Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Sure, you can go with traditional furniture that has four legs and a basic design, but where is the fun in that? Even if country living is your style, you can still fill in your space artistic and unique pieces that serve as a table or chair but look like something else.

The Spool Side Table from Ballard Designs is a cool find that is inspired by actual French spools. It’s crafted from mango wood, and wrapped around the middle is authentic manila rope. The top has St. Tropez usine de corde stenciled on the top, and the wood is stained with a medium brown finish.

In addition to being a unique piece, this table can also double as storage. The top lifts off, and you can put magazines in it or stuff it with blankets.

Make this Halloween special and memorable for family, friends and the neighborhood by going all out and decorating the indoor and outside of your home with a variety of spooky, gory and terrifying things that go bump in the night. Prove that your house is the best place to go trick-or-treating.

The Halloween Animated Tree Decoration is an interesting accessory to add to your yard’s trees, or you can even mount it on your indoor walls. This motion activated tree mask is made of plastic and operates on three AA batteries. It’s eyes light up and change colors from yellow to red to green, and the mouth moves too.

This spirited holiday can be enjoyed in so many ways. If you have younger children, you can opt for Disney style decorations.

If you’re not careful the dining room can look pretty dull. While table and chair sets are easier since they match, mixing up a table and different chairs can be more interesting. It also helps when you use color in the dining area. Simply because the dining room is supposed to be more sophisticated and grand, it doesn’t mean you can’t use bold colors you love.

One HomeGoods customer posted a picture of her dining room, and it has several elements that you can take and personalize. First, she has a chosen to accent the room with orange. There are orange candles and pillows, and the magnolia picture ties in the creams and oranges.

Second, she has cream parsons chairs around the wooden table instead of traditional wooden ones. These chairs are more inviting, but they have a formal fabric and color.

The real plants and additional centerpiece accessories pull the look together.

Still life paintings are classic decorating accessories, and they will be appreciated for years to come. Few artists are gifted with the ability to create life like portrayals of real life objects. While many still life paintings are done with fruit and vases, it requires extensive shading, contouring and mixing of colors. You might not be one of these talented artists, but you can create a real still life.

The Still Life Fruit Bowl is a quirky way to display your fruit on the kitchen counter or table. This designer fruit bowl acts as a great conversational centerpiece. Barnaby Barford & Andre Klauser created this cheeky bowl from glazed earthenware, untreated solid European oak fame and brass fixing.

Along with arranging and re-arranging various fruits in this bowl, you can also adjust the frame to either landscape or portrait format.

You can really never tell what treasures you might find on Etsy, so when you want a painting, decoration or decor for your home, it might be worth searching on here.

One artist has an original oil painting up for sale. It’s a painting of actress Salma Hayek, and it was specifically created for the Twentieth Century Fox exhibit in November 2007. The painting measures 24” x 36”, and it’s an oil on canvas.

It’s currently priced at $1,200, and the same artist is selling several other works too.

Original paintings like this one are incredible pieces to have in your collection, and they make for interesting stories too!

Windows are amazing features of a home, and if you have ever been without a view of the outside world, you know how important it is to have that connection. However, windows can quickly become an unattractive aspect of your home if you get the curtains all wrong.

Finding the style, color, texture and length of curtain can cause you to go shopping for hours without any reward at the end. Sometimes it’s like a treasure hunt, especially when you don’t want to distract from the beautiful view through the window.

IKEA has a LILL pair of sheer white curtains, and you can cut them to the desired length and not even have to worry about hemming them. The set comes with two panels, and the fabric on a standard curtain rod. These are great for connected spaces too.

Did you have a beaded door curtain back in the day? Well, it’s never too late to add some hippie flair to your home. After all, they can add some mystery and allure to the entrance of a room.

The Coco-Bead Door Curtain from Pottery Barn Teen retails for $49, but is currently on special for $39. It measures 35.5’’ W x 77’’ L, and it can hook right on to a hanging rod mount, which makes it easy for doorway or wall installation. The curtain is made up of natural coconut beads that are hung from a rattan pole, so this is a more contemporary version of those beaded curtains in the 70s.

These beaded curtains are a great idea for children, especially teenagers who want to feel like they have more privacy. However, you can still keep an eye on them through the beaded curtain, or if you’re lucky, they might invite you in to chat for a while.

Seasonal decorating is a great way to welcome the coming season and add a sense of new to your home. With fall being right around the corner, you can start thinking about how to bring autumn into your home.

The Pumpkin Tree Candleholder is an understated fall accessory in comparison to some you might see such as turkeys, glass pumpkins, etc. It measures 18.5” high, and it has a metal construction with a copper finish. In the three hanging pumpkins, you can place a t-light in each one.

This would be a simple centerpiece for the table, and you can light it to add some ambiance to your dinner setting. Keep this item in mind, because it will be available in Kirkland’s by August 9.

Supporting your favorite NBA team can go farther than just watching the games with friends and family—don’t forget that you can display your love of a team too. Decorating the entire house with an NBA team’s colors in mind is a bit extreme, but dedicating a game room or basement to this sports passion can be fun.

This Imperial Phoenix Suns Neon Sign is an example of what you can add to existing decor. A neon sign would fit well wherever you have a pool table, or you can incorporate it into a game room or if you commonly watch games on a larger screened TV in the basement.

This neon sign will confirm your pride for a certain team, and it can be mounted in three different ways. It can be installed on the wall or ceiling, or it can be left standing.

Those jelly window stickers are fun to add to windows, because you can create an entire scene. You can find them for every season and even holidays, and it can be a nice craft activity for kids. However, when you’re done using the stickers on the windows, you probably wait until next year to use them again. However, you can do something more with them.

These Jelly Gel Window Stickers Stick-Ons are inexpensive, and each package has a mix of designs. If you order a case pack, there are 660 packages and 110 of each of the designs shown in the image below.

If you’re having a large party, these stick-ons would be great to put on martini drinks and other glasses so that everyone remembers which drink is theirs. Then during the year, you can use the stickers to jazz up your windows and glass doors.