In Amsterdam, it’s basically one big citywide flea market. Going into your house is like going into a high-end garage sale, and you’ve got collections galore: lamps, movie posters, pottery, old radios, and silver spoons. When you walk into a thrift store, you get an adrenaline rush (and just a little high from sniffing the mothballs). You probably like to stay home and nest with all your finds, but you’re also a pretty fun and enthusiastic person to be around. And if it sounds like I know you all too well, it’s because I do: I, too, collect vintage wares. I’ve got a lot of stuff … but I also try hard to rein it in so that my house doesn’t feel like it’s bursting at the seams.
After all, sometimes “collector” is just a polite term for “pack rat.” So try to open up your home and give yourself more space. Pick the best of your old radios and arts and craft pottery; leave some empty wall space between retro posters. From experience, I can tell you that you’ll feel so much better about your place if you can actually see what you have. Concentrate your design efforts on creating rooms that are airy and well edited when it comes to showing off your finds. If you answered mostly c, your style is traditionalist. They just don’t make things like they used to-that thought probably pops into your mind pretty often.
For that reason, you tend to keep things the same. I’m willing to bet that you’ve got lots of family heir- looms in your home and those pieces that haven’t been handed down look like they could have been. You’re probably most comfortable with elements of style that are nice but not showy. Elements like a sofa covered in a subtle paisley fabric, a quality Oriental rug, or maybe a maple four-poster bed with a white chenille spread. There’s nothing wrong with being a traditionalist, and I’m with you on the fact that sometimes there’s nothing better than a classic. We should hang on to some things that have been around forever (like letter writing-I bet you still send letters through the mail).
That said, does it have to be steak and potatoes every night? If you keep your home too traditional, you risk it feeling boring and stale after a while. So consider spicing it up a bit. Maybe paint one wall in your house an offbeat tangerine and trade in your Oriental for a chunky sisal rug. Perhaps you could replace your chenille bedspread with an Indian print or some modern color-blocked bedding. Obviously, you’ll need to use a careful eye to blend the tradition- al with splashes of nontraditional, but that’s the only way to make your home seem like yours-not your parents’ or your grandparents’. Loosen up a little and look beyond the familiar to find a style that’s truly your own. If you answered mostly d, your style is ethnologist. Although this sound like you administer anesthesia, what it means is that you’re into different cultures: Technology is the comparison of cultures (so glad I have a dictionary on my computer). In other words, you like things kind of worldly. You probably rove to travel (or at least take armchair journeys through the Travel Channel) to out-of-the-way places where life is extremely different from your own. And your clothing probably reflects it.

You’re undoubtedly up on the latest in art, music, and design. You’re hip, you’re mod, and you know what’s going on. I’m an admirer of modern minimalism (not to mention the latest hip things). Keep in mind, though, that your home is more than a showcase for what’s new and cutting-edge; it’s also a place where you and your family and friends should be able to feel comfortable and relaxed. If everything is flawless, you may be miserable. I respect the fact that you always have a coaster handy for the person who wants to put a drink down on your one-of-a-kind industrial coffee table, but don’t be afraid to let your guard down a little. You need at least a few pieces of furniture that aren’t works of art but places to curl up or put your feet on after a long day. You want to live in a home not a museum.
Sit on your couch and wrap yourself up in that lumpy blanket your mother crocheted, maybe even put on the ugly plaid pajamas that Uncle Jerry bought you, and survey the landscape. Think about how you can make your home both a temple of minimalism and an inviting, restful place. You might try mixing in a few organic elements like plants or natural wood pieces, as well as a little color. Think about furnishing your home not only with what’s hot, but also with what gives you a warm feeling.
Make it personal and you’re on your way to creating a home that, while still chic, is a place where people want to hang out. If you answered mostly b, your style is maximalist. Okay, it’s not really a word- I made it up-but I think it describes perfectly the kind of person who just can’t get enough of, well, stuff. Your idea of heaven is probably Queen’s Day in the Netherlands, a day when everyone breaks out all their old things and sells them in the street.

You never know what ideas someone else is going to bring to the table. So I urge you to get help on your makeover, but in order to do that you’ve got to make people want to come over, and that’s where a makeover party comes in. The promise of music, food, drink, and a good time makes people forget that you’d also like them to do a little heavy lifting, hammering, and painting. To me, food and drink is important, but music is the key thing. Make sure you have a CD player or some other kind of sound system to keep everyone’s energy up. You can even create a makeover- inspired CD for the occasion, though if your friends are very literal (and unless you’re going for the Goth look) avoid adding songs like “Paint It Black” by the Rolling Stones.
And, hey, if you have a megaphone, absolutely pull it out! I can say from experience that making as much noise as possible gets people fired up to do a job well. If you don’t want to gather a whole group of friends, call on one or two and swap something for their help. Cook them a great meal, let them use your boat or car; help them make over their own homes the following weekend. Just repay them in some way so that you can really put them to work and not feel guilty about it. There’s also no reason you can’t take a page from Extreme interior Makeover: Home Edition’s book and get a group together to work on a project for someone who you know is in need of help. Maybe you have a sick friend or relative, or you know someone who has just gone through a crisis like divorce or the death of a family member. Create a surprise for that person by making over one or more of her rooms with or without her knowing; the pleasure she (or he) takes in the result will be one of the most fantastic rewards you’ve ever received.
And if you do it right, the project can be a blast. A few years ago I designed a mural for a bedroom belonging to a family in Colorado that had adopted several troubled foster kids destined for juvenile hall or prison. The mural was a very detailed rendering of a bandana-type pat- tern, in keeping with the fact that the house was on a ranch and the parents were horse whisperers. I had to project the pattern on the wall, pencil it in, then go back and paint each individual shape, some of which were only one to two inches long. Fortunately, a family of five that had been helping out with the whole makeover project as well as my friend Nancy, a muralist, ended up pitching in.
It took us nine hours, but it was such a good time. We listened to music and chowed down on pizza while watching this beautiful pattern take shape throughout the night. It was great fun and well worth the effort. Here’s another makeover party idea for you. If you’re low on funds for your makeover project but rich in stuff that you’d like to get rid of, have a Raffle for Renovation party. Invite a lot of people, offer music and drink, and sell tickets for a couple of bucks. Before my TV days, I threw one of these parties and unloaded a ton of things that had been piling up in my garage.
I threw in some bikes and an old car that didn’t run anymore. You can even throw in things that have no value like a bucket of bricks, just for the fun of it. By the end of the night you get rid of all that stuff you’d been collecting for years, and you also made a pretty good chunk of change that you can put toward your makeover project.

Don’t risks letting any of the good ideas running through your head get lost in the water? And make sure you can read your own handwriting. Hieroglyphics are even more confusing. 6 How to Plan for a Makeover

1. Snap a Photo Take a “before” picture of the room. You’ll want to remember it the way it was because it’s going to be oh so much better! Okay, now you only have eleven more steps to go.
2. Assess what you Like and What You Don’t Like Make two lists: one for what you like about the room and one for what you don’t like. This is just to get a general sense of what needs to change.

 
The furniture?
The wall colors?
The window treatments?
The floor?
Now is the time to consider whether you can live with the shag carpeting left behind by the former owner or if it’s time to put in hardwood floors and a few throw rugs. Walk around the room and look at its construction. Are there any awkward spaces? Does the room have symmetry or are the windows and doors out of balance? Before you can decide on the specific changes you want to make, get a read on the big picture. What are the purpose of each room, and what about that room is and isn’t working now? 3. Save Four Things choose four things that you want to keep when you make over the room. There are probably a few items that still appeal to you or that you feel you just can’t let go of. It might be a piece of furniture, a work of art, a rug, a lamp.
If you’ve got to be crazy, go ahead and pick six. But here’s the thing. Sometimes people have a tough time getting rid of stuff that they’ve had forever. But if it doesn’t have sentimental value and it wasn’t handed down by a grandparent or an uncle Can this chair be saved? A little reupholstering should do the trick.
One of my first major design-and-build projects was a three-story tree house (with a sundeck) that I created in my backyard when I was eleven years old. To get other kids in the neighborhood to work on it with me- kids whose dads had better tools than mine -I took a page from Tom Sawyer and bartered, trading comic books for their help. I remember the bond I felt with those kids while we built that tree house together, and it’s the same feeling I get today working with not only the EMHE team, but also the hundreds of local contractors and volunteers that help us do our job. I like to have as much fun as possible when I’m working, and I’ve found that bringing in a How to Plan for a room Makeover crowd to help makes a project livelier and even gets you better results.

You’ll love a room, even something as utilitarian as an office, so much more if you put your heart and soul into it. Start with a Style Folder I’m always working. Even when I’m not involved in a specific project, I’m keeping an eye out for things I like: layouts from home decor magazines, pages from art and design books, fabric swatches, samples of colors and textures I dig, photographs of clothes with patterns that look great, brochures from hotels, snapshots of rooms, signs, art, restaurants, gardens, lobbies. I save anything that I think is awesome- looking and that might serve as design inspiration at some point. (I also collect airsickness bags from planes, but that’s another story.)
When it comes to redoing a room, there’s one word I can’t reiterate enough: research, research, research. Just to stay organized, I file everything in a “style folder.” You don’t have to create a style folder with one particular project in mind-simply collect things you admire with the hope that they’ll one day be useful. If you just toss in everything that catches your eye, you’ll probably see a certain look start to emerge. You might not have been aware that you were drawn to certain colors, patterns, or types of furniture.
How to Plan for an interior Makeover Magazines are a great place to start. If you have your own subscription, you can just rip out the pages and file them away without having to save stacks and stacks of issues. Also look at as many home design books as possible. When the costs get prohibitive, see what your library has on hand (and if its selection is small, see if they can borrow from other branch. When you’re saving things, though, don’t think only about pictures; think about texture, too. Start touching things. Feel the difference between linen and Egyptian cotton, burlap and velour, and whenever you can toss samples of textures you like into your style folder, do so. (It would ‘probably be bad form to shear off a piece of the bedspread in your cousin’s guest room, so just write down the fabric type and what you liked about it then tuck that note into your folder.)
There are a lot of ways to make a style folder. You can dump everything into an accordion folder. I like to take photos of everything from fabrics to magazine spreads with my digital camera and upload them onto my computer. (You can also scan things directly into your computer and skip the photographing part.) This lets me organize everything into files on my desktop, print out whatever I want, and take it with me when I need to. Just remember to back up your hard drive. That’s a lesson I don’t want to learn again. Fixing them is hard and it will drive you crazy. Good times! The Twelve Steps Making over Interior a room can be a messy job and I’m not just talking about the paint, dust, stray bolts and nails, and all that other stuff that gets all over the floor.
I mean that there’s a mess of things you have to think about and a mess of ideas you have to juggle. It’s easy to forget things or make mistakes. Sometimes mistakes are no big deal, and in fact, you can even end up going in a different and better direction because of a mistake. But more often mistakes are costly or, at the very least, frustrating, so try to avoid them from the start. Because of the intense nature of EMHE, and, let’s be honest, the intense nature of me, I probably seem like I’m all over the place on TV.  I’m actually a pretty methodical guy and this is one place-the planning stage-where being methodical definitely pays off. That’s what these twelve steps are for. Think of them as your guide to getting organized (and preventing future screw-ups). And here’s a tip: Write down everything.

Ten Ways to Know That Your Home Needs a Makeover

1. You wake up and can’t see the floor because clothing, books, and debris are everywhere.
2. You can’t open the door of the closet because you’ve shoved so many things into it.
3. You’re using plastic storage bins as dresser drawers and milk crates as furniture.
4. You’ve made shelving out of cinder blocks and 1 x 12s.
5. Your clothes are in garbage bags or in boxes still labeled “Closet.
6. You’re sleeping on the floor with the moving blanket that you still have from when you first moved in.
7. There’s absolutely no artwork up except pizza boxes.
8. There are no blinds on your window, and the first thing that hits you in the morning is the bright sun, shining like a laser.
9. You’re lying in bed, a bus goes by, and your whole house rattles and rolls, then a little bit of drywall falls off the ceiling and hits you on the head. (I speak from experience.)
10. It’s the holidays, the family is coming to visit, and your mother-in-law or step- mom or grandparents walk in and the first thing they say is, “You know, we think we’ll get a hotel room.

I’ve done many things in life without planning ahead and with little forethought. I used to get plans for home makeovers written on napkins and then try to wing it. Sometimes it would all work out. Sometimes-well, let’s just say, better luck next time. Having done it both ways, I highly recommend going the premeditated game-plan route, even if you’re just doing a small design renovation. It may seem like we’re flying by the seat of our pants on EMHE, but we actually go in with a pretty well thought-out plan. And not with just an architectural plan, but with a design plan for each room.
Not every idea ends up working, and sometimes-make that a lot of times-we have to improvise at the last minute. But we wouldn’t get the results we do if we didn’t map out everything beforehand.
Prepping for a makeover can be boiled down to twelve steps (not those twelve steps, though sometimes they can help, too). A lot of what’s involved is simply looking at a room in a way that you’ve never looked at it before. Where are the windows? How high are the ceilings? What shape is the floor in? Make sure you’ve got a tape measure because you’re going to write down the room’s dimensions and draw up a floor plan. You’ve got to take some kind of measure of yourself: your passions, your personality, your memories, your fantasies, your sense of style, what makes you feel comfortable, what kind of mood you want to set-those things will all play a role in determining what the room is going to look like.

The carpenter guy
It was the perfect job for me. I got to build things and be my off-the-wall, wiseass self in front of the camera. Every week, though, we’d wait for the family to come home to see if they were going to like what we did to their house. And sometimes they definitely did not-infact; some people came home and cried. The shock value was a lot of fun, but I also thought it would be great to do a show where we do something for people who need help and who actually like what we do. I thought, “Why not cry for the right reason?” Enter Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The producers asked me, “Do you think we can build a house in seven days?” and I said,” 0, but it would definitely be good television to try.” And so we did, and it’s been an absolutely amazing ride.
During that first episode, when an entire community, not to mention a couple hundred construction workers, five designers, and a production staff came together xiii g.   to make something incredible happen in one week, I thought, “I don’t know how well this is going to play on television, but I know that I have to do this again:’ The years I’ve spent working on EMHE as well as on my other ‘Job”-designing a line of home fashions for Sears- have helped me refine my ideas about what constitutes good design. More than anything, I think, good design artfully brings together practicality and emotion. It allows you to capture a mood -and that mood could be transcendental calm in, say, a bedroom or maybe wicked crazy fun in an entertainment room- without losing sight of the room’s real purpose.
With this book, I hope to get you to look at your home with fresh eyes and contemplate the possibilities. How can you integrate the things you are passionate about-whether it’s music and dance or nature or a particular culture-into the look of your home? How do you grab elements from a particular style and make them your own? I think you’ll find that it’s not that hard or expensive. You’re not going to have to leave the bank with a wheelbarrow in order to create a home that’s stylish and intimate. You’ll see.
It’s all incredibly doable. And the rewards are just fantastic. Take it from someone who has had the good fortune to help all kinds of families settle into stylish homes. Revamping your own rooms is going to be uplifting. It may even change your total outlook on life.

How to fix the frames and fixtures on the wall?

In interior designing the fixtures making the room useful and most of the time they constitute a theme support. When fixing the fixtures and fittings in the wall in interior designing work, we must ensure the size and the color of the fittings suit the theme of the interior designing pattern and plan.
This might seem slightly weird if you, like most people, think of me as just a nail-and-hammer guy in interior designing work. I am a nail-and-hammer guy, but I have an extensive background in art and interior designing and decoration, and they’re my passion. Wow, did I just say the word passion? Didn’t expect that either, did you?.
Interior designing would not complete without fixtures and fittings on the wall.But we need to control ourselves to fix the fittings at a limit. It should not spoil the mood of the theme and must support the theme we select during interior designing planning. Room size and the ceiling height must be measured before choosing the size of the frames and fixtures. Interior designing and decoration with fixtures support the cause and it must be changing in nature to avoid the boredom.Easily removable fixtures and the frames and suitable replacements make the room fresh and new to the frequent visitors.
Art and paintings can be hoarded in the room or hall to make the interior rich and beautiful. It is not necessary the art and painting s from the rich and costly artists,simple art forms are available in the market to suit our needs and taste. When fixing various size fixtures in the room, we must ensure the sizes should make a rhythm. The overall theme of the interior designing should be ensured and not to be disturbed.
We can use acoustical soundproofing products and materials to make the room elegant and at the same time to make the room peaceful and quiet for our comfort. Properties like apartments and individual houses in real estate business doing interior designing and decoration before selling the flats to the consumers to make the flats more valuable and the value added marketing make the real estate business more lucrative.
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Behind this book is to give you more of the inside scoop on what goes into each project as well as an insider’s view of “Ty’s secret rooms;’ the rooms that I personally create for families. I want to share my passion for intelligent, imaginative design and let you in on all the tricks for crafting unique, personal interiors that I’ve learned down (sometimes literally) in the trenches. By the end of this book, you’ll know exactly what it takes, from Step A to Step Z, to bring a little more style into your life. Unless you have the ABC network and your entire town standing by with a wrecking ball, it’s easier and far more affordable to tackle one or a few rooms at a time, so I’ve narrowed this book down to three high- impact areas of the house: bedrooms, living spaces, and work spaces.
I’m also going to talk about the elements of style that apply to all rooms, including what to look at before you leap (what stays, what goes, how to make a floor plan); how to decide what style you’re going to go for; and how to use color and texture in ways that are unexpected, but not insane. You don’t want it to look like you got inspiration from a clown college (though maybe Bozo Bohemian is your thing, which is fine by me). I also want to encourage you and give you the nail- by-nail instructions on how to build some of your own furnishings. The TV audience might not know it, but I design custom furniture for just about every room I do on the show. Someone else usually builds it for me now only because the show’s time crunch makes it impossible for me to build it myself. But I’ve handcrafted hundreds of different pieces over the years and I still love it. The great thing about building your own furniture and accessories is that it’s not expensive. It is terribly difficult and it’s so gratifying to know that you’ve created a major design element (or even a minor one) for your home with your bare hands. Your friends will be pretty impressed, too. Really, you’ve got to try it. Keep in mind that you don’t have to overhaul a room completely to give it a striking makeover. Sometimes fooling around with just one or two elements is all you need to do. My goal here is to give you tons of ideas from which you can pick and choose. We’ll talk about walls and floors, lighting and storage, wallpaper and fabric-yes, I’m going to talk xii about wallpaper and fabric.