Design & Decoration of Specific Rooms (11)

Home Office Design Tips
Millions of us have home offices these days, and if your office is anything like mine it could use all the help it can get. This site is devoted almost exclusively to organizing your home office and making it a space that you can both work in and live with. A more organized office is a more productive office. Detailed articles on this site include selecting the best space to locate your home office, how to take your work style, workspace and your equipment requirements into consideration when designing your home office, how to avoid eyestrain, wrist and other injuries on the job, how to design functional yet attractive lighting for your workspace, how to choose quality office furniture, how to arrange your work materials for maximum efficiency and minimum strain on you, how to choose the best furniture, how to know when you need expert help in designing your work environment, and even information and tips on ways to save on your taxes when you have a home office. For anyone who works at home or from home, this site has information that I'm positive you'll find invaluable. I know I did.

Basement Decorating Ideas with Stone
The basement is one of the most difficult rooms to decorate because they’re usually dark and damp. Many feature concrete flooring and low-quality wood exteriors. Besides finishing the basement with proper flooring, walls and insulation, this website gives useful stone accessory decorating tips. It depends what you want to use your basement for; many people use it as a gaming addition or a recreational spot. Basements can be lit up beautifully using real stone lighting. The website has onyx lamps and other lighted onyx products, in addition to stone clocks and stone chess boards. The translucent properties of onyx allow light to permeate its stone exterior.

Improving Your Basement Lighting
One of the most challenging parts of decorating a basement is lighting. Many finished rooms have rather low ceilings, and this can cause the room to appear dark and almost cave-like. Tips include accentuating any natural lighting that is available. If you do have even one lone window, make sure your window treatments allow you to access any available sunlight. Another way to make the most of the lighting you have is to paint the walls a light color. Not necessarily white, just light. While at first this may not sound too interesting in the decorating sense, it can really help with your lighting challenge. Because of low ceilings, recessed lighting is a great option in a basement. For practical workspaces such as study areas and worktables, halogen or florescent lighting works well.