I'll be taking a blog break until after Labor Day, but I have plenty of new posts in the cue for when I return (currently 1/2 finished, of course! :-) ) so I hope you'll stick around. For now I'm going to leave you with a compilation of inspiration and ideas to spark your decorating creativity...
BEDROOM IDEAS
Use a desk beside the bed instead of a night stand. The addition of a mirror and a decorative garden stool allows this to function as a dressing table as well. When not in use, the garden stool can be tucked under the desk, much like a nesting table and, if you're wanting to create some additional interest, why not layer several mirrors of different sizes on the desk top rather than hanging just one on the wall?
Designer Samantha Pynn Photo Virginia Macdonald
The upholstered wall in this bedroom designed by Caldwell Flake is fabulous, and I love the way they've juxtaposed the distressed corbels with the modern shade in the wall sconces.
MIRRORS
I know I've encouraged you to mix things up a bit (for example your dining chairs), but never your bathroom mirrors. What do you think? Of course the idea appeals to me just because it's different, but I'm wondering if I could actually do it. :-) 
Canadian House and Home
This wall is stunning isn't it? The bold wall color, mirrors outlined in molding, furniture and art layered in front... Inspiring. 
Tobi Fairley/At Home In Arkansas
ART
More words on walls, because you know I love them. Can't get much more simple than this technique...
Veranda Photo Antoine Bootz
I love this vignette designed by Tobi Fairley and featured in At Home In Arkansas. I've seen a lot of people painting designs like these on their walls lately and I'm loving it, but those same stencils would be great for creating wall art on canvas. What a simple, sophisticated graphic statement! 
I think using this mirror in the center of the plate display gives it a fresher, more modern feel. They've also used coordinating fabric and ribbon around the flowers on the table to tie them into the scheme...
Rather than framing your art, you could clip it to clipboards and display it. This idea would look completely different depending on the type of clip boards and art used (for example, very colorful clipboards with kids art, or all black clipboards with modern art, or all white with botanicals, etc. Limited only by your imagination.)
Elle Decor Photo Pieter Estersohn
Outline a corkboard with ribbon and frame it in a statement-making frame, then hang your favorite necklaces from it. This keeps your necklaces within easy reach while at the same time functioning as "art".
Canadian House and Home
ADDING ARCHITECTURE
If you're not really a diy'er in the power saw sense, this idea from BHG.com could be for you. They suggest adding some simple architecture to your space using ordinary picture frames!
LIGHTING
We saw in this lighting post how
BHG.com
and
Dwellings by Devore
updated outdated chandeliers with drum shades (excellent idea, right?).But BHG.com also suggests replacing the glass globe on your ceiling fan with a drum style shade for a simple update that will pack a punch. I agree...
Lamps on pedestals versus floor lamps...
Traditional Home Photo Colleen Duffley
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Enjoy the rest of your summer. Hope it's FABULOUS!
