Home Interior Design and Decorating Ideas
January 17, 2009
How to naturally and intuitively
Design, Decorate & Furnish Your Home
[Editor’s note: If you prefer, you can download the PDF with Pictures of this Post. This is the script from my video, “Home Decorating Ideas | Personalized Room Design | Free Interior Design.” You can watch it on YouTube or Go Here. And please, remember to share this video with all your friends ... thanks, Alie.]
Hi there. I’m Alie James, Home Design Consultant. Today, I want to give you some great home decorating and room design ideas to help you get started on your Dream Home and be able to Design, Decorate and furnish your home – these are the same ideas I recommend to my Clients and they’ll help you with natural and intuitive Do-It-Yourself projects for your Home & Garden.
Tapping into my experience of Home Design & Home Furnishings, I’ll tell you exactly how to Personalize your Room Design & HomeDecorating Style AND also how to save a lot of money when purchasing things for your Home. My sincere wish is for you to get to live in the Home of your Dreams! Also, at end of this video [article], I’ll tell you how to access a very good Free Interior Design service.
I’m going to give you 3 very cool Tips that’ll make it easier and more affordable to Design, Decorate & Furnish your home exactly like you want it – the operative words being: “exactly like you want it”.
Now going back to HGTV for just a minute more. It’s definitely become our “Go To” TV Channel and Website for Home Decorating ideas & Room Design tips, and the good news is that we know it’s just going to get bigger and better each year. But the one thing HGTV can’t do is “personalize” their Decorating & Design advice. Rather, it has to be GENERIC in order to make it useful for all of us. This means that it can be very confusing, and very hard to personalize and make our own.
So what’s the SOLUTION?
The Solution is to put YOU front and center of your HOME and Garden Design puzzle. If we can do that, then everything else will fall into place. Believe it or not, you actually have quite a bit of intuitive Design Sense, and I’m going to tell you how you can access it and use it! Ready?
OK, here are the 3 Ideas that’ll put YOU dead center in your Home & Garden Design Puzzle. These ideas will cost you less than $25 and I PROMISE, they’ll be worth far more than that – they’ll be ideas you can use for a lifetime.
Idea #1: Take about $5 and go to Barnes & Noble (or someplace like it.) Plan to stay about an hour. Go to the MAGAZINE rack (no books allowed). Look at all the covers in the Lifestyle & Home & Garden sections. The trick is to Stand back and study all the magazines in front of you. Then pick only the covers that draw you to them.
If I had to guess, you’ll probably pick 10-15 magazines.
Now get a cup of coffee or tea, and a treat. Find a cozy spot – preferably a table. The goal is NOT to buy the magazines. It’s to fill your heart & mind & your senses with colors, shapes, and new ideas about Home and Garden. Don’t take notes, don’t buy any magazines. Just take it all in. Get more magazines if you have time. But again, only those that draw you, and don’t buy any – although you might do so later. The reason this is so powerful is because you’re inputting this information to be used at a later date. Very important and be sure to do this as your first step.
IDEA #2: PROFILE your Dream Home. This will only cost $19. You can get your Profile from a program called Dream Home Profile, which I created so you could “Actualize your Dream Home.” What I mean by “actualize” is that the program is designed to generate ON PAPER a personalized and customized LIST of HOME DESIGN ELEMENTS – and the DESIGN ELEMENTS that end up on your paper are the ones that are most important to YOU, which will help make your Home FEEL Like Home. So you’ve heard the expression “DESIGN SENSE” (it’s all about your senses guiding you) Another thing that’s so fantastic about Dream Home Profile is that NO ONE will ever have the same Profile as you.
Another thing, it’s not like all the other “find your Home Decorating style” surveys you’ve seen before, and it’s not giving you generic Home Decorating Ideas either; instead, you’re getting a list of Design Elements for your Home & Garden that are totally unique to YOU. And on top of that, the reason I promised you that you’ll finally be able to save money is because you’ll know exactly what is (and what isn’t) a priority purchase for your HOME – and you’ll also have the knowledge that will prevent you from making unnecessary purchases.
(Just so you know - Dream Home Profile is found on under the HOME DESIGN tab).
I hope you enjoyed this information. My wish is that you’ll be living very soon in your own Dream Home … Alie
Remember, you can download the PDF with Pictures of this Post.
A Diet Book for Tired-Of-Dieting-Dieters
July 23, 2008
Another diet book. Thousands upon thousands of “wanna-be diet gurus” confusing most of us, most of the time with some recycled diet and weight loss idea.
However, The Younger (Thinner) You Diet by Eric R. Braverman, MD is really different! I’m inspired by a few things. It approaches anti-aging, dieting and weight loss from a "brain perspective," not a "time and stomach perspective." And Dr. Braverman uses an integrative approach in his medical practice, which puts him in the same niche as Dr. Andrew Weil.
The first rule that I use to evaluate a non-fiction book is to see if it sufficiently addresses the problem or situation addressed by the title and tag line. The title, The Younger (Thinner) You Diet, draws me in (as a resistantly aging baby-boomer) by suggesting that I can be younger and thinner with this particular You Diet. What a hook! It intrigued me! Of course that’s exactly what I care about, and will likely care about for the next 20 years. Next, his tag line, How Understanding Your Brain Chemistry Can Help You Lose Weight, Reverse Aging and Fight Disease, places him in a very unique niche as far as diets go. Wow, this tag-line promises all this from “Brain Balance!”
Okay, did he succeed? Yes, he delivered a do-able, anti-aging diet and weight loss book - one that I’m going to use. Of course, not all of it appeals to me. The beginning of Part II offered quite a few details, along with the rational of the Diet. For me, this was TMI (too much information) for my time constraints. However, the latter part of Part II was filled with fantastic recipes, which he coded to the specific brain chemical deficiencies that I discovered in Part I, when I took his Younger Thinner Diet Quiz. The quiz was so practical, and completely held my interest. I also felt the results were quite accurate.
Another interesting part of Braverman’s book is how he uses herbs, foods and supplements to balance out the four brain chemicals, suggesting prescription medication as the last resort. The premise he uses in his medical practice is mind-body balance, and it’s the foundation of this book. I totally buy into this primal connection in regards to natural beauty, health and wellness.
Would I recommend this book to you? Yes. I would suggest that you get a support group started of “Tired-of-Dieting-Dieters” because you can have a lot of fun identifying with someone who is deficient in the same brain chemicals as you are. I always feel that accountability helps in our diet and weight loss journeys.
The Rainbow Connection
May 1, 2008
Dreams we dream, Hopes we hope, Homes we make …
These are the things that help us live a happy, healthy, beautiful life.
Could it be we found the Rainbow Connection?
♥
Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side
Rainbows are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we’ve been told and some choose to
Believe it
I know they’re wrong, wait and see
Someday we’ll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
Who said that every wish
Would be heard and answered
When wished on the morning star
Somebody thought of that
And someone believed it
And look what it’s done so far
What’s so amazing
That keeps us star gazing
And what do we think we might see
Someday we’ll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
All of us under its spell
We know that it’s probably magic.
Have you been half asleep
And have you heard voices
I’ve heard them calling my name
Is this the sweet sound
That calls the young sailors
The voice might be one and the same
I’ve heard it too many times to ignore it
♥ It’s something that I’m supposed to be ♥
Someday we’ll find it
The Rainbow Connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
la da da de la da da dooo
la da da de la da oooo
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