Modern Home Decorating

I will cover it in moss and plant material, like seed pods, the twining part of vines and use little bits of colored glass for windows. I will install little white lights to come on in the night (christmas mini lights) and make a little village(4-5 of them) on the edge of my back yard, sort of hidden behind my plants.Could I spray something on these to protect from squirrels or weather? Any other intersting ideas to make them more realistic?

It sounds adorable
I’d love to live in it.. if a fairy

Hello everyone,

I am going to be living for the first time on my own … I am moving out of my parents house and to another country. Egypt, Cairo.
I already have an apartment there, 2-bed room and fully furnished including all electrical appliances
I would still need to buy kitchen utilities, blankets, sheets, towels, etc
I have so many questions:

1st: I would like to learn to cook.. I have never done anything by myself; we had a maid at home so I don’t know how to do anything. Any cooking tips, what are the basic applicants I should have, how hard is it to cook?

2nd How hard is it going to be to take care of the apartment, any tips?

3rd Any decoration tips/ ideas/ for decorating the place. Any useful websites? Other than IKEA , I have already checked that

If you are from Egypt/ any other tips

Thanks a lot

1) If you can read, then you can cook. Start simple just things that require a few ingredients only, always follow the recipe until you feel confident to make substitutes. Don’t bother buying cooking books – there are great recipes online (free).
2) If you ensure that you put things back after you finish with them – your unit will remain tidy. Don’t leave things lying around out of place. Clean is a whole other matter however, make sure you do the following things weekly:
- change bed sheets, scrub bathrooms (toilets, sinks, basins, showers, baths), kitchen (disinfect benchtops, bins, stove plates, ovens etc,etc) (Wipe benchtops daily to keep clean), vacuum and mop floors, wipe down all tables, dust surfaces (feather duster)
Monthly: clean out oven (if pyrolytic run cycle, if not use oven cleaner), scrub oven shelves
Quarterly: wash and windex windows, empty food pantry and kitchen cupboards, wipe and disinfect.
3) Decorating tips – Keep it simple and plain. Colours are great, patterns date though, you are best to pick things that are classic looking that won’t clash with the next house you move into. Good luck.

I have gone of the foil normal christmas decorations and just wondering if anyone had any other suggestions on what i could put up?

You could go 1940′s and loop different colours of paper to make coloured paper chains across your ceiling, or hang up hundreds of baubles, just like in Seven!!! (a spooky take on Christmas).

I have so many Christmas traditions that I want to enjoy with my daughter, like watching movies, baking cookies, getting her a special ornament for the tree, writing santa a letter and leaving cookies, ect…

She is only 8 months so she won’t remember any of it, should I start it all this year or not bother and wait a couple years?

i don’t have kids but if I was you, the only one I would do for the next year or two is getting her a special ornament for the tree. She won’t remember any of it, but the ornaments she can look back on years to come.

I bought 5 strands of white mini christmas lights last year only to find out that they didn’t have the clips that the big lights have to hang on my house. I would like to try and hang them up this year but i don’t know how to secure them onto my home. should i staple them or nail them in?,,,,what? lol help please, i don’t want to go get the big lights

I have used staples for years. Just be careful and not have staple cut wires.

I bought a 6.5 ft tree from WalMart. It’s just over 3.5 ft at the largest part of the tree. It has 694 tips on it. I bought 2 boxes of the 100 ct mini lights, which totals almost 50 ft of lights.

I thought this would be plenty, but as I’m reading a few things online, I’m thinking I’m going to need more! Some were suggesting 100 lights for every foot of tree.. so I would need 6 boxes?! That just seems outlandish.. I don’t want my tree to just GLOW, but I don’t want it dim. Something in between is my goal.

I use battery operated LEDs on my 2m tree 1500 tip tree, it’s about the same dimensions as yours. I usually put four strings of 50 on it and that lights it up nicely.

beautiful xmas stuff girls go to b and q u will be amazed

I got a lot from there last year, very pleased with it.
The lights are great!
Will definately go back this year, thanks for the heads up.