Modern Home Decorating

Ok so I have 3 small rooms (the cellar) of my new house to myself. One of the rooms is going to be a movie room where I watch T.V and movies. All My DVDs will be in there and a couch. I wanna decorate the walls with famous movie actors/actresses and movie posters/displays. I was thinking of outting Merilyn Monroe and James Deen and stuff on the wall and other things I got at home. DO you have any ideas of ways I can make this room look nice and be a good hangout? Just to sit and watch movies? What should I put on the walls and stuff etc….

My favorite movies = Now and Then, Thirteen, Star Wars, A Walk To Remember, Pirates of The Caribbean, Disney Movies, Braveheart, American Pie, Grave of the Fireflies, SPirited Away etc….

My Favorite T.V Shows= Avatar, The Hills, Naruto, Laguna Beach, Tila Tequila, Every old Nick show like Kenan and Kel and All That. Umm…… idks stuff like that. ANy ideas?

Make it look Broadway and use vintage posters and other vintage type stuff. That would look awesome!

My hubby and I recently bought a house. I haven’t decided on what colour to paint our bedroom, but I was hoping somebody had some knowledge of colours and their affects on mood, and well-being and all that. lol I’ve had a banana yellow room for the last 8 months and I don’t think I want yellow again….nor does my husband. If there is a colour that has some negative effect, I’m curious about it.

When it comes to bedrooms, try to keep the wall color neutral or, at the very least, calm… (like light blues, beiges, even lavenders… if you want something darker, you can go with burgundys, burnt oranges, browns… greens are great too!) Really ANY color will work… it’s finding the right SHADE that can be difficult.

For example, a cream colored bedroom with a single wine accent wall could be positively beautiful… but a room with fire-engine red walls is intense.

I did a little google research (haha!) to try and answer your question about which colors are said to have certain effects.
Go here: http://freshome.com/2007/04/17/room-color-and-how-it-affects-your-mood
Just scroll down past the intro and it goes color by color… it’ll tell you what colors are best for what rooms and the effects these colors have on the people living there. (Note, crimson is BAD!)

I hope this helped a little… if you want more, just google search room color meanings. You should come up with more answers.

Hope I helped hun! Good luck!

ps. I had a yellow room for a little while when I was a kid… and hated it! I’m definitely a fan of calm blues myself.

I know about Martha Stewart, but what are some other reputable or well-known websites with great interior design and homeware tips?

www.dominomag.com
www.shelterrific.com
www.decor8blog.com
www.apartmenttherapy.com
www.designspongeonline.com/

how many are dangerous to the environment? In production and for use and how many chemicals are dangerous to mammals in the production (including chemicals released by production in factory)?

What chemical does oil paint contain which is dangerous to our skin?

Is Wallpaper and wallpaper waste a better carbon footprint than paint (oil and emulsion)?

add hyperlinks and dissitations… haha. : )

The number of chemical species in paint would be huge in larger and lesser amounts. Oils are very complex mixtures of many indvidual compounds both toxic and non toxic. Paint also contains pigments with are also very complex. Lead compounds used to be used but the main pigment in most white paint is titanium dioxide which is not toxic.

The oils are often renewable such as linseed oil so environmentally relatively neutral.

I think you should email the paint manufacturers for reassurances regarding the nature of the ingredients. They rae more careful now than ever to ensure paints are safe.

what classes should i take in high school to start off my career in architecture/interior design/ and home builder?

Probably a drawing/design class, an interior decorating class, an archeticutre class or a technology class, a computer design class

The best thing to do would be to talk to your guidance counsoler. He / She would have great suggestions of what you should take. He / She can also search at colleges with that career and see what requirements they require.

I have never actually been to Alaska…but I want to go really bad…so I was kinda just walking around Garden Ridge this afternoon with my mom and we went through the christmas section (I know they already have christmas stuff out….I love it!). I then had this great idea to get a second christmas tree for our house this year. Our house is big enough and I have always said that I love christmas trees so much that when I grow up and have kids then I am going to have at least two trees…a family one and then one I can decorate with a new theme every year…well now I want to go ahead and start that tradition this year and I want the theme to be Alaskan…so any ideas. By the way we live in Texas so I thought it might be a unique theme that you wouldn’t see in Texas too much. Lol! My ideas include things like:

A partly flocked tree…maybe just the tips and stuff to make it look like snow.
Moose ornaments
Clear lights
Bears
Pinecones????
Any other ideas from people that have been to Alaska or know a lot about Alaska?

Fishing is big in Alaska, so fish ornaments or fishing boat ornaments would be appropriate. Salmon, crabs, and other marine mammals are very much associated with Alaska. Oil is obviously a huge part of Alaska, but I don’t know if it would be too political to put a little tanker truck on your tree. I would find it funny, but who knows what other people would think?
Also, the Alaskan state quarter comes out this year! You could incorporate that into your tree, either as ornaments or mixed into a garland.
I think Alaska is the state with the most small planes that have pontoons for water landing – you could probably find those at a toy store for decorating. And don’t forget to find a little dogsled to put on the tree as that’s a big sport/form of transportation for Alaska.
Lastly, if you could find a doll dressed up in fur like an Eskimo, you could put that at the top of your tree. Or maybe you could find an igloo to put up there!

my cat pulls the ornaments off of my christmas tree whenever I’m not around or asleep at night. how can I stop him from doing this?

put the ornaments higher up or put something they can’t climb oover in front of the tree.

§you could blow on them or spray them with water when you catch them.

§you could lay foil out in front of the tree

§put foil chains on the tree where they can see them.

§you could put a low fan in front of the tree.