into bed. For the best results, look for soft sheepskin or a thick shag rug.

Choose a Luxurious Bed

What could be better than sinking into a cozy, comfortable bed at the end of a long tiring day? Nothing comes close. Summer and spring are great times to purchase feather beds and down comforters. Get a lovely comforter, a blanket, and a few throw pillows to create a luxurious bed you’ll enjoy sleeping in.

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These easy tips will help you to create a cozy autumn bedroom and help you to achieve nighttime bliss. Your bedroom will become your favorite spot where you can escape from the rest of the world.

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Modernizing your spare bedroom can sound like a tough job, but the reality is that all it takes is a handful of cushions, a new layout, and a change of colour. Want a contemporary bedroom in a concise time frame? Here are a few handy tips to turn a dull space into a dazzling modern masterpiece.

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Declutter

A key aspect of the modern look that needs to be remembered at all times is that space is imperative to the overall aesthetic. A cluttered room never looks modern. The good news is, decluttering is cost-free, and it helps clear your head to boot. Start with messy wardrobes first, inventing more effective systems for organization. Colour co-ordination is always the most visually impressive. Get rid of any small items taking up floor space. Have a designated space for everything.

Getting the Tone

Oftentimes, a room can feel old when there is an abundance of dull colours dotted around the place. To get a modern look, the colours need to be few, but bold. A three-colour palette is an effective way of giving the room character whilst not overstepping the line of convolution. How about white, black and lime green? Or, for the patriot, red white and blue? Keep the walls white, but choose a softer shade, such as cream or ivory. That way, the room won’t seem clinical, but the contrast will help emphasise your stand-out colours.

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Ensuring the Bed is Right

Your bed should be your centre piece – after all, it is called a bedroom – so it needs to be the point in the room at which the whole palette comes together. If you’re looking for a contemporary bed, it is worth noting that high gloss furnishings are very popular at the moment, thanks to their innovative ‘sci fi’ finish. What is important is letting the bed be spacious, and added splashes of colour with a selection of throw pillows. Mix shades and styles for a triad that can rest towards the head of the bed.

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Let the Sun be Your Lighting

Your window is your biggest asset. Natural lighting always looks better than artificial, so if you have a large window, try not to use it as just another shelf. It’s all about maximising the amount of light that can get in the room: use lighter, smaller curtains; if possible, move any obstructional furniture out of the way; get some extra mirrors to let the light bounce around the room. The lighter colours you decorate with, the brighter the room will feel.

Ultimately, the modern look is all about making the room feel spacious, but comfortable. Be sure never to venture into a clinical atmosphere; you can avoid this with plenty of pastel colours, throw cushions, and sentimental decor.

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Happy DIY Saturday! Are you tired of your bedroom or need to give it a makeover? Today on DIY Saturday I show you ways to update your bedrooms on a budget! Watch a video on how to transform your guest bedroom and then get ideas for budget friendly bedroom trends.

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Are you looking for new bedroom furniture?  Then the good news is that current bedroom fashions just happen to favor your wallet.  As recently as five years ago, buying a complete bedroom set was the expected route.  Those basic pieces cost a small fortune when purchased all at once, especially if they were made from solid wood.  Not a budget-friendly style!  While there are plenty of great bedroom sets available, the current trend allows more wiggle room for those of us who like to be a little different…and a lot more affordable.

Mix It Up

Bedrooms are becoming more eclectic to coordinate the rest of the modern home.  That means no more matching!  Start with an item that you absolutely love: a bed, dresser, or even a rug or piece of art.  Then begin searching for pieces that have at least one of three matching design elements: color, texture, or shape (style).  That way your room will always look elegantly eclectic instead of just jumbled.  Write down the measurements of your bedroom and keep them with you in case you stumble upon the perfect piece.

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Embrace the Past

The best place to score unique pieces is anywhere secondhand.  Thanks to design buzzwords like “shabby chic,” “restoration,” and “vintage,” recycled pieces are high on style and low on cost.  When it comes to bedroom furniture, you can find large, wood chests and dressers at a fraction of the price, and tweak it to work in your bedroom with a little DIY.  Keep an eye out for popular items like wrought iron bed frames, armoires, and cute accessories.

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Make It Yours

Just because flea-market style isn’t your taste doesn’t mean you can’t use mismatched pieces to reflect your style.  Prefer a more masculine look?  Use recycled crates for nightstands and wire baskets for storage.  If you love contemporary design, use open metal shelving and brightly colored décor.  If you’re still unsure of mix-and-match pieces, pick up matching hardware for all of your fixtures and drawer pulls to create a sense of harmony between pieces.  Finally, bring the design of the room together with curtains, bedding, and accessories that share a color scheme and voilà!  You’ve captured the eclectic trend in your bedroom without emptying your wallet.

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The center of calm, an oasis of comfort.  The master bedroom of any home should speak of serenity and peace. It should be the one place in a home where rest, relaxation and rejuvenation is guaranteed.   In order for these things to happen, the interior design of the master bedroom should focus on such elements. Here are several tips you can use to redesign your master bedroom and give it the much needed facelift it so deserves!

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Find Inspiration

When designing a master bedroom, or any room for that matter, it is important to find inspiration for the color scheme and design.  In a bedroom, a great place to find inspiration is with the bedding. Quilts, duvets and comforters are plum full of color, texture, and pattern. From these elements homeowners can easily find a color and design scheme for the entire space.

Gray and yellow is the hot color scheme trending right now in the design world. Especially popular in nurseries, gray and yellow can also be used in a master bedroom! Soft and warm, gray and yellow tones provide a comforting feel in any space. From the bedding set pictured below with its beautiful soft colors and textures, wall color, accessories and accent pieces can easily be found for the rest of the space design.

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Accessorize

In a master bedroom, the bed is usually the focal point. That is why the bedding can serve as a sounding board for the rest of the room design with its color and pattern. Once the bedding is found, accessories and accent pieces can be added to the space.

In using the gray and yellow bedding as an example, there are several colors that can be used in the room’s accent décor.  Pulling from the pops of white in the comforter and using white pieces of room décor will really give the space a dramatic appeal. White lamp shades and artwork hung in white picture frames will coordinate nicely with the bedding and provide the space with interest and depth.

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Window Treatments

Second to the bed in terms of focal points are the windows.  Often times left forgotten, the windows are such an important element to the design and décor of any interior space. Simply updating the window treatments can instantly give the room a brand new look and feel.

When choosing treatments for any window, two important elements must be considered; function and aesthetics. Is the purpose of the window treatment to provide complete privacy? Should the window treatment allow for natural sunlight to enter the space, or are blackout panels needed.

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In addition, when choosing treatments for the windows in a room, consideration should be given as to how the treatments will coordinate with the rest of the space.  The color, pattern, and design of the material used should flow nicely with the rest of the room design.  The window treatments should serve as additional focal points and coordinating accent décor in the space.

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Bring a vacation home into your interiors by following the cottage style influence.   The cottage style brings in relaxation, casual charm and an open atmosphere to any space.  Cottages are usually associated with calming retreats away from your daily life routine, such as visiting a beach or perhaps a bungalow in the city or even in escaping to a cabin tucked away in the woods.  So create this ambiance in your own favorite spaces or home décor.  The cottage style is a bit simplistic than most but none the less filled with plenty of beauty and serenity.

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Use a light color palette:

When you look or reminisce about cottages the hues or tones are soft and light to help resemble the beach or a peaceful habitat.  So different shades and tints of whites, neutrals, taupe, greys, greens and blues all help to achieve the look of a refreshed and naturally vibrant cottage appeal.  Also dulling, fading, or weathering the paints helps to create the vintage look that cottages have.

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Keep it natural, colorful and dark:

You want to remember that in a cottage styled interior the windows, floors, and walls would be what carries most of the color and texture.  So the walls would be rough and textured and the floors along with the windows would have wooden materials.  Some other materials that also help with color tiles, ceramics, and natural stones.  Putting in these materials helps to pull out some of the natural elements of the outdoors that we have all come to enjoy.

Fill the open areas with flowers and plants:

Here is another way for you to bring in bright colors and freshness to your cottage style interiors by adding floral selections.  Collect any flower pots, baskets, urns, pitchers, and vases to put any plants or colorful flowers of your choosing into them.  Also consider growing your own garden filled with wild flowers this helps to further reinforce the natural look you are aiming for.  Don’t forget about the windows; add window boxes that way you have fresh color coming from each open area.

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Add antiques and woven accessories:

Feel free to bring in quality furniture like www.onlinesofawholesale.com and woven accessories to your cottage style space.  This is when a trip to the local flea market or hand-down antiques from your family heirlooms would be great assets.  Search for items like benches, dressers, chest, tables, chairs, rocking chairs, etc.  Woven accessories like woven baskets, ottomans (used for storage pieces which will help to keep the space open), rugs etc. will all create a more familiar inviting environment to the space like the woods or forest.

Making your space a cottage style representation will always give an inviting, open, and captivating feel to anyone who enters through it.  So try out these suggestions for to create your own cottage styled interiors for your space.

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As wonderful as it may be to relax on a beautiful beach or dine in a great foreign restaurant, half of the fun of going on holiday is sinking into a comfortable bed in a nice hotel.

If you miss the ‘hotel experience’ of relaxation and comfort, you might want to turn your own bedroom into a ‘hotel at home’ retreat. Enjoy the hotel experience in your own home with these four atmosphere-building bedroom tips.

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1. Focus on soft, comfortable mattresses and sheets

All of the world’s top hotel rooms have one feature in common: a soft, comfortable bed. The most important aspect of a hotel experience is wonderful sleep, making it essential that you invest in a high quality mattress and equally soft sheets.

Look for a mattress that’s designed for maximum comfort – preferably one that’s a little too soft, as is the custom in hotels. It’s also important to spend more than you might like to on sheets to enjoy a higher thread count and smoother texture.

2. Invest in charming, atmospheric accessories

The best hotels aren’t plain and minimal – they’re stylish and atmospheric. Try to find unique accessories that give your room a sense of style, instead of the typical paintings, film posters, and bedroom furniture.

Great choices include abstract or unusual art, mood lighting, or unusual bedroom furniture that catches your eye. Think about the aesthetic appeal of luxury hotels and apply the same mindset when you’re decorating your bedroom.

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3. Create a great scent with candles and oils

One thing you’ll never find at a top hotel is a smelly room. From the Ritz Carlton to the W Hotel, all of the world’s top hotel chains invest in custom scents and in-room perfume to ensure that guests are greeted by a wonderful smelling room.

You can achieve the same results at home with some scented candles and oils. Light a scented candle shortly before you retire to bed – paying attention to fire hazards, of course – and enjoy a delicious smell as soon as you enter your bedroom.

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4. Separate your entertainment and relaxation spaces

Have you ever noticed how quickly you fall asleep in a hotel bed? It’s not because it’s comfortable – although that certainly helps. Instead, the reason we often rapidly fall asleep in hotel beds is because we rigidly separate them from our entertainment.

When you use your bedroom solely for sleep, it becomes a space that your mind will naturally associate with drifting off and resting. Move your television, computer, and bookshelf out of your bedroom to make it a dedicated rest and relaxation space.

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This summer instead of running out of your bedroom each morning to start the day, how about enjoy it and transform it into a summer retreat? While you may think of your bedroom as just a place to sleep, it should also feel welcoming, peaceful, and enjoyable to retreat to at night and wake up to in the morning. This summer, try and make it a peaceful refuge.

But how relaxing is your bedroom for summer? Does your bedroom have a comforting ambiance? Well, these questions should be answered positively. If not, you have to allot time to makeover your bedroom. Of course, it should have a summer look that cools your spirit and is a welcome place at the end of a long day.

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To help you out with your bedroom makeover, here are inspiring ways to transform your summer bedroom:

Ensure proper ventilation

It is very important to have some external air going inside your room. This will prevent your room from getting stuck with bad odor. With proper ventilation, you can be sure that fresh air will come in your room. The proper flow of air from inside out gives summer ambiance. It’s the summer breeze that makes it perfect for your bedroom makeover. You can do this by enhancing your window size and style.

Remove clutter

Organize your bedroom and free-up some space. The more space you have, the better. This will make your room brighter and spacious. When your bedroom is organized, sunlight can freely light up your room. The sunlight entering your room completes the summer makeover. So, don’t let clutter blocks the way of sunlight.

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Change your bedding

Your bedding should provide the accent of your summer bedroom makeover. Choose bedding with summer colors like blue, yellow, white or any combination of summer colors. Make sure you have comfortable bedding for the summer season. Bedding with summer color themes provide very cool ambiance to complement the summer heat.

Now is the time to assess your bedroom and determine if it’s summer-ready. Look in your cabinet storage for any available summer beddings and accessories. You surely have something in the past that can be perfect for your summer bedroom makeover.

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Many people have the habit of curling up in their bedroom with a book or magazine before going to sleep. This good habit helps you unwind and after a stressful day it makes it easier to fall asleep. By arranging for enough lighting and other bedside amenities, you can make this bedtime reading very comfortable. Here are tips to make your bedroom more comfortable for bedtime reading.

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Use Task Lighting

The first thing you have to arrange for is enough lighting to save your eyes from strain. Natural light is a good option but it is not enough to read by. You will need alternative light source, especially to read at night. Task lighting will be great for reading as it, unlike table lamps, can be adjusted to shine directly on the reading materials. Adjustable lamps like gooseneck works best for task lighting. On the other hand, it will be better to use incandescent bulbs for task lighting because they produce tender, white light that is bright enough to read by.

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Pillows

Pillows can be a great addition to comfortable reading as they provide adequate support for your back, neck, and head so that you can enjoy reading comfortably. Choose a pillow that will hold up your back while you loosen up in bed. Some pillows are designed to support the back and neck while another type of pillows designed to support the arms too. You should experiment before purchase to make sure that you are buying the right pillow.

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Bed Lights

One of the most annoying situations can be the moment when you are about to fall asleep with a book in hands but you have to get up from bed to turn off the light. Make use of bed lights to avoid this torture. Consider installing dedicated reading lamps on one or both sides of the bed. These fixtures will create a private corner for you on the bed besides providing adequate light for reading books. However, the greatest advantage of them is that you do not have to leave the comfort of your bed to turn them off.

Choose Flexible Lighting Fixtures

Wall-mounted reading lights above the bed or close to the bedsides are a good option but articulated reading lights will give you the maximum flexibility. You can adjust these lights according to your height and reading position. However, choose a style that will cast light in a single thin beam rather than disseminating it over the surrounding space.

Shelf for Books

You will also need a good storage to place your books before going to sleep because tossing up on the floor is not a good option. A bookshelf built into the headboard wall, a shelf beneath the bed, a slim tiered shelf beside the bed, or a nightstand can solve this problem.

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You can also make use of other amenities like clip-on book lights or padded headboard. However, just make sure that you are getting the comfort that you have been seeking for.

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