Home Makeover Interior designing and decoration tips

Entirely Entertaining
There are a couple surefire tactics you can use to create a fun room, and chief among them is color. Especially if you’re creating a room that’s going to be used by kids, choose colors that are vivid and lively for both the walls and the furniture. Try to keep the furnishings light: This isn’t the time to haul out the old Louis XIV armoires and side tables. Instead, I recommend modern furnishings in clean- lined or even whimsical shapes. Bring in patterns and colors, too, to keep the mood light and kick-back comfortable.
On EMHE I had the opportunity to design two different entertainment rooms that, although they were not actually in homes (one was at a camp for critically and chronically ill children in Missouri, the other was at a center for homeless families in Colorado) have some ideas that translate well to the home. Both rooms are energetic and youthful, yet practical, too. They’re all about good, clean (that is, easy to clean up) fun. The furniture you put in a living room really says what the room is about, and in the case of the entertainment room I did for Camp Barnabas, I mean that literally.
The camp was founded by a couple, Paul and Cindy Teas, who cleaned out their savings and retirement accounts in order to create a place where sick kids could come and hike, ride horses, swim, and just be “normal” for a week. We renovated the Teas home, which, since they put everything they had into the camp, had been sorely neglected, as well as a few different parts of the camp. I called the entertainment room the Silver Lining room because it was a place for the kids to go on rainy days. For that reason, I wanted it to be particularly bright and fun so that the kids didn’t feel as though they were missing out.
I also wanted it to be a casual room where everyone could lie around and be one big family. Anchored by a ginormous TV, this room was all about television and, if there was any doubt, you need only look at the chairs and tables I made using old TV Guides and the TV Guide wallpaper. With their smooth plywood construction, the chairs and tables were created in the image of well-known modern pieces, but with a playfulness that’s sometimes missing from pedigreed contemporary furniture. Depending on where you’re standing, the wallpaper looks like TV Guides or like a fun patch of colors.