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Home Decorating Styles and Trends

Explore various decorating styles, from the classics to the latest trends. Get inspiration from famous designers, movie sets, historical periods, and locales across the globe. Learn how to recreate your favorite looks using inexpensive secondhand treasures from flea markets and yard sales.
The Divine Chair Company
Kitty McBride, owner of The Divine Chair Company, talks about her chairs and shares some tips for your own chair makeovers.
Get the Look: New Orleans Style
Whether you prefer an apartment in the French Quarter, a colorful shotgun cottage, or a grand manor in the Garden District, get that quintessential New Orleans style.
Hanging Art in Clusters
From the homes of celebrity design superstars to amateur enthusiasts on a thrift store budget, art groupings are popping up everywhere -- in magazines, design blogs, and home decorating television shows. Creating them can be tricky, but these tips will help you hang gorgeous arrangements just like a pros.
Bohemian Modern Style
Blogger extraordinaire and self-professed flea market queen Victoria Smith, creator of runaway design blog sfgirlbay.com, describes her decorating style as Bohemian Modern. View photos of her ever-changing San Francisco apartment on the blog, and link over to her Flickr photostream, for a master class on decorating with flea market finds.
Granny Chic on Flickr
Still going strong after several years, the Granny Chic craze is a collective yearning for the comfortable and familiar -- but in modern colors and somewhat stylized shapes. Drag those quilts, afghans, and needlepoint pillows out of storage, and let the decorating enthusiasts on flickr teach you how to add some Granny Chic to your home.
The Outrageous Interior Stylings of Wary Meyers
Some designers can't be categorized beyond just using their names as the style. Meet husband and wife Linda Wary and John Meyers, the creative duo of Wary Meyers Decorative Arts. Their break-all-the-rules interiors full of recycled objects are dizzying, but delicious.

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