Please welcome Jessica who is guest posting today!
The bedroom should be a pleasant room that we look forward to retiring to each evening, but more often than not it ends up cluttered, unorganized and a combination of storage room, home office and bedroom all in one! But it doesn’t have to be like that. With some clever restyling and cost-cutting tips, you can restyle your bedroom to create a trendy, comfortable and peaceful room that you won’t want to leave each morning. Set a budget for the bedroom restyle project. Factor in things like new furniture, bedding and paint if required. It’s also important to choose a theme or style that you want for the bedroom. This will help you to select bedding, accessories and colors for the room. Popular bedding trends this year are:
- Country Chic – Featuring subdued floral designs and rustic vintage touches like imitation oil lamps, distressed wood picture frames and dried flower arrangements.
- Global Style- Focuses on ornate fabric designs from places like India and Thailand. Gold highlights, mountains of throw cushions and hanging wall fabrics complete the theme.
- Geometric Monochrome – In line with the latest fashion styles, geometric black & white styles are becoming popular in the bedroom. This clean and functional style requires extra investment in storage space to hide any clutter.
- Bold and Bright – Bright colors and bold stripes are the focus for this style, with geometric art prints and colorful picture frames and lamps finishing off the look.
- Repainting:
Repainting the bedroom will require a lot extra work, but the results can really transform a room, especially if the room hasn’t been refreshed in a long time. Consider painting the wall behind the bedhead in a different color to create a feature wall. 
From: Thejoyfulorganizer
- Replace the Linen:
The main focus of a bedroom is usually the bed, and you can revitalize the room with a simple change of linen. Take a look at the latest duvet covers from online vendors websites. The new styles, colors and designs are beautiful and can be a great focal point for your bedroom makeover.
(From: Yorkshirelinen duvet covers)
- New Lighting
If your bedroom doesn’t have it already, think about having light dimmer switches installed in the room. If your budget doesn’t stretch far enough to hire an electrician, you can buy bedside lamps that have dimmer switches which serve the same purpose.
- Bedroom Accessories
Many printing shops can now print your favorite photo or images onto canvas, and this affordable artwork can look fantastic in the bedroom. An antique chair, cupboard or picture frame can really accentuate the room if you have gone for a country chic or global theme.
From: Countryantiquefurniture antique chair
- Storage:
Bedrooms often become cluttered with personal effects, books and clothes. Try storing clothes and accessories that you don’t need for the current season away in a hidden space. You can also buy very affordable small bookshelves from discount stores that can hold all of your bedtime reading material. The guest Post is from Jessica, Follow her @Pinterest, Many Thanks to Tracy who gave me this opportunity. I’d love to read comments from all of you.
Northworks Architects
Did you have a room in your home growing up that was too nice to use? Many of us make the mistake of setting up a luxurious space that is so nice that everyone is afraid of using it. New York based Foley & Cox are experts on comfortable luxury. These are not too nice to touch rooms but are still filled with a sense of luxury. Take a peek.
To see more click HERE.
Terracotta Properties
Space is quite often a dampening factor that can (in some cases) limit the sheer amount of bathroom layout ideas that one can play with. Too often, homemakers have to adopt the practical approach and utilize their space as efficiently as possible. However, even compact spaces can have design power.
Roeder Design Group
Selecting the right pieces and designing the space like a jewel box can help transform a typical, tight space into something spectacular.
If you are lucky enough to rework internal walls and create a dynamic flow then you can start to veer away from ‘the practical’ layout and create something a bit more original and exciting.
Courtney Blanton Interiors
Tommy Chambers Interiors
So whether you have a small or large bathroom, the right fixtures can make the ordinary extraordinary. 4 Bathrooms is a discount retailer of bathroom suites, bathroom furniture, baths, showers, basins, taps and everything in between.
Ready to get your grill on? Here some stylish picks for the 4th of July BBQ.
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Everyone has a demanding to-do list and this summer is the perfect time to get down to those DIY jobs that everyone has been benching. Sometimes, it’s the little things that can make a difference to a whole room. As switching out cabinetry hardware or painting a room can dramatically change a room, we’re applying this same tactic this week to the doorways of the house. Many of us think that doors are simply utilitarian but they can make a dramatic impact to the design of your space. Whether it’s a kitchen pantry door, a bathroom door or a door to the garden, doorways are a great opportunity to bring a stylish look to your home. Here are some great examples of stylish doors.
Brownhouse Designs
Arcanum Architecture
Cube Architecture
Faiella Designs
One great source for great door designs is The Contemporary Door Company.
With the 4th of July approaching, get ready to entertain with a stylish bar cart. Here are some of my favorites.
Hillary Thomas {Nicole LaMotte Photography}
Hudson Interior Designs
Powell Brower Interiors
Tucker & Marks Design Inc.
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Bring the beach inside and get ready for summer!
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As school wraps up, I find myself dreaming of a great summer getaway. {Sometimes great things come in small packages!}
designed by Dujardin Design
Jessica Howard is a talented ceramic artist inspired by nature. She is also a cancer survivor! Love it!
To see more click HERE.
{Please welcome Katja of Shift Ctrl Art who has graciously offered to donate a post to daily decorator. Make sure to check out Katja’s blog which is filled with creative ideas. Thanks so much Katja for this great post about your favorite space! I love your living room too! ♥ Tracy}
My favorite room in our home – the living room
Hi! I am new to daily decorator, but I love it here already. I was so excited when Tracy’s sister Jamie accepted my offer to write up a post for Tracy!
Tracy, I am so happy to see that you are getting better and thanks so much for letting me stop by!
We bought our house 4 years ago and it was one big yellow box, when we took over. We loved the location though, and the fact that the living room had 9 ft ceilings.
We began a big remodel in 2010. The kind where you poke a little at one corner of a piece of drywall only to find yourself “back-to-the-studs”, seemingly moments later 
Here we had someone come in and frame for some new and bigger windows in the living room.
We also removed a window. Here is my handy husband hard at work framing in the hole left behind by a window we took out to get some wall space for a (faux) fireplace.
This is sort of a midway point just before the floor was put in. All the drywall is back up.
After the big remodel was finished, dh and I installed a long row of cabinets to use as an entertainment unit. We used inexpensive cabinets from IKEA.
Hey, that’s me!
Then we built a little wall bump-out. Or is it a bump-in? You decide We used all non-combustible material for this part. We further lined the inside with cement backer-board.
Then we had someone come in and tile it. In hindsight I could probably just have done that myself. We used an ethanol insert in our “fire place”. I call it my “Oil lamp +” 
I found the mirror above the fireplace at a Home Goods and changed the hardware on the back so I could hang it on the side, for a bit more unexpected quatre-foil look.
My son B (11) and I took an art class all of last year and we have been filling our walls with our drawings and paintings. B drew the frog on the lower right.
As much as I love the design of our living room, the reason it is my favorite room is because it is where our whole family – all three of us – sit and talk about our day or watch our favorite shows together at night. I love that!
You can read more about our remodel and diy projects here.
Thanks so much again Tracy and continue to feel better. More good vibes coming your way
There is something about stripes that puts me in a cheerful mood and summer & stripes seem to go hand in hand. Here are some stripes that caught my eye.
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The daily d is back! Been doing a lot of resting so I thought I would start off with a serene bedroom.
Kara Cox Interiors
{Message from Tracy…I’m doing well and beginning to get daily decorator back up & running. In the meantime, I am pleased to welcome Benita of Chez Larsson today. Benita has agreed to donate a post to daily decorator while I get back on my feet. Thanks Benita! I am a big fan & so grateful. I would also like to thank my sister Jamie who came up with this great idea.}
So here is Benita sharing some of her favorite spots in her home.
That up there is me in my bathroom. It’s the first time ever that I’ve had a bathroom where I’ve had a say. Previous bathrooms have been decorated by previous owners but this one’s all me. Me, me, me! After two years I’m still in love with the clean all white look of the subway tiles and accessories.
Another favorite spot in my house is actually the whole of the first floor in my house. It’s open plan and I love that there’s so much light there and that all the functions are present, lounging, working, dining and cooking.
Again there’s a lot of white but with my favorite colors green and navy to add some interest on fluffy pillows and art. Grey sheep skins and off white throws warm the place up. It’s chilly over here in Sweden for most part of the year!
These are my favorite spots.
Get well soon Tracy and thank you so much Jamie (what a great sister you are!) for having me!