How to Decorate your Home with Timeless Furniture

Choose a piece of bedroom furniture that resonates with you

Timeless furniture is only as good as the value you place in it. For me an antique canopy bed from my grandmother’s home could hold personal and sentimental meaning. For your home a modern Le Corbusier dresser and matching furniture could be more your style. Don’t get swayed by just looking in design magazines and perusing design blogs. Let them inspire you to choose bedroom furniture you love and holds meaning to you and your loved ones. Southern Living has an interesting article for choosing furniture by the scale of your room.

Look to custom furniture for your home office needs

Your home office is the perfectly place to show off your design style but it still needs to be functional and practical. Custom home office furniture is good for those who have a work at home profession or spend a lot of time at a desk. Custom options for crafting, surfing the Internet, or organizing photographs will need customizable solutions. You can hire a furniture craftsman or artisan to create a furniture piece for you, or consider using a traditional armoire or buffet table and put custom file organizers inside. This option is more affordable and if you visit your local organization or office supplies store you may be surprised at the options! Home Design Lover gives tips for choosing living room furniture that could be applied to your home office too.

Kids should have timeless furniture too!

The beauty of kids’ rooms is that they have no rules. Bunk beds that have unique configurations with matching futons are perfect for multi-age children who need to share a room. Bedroom furniture that fit a theme is common for kids furniture and should be a reflection of your child’s personality. A statement piece such as a bean bag chair, a dresser or even a rocking chair can bring a timeless appeal to your kids room, instantly.

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Thinking of a good new year’s resolution? An organized dresser should be on top of your list. This will make your dresser look systematic and accessible all year round. It’s a resolution that you can develop your discipline and creativity to maintain your drawer in order.

When organizing your dresser, you have to be creative in many ways. You will have to consider the space available, arrangement and layout. This is where creativity and comes into place. But this isn’t a problem. There are easy and effective ways to organize your dresser, check out these ideas:

Creative Dresser Organization Ideas

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• Use dresser-top tray

The dresser-top tray should best cater your perfume, facial cream, accessories, everyday jewelries and other daily essentials. You can have a silver tray that is just enough to hold these things. By using a dresser-top tray, you can easily access your things without opening a drawer and mess things up. Use some decorative piece like jewelry holder to enhance its looks.

• Display your accessories with a twist

It’s not just enough to have a storage for all your accessories. Why not display them in an artistic way. Instead of storing them in a storage box, hang them decoratively in a customized bulletin board. For instance, you can have your jewelries draping on an image that represents its characteristics. You can attach the board on your dresser’s side wall of the door.

Image via: Me and Alice

• Divide and conquer

For better organization of your things in the dresser, split your drawers and closets into smaller quadrants. Then, sort your garments out. You can arrange your things according to style, color and type. Be sure to place those you regularly use in easy to reach areas. Seasonal clothing can be placed on top or at the bottom.

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Now that your dresser is organized, it’s very important to maintain and manage the arrangement all throughout the year. This is a new year’s resolution that you shouldn’t miss.

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Most of us love to have furniture within our homes, offices, kid’s areas etc.  But have you ever received or purchased a dresser  that wasn’t exactly what you liked, such as a family heirloom?  You can either hide it, somehow get rid of it, or (personal favorite) remodel or revamp your dresser so that it fits the needs of you and your space?  If you opt for three then here are some steps to get you that dresser that you love having around in your home.

Image via: Jenny Lind

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Supplies

1)      Dresser

2)      Sander

3)      Dust mask

4)      Screw Driver

5)      Paint

6)      Paint Brush

7)      Spray Paint

8)      Block of Styrofoam

9)      Primer

Image via: Made by Brian

Instructions

1)      Take the dresser that you would like to transform and move it to an area that you don’t mind getting messy.  Then, you want to remove the drawers from the dresser.

2)       Next, put on the dust mask and take the sander and begin to sand the entire dresser getting all the way to the bare wood.  (This process shouldn’t take long.)

3)      Once the sanding is done, take the screw driver and unscrew the handles from the drawers.  And start painting the drawers that you previously removed, make sure to allow at least 2 hours between each coat.  You will probably use two coats of primer and three coats of the paint.  (This process will take some time) Also, paint the frame of the dresser.

4)      While the last coat of painting is drying, figure out what you would like to do for the handles.  If you want to keep the handles that were attached to the dresser and just wanted to change the color then get the Styrofoam block and press each handle onto different sides of the block.  Spray paint the handles and allow them to dry for 10 minutes then spray a second coat (two coats should be enough). If you would like to change out the handles completely and purchase more that is fine also just make sure that the handles that you purchase will fit the dresser (size wise).

5)      After everything that was painted has dried, re-screw the handles into the drawers and put the drawers back into the dresser.  There you have your new dresser! Try it out!

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