Salaam my friends! I’m excited to announce that I’m ready to shift my focus back to interior design, where my journey began! I’ll be sharing more YouTube videos centered on interior design and home organization, along with inspiring projects featuring our stencils and decals. My goal is to help you craft a home that showcases […]
Open Frame Gallery Wall {One Simple Layout Idea}
Salaam my friends, in today’s video I’ll be sharing one simple idea for an open frame gallery wall. This is one project that has been on my to-do list for so long. In fact, I have written a post about it here in 2009! I am excited that I finally got a chance to try […]
The Advantage of Color Flow
Have you ever walked into a home and felt at peace just being there? Chances are the colors in the home had something to do with it (read more about color psychology here). A balanced color scheme that connects each room in the house creates a harmonious feeling that flows throughout the house. This is known […]
7 Ways To Arrange Furniture In The Same Room
Salam everyone! I hope you had a great memorial day weekend. We took advantage of this long weekend to put up ceiling fans in all the bedrooms. Okay, so it was my husband who took care of that part! But while he was busy doing that, I got busy rearranging the furniture in the family room. […]
Who Says A China Cabinet Should Display China?
There is a common belief that a china cabinet should be used to store special china. Well….okay… it can. But it really does not have to!! We don’t own any fine china {what does that say about me?}, but we own a china cabinet. We bought our China cabinet 10 years ago because I thought […]
Test Your Furniture Arrangement- Part 3
Salam my friends! We are still chatting about the basics behind successful furniture arrangement. In part 1, I explained traffic patterns and how they should guide furniture placement. In part 2, I shared questions that you could ask yourself while evaluating the space for the best furniture layout. Today, in part 3 of this series, I […]
Test Your Furniture Arrangement-Part 2
Happy Monday! How was your weekend? Sunday was mothers day in the U.S., so happy mothers day to all the mothers around the world. While mothers day should be everyday, we all look forward to this day to use as an excuse to torment our children into doing what we please! That may sound evil […]
Test Your Furniture Arrangement-Part 1
{After updating my blog a while back, I lost all the images from my old posts!!! In an effort to turn a negative into a positive, I am updating some of them-This is one of these posts} My favorite part of interior decorating is furniture rearrangement. I enjoy creating furniture groupings that serve my family’s […]
Creative Art-part 3
Welcome back! Now that you have decided on what to frame , and how you are going to draw attention to it , you are now ready to produce your own creative art. During my visit to Jordan last summer, I had a chance to be creative with an old collection of wall art in my parents’ home. I […]
Creative Art-Part 2
Last week, I shared some creative ideas for things to frame in part 1 of creative art. Today, I will be showing you how to highlight your framed art, especially in a wall gallery. Let’s start by examining the picture below, what is the first thing that captures your attention? Martha Stewart
All About Accent Walls
I mentioned earlier that I am planning to re-design my daughters’ bedroom. I have several ideas that I would love to try, one of them is an accent wall behind the headboard. In order to do it right, I surfed the net for tips on creating successful accent walls. This post is a summary of […]
Can you pick out the patterns?
Salam! In the past two weeks I have explained how to mix fabric patterns with confidence and shared an example of one creative collection of toss pillows. For today, I thought it would be fun to show you some examples of how interior designers mix patterns. See if you can pick out the patterns based on the five elements […]
How to Mix Fabric Patterns with Confidence
A while back, I discovered that the images in most of my earlier posts were gone {After I updated my wordpress account.} I was so disappointed back then, so I decided to take those posts down to be fixed at a later date . Well, today’s post is one of these earlier posts that I […]
The Secret Behind Successful Rug Placement-Part 2
Salam everyone! I am glad you’re back! This means that you were not confused by part 1 of the secret behind successful rug placement, and you would like to learn more. So, here we go. To recap: “Positive space is space that is filled with color, texture, form, or mass. This could be walls, furnishings, art, area […]
The Secret Behind Successful Rug Placement
My parents’ living room is rectangular in shape and accommodates two seating arrangements. Two large area rugs of the same size cover the floor like this…… This did not look right to me! So I decided to switch one of the area rugs with the one in the family room and repositioned them like this….
I Found A Functional Lighting Solution For Our Bedroom Closet!
Welcome back! Its Monday and I am Still working on that design plan for the master bedroom closet!! I gathered ideas for closet organization units, ceiling design, color scheme and today I am looking for that perfect light fixture. I am lucky to have a window in my closet for natural lighting. Unfortunately, it provides that warm and bright […]
4 Facts About Color That Everyone Should Know!
As you already know, I am putting together a design plan for our master bedroom closet . I have an idea for a closet organization unit, a ceiling design, and now I have to think about a color scheme. If you have ever been to paint stores, then you know how confusing it can be to select a […]
How To Visually Modify Room Appearance With Pattern
Hey everyone, I don’t know about you but I am developing a fascination with patterns! Who wouldn’t after seeing all those amazing Islamic mosaics I blogged about in the exciting art of islamic mosaics? Today, I am just going to give you some tips on how you can use pattern to alter room dimensions. A Pattern […]
Learn to Identify this Important Element of Design
Have you noticed the lines in your home lately? What in the world does that mean, you ask? Allow me to explain. My daughter, a second grader, had a math homework assignment to find objects in our home that are rectangular in shape. We walked around the house identifying rectangles, circles, squares and even traingles. […]
How to Create a Balanced Color Scheme
Last week, I introduced you to the color wheel and how it is used it to create harmonious color schemes. The next step after deciding on a color scheme is applying it to a room design. Balancing those colors around the room will lead to a successful design (We are just dealing with color for […]
