Filed under Decorating on February 25th, 2008:
HGTV Resources for Helping You Decorate Your Apartment
So you don’t understand why the lime green pillow doesn’t match the orange and turquoise striped couch? Or maybe you’ve had the same posters on your wall since college. In any case we all need some help now and again and definitely when it comes to interior decorating of your apartment. While many of us would like to think that our apartment is the epitome of good taste, it may not always be the case. Check out these online design tools that will show you the dos & don’ts of planning your space.
TGTV – Online Resources for helping you decorate your apartment
HGTV knows a thing or two about arranging spaces. Everyday on the Home & Garden channel homes are maximized for space, Feng Shui, and versatility. The people at HGTV now offer an online interactive design tool for room planning. It’s very simple; start by setting up your space online as it is in your home. Bring in furniture and virtually arrange your online room without the hassle and manpower of physically moving your furniture into every possible combination. Just click the image above to get to The HGTV room planner.
Experimenting with colors in your apartment can be an expensive and painstaking process. Between the paint swatches and color samples that you bring home, finding the right color combinations is difficult. The Color Smart guide with the ‘Paint Your Place,’ design tool option is a great way to get color in your Los Angeles apartment without getting messy. The Color Smart design tool is a guide that helps to find complementing colors to ones that you may already have in your home. The optional ‘Paint Your Place,’ feature is a tool that allows users to virtually repaint their home by digitally altering pictures of their spaces. These design tools and more are available here.
More ideas for interior design at iVillage
If you’re not quite ready to make big changes to your home just yet but would like to begin to think about your options for your apartment, take a look at iVillage’s Home Inspiration Gallery, but you can just click the image and it will take you there. This gallery that is very comprehensive easy to navigate, offers vivid photos of all different types of rooms and styles intended to get your creative juices going.
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